Europe Express Archives

The Europe Express column features anti-financial crime-related content with a regional focus in Europe from subject-matter experts.

Our regular contributor is Mustapha Bouzizoua, CAMS, VP Financial Crimes Compliance, HSBC Private Banking France, HSBC Continental Europe WPB.

If you would like to contribute to this column or have any topics you would like to suggest, please email editor@acams.org.

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Diplôme universitaire du chargé de conformité LAB/LFT : Le financement participatif

January 21, 2021January 21, 2021 /Leave a comment

Cet article couvre les travaux de quatre étudiantes de la promotion 2019-2020 du diplôme universitaire de charger de conformité LAB. Un grand merci pour ce travail de qualité ! Le diplôme universitaire du chargé de conformité, spécialité lutte-anti-blanchiment (LAB), proposé par l’Université Paris-Saclay1 en collaboration...

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The European Anti-Human Trafficking Legal and Policy Framework: The EU’s Strategy Toward the Eradication of Human Trafficking

January 8, 2021January 11, 2021 /Leave a comment

This article is the third part of a three-part series on the European Anti-Human Trafficking Legal and Policy Framework. This article focuses on the creation of the ‘EU Strategy towards the Eradication of Trafficking in Human Beings 2012-2016’ as a result of Directive 2011/36/EU. In...

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Comment ACAMS a Propulseur Ma Carrière

January 6, 2021January 14, 2021 /Leave a comment

Plus que booster une carrière—c’est une expérience personnelle ! Dans les jours qui ont suivi le 11-septembre comme tout le monde et où que vous soyez, nous avons tous senti que beaucoup de choses allaient changer dans ce monde. En février 2002, mon patron m’a...

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How ACAMS Boosted My Career

January 5, 2021January 6, 2021 /Leave a comment

ACAMS is more than a career booster—it is a personal experience. The days following 9/11, no matter our location, we all felt a lot of things were on the brink of change in this world. In February 2002, my boss asked me to ensure we...

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The EU’s 2020 Methodology vs. The FATF Greylist

November 25, 2020 /Leave a comment

During the keynote address at the 2019 ACAMS Annual International AML & Financial Crime Conference―Caribbean, the executive director of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) spoke about the challenges her staff faced when using credit cards to book a hotel while on work-related travel...

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The European Anti-Human Trafficking Legal and Policy Framework: The EU’s Anti-Trafficking Directive

October 26, 2020 /Leave a comment

This article is the second part of a three-part series on the European Anti-Human Trafficking Legal and Policy Framework. This article provides an overview of the extensive legal and policy instruments as well as the strategic documents and resources that address human trafficking at the...

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The European Anti-Human Trafficking Legal and Policy Framework: The Council of Europe and the EU

September 4, 2020October 20, 2020 /Leave a comment

This article is the first part of a three-part series on the European Anti-Human Trafficking Legal and Policy Framework. This article provides an overview of the European anti-human trafficking legal and policy framework by focusing on the Council of Europe and the EU. In addition,...

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Virtual Currencies—Regulation and Terrorist Financing Risks

August 24, 2020 /Leave a comment

The rise of bitcoin and other virtual currencies poses new challenges in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF). With virtual currencies, users can make global payments that are beyond the control of financial regulators and security authorities.1 In addition, there is a...

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COVID-19: Fraud Schemes Across the World

August 20, 2020September 29, 2020 /Leave a comment

In the past several months, people worldwide have been affected by COVID-19. As people have been dealing with fear of contracting the virus, criminals have been quick to adapt and take advantage of the pandemic to commit financial crimes, such as money laundering. This article...

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Homeland Calling: Financial Crimes Lessons from the Kosovo War

August 11, 2020 /Leave a comment

When two federal agents visited Florin Krasniqi at his roofing company office in early 1998, they found the type of figure that haunts anti-financial crime professionals. The 33-year-old Krasniqi, with thick black hair and smiling eyes, was on the surface nothing more than an...

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Project Shadow: Ending the Online Exploitation of Children

Shake, Bake and Launder

2020 Visions

Project Shadow: AML Investigations Into Online Child Sexual Exploitation

Ghost in the Machine

Diplôme universitaire du chargé de conformité LAB/LFT : Le financement participatif

The European Anti-Human Trafficking Legal and Policy Framework: The EU’s Strategy Toward the Eradication of Human Trafficking

Comment ACAMS a Propulseur Ma Carrière

How ACAMS Boosted My Career

The EU’s 2020 Methodology vs. The FATF Greylist

The European Anti-Human Trafficking Legal and Policy Framework: The EU’s Anti-Trafficking Directive

The European Anti-Human Trafficking Legal and Policy Framework: The Council of Europe and the EU

Virtual Currencies—Regulation and Terrorist Financing Risks

COVID-19: Fraud Schemes Across the World

Homeland Calling: Financial Crimes Lessons from the Kosovo War