Financial Crime Compliance Resources

Dr. Michael Zimmer, Director, Center for Data, Ethics, and Society and Associate Professor & Vice-Chair, Department of Computer Science at Marquette University discusses:

Liz Fraccaro, Attorney and Legal Consultant to the Antiquities Coalition, shares her insight on FATF’s recent report, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing in the Art and Antiquities Market.

How can we improve the cyberworld? One author tells us. We sat down with banking expert Tom Vartanian to discuss his recent book: “The Unhackable Internet: How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Create Real Security and Prevent...

Career agency official looks back over the progression of financial fraud from the Savings & Loan crisis to today. Jim Vivenzio, now with Perkins Coie LLP, provides insight into the state of the financial industry...

Elliot Berman sits down with Raul Aguilar - Deputy Assistant Director, HSI, Transnational Organized Crime, Financial and Fraud Division and Shawn Newman – Chief, HSI, Financial Crimes Unit to discuss Operation Boiling...

John Byrne sits down with Raul Aguilar - Deputy Assistant Director, HSI, Transnational Organized Crime, Financial and Fraud Division and Shawn Newman – Chief, HSI, Financial Crimes Unit to discuss the wide range of...

Chief of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Division (IRSCI) Jim Lee details the 2022 results of his “BSA Challenge” to his staff. The Challenge explores and explains the value to law enforcement of Bank Secrecy...

Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent on the International Corruption Unit DebraLaPrevotte discusses her career work investigating global corruption and its clear impact on communities. She is currently on a new...

Kateryna Boguslavska, PhD, Project Manager Basel AML Index at the Basel Institute on Governance, discusses the 2022 AML Index and some examples of recent metrics from Eastern Europe and other regions. Dr. Boguslavska...

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...