December 2023 – February 2024 Archives - Page 2 of 4

December 2023 – February 2024, Member Spotlight

Kishani Udugampola, CAMS-FCI—New York, USA

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Kishani Udugampola presently works at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY). Before joining FRBNY, she was a portfolio manager at the New York State Department of Financial Services. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at the graduate school of criminal justice at...

December 2023 – February 2024, Member Spotlight

Atsuo Takada, CAMS, CSCP, CPIM—Yokohama, Japan

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Atsuo Takada is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) with over six years of experience in the anti-financial crime space. Starting his career at Nomura Research Institute Ltd. (NRI), Takada has a 25-year career with NRI and developed what is now called a high-frequency trading...

December 2023 – February 2024, Member Spotlight

Jim Hixenbaugh, CAMS—Ohio, USA

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Jim Hixenbaugh is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and certified anti-money laundering (AML) consultant with 46 years of experience in AML/Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) compliance and investigations. He has 29 years of federal law enforcement experience as an Internal Revenue Services-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) special...

December 2023 – February 2024, Member Spotlight

César Fabricio Fúnez Martínez, CAMS—Tegucigalpa, Honduras

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

César Fabricio Fúnez Martínez is a professional with a sound academic background and experience in a variety of areas. Fúnez Martínez earned his degree in computer engineering from the Catholic University of Honduras. Four years later, he was a member of the ninth graduating class...

December 2023 – February 2024, Meet the ACAMS Staff

Silas Bartels: Providing Timely AFC Analysis

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Silas Bartels is the legal editor of ACAMS moneylaundering.com. He manages a team of two attorneys that contribute to the publication’s coverage of financial crime, sanctions and compliance-related issues. Complementing the breaking news and in-depth coverage of the talented reporters at ACAMS moneylaundering.com, his team...

December 2023 – February 2024, Know Your Chapter, Pittsburgh Chapter

ACAMS Pittsburgh Chapter: Education Is the Foundation for AFC

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Founding director of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Graduate Certificate Program and associate professor at Gannon University, Musa Tuzuner, spoke to the ACAMS Pittsburgh Chapter about his career, studying anti-financial crime (AFC) and incorporating the lessons learned from the field experience and the classroom setting into...

December 2023 – February 2024, Sanctions

Can Smart Sanctions Achieve Their Intended Goals?

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Targeted sanctions, also called “smart sanctions,” have become increasingly popular with foreign policymakers to pressure specific entities or individuals in a targeted nation while minimizing negative impacts on innocent civilians. The main objective of targeted sanctions is to influence the behavior of the targeted individual...

December 2023 – February 2024, Sanctions

Combating Sanctions Evasion

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

Sanctions compliance officers today are living in tumultuous times. Ask any group of sanctions compliance officers what has been keeping them busy and one response is likely to come up quite often: Sanctions against Russia. While not subject to comprehensive sanctions, Russia has become “the...

December 2023 – February 2024, Global Financial Crime Review

Understanding Geographic Money Laundering Risk

December 13, 2023January 23, 2024 /Leave a comment

Anti-financial crime (AFC) regulations worldwide require that regulated businesses assess the business risk from money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing perspectives. An important component of financial crime risk assessment is understanding and assessing the risk emanating from the geographies where business deals are conducted....

ACAMS Today Europe Digital, December 2023 – February 2024, Europe Express

Money Launderers for Hire: Antwerp’s Cocaine Dilemma

December 13, 2023 /Leave a comment

In 2021, Belgian authorities intercepted a colossal 89 metric tons of illicit drugs valued at 4.5 billion euros (approximately $4.8 billion) within the confines of Antwerp’s bustling port in what was known as Operation Sky ECC. Despite the successful achievement and the apprehension of 888...

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December 2023 – February 2024

Kishani Udugampola, CAMS-FCI—New York, USA

Atsuo Takada, CAMS, CSCP, CPIM—Yokohama, Japan

Jim Hixenbaugh, CAMS—Ohio, USA

César Fabricio Fúnez Martínez, CAMS—Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Silas Bartels: Providing Timely AFC Analysis

ACAMS Pittsburgh Chapter: Education Is the Foundation for AFC

Can Smart Sanctions Achieve Their Intended Goals?

Combating Sanctions Evasion

Understanding Geographic Money Laundering Risk

Money Launderers for Hire: Antwerp’s Cocaine Dilemma