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.

August 29, 2022

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...

August 25, 2022

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...

August 17, 2022

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,...

August 2, 2022

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...

July 28, 2022

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...

July 25, 2022

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...

July 18, 2022

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...

June 30, 2022

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...

June 27, 2022

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

May 23, 2022

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...

April 21, 2022

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...

April 13, 2022

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...

April 12, 2022

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...

March 30, 2022

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...

March 9, 2022

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...

March 7, 2022

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...

February 3, 2022

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...

January 20, 2022

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...

January 6, 2022

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

December 20, 2021

Kit Conklin, Director, Global Client Engagement at kharon.com discusses the importance of understanding and complying with the export control laws, the risks to national security and the need for collaboration with...

December 8, 2021

In this installment of AML Conversations, John Byrne speaks with Jim Lee, Chief of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division, about IRS CI. During their conversation they discuss the recent IRS CI ...

November 17, 2021
Tom V artanian is a former federal banking regulator and law professor. In this two-part podcast, we discuss his v iews on what caused the v arious the financial crises in the US, the need for impro v ed or “smart”...

November 17, 2021
Tom V artanian is a former federal banking regulator and law professor. In this two-part podcast, we discuss his v iews on what caused the v arious the financial crises in the US, the need for impro v ed or “smart”...

October 14, 2021

John sits down with investigative reporter Kevin Hall who discusses a number of themes from the recently released Pandora Papers. Hall, as a lead reporter with the Miami Herald, was on the team with the International...

September 27, 2021
In this episode of AML Conversations, John Byrne and David McLaughlin discuss David’s journey in creating QuantaVerse and the problems he set out to solve. They talk about the interaction of technology and human...