Financial Crime Compliance Resources

Explore a comprehensive collection of insights, articles, and updates dedicated to Financial Crime Compliance. Here, you’ll find the latest trends, expert analysis, and practical resources designed to help you stay ahead of regulatory changes and enhance your organization’s compliance strategies.

July 20, 2023

In this episode, Rachel Dettmer, Joshua Gubitz, and Jonathan McIsaac delve into the potential obstacles that can arise during the implementation process. They discuss the warning signs to look out for, pitfalls to...

July 13, 2023

Continuing the conversation on implementation support, Rachel Dettmer, Joshua Gubitz, and Jonathan McIsaac discuss the value of having an experienced partner on your side during implementation and how a wealth of...

July 6, 2023

Implementation Support is a planned approach to integrate new or upgraded software or systems into the existing workflow of an organizational structure to help ensure the success of a business's overall system. In this...

July 6, 2023

John Byrne and Gary Shiffman, Founder of Giant Oak, Inc., discuss his recent article It’s not the algorithm, it’s the ethics. They look at the ethics and morality of adopting machine learning and artificial...

June 22, 2023

John Byrne and Terry Pesce discuss the recent Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships: Risk Management. They look at the implications of the guidance and what banks should do to assess their current risk...

May 31, 2023

Jonathan Fishman, one of the authors of the 2023 Treasury Department’s De-risking Strategy, discusses the various recommendations and the rationale for some of the words used to describe the problem and identifies...

May 25, 2023

Don Fort, former Chief of IRS - Criminal Investigation Division, Director of Investigations at Kostelanetz LLP, and member of the Advisory Board at AML RightSource, discusses his recent testimony before the Senate...

May 3, 2023

Experts from InterAction explain the continuing efforts to enhance financial access for humanitarian organizations, including UN Resolution 2664 and the US General Licenses by OFAC.

Kathryn Striffolino, Senior Manager...

April 27, 2023

Legal Consultant Liz Fraccaro from the Antiquities Coalition joins John Byrne again to cover The Art Market Report 2023 and how to utilize the information to enhance eventual AML due diligence.

April 12, 2023

John Byrne interviews the publisher of the Illicit Edge, Ryan Wallerstein, who shares his career journey from business to the Treasury Department to this new content endeavor.

March 13, 2023

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

March 7, 2023

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.

March 2, 2023

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...

February 23, 2023

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...

February 21, 2023

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...

February 16, 2023

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...

February 8, 2023

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...

December 6, 2022

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...

November 1, 2022

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...

October 28, 2022

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...

October 26, 2022

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...

September 20, 2022

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...

September 13, 2022

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...

September 8, 2022

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...

September 7, 2022

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...