In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with ACAMS colleague Craig Timm, senior director of AML at ACAMS. Timm and Beer do a deep dive into the recent settlements by TD Bank with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve Board,...

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Toronto-based attorney, Jacqueline Shinfield, co-lead of Blakes’ Financial Services Regulatory Group. Shinfield details the unfolding revolution in Canadian anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing, including the creation of a safe harbor for information sharing among...

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Chris Ainsley, head of fraud risk management at Santander Bank.  Drawing on more than a 20-year history at Santander, Ainsley details how financial institutions (FIs) like his, are fighting the current spike in online...

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer and CJ Rinaldi, chief compliance officer at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, talk about the virtual asset service providers’ efforts to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions busting and fraud. Drawing on his experience as senior counsel...

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Christina Rea about her brief tenure at Binance.US as interim chief compliance officer. Rea discusses what it was like to lead U.S. compliance for Binance.com, the world’s largest digital assets trading platform, as it...

In this episode of “Financial Crime Matters,” Kieran Beer talks with Guy Ficco, chief of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) agency. They discuss IRS-CI’s recent success in tracking illicit cryptocurrency transactions, and the threat from money mules. Ficco also identifies some of the...