The Europe Express column features anti-financial crime-related content with a regional focus in Europe from subject-matter experts. If you would like to contribute to this column or have any topics you would like to suggest, please email editor@acams.org.
Our award-winning regular contributor is Stefano Siggia, CAMS, senior consultant at the Brussels-based regulatory and compliance consultancy firm Pideeco. Siggia was born in Italy but grew up in Bangladesh, China, Germany and Belgium, where he currently resides. After earning his bachelor’s degree in international affairs from Vesalius College and a master’s degree in international relations from the Brussels School of International Studies
(University of Kent), he worked at Banca Monte Paschi Belgio.
The purpose of the fight against money laundering, as we know it in the world of compliance, is based on the implementation of the Financial Action Task Force recommendations. Financial investigations are often triggered following suspicious activity reports transmitted to the local financial intelligence unit...
Nous nous proposons dans cet article de nous arrêter sur 5 caractéristiques qui font de la Grande-Bretagne un territoire particulier en matière de crime financier et plus particulièrement en matière de blanchiment de capitaux. Le marché eurodollar, les Offshore Financial Centres, l’intermédiation financière non-bancaire, le...
Financial fraud remains a significant threat to the stability and integrity of the European financial system, particularly as digital transactions and cross-border payments grow in both speed, volume and complexity.1 The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) have taken active roles...
At first glance, there appeared to be nothing unusual when―between 2022 and 2023―a group of scholars requested access to rare Russian literary works from historical and national libraries across Europe. But when the returned editions by Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol and others were found to...
United States (US) Democratic Senator Carl Levin had just joined the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) as chair when he learned of a troubling audit conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Fed). In their review of the anti-money laundering...
As the ACAMS France Chapter celebrated its 10th anniversary, it held three significant events: one on money laundering and two on corruption. Usually, money laundering techniques are observed from the lens of regulated professionals. Quentin Mugg, the first ACAMS France Chapter guest, heads the anti-drugs...
This article will focus on the five characteristics that make Great Britain a singular territory in terms of financial crime and―more particularly―money laundering. The eurodollar market, offshore financial centers (OFCs), non-bank financial intermediation, the real estate sector (particularly in London) and the legal structures that...
ChatGPT suffers from hallucinations―an ailment that its creator, OpenAI, is unable to cure. It is under these pretenses that in April 2024, the Austrian data privacy nonprofit organization, NOYB, founded by privacy activist Max Schrems, filed a complaint against OpenAI with the Austrian Data Protection...
The article on investment funds and their exposure to anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) risks, published in ACAMS Today in 2021,1 discusses venture capital firms and private equity funds and how these face AML risks throughout a fund’s lifecycle—from fundraising and investing, to their exit. Financial...
In early 2024, a finance officer in Hong Kong was wary of an email received from the chief financial officer of a UK-based company, concerning a secret transaction. A video call was organised to quell his doubts, and behind his screen sat the originator of...
Our award-winning regular contributor is Stefano Siggia, CAMS, senior consultant at the Brussels-based regulatory and compliance consultancy firm Pideeco. Siggia was born in Italy but grew up in Bangladesh, China, Germany and Belgium, where he currently resides. After earning his bachelor’s degree in international affairs from Vesalius College and a master’s degree in international relations from the Brussels School of International Studies
