At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine Walker sat down with Oksana Ihnatenko of RUSI, and recipient of the 2025 ACAMS Rising Professional of the Year Award.  Their discussion includes  Ihnatenko’s research and work to build public-private partnerships in Ukraine, how Ukrainians view current sanctions...

At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine Walker sat down with Carole House, senior distinguished fellow of ACAMS. Their discussion includes the AFC implications of generative artificial intelligence, including increasing sophistication of deepfakes and the resulting  "authenticity crisis," how we can build resilience to the...

At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine sat down with Alex Zerden of Capitol Peak Strategies. Their discussion covers a range of U.S. sanctions priorities, including significant actions undertaken on both drug cartels and Iran, easing measures on Syria and the implications of a U.S.-backed...

At the ACAMS Europe Assembly in Paris, Justine sat down with Stephanie Baker, senior writer of Bloomberg. Their discussion includes how Russia has exploited loopholes to circumvent sanctions and export controls and continue financing its war, how Russia’s wartime economy may impact peace negotiations, and...

On the margins of the ACAMS Hollywood Assembly, Justine sat down with Laura Ferris, The Sentry, to discuss illicit financial flows linked to environmental crime. Their discussion includes assessing the distinct overlap between environmental crime, sanctions and corruption as well as a spotlight on the...

"As we start to piece this all together, we found that there were certain trends and typologies that were very similar in terms of how China was working with Russia, as well as how China was working with Iran, and then just kind of shaping...

"I think that the administration is prudently reviewing the sanctions to determine what measures could be eased, in what sequence, in the event that Russia does prove amenable to negotiations. I, for my part, believe that we will have to go down the path of additional...

"We’re living in an age of economic warfare. Sanctions, export controls, tariffs – they’re now the primary way that states compete with one another." -Edward Fishman In the latest episode of the Sanctions Space Podcast, Justine is joined by Edward Fishman, author of Chokepoints: American Power...

"Navigating the fault lines between the U.S. and China and this accelerated convergence of economic statecraft—not just how sanctions might be deployed, or export controls, but also tariffs and investment review—all of which are going to figure into this new space.” -Elaine Dezenski In the...

"I believe that it’s become very complex for financial institutions to actually comply. The ask by the Treasury to focus on sanctions evasion is really, in many ways, the bridge back to AML.” -Bill Fox on the global sanctions landscape and what it means for...