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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...
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AFC career hot zones: Crypto, fintech and BaaS

AFC career hot zones: Crypto, fintech and BaaS

October 7, 2025 /Leave a comment
We are living through one of the most exciting periods in financial crime prevention history. Financial crime is faster, digital and entrenched in the lifeblood...
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Effective management of financial crime investigations

Effective management of financial crime investigations

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 /Leave a comment
Every dollar of illicit wealth that escapes recovery strengthens criminal networks, undermines institutions, leaving businesses, governments and the public to bear the cost. Each year,...
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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
The world's largest economy has institutionalized processes that can offer the international community—particularly emerging markets—valuable regulatory insights, best practices, and of course, valuable lessons. This...
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Efectividad en los controles

Efectividad en los controles

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 /Leave a comment
En un entorno de riesgos dinámico y una creciente sofisticación del crimen financiero, la medición de la efectividad de los controles antilavado de dinero (ALD)...
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Understanding AI - AI and the future of compliance

AI and the future of compliance: Tools, risks and human oversight

October 1, 2025 /Leave a comment
We live in a time when what seems exceptional today, quickly becomes routine tomorrow. In this rapidly evolving environment, behaviors, technologies and risks are transforming...
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Internal audit: The AML career compass

Internal audit: The AML career compass

October 13, 2025 /Leave a comment
Internal audit may be the quiet cousin of the compliance world: methodical, necessary and tucked away behind the scenes. But buried beneath process maps and control testing is a more powerful role than most anti-financial crime (AFC) professionals realize. It is not the loudest role. It...
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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 /Leave a 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
The escalating issue of elder financial exploitation

The escalating issue of elder financial exploitation

June 11, 2025June 13, 2025 /Leave a comment

Featured Column

Effective management of financial crime investigations

Effective management of financial crime investigations

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 /Leave a comment
Every dollar of illicit wealth that escapes recovery strengthens criminal networks, undermines institutions, leaving businesses, governments and the public to bear the cost. Each year, trillions of dollars are laundered through the global financial system, undermining market integrity and fueling organized crime. Despite significant regulatory...
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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
Transaction Monitoring: From ‘Follow the Money’ to AI-Driven Intelligence

Transaction Monitoring: From ‘Follow the Money’ to AI-Driven Intelligence

April 16, 2025 /1 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

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
As we pause to remember the tragic events of September 11, 2001 (9/11), we are reminded that 9/11 has forever changed how the world combats terrorist financing. The 9/11 attacks triggered a revolution in the financial surveillance landscape, forcing governments and institutions to rethink the...
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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
When secrets become currency: A deep dive into insider trading

When secrets become currency: A deep dive into insider trading

July 11, 2025 /Leave a comment

Digital Dose

Sanctions Space Podcast Carole House on AI, Cyber and Sanctions

Carole House on AI, cybersecurity and sanctions

October 6, 2025 /Leave a comment
At the ACAMS Las Vegas Assembly, Justine Walker sat down with Carole House, senior distinguished fellow of ACAMS. Their discussion includes the AFC implications of generative artificial intelligence, including increasing sophistication of deepfakes and the resulting  "authenticity crisis," how we can build resilience to the...
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Embarking on a New Anti-Financial Crime Era, with AUSTRAC's Brendan Thomas

Embarking on a new anti-financial crime era, with AUSTRAC’s Brendan Thomas

September 29, 2025 /Leave a comment
Sanctions Space Podcast Alex Zerden on the Middle East, Crypto, Cartels and Changing U.S. Priorities

Alex Zerden on the Middle East, Crypto, Cartels and Changing U.S. Priorities

September 26, 2025September 29, 2025 /Leave a comment

World Digest

Enhancing AML strategies through collaboration

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

October 2, 2025 /Leave a comment
The world's largest economy has institutionalized processes that can offer the international community—particularly emerging markets—valuable regulatory insights, best practices, and of course, valuable lessons. This article aims to explore the key provisions of section 314(b) of the USA PATRIOT Act, examining its implications for market...
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Europe’s dirty secret: Waste trafficking in the EU

Europe’s dirty secret: Waste trafficking

September 12, 2025 /1 Comment
Fentanyl: Tracing the deadly money trail

Fentanyl: Tracing the deadly money trail

September 12, 2025 /Leave a 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 Mexico Chapter

ACAMS Mexico Chapter: New ACAMS chapter launched in Mexico

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment
On June 25, 2025, members of Mexico’s anti-financial crime (AFC) community attended the launch of the ACAMS Mexico Chapter―the most recent addition to ACAMS’ global network of more than 60 chapters. The goal of the ACAMS Mexico Chapter, which is the second chapter in Latin...
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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
ACAMS Pittsburgh Chapter: Amber Korowicki: Respect, honesty and passion

ACAMS Pittsburgh Chapter: Amber Korowicki—Respect, honesty and passion

September 12, 2025 /Leave a comment

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