Financial Crime Compliance Resources

AMLRS Advisory Board Member Nicolas Choules-Burbidge, formerly a senior executive at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) in Canada, where he started and oversaw the AML/CFT and Compliance...

Jeff Pearlman, NY Times Best Selling Author of nine books and author of a new book, “The Last Folk Hero” about Bo Jackson, discusses the recent fraud in Mississippi with public funds that involves Brett Favre and his...

Jenni Halleran, the Head of Financial Crimes Investigations at Silicon Valley Bank, discusses her career path, growing up in a blue collar town, and deciding to go to law school originally to be a prosecutor. She...

Mark Freedman, CEO / Founder of Rebel Global Security and former Chief of Section in the Counter-Terrorism Bureau at the US State Department discusses the need for Chief Security Officers to be more proactive on issues...

Guy Ficco, Deputy Chief of IRS-Criminal Investigation, joins us to discuss his new role, the vast coverage of financial crime by the IRS, the importance of private-public partnership, and the facts about new IRS...

John Byrne chats with John M. Geiringer, of Barack Ferrazzano Financial Institutions Group, about the new book he edited and co-authored, Countering the Financing of Terrorism: Law and Policy, by the American Bar...

Dennis Lormel, President of the Society of Former Agents of the FBI, discusses the ramifications of the public attacks on the FBI by elected officials in response to the search warrant issued to retrieve classified...

There have been outrageous comments made by “policymakers” about the IRS since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. AMLRS Chairman of the Advisory Board John Byrne talked to former IRSCI Chief Don Fort about the...

Asset Forfeiture Global Expert Stef Cassella returns to AML Conversations to discuss civil and criminal forfeiture. He explains how it's used, common misunderstandings about this law enforcement and prosecutorial tool,...

Kit Conklin, VP at Kharon and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council discusses the recent “joint alert” between the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of...

John discusses with Kent Belasco, the Director of Marquette University’s Commercial Banking Program, a recent project with a microfinance organization to assist an impoverished rural farming community outside Panama...

Alan Ketley, the new Executive Secretary of the Wolfsberg Group discusses the mission of the group, their focus on a variety of AML related topics: correspondent banking, PEPs, trade finance and recent papers covering...

Rob Triano of CipherTrace discusses his career move from traditional banking to the Federal Reserve to CipherTrace and addressing the unique challenges of the crypto world. Advising clients  with cybersecurity, money...

Tom Vartanian, the Executive Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center discussed the ongoing problems with cybersecurity, cryptocurrency and current regulations and recommendations regarding how to...

John interviewed Michael Lee, IRSCI Supervisory Special Agent, Western Cyber Crime Unit, on crypto, NFTs and Decentralized Finance.

John Byrne sits down with former FinCEN Deputy Director, Jamal El-Hindi and now Counsel with Clifford Chance. The two discuss AML challenges with new technology, the use of data, sanctions issues and his 20 year career...

For this episode of our AML Conversations podcast, we sit down with Sara Crowe, the strategic initiatives director at Polaris, a non-profit working to end human trafficking. We discuss how human trafficking has evolved...

John Byrne chats with Brian Szady, Founder of a threat mitigation firm Threatminder, on the various cybersecurity issues challenging the AML world, including ransomware, training staff and defining human as well as...

John Byrne sits down with Dr. Louise Shelley and Layla Hashemi, the editors of the new book Antiquities Smuggling in the Real and Virtual World,and Michael Loughnane about the pervasive nature of antiquities...

In June 2021, FinCEN issued the first National AML/CFT Policy Priorities for the US. John Byrne sat down with Dan Stipano of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP to record this at the ACAMS Hollywood conference. John and Dan...

We sit down with our global sanctions expert Tim White to hear how the financial crime compliance community is impacted following the sanctions against Russia and how to address any concerns. We also delve into how...

John Byrne, Chairman of the AML RightSource Advisory Board, sits down with James Lin, the Company’s new Chief Product & Technology Officer. James discusses his vision for how technology and people working together can...

Advisory Board Chair John Byrne sits down with Ken Harvey to discuss his joining the Board. They chat about Ken’s long career in financial service technology, the impact of technology development on customer...

John Byrne sits down with Jeffrey Albert of Pryor Cashman LLP and Ari Redbord of TRM Labs to discuss the latest guidance from the Financial Action Task Force about a risk-based approach to virtual assets and virtual...

Former FBI TFOS Director Dennis Lormel discusses the ramifications of the January 6^th 2021 attacks on the US Capital on society and the AML community. Dennis covers the financial warning signs to the radicalization...