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The Network-centric Approach: Helping Financial Crime Investigators to Combat Environmental Crimes

Environmental crime might sound new to financial crime professionals, but it is a challenge that investigators have wrestled with for years. Discussions about using open-source intelligence (OSINT) to prevent financial crime have long been underway. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published articles urging organisations...

March - May 2022, Practical Solutions

Terrorist Financing: A 20-Year Retrospective

March 17, 2022 /Leave a comment

Congratulations to ACAMS on reaching its 20th-anniversary of publishing ACAMS Today. This is a great milestone for the anti-money laundering (AML) community. ACAMS Today has consistently provided a platform for thought leadership through a wide range of outstanding content and has regularly addressed a myriad...

December 2021 - February 2022, Practical Solutions

Keeping Sanctions-Related Risk Assessments Effective and Current

December 8, 2021December 15, 2021 /Leave a comment

The dynamic nature of sanctions risk—stemming from nuanced sanctions requirements, complex corporate structures and transaction protocols, and imperfect data insights on customers and related parties—makes operating a sanctions compliance program (SCP) no easy endeavor. Firms need to have a clear understanding of their inherent sanctions...

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Beyond Ransomware: Navigating Threat, Risk and Damage

October 26, 2021December 8, 2021 /Leave a comment

Many Americans were still celebrating Fourth of July when they learned of another ransomware attack—one more sophisticated and with more sinister purposes than previous attacks. The “biggest ransomware attack on record”1 was carried out against Kaseya Limited (Kaseya), a Florida-based IT company. A group affiliated...

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Cybersecurity Requires Rethinking Cybercrime Investigation

October 18, 2021December 8, 2021 /Leave a comment

Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a good time to take stock of what can be done differently to improve cybersecurity. Since this awareness event began in 2003, the cyberthreat risk has become astronomically higher. Digital assets are even more vulnerable to theft and compromise. Bad actors...

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Best Crisis Management Practices for Data Breaches: Part Two

September 29, 2021October 18, 2021 /Leave a comment

The first part of this article discussed the best practices in preventive activities for data breaches. This part will present best practices in response to a crisis and the follow-up activities. Response Activities (Post-Crisis) Despite all the preparation and vigilance, a crisis can occur...

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Four Important Digital Fraud Lessons for Your Employees

August 5, 2021 /Leave a comment

The move to remote working (prompted by COVID-19) has compounded the difficulty of running a business. Many companies will remain remote after the pandemic is behind them, and keeping a remote team working effectively takes great skill. The biggest concern, though, is cybersecurity. Today’s...

June - August 2021, Practical Solutions

Deep Into the Weeds: Cannabis and Compliance

June 25, 2021 /Leave a comment

One of the few highlights in the U.S. economy in 2020 was the skyrocketing sales of legal cannabis, with the average store revenue increasing by 52% to 130% across the nation1 despite the industry’s unsure regulatory footing. Cannabis that is not classified as hemp...

June - August 2021, Practical Solutions

Post-Pandemic: Forging Partnerships for the Fraud War

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 /1 Comment

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the globe in late 2019, few thought it would still rage well into 2021.1 As the world faces the prolonged fallout from this virus, law enforcement and other entities are starting to take stock of the future state and...

June - August 2021, Practical Solutions

Professional Matchmaking: Harmonizing Law Enforcement Investigations

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 /Leave a comment

Deconfliction. Private sector institutions often assume there is a primary deconfliction tool that all law enforcement in every location, from domestic to international, can access and use to connect with any and all agencies that share the same person of interest. For this reason,...

ACAMS Today

The Magazine for Career-minded Professionals in the Anti-Money Laundering Field

Neobancos: Enigma legislativo

El narco comercio

República Dominicana: Avances en materia anticorrupción

Sanciones y sus desafíos

El lavado transaccional

Harmonisation of the EU AML Framework

Practical Solutions

The Network-centric Approach: Helping Financial Crime Investigators to Combat Environmental Crimes

Terrorist Financing: A 20-Year Retrospective

Keeping Sanctions-Related Risk Assessments Effective and Current

Beyond Ransomware: Navigating Threat, Risk and Damage

Cybersecurity Requires Rethinking Cybercrime Investigation

Best Crisis Management Practices for Data Breaches: Part Two

Four Important Digital Fraud Lessons for Your Employees

Deep Into the Weeds: Cannabis and Compliance

Post-Pandemic: Forging Partnerships for the Fraud War

Professional Matchmaking: Harmonizing Law Enforcement Investigations