AML Conversations: Wildlife Trafficking
In this episode of AML Conversations, John Byrne, Debra LaPrevotte, and Dr. Louise Shelley discuss environmentalcrime and the need for a more cohesive approach. Wildlife trafficking continues to enable the facilitation of illicit funds and is the “soft underbelly of organized crime.” Our panel discusses this global problem and what can be done to address what is a “low risk, high reward” crime.
AML RightSource Welcomes Janice Mensah to Executive Team
AML RightSource is pleased to announce that Janice Mensah has joined the company as Senior Vice President and Head of AML RightSource Canada. In this role, she will lead AMLRS Canada’s managed services operations, working closely with internal delivery teams and interacting with clients daily to continue to enhance our overall delivery and ensure we deliver best-in-class outcomes for our clients.
Marilu Jiménez Joins AML RightSource as a Senior Advisor
AML RightSource is pleased to announce that Marilu Jiménez has joined the company as a Senior Advisor.
AML RightSource Welcomes Judith Barendse to Executive Team
AML RightSource is pleased to announce that Judith Barendse has joined the company as Senior Vice President and Head of AML RightSource USA. In this role, she will lead AMLRS USA’s managed services operations, working closely with internal delivery teams and interacting with clients daily to continue to enhance our overall delivery and ensure we deliver best-in-class outcomes for our clients.
9/11: A 20-Year Retrospective of the Central Backstory
This first appeared in the September 2021 edition of ManchesterCF Analytics from ManchesterCF
9/11 Created the AML Community We Know Today
The End of the Innocence[1]
FATF Report: New Tech Set to Boost Financial Crime Fighting Efforts
Experts have welcomed a Financial Action Task Force report highlighting new technologies that can help fight financial crime. The task force emphasized how advances — such as customer due diligence tools, artificial intelligence and blockchain — can make anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) efforts faster, cheaper, and more effective. There are still barriers to their adoption, but these can be overcome, said the report.
Offshoring: Get Started; Running Smoothly
In this installment of AML Voices, our expert panel discusses how to launch an offshore component to your financial crimes compliance program and how to ensure that integrates well and runs smoothly.
Real Estate and the Need for “Real” Reforms in Australian AML Regulations
“Incremental” is a word that is often used to describe the pace of AML/CTF reforms in Australia. The release in June 2021 of the latest Tranche 1.5 by the AUSTRAC is emblematic of the glacial pace at which reforms are being passed through the regulatory system in Canberra.
