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Transaction Monitoring Challenges

April 29, 2016November 11, 2016 /Leave a comment

On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, the ACAMS Netherlands Chapter together with KPMG hosted a hot topic seminar on “Transaction Monitoring.” This topic greatly resonates in the Netherlands due to recent terrorist threats in Europe and worldwide. The Dutch Central Bank (DNB) is planning to conduct...

Compliance, Europe

The Panama Papers: What a Story!

April 6, 2016May 10, 2016 /Leave a comment

Forty years’ worth of records leaked to The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) involving 11.5 million documents pertaining to the creation of over 214,000 offshore shell companies by the fourth largest offshore law firm in the world, Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm with...

Europe, Exclusive

‘Panama Papers’ Leak to Spur Governmental Inquiries

April 5, 2016May 10, 2016 /Leave a comment

Europe, Special for the Web

Lessons Learned from the Paris and Brussels Terrorist Attacks

March 29, 2016March 31, 2016 /Leave a comment

On March 22, 2016, Brussels was rocked by two devastating terrorist bombings. In the first, two suicide bombers detonated powerful explosives at the Brussels airport and in the second, a third terrorist detonated a suicide bomb on a metro train at the Molenbeek subway station....

Central Florida Chapter, Know Your Chapter

A Productive 2015 Year for the Central Florida Chapter

March 17, 2016 /Leave a comment

2015 was a busy year for the ACAMS Central Florida Chapter. The chapter sponsored several learning events in 2015 where attendees earned two ACAMS continuing education credits. Topics included identity theft, money services businesses and anti-money laundering (AML) challenges, counter threat finance and cybersecurity. The...

Europe, Know Your Chapter, Luxembourg Chapter

Celebrating Eight Years of CAMS AML Training in Luxembourg

March 10, 2016May 10, 2016 /Leave a comment

On October 19, 2015, ACAMS celebrated the eighth year of its three-way training partnership with key Luxembourg financial training institutions, the Financial Technology Transfer Agency (ATTF) and the Institute for Training in Banking, Luxembourg (IFBL)—now called House of Training. Together, these three organizations have been...

Europe, Global Financial Crime Review

Ireland Life Insurance Companies: Observations Made

March 8, 2016May 10, 2016 /Leave a comment

On March 8, 2016, the Central Bank of Ireland published a report on its anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing and financial sanctions compliance observations related to life insurance companies in Ireland. The published report was formed through onsite inspections and offsite desk top reviews carried out by...

Know Your Chapter, Northern Ohio Chapter

ACAMS Northern Ohio Chapter: Year in Review

March 8, 2016March 8, 2016 /Leave a comment

Since our launch in 2014, the ACAMS Northern Ohio (NOH) Chapter has held five events throughout the region offering colleagues live training, continuing education credits and networking opportunities with others in the anti-money laundering field. Currently, the NOH Chapter is ranked as the fourth largest...

AFC Challenges, Exclusive, March – May 2016

A Cautionary Tale About the Risk-Based Approach to Compliance

March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 /Leave a comment

Editor’s note: The author, Richard Bistrong, was a former FCPA violator and FBI/U.K. cooperator. As part of his plea agreement, he spent 14-1/2 months in prison for his own FCPA violations and was released in December 2013. He now writes, speaks and consults on...

March – May 2016, Member Spotlight

André Burrell, CAMS—Mercer Island, WA, USA

March 7, 2016March 7, 2016 /Leave a comment

André Burrell is the senior director of compliance for Microsoft Payments, Inc. He began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an attorney. In 2006, Burrell went to work at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services where he was a senior manager and...

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