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Captagon: A Dangerous Pill to Swallow

Captagon: A Dangerous Pill to Swallow

Casinos: Responding to New and Evolving Money Laundering Risks

Casinos: Responding to New and Evolving Money Laundering Risks

The Importance of Collaboration in CSE Investigation

Financial information sharing partnership in Mexico

Financial Information Sharing Partnership in Mexico

Deterring Financial Crimes While Respecting Data Sovereignty

Deterring Financial Crimes While Respecting Data Sovereignty

Exploring the Role of Generative AI in Enhancing Financial Crime Compliance

Exploring the Role of Generative AI in Enhancing Financial Crime Compliance

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Money Laundering and Illicit Financial Flows
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A Fascinating Read on AML and Illicit Financial Flows

August 12, 2020 /Leave a comment
John A. Cassara is a man with a unique career in the area of anti-money laundering (AML), having worked on the frontline, in law enforcement internationally and in the U.S. government. During his law enforcement investigative career, he conducted an extensive number of money laundering...
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Money Laundering and Illicit Financial Flows
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A Comprehensive View of Money Laundering Methods―Old and New

August 12, 2020 /Leave a comment
Former Special Agent of the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John A. Cassara has chronicled his 30-plus years of experience in the fight against transnational organized crime and money laundering in his newly released book, Money Laundering and Illicit Financial...
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The Young Adult’s Guide to Identity Theft, by Myra Faye Turner

November 14, 2017November 14, 2017 /Leave a comment
Financial fraud is a known risk that may serve as a predicate criminal offense for money laundering activities; however, the topic may not always receive its due within the anti-money laundering community. The recent hack,1 data breach and theft of over 140 million U.S. consumers’...
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A Guide to AML/CTF

December 20, 2016July 17, 2017 /Leave a comment
Kannan Subramanian’s book The Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism Eco-System, provides a comprehensive review of money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) mechanisms, methods and techniques. The book features an introduction to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF), case studies and approaches to implementing...
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A Review of Bob Pasley’s Anatomy of a Banking Scandal

September 30, 2016October 17, 2016 /Leave a comment
Bob Pasley's book Anatomy of a Banking Scandal, presents the story of small West Virginia bank that grew through fraud, embezzlement and money laundering to become one of the most profitable community banks in the country, only to then become one of the largest bank...
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Tom Burgis’ The Looting Machine

February 17, 2016February 22, 2016 /Leave a comment
The negative socioeconomic impact and global instability triggered by the expropriation of nations’ wealth by kleptocratic regimes around the world cannot be understated. Tom Burgis’ book, The Looting Machine, takes an in-depth look specifically at the continent of Africa, where post-colonial relationships founded upon natural...
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Hitha Prabhakar’s Black Market Billions

February 2, 2016 /Leave a comment
"No cops on Sundays," says Chris, an illegal street vendor, as throngs of shoppers sift through tables of counterfeit goods and stolen electronics on a busy New York City street. With only one indifferent traffic officer in sight, the buyers are free to load up...
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A Step Toward Understanding Organized Crime

August 13, 2014April 29, 2015 /Leave a comment
Welcome to the ACAMS Book Hook column! The use of international trade facilities for smuggling and money laundering in the form of trade-based money laundering (TBML) has taken on renewed significance as cases continue to come to light where TBML and the Black Market...
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An Inside Look Into Cyber-Crime Threats

June 9, 2014May 22, 2017 /Leave a comment
Welcome to the ACAMS Book Hook column! In theme with the June-August 2014 Law Enforcement edition of ACAMS Today, this column focuses on the evolving trend of cyber-crime, specifically in mind of the recently well-publicized Target, Inc. credit card data breach in November/December 2013. The...
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March - May 2014, Riveting Reads, Women in AFC

A Modern Day Heroine and Her Fight Against Human Trafficking

February 27, 2014April 29, 2015 /Leave a comment
The Road to Lost Innocence by Somaly Mam with a foreword by Nicholas D. Kristoff and an introduction by Ayaan Hirsi Ali If there was ever a question as to what human trafficking (HT) is, Somaly Mam gives readers a firsthand account of her...
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ACAMS Today is saddened to announce the passing of one of its devoted contributors and supporters, Deborah Hitzeroth, CAMS-FCI, who died peacefully in the company of her loved ones on Sunday, August 20, from complications due to breast cancer.

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