Where Do We Go From Here?
This week, with the world’s eyes on Kabul, the Group of 7 announced that they agreed on a plan to...
Afghanistan and the March of Time
I served as the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Attache to Afghanistan during the eighth,...
How Compliance Professionals Should Be Thinking About Afghanistan
From a financial crime perspective, financial institutions, fintechs, and others should proactively...
Out of the Shadows
Earlier this week, cryptocurrency found itself at the center of a heated U.S. Congressional debate...
Canary in the [Gold] Mine
This week, Monzo, an early fintech unicorn, disclosed in its annual report that it is facing a...
The Bulgarian Banksy
Last month, the U.S. State Department and U.S. The Treasury Department sanctioned Vassil Bojkov, a...
It’s Not Me, It’s €.U
This month, the European Union revealed its plan to set up a new agency, the Anti-Money Laundering...
The World [Is Not Enough]
Every day, millions of articles are published to the Internet across multiple platforms, languages...
The Financial Action [Tech] Force
Last week, following its latest plenary, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global AML...
Getting The Priorities Straight
This week, the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released the inaugural...
Trade-Based Money Laundering
One might imagine the surprise a Customs Official has when viewing an invoice for toilet paper...
What Is an AML Analyst?
An alert in a bank’s transaction monitoring system notifies that there is a large amount of money...
ESG: Enabling Solid Governance
Last week, Reuters reported that investor groups have asked for more ESG disclosures from the US...
State of the Unit
This month, a new report titled the ‘True Cost of Financial Crime Compliance Global Report’...
Putting You On Notice
Corruption and money laundering go hand-in-hand.
A Digital Cold War: Dual Use & The New Frontier
Last month, the announcement of Germany’s arrest of a businessman suspected of purchasing...
A Digital Goldmine!
This week, the European Central Bank, in its push for supervisory technology, stated that “national...
Level 1 vs Level 2 Investigations
“Two heads are better than one”, as the old saying goes. However, in anti-money laundering and risk...
The Culture War
This week, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) released a report...
The Man Behind the Curtain
This week, the WSJ rightly highlighted that the biggest impediment to the U.S. Treasury’s plans to...
Getting On Board
Over the last decade, gender diversity on corporate boards has become one of the most talked about...
