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How imposter fraud has evolved with AI tools

How imposter fraud has evolved with AI tools

November 19, 2025November 18, 2025 /Leave a comment
Imposter fraud has long been one of the most persistent and costly forms of financial crime. For decades, fraudsters have posed as trusted figures—bank officers,...
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Why you should make your boss’ life easier

Why you should make your boss’ life easier

November 17, 2025 /Leave a comment
I know the title of this article creates an immediate emotional reaction. Apple-polishing and placating only get you so far and can ultimately do more harm...
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FinCEN’s modernization mandate for AML/BSA programs: Building risk intelligence platforms

FinCEN’s mandate for AML/BSA programs: Risk intelligence platforms

November 17, 2025November 17, 2025 /Leave a comment
Earlier this summer, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published its fiscal year (FY) 2024 year in review, which delivered a clear mandate: Financial institutions...
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Closing the agility gap: Why compliance cannot keep up in the “launderverse”

Closing the agility gap: Why compliance cannot keep up in the “launderverse”

November 17, 2025 /Leave a comment
Speed is becoming the defining feature of modern financial crime. Over the past two decades, the dual forces of global, interconnected economies and digital banking...
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The effects of recent enforcement actions and FinCEN’s real estate regulations

The effects of recent enforcement actions and FinCEN’s real estate regulations

November 13, 2025 /Leave a comment
Banking professionals understand that anti-money laundering (AML) processes, unlike those in client-facing or investment divisions, are similar to an iceberg because their most significant and...
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Virtual IBANs under scrutiny: Closing Europe’s digital banking loophole

Virtual IBANs under scrutiny: Closing Europe’s digital banking loophole

November 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
“Hi mum, I lost my phone. This is my new number.” That simple, familiar message was all it took to spark a wave of deception...
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What Yogi Berra might have said about “spot-fixing,” Luis Ortiz and automated transaction monitoring

What Yogi Berra might have said about ‘spot-fixing,’ Luis Ortiz and automated transaction monitoring

November 12, 2025November 14, 2025 /Leave a comment
In the top of the third inning during a July 6, 2025 game against the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians pitcher Luis Ortiz spiked a slider in the dirt for a ball. It was one pitch. Ortiz carries a 1.38 WHIP (walks plus hits per inning...
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Internal audit: The AML career compass

Internal audit: The AML career compass

October 13, 2025October 31, 2025 /Leave a comment
The transparency imperative: The power of full disclosure in AML/CTF reviews

The transparency imperative: The power of full disclosure in AML/CTF reviews

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /1 Comment
From planes to pizza: The new job hunt

From planes to pizza: The new job hunt

July 22, 2025July 22, 2025 /Leave a comment
ACAMS virtual seminar explores LE’s fight against financial crime

ACAMS virtual seminar explores LE’s fight against financial crime

July 1, 2025July 3, 2025 /Leave a comment
How the financial sector can better serve refugees and the displaced

How the financial sector can better serve refugees and the displaced

June 20, 2025June 20, 2025 /Leave a comment

Featured Column

Virtual IBANs under scrutiny: Closing Europe’s digital banking loophole

Virtual IBANs under scrutiny: Closing Europe’s digital banking loophole

November 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
“Hi mum, I lost my phone. This is my new number.” That simple, familiar message was all it took to spark a wave of deception across Luxembourg in early 2023. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. The message came from a Luxembourg mobile number, written...
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Effective management of financial crime investigations

Effective management of financial crime investigations

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 /Leave a comment
AMLA’s work program and its enhanced oversight of CASPs

AMLA’s work program and its enhanced oversight of CASPs

August 29, 2025 /Leave a comment
The influence of emerging technologies on cybersecurity audits

The influence of emerging technologies on cybersecurity audits

August 18, 2025 /Leave a comment
Beyond the exchange: Laundering crypto through luxury goods

Beyond the exchange: Laundering crypto through luxury goods

August 7, 2025 /Leave a comment
Financial Investigations and Confiscation in Fighting Crime

Financial Investigations and Confiscation in Fighting Crime

May 21, 2025 /Leave a comment

Interviews

Samuel Cousins

Samuel Cousins: The importance of the Global Threats Report Survey

October 9, 2025October 14, 2025 /Leave a comment
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 sanctions webinars and the ACAMS Global AFC Threats Report. Cousins’ work also focuses on countering...
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Oksana Ihnatenko: Fighting financial crime in Ukraine

Oksana Ihnatenko: Fighting financial crime in Ukraine

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /2 Comments
Jessica Sunkamaneevongse: Successfully adapting to change

Jessica Sunkamaneevongse: Successfully adapting to change

September 12, 2025September 23, 2025 /Leave a comment

In Focus

Advice from a veteran and AFC professional

Advice from a veteran and AFC professional

November 11, 2025November 11, 2025 /Leave a comment
I joined the Army a few months after September 11, 2001 (9/11). Military service runs in my family with relatives serving in the Civil War, World War II and Vietnam.  A few months before I joined, I obtained the Eagle Scout rank in the Boy Scouts...
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Terrorist financing since 911 How the threat and the response have evolved

Terrorist financing since 9/11: How the threat and the response have evolved

September 10, 2025September 10, 2025 /Leave a comment
Leveraging national security priorities for an enhanced counter-fraud response

Leveraging national security priorities for an enhanced counter-fraud response

July 30, 2025August 13, 2025 /Leave a comment

Digital Dose

Edward Conway

How the big banks look at stablecoin, digital assets and modernization, with Ned Conway

November 17, 2025 /Leave a comment
In this episode of "Financial Crime Matters," Kieran Beer talks live from "The ACAMS Assembly Las Vegas" with Ned Conway, executive secretary at the Wolfsberg Group, an association of 12 of the world's largest banks that focuses on managing financial crime and money laundering risks....
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How Sanctions Became a Way to Wage War and When They Actually Work, with Eddie Fishman

How sanctions became a way to wage war and when they actually work, with Eddie Fishman

November 3, 2025 /Leave a comment
Sanctions Space Podcast Oksana Ihnatenko on Supporting Ukraine

Oksana Ihnatenko on supporting Ukraine

October 17, 2025 /Leave a comment

World Digest

Everything you wanted to know about Magnitsky in Brazil

Everything you wanted to know about Magnitsky in Brazil

November 11, 2025 /Leave a comment
On July 30, 2025, the U.S. announced through the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), that it was sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre De Moraes. The announcement was accompanied by statements that De Moraes had “used his position...
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Enhancing AML strategies through collaboration

Enhancing AML strategies through collaboration: The case of section 314(b)

October 2, 2025 /Leave a comment
Europe’s dirty secret: Waste trafficking in the EU

Europe’s dirty secret: Waste trafficking

September 12, 2025 /1 Comment

Member Spotlight

Jane Bell, CAMS, CGSS—North Carolina, USA

Jane Bell, CAMS, CGSS—North Carolina, USA

September 12, 2025September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
Jane Bell joined SAS as an industry consultant in the Risk, Fraud and Compliance Solutions practice in 2023 after working in the banking industry for 20 years, including 15 years of direct experience in front-line anti-money laundering and fraud detection as a subject-matter expert in...
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Jinisha Bhatt, CAMS—Ontario, Canada

Jinisha Bhatt, CAMS—Ontario, Canada

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
Ilia Kolochenko, CAMS-FCI, CAMS-Audit, CAMS-RM—Genolier, Switzerland

Ilia Kolochenko, CAMS-FCI, CAMS-Audit, CAMS-RM—Genolier, Switzerland

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment

Know Your Chapter

ACAMS Germany Chapter 2024 and 2025 in review

ACAMS Germany Chapter: 2024 and 2025 in review

November 19, 2025November 19, 2025 /Leave a comment
The ACAMS Germany Chapter made significant strides in 2024 and 2025, expanding its activities and broadening its community engagement. Over the course of two years, the chapter hosted 10 in-person networking events in Berlin and Frankfurt, alongside 10 online webinars with flexible access for professionals...
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ACAMS Mexico Chapter

ACAMS Mexico Chapter: New ACAMS chapter launched in Mexico

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
ACAMS’ newest chapter: The ACAMS Cayman Islands Chapter

ACAMS Cayman Islands Chapter: ACAMS’ newest chapter—The ACAMS Cayman Islands Chapter

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment

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