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Russia’s Hope of Ice Hockey Glory Buried Under Sanctions

Russia’s Hope of Ice Hockey Glory Buried Under Sanctions

Trade Finance Risk and Controls

Trade Finance Risk and Controls

Is It “Groundhog Day” for Digital Assets?

Is It “Groundhog Day” for Digital Assets?

The Rise of Real Estate Money Laundering

Choppy Waters: Negotiating the Complexities of Sanctions Due Diligence in an Uncertain World

The BSA Tractor

The BSA Tractor

June – August 2018

Interviews, June - August 2018

Peter Warrack, CAMS: From Law Enforcement to Cryptocurrencies

June 27, 2018August 17, 2018 /Leave a comment
ACAMS Today spoke with Peter Warrack, chief compliance officer of Bitfinex, to discuss his experience in law enforcement, banking, cryptocurrencies, Project Protect and more. Peter Warrack, CAMS, CBP, CFE has over 15 years’ experience in the Canadian and international banking sectors, specializing in intelligence-led...
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June - August 2018, Member Spotlight

Kent Stern, CAMS-FCI—Boca Raton, FL, USA

June 27, 2018August 17, 2018 /Leave a comment
Kent Stern is the director and lead data-mining architect for CodeCenters International. In 1987, he started the company with a small team of engineers who specialized in designing software for aircraft, ship and container routing. Today, most of his time is spent auditing machine learning...
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June - August 2018, Member Spotlight

Andrew McDonald—London, U.K.

June 27, 2018August 5, 2018 /Leave a comment
Andrew McDonald served over 30 years with the Metropolitan Police Service, of which 20 years were with specialist covert and overt operations within counter-terrorist or organized crime teams at New Scotland Yard. He retired in January 2017 as head of specialist investigations of the U.K....
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Interviews, June - August 2018

Erik Barnett: The Importance of Public-Private Partnerships

June 26, 2018August 1, 2018 /Leave a comment
ACAMS Today spoke with Erik Barnett, regional head of Europe for Financial Crime Threat Mitigation (FCTM) at HSBC, on money laundering risks in Europe, counterterrorism and virtual currencies. In this role, he leads professionals investigating financial crime, preventing fraud, and developing intelligence and analytics capabilities...
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Aspects of APAC, Interviews, June - August 2018

Shalini Pavithran: The Impact of MSBs in Malaysia

June 26, 2018 /Leave a comment
ACAMS Today  had the opportunity to speak with Shalini Pavithran, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Malaysian Association of Money Services Business (MAMSB), about how the money services business (MSB) industry has grown and the unique challenges it presents to the Asia-Pacific region. As...
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AFC Challenges, June - August 2018

Chasing Cultural Property

June 26, 2018December 20, 2018 /Leave a comment
The theft and trafficking of cultural property, art and antiquities dates back at least 3,000 years to the looting of the graves of pharaohs and kings. Since the time of the first looting, individuals have been trying to hide the proceeds from those activities...
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From the Director of Editorial Content, June - August 2018

Fighting Financial Crime Requires Honoring Those Who Protect and Serve

June 26, 2018June 26, 2018 /Leave a comment
The ACAMS Today (AT) Law Enforcement (LE) issue offers an annual opportunity to pause and take note of ACAMS’ longstanding partnership with the LE community, and to express our appreciation for the men and women in the public sector dedicated to fighting crime, particularly financial...
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Compliance, June - August 2018

Tuning Up BSA/AML

June 26, 2018 /Leave a comment
When it comes to the Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering (BSA/AML), law enforcement needs to be better financial institution translators (FIT). While their private sector counterparts have invested substantial resources, time and effort in the latest analytical software, systems and advanced training in BSA/AML, too...
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Compliance, June - August 2018

Cheaters Never Prosper

June 26, 2018September 18, 2018 /1 Comment
Every level of society faces corruption. It is a worldwide issue that affects every country to some degree. Transparency International publishes an annual “Corruption Perceptions” Index that ranks countries from least to most corrupt.1 Corruption does not discriminate. It touches both the public and...
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AFC Challenges, June - August 2018

Cryptocurrencies and the BSA

June 26, 2018June 27, 2018 /Leave a comment
In late 2008, a person (or persons), writing under the nom de guerre Satoshi Nakamoto, published a nine-page technical paper purporting to have solved the double-spending problem of electronic funds transfers, which, hitherto, necessitated the intervention of financial institutions to allow for online payments....
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