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ACAMS Today Español, From the Director of Editorial Content

¿Puede el Cumplimiento Tenerlo Todo?

July 18, 2019July 29, 2019 /Leave a comment

Algunos temas son intemporales y universales. Esa es una manera elegante de decir que no se pueden resolver por completo y que son de naturaleza global. Esta edición de ACAMS Today Español que está leyendo es un testimonio de la naturaleza intratable de ciertos...

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From the Director of Editorial Content, June - August 2019

Fighting Crime Through Public-Private Partnerships

June 21, 2019July 19, 2019 /Leave a comment

Public-private partnerships that unite law enforcement (LE), financial institutions—and sometimes not-for-profits—have been amazingly successful in detecting, preventing and prosecuting all sorts of financial crimes, including human trafficking (HT). Project Protect in Canada, created following a presentation on HT at an Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering...

ACAMS Today Europe, From the Director of Editorial Content, May - June 2019

Catch the Bad Guys, Avoid a Penalty: Can compliance have it all?

May 21, 2019April 9, 2020 /Leave a comment

Welcome to the first issue of ACAMS Today Europe. ACAMS Today launched in 2002 as a membership benefit of a newly formed United States-based association of anti-money laundering (AML) professionals. Today, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) is a global association of 73,000...

From the Director of Editorial Content, March – May 2019

Giving Victims of Sex Trafficking Their Due

March 28, 2019April 8, 2019 /Leave a comment

Human trafficking, a timeless example of the cruelty humans can inflict on one another, is receiving attention anew, adding new opponents along the way who are bringing innovative approaches to fight trafficking. In conjunction with law enforcement and nonprofits (NPOs), ACAMS members and staffers have...

December 2018 - February 2019, From the Director of Editorial Content

“Should auld acquaintances be forgot?”—Not If It Means a Lapse in CDD

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 /Leave a comment

Some people make New Year’s resolutions. Some, as is the case for journalists, mark the start of another cycle of Earth’s rotation around the sun by analyzing the year just past. While no silver bullet ended financial crime in 2018, the march toward greater...

From the Director of Editorial Content, September - November 2018

All In

September 18, 2018October 2, 2018 /Leave a comment

“Think globally, act locally” expresses the faith that it is possible to change the world by improving conditions in our own backyards. Viewed expansively, it is also a recognition of the fact that we are all connected and that walls between nations, regions, cities and...

From the Director of Editorial Content, June - August 2018

Fighting Financial Crime Requires Honoring Those Who Protect and Serve

June 26, 2018June 26, 2018 /Leave a comment

The ACAMS Today (AT) Law Enforcement (LE) issue offers an annual opportunity to pause and take note of ACAMS’ longstanding partnership with the LE community, and to express our appreciation for the men and women in the public sector dedicated to fighting crime, particularly financial...

From the Director of Editorial Content, March – May 2018

We’re Here to Help With Past, Present and Future Shock

March 20, 2018 /Leave a comment

“Future shock,” according to Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book with the same title, describes the overwhelming experience an individual can have when they are being forced to cope with too much change in too short a period of time to adjust. The book...

December 2017 - February 2018, From the Director of Editorial Content

World Peace Through AML!

December 12, 2017 /Leave a comment

The title is catchy and hopeful, but perhaps a little too much to put on the anti-money laundering (AML) community. Still, in the midst of all the conflict between nation states (and political factions within nations) that characterizes our world, there is this countertrend:...