Sam Cousins

Sam Cousins is a senior associate at ACAMS, where his work includes supporting public-private partnerships and strengthening ACAMS’ thought leadership pillar through the development of content on sanctions and risk, particularly the Sanctions Masterclass program and Global Monthly Update. Cousins’ work also focuses on countering...

The article titled “FinCEN’s AML and Terrorist Financing Priorities: An Introduction,” featured in the June-August 2022 edition of ACAMS Today,1 shared general thoughts, basic definitions and practical examples on each of the national anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) priorities. This was followed by...
Money Laundering Risk Study

Explicit customer acceptance policies and business development strategies embody financial institutions’ precise customer marketing capabilities, meticulous customer management capabilities and accurate money laundering risk management capabilities. To this end, this article puts forward the following suggestions based on the analysis of the risk and revenue...
Analysis of Customer Money Laundering Risk and Delicacy Management

In order to facilitate detailed analysis and highlight comparison effects, this article only selects high-risk customers and low-risk customers for data analysis. Specifically, from the two dimensions of customer’s money laundering risk classification and customer revenue, customers in the sample are divided into four quadrants:...