Making Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) Useful
In this episode of AML Conversations, John Byrne, AML RightSource Executive Vice President, Chuck Taylor, AML RightSource Executive Vice President and Head of Financial Crimes Advisory, and Steve Gurdak, Group Supervisor, Northern Virginia Financial Initiative Washington/Baltimore HIDTA discuss Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs). During the conversation the look at how SARs support law enforcement investigations and what are best practices for preparing useful SARs.
Are All Charities High Risk Customers?
Are all charities high risk customers? This is an important question when thinking about de-risking and access to financial services.
Assisting NPO’s and Their Need for Financial Access
Finally, “Work to Do”[i] Having spent a good deal of my career dealing with legislation, regulations, guidance and assorted policy statements, it never ceases to amaze me how long some things take from start to finish. Of course, I have seen money laundering related legislation virtually every two years from 1986-96 and the three weeks it took to pass the USA PATRIOT Act in 2001, but other issues are not done so swiftly.
Comments to September ANPRM by FinCEN
As a contributing member of the Financial Crimes space, AML RightSource has formally submitted the comments (below) to the September ANPRM by FinCEN. After discussions with a number of our clients and other members of the AML community, we are hopeful that the themes in our letter will be useful to this important process of addressing the flaws and the need for improvement in the AML infrastructure.
AML RightSource Announces Appointment of Don Fort to Advisory Board
AML RightSource is pleased to announce the appointment of John D. (Don) Fort to the company’s Advisory Board. Mr. Fort is the former Chief of the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Investigation (CI) Division and is now the Director of Investigations at Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP. In this role, he assists clients facing governmental investigations involving all manner of alleged financial and economic crimes, including tax controversies or suspected tax crimes, money laundering, and Bank Secrecy Act violations. Mr. Fort also is involved in conducting internal investigations and advising clients on compliance regimes.
Fraud: In Stock for the Holidays
Every year, fraud on consumers, sellers, and financial service providers increases during the holiday shopping season. This year, pandemic conditions have led to the reduction of brick-and-mortar shopping, and is driving more merchants online for the first time. This massive shift to online commerce with the inevitability of holiday fraud, sets the scene for a season that promises to be more challenging than financial crimes space is probably used to seeing.
