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AML Investigations for Correspondent Banking: A Best Practice Guide
ACAMS Connection, Practical Solutions, World Digest

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Correspondent banking has long been the backbone of the global financial system, facilitating cross-border payments, enabling international trade and promoting global financial stability. It involves a financial institution (FI), (the correspondent), providing a deposit account or other services to another bank, (the respondent).1 Anti-money laundering...
A New Threat on the Horizon AI-Generated CSAM
ACAMS Connection, AFC Challenges, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, March – May 2024

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has opened the gates to a new horrific era in which perpetrators of crimes against children can generate ultrarealistic AI child sexual abuse material (CSAM) at the click of a button. AI-generated CSAM falls within the category of computer/digitally generated CSAM, which...
Erin West: Awareness is Key in Disrupting Financial Crimes
ACAMS Connection, Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Interviews, Women in AFC

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Speaking with ACAMS Today is Erin West, deputy district attorney in Santa Clara County, California’s Regional Enforcement Allied Computer Team, known as REACT. She focuses on high-tech crimes. In addition, West leads the Crypto Coalition, a group of nearly 1,400 local, state, federal and international...