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Meet the ACAMS Staff, September - November 2015

Lindy Thomas: The Wonderful World of Enterprise Members

August 25, 2015 /Leave a comment

Lindy Thomas is ACAMS’ client relationship specialist for enterprise members. She enjoys working with individual enterprise members and demonstrating what each element of the ACAMS enterprise membership offers. Prior to her appointment as the client relationship specialist for enterprise members, Ms. Thomas held various...

AFC Challenges, September - November 2015, Special for the Web

Dial-In and Cash Out: VoIP Technology and Associated Risks

August 25, 2015August 25, 2015 /Leave a comment

A sound anti-money laundering (AML) regime is one that evolves parallel to existing money laundering risks. A more robust regime proactively scans the external environment and identifies emerging risks upfront—case in point Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology. Generally, VoIP is recognized only as...

Practical Solutions, September - November 2015

The Power of Peer Groups for Community Banks

August 25, 2015January 14, 2020 /2 Comments

A superhero is an ordinary individual who, in spite of overwhelming obstacles, finds strength to persevere and endure toward his mission. Being heroic means having an overall allegiance for the betterment of society, having a concern for a moral cause, knowing there is a personal...

Practical Solutions, September - November 2015

Trust but Verify: New Trends and Technology in Identity Document Verification and Authentication

August 25, 2015 /Leave a comment

The birth of commerce—the idea of trading goods and services for some kind of remuneration—is lost in history, but early examples can be seen when man learned to trap and hunt and traded for grains and other food products that were grown by others....

Compliance, September - November 2015

The Evolution of Sanctions and PEPs

August 25, 2015 /Leave a comment

Sanctions have been used throughout history to bring about change. They can influence a country’s or an individual’s activities or policies—particularly if breaches of international law or human rights have occurred, or if a democracy is under threat. Recently, sanctions have been used to...

Practical Solutions, September - November 2015

Sanctions and Beneficial Ownership—From Arithmetic to Calculus

August 25, 2015 /Leave a comment

Sanctions compliance is about to get a lot harder, and for once, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had nothing to do with it. The impending beneficial ownership rules, outlined in the August 4, 2014 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, are going to create...

Europe, European Connect, September - November 2015

European News and Updates

August 25, 2015October 4, 2016 /Leave a comment

Editor’s Note: European Connect is a new section in the ACAMS Today magazine that will update members on ACAMS news and activities in Europe. Since joining ACAMS in January, I have had the opportunity to meet many of our members in person at the...

Europe, Germany Chapter, Know Your Chapter, September - November 2015

Announcing the New ACAMS Germany Chapter

August 17, 2015February 2, 2021 /Leave a comment

The ACAMS Germany Chapter was founded on June 26, 2015, at the offices of UBS in Frankfurt. The chapter brings together a team of anti-money laundering (AML) and financial crime and compliance professionals from global banking and insurance institutions, money services businesses (MSBs) and development...

June – August 2015, Member Spotlight

Greg Ruppert—San Francisco, CA, USA

May 28, 2015August 12, 2015 /Leave a comment

Greg Ruppert is the chief of Charles Schwab Corporation’s Financial Crimes Investigations (FCI) group, which encompasses the enterprise-wide anti-money laundering (ALD), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), fraud prevention and investigative programs of the firm. Prior to joining Schwab in 2014, Ruppert spent over 17...

June – August 2015, Member Spotlight

Zach Miller, CAMS-FCI—Harrisburg, PA, USA

May 28, 2015July 17, 2015 /Leave a comment

Zach Miller is the Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) operations manager (deputy BSA officer) for Metro Bank, a retail banking institution in South Central Pennsylvania. Miller is responsible for managing the AML investigations, suspicious activity reporting, enhanced due diligence (EDD), currency transaction reporting, Office of...

ACAMS Today

The Magazine for Career-minded Professionals in the Anti-Money Laundering Field

Enlisting AI in the Fight Against Financial Crime, With Jennifer Shasky Calvery

Assembly Chatter with ACAMS Today: Sanjeev Menon

Giles Thomson on U.K. Sanctions Priorities and Enforcement

Four Questions: Advice From a BSA/OFAC Officer

NPOs: Risk for Suspicious Activity

Crimen Financiero: Destrucción de la Amazonia de Brasil

Issues

Lindy Thomas: The Wonderful World of Enterprise Members

Dial-In and Cash Out: VoIP Technology and Associated Risks

The Power of Peer Groups for Community Banks

Trust but Verify: New Trends and Technology in Identity Document Verification and Authentication

The Evolution of Sanctions and PEPs

Sanctions and Beneficial Ownership—From Arithmetic to Calculus

European News and Updates

Announcing the New ACAMS Germany Chapter

Greg Ruppert—San Francisco, CA, USA

Zach Miller, CAMS-FCI—Harrisburg, PA, USA