ACAMS - AML Now

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS advisory board member and vice chairman of AML RightSource, LLC, spoke with Kay Guinane, program manager at Charity and Security Network, about the de-risking challenges nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are facing and how best to maintain a banking relationship in this risk environment.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, CAMS, ACAMS advisory board member and president of Condor Consulting, LLC, spoke with Jodi Gissel, a graduate professor at Marquette University, about the Justice for Fraud Victims Project and what we can expect from the next generation of individuals working in the fraud and financial crime prevention field.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, CAMS, ACAMS advisory board member and president of Condor Consulting, LLC, sat down with Sara Crowe and David Medina of Polaris. Crowe and Medina detailed the many ways that victims of forced labor are harmed in the agricultural field, the challenges of illegal massage parlors, the history of Polaris and how they are working with the anti-money laundering community in a variety of ways.

In this segment of the award-winning AML Now, John J. Byrne, anti-money laundering (AML) speaker, writer and subject-matter expert, interviews Danny L. Glaser, principal with the Financial Integrity Network, about the wide use of sanctions, their importance as a national security tool and Glaser’s thoughts about working in the AML field.

This segment of the award-winning AML Now, features John J. Byrne, ACAMS’ executive vice president. At this year’s 13th Annual ACAMS European Conference, Byrne discussed the global topics of de-risking, nonprofit organizations, financial abuse, and more.

In this segment of the award-winning AML Now, John J. Byrne interviewed Katie Simmonds of the Sports Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) and covered this new FATF-like organization created to address corruption and other problems facing sports around the globe.

In this segment of AML Now, ACAMS Executive Vice President, John J. Byrne spoke with Tim R. White, BSA and OFAC automation specialist for Banker's Toolbox, Inc. and chairman of the board of directors with West Coast AML Forum, about sanctions, his extensive AML career and how the West Coast AML Forum is making a difference.

In this segment of AML Now, ACAMS Executive Vice President, John J. Byrne sat down with Steve Gurdak, group supervisor of Northern Virginia Financial Initiative (NVFI), to discuss the utilization of suspicious activity reports (SARs), specifically within the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) program, and the importance of the SAR process.

In this segment of AML Now, ACAMS Executive Vice President, John J. Byrne, sat down with former OCC Deputy Chief Counsel Dan Stipano (now with Buckley/Sandler LLP) to discuss 9/11, know your customer, the Customer Due Diligence rule and de-risking. Stipano is the recipient of the 2017 ACAMS Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorist Financing Leadership in Government Award.

In this segment of AML Now, ACAMS Executive Vice President, John J. Byrne spoke with Rob Garver, a national correspondent for The Fiscal Times, about his views on journalism, social media and the issue of globalism.

In this segment of AML Now, ACAMS Executive Vice President, John J. Byrne spoke with Bill Nelson, president and CEO of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), a private-public center organization created to share cyber attacks, best practices and government actions in this global area of concern. FS-ISAC is a great example of affected entities working together to address complicated problems.

In this segment of AML Now, ACAMS Executive Vice President, John J. Byrne sat down with Career Achievement Award winner Jim Cox from the Fairfax County Police Department in Fairfax, Virginia. Second Lieutenant Cox discusses a whole host of issues such as human trafficking, information sharing and the heroin epidemic.

In this segment of AML Now, John, J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, spoke with Anna Rentschler, an ACAMS advisory board member, at the ACAMS 15 AML & Financial Crime Conference regarding the challenges faced by community banks.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, spoke with Rick McDonell about his time at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and on the importance of FATF today.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, spoke with Bob Pasley to discuss his upcoming book Anatomy of a Banking Scandal and his career at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Pasley’s book explores the failure of the First National Bank of Keystone in the late 90s and the corruption found at the local level in West Virginia.

In this segment of AML Now, ACAMS Executive Vice President, John Byrne sits down with John Atkinson, who recently retired from Protiviti and previously worked for the Atlanta Federal Reserve. Atkinson shares his career insight on AML, compliance challenges and what he has learned over the past 37 years in the financial sector.

In this special edition of AML Now, John Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, sat down with ACAMS’ Advisory Board Chair Rick Small to discuss the history of anti-money laundering (AML), his career and where he sees the community heading into 2016 and beyond.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, sat down with Tom Fleming, principal at Tom Fleming & Associates, to discuss the challenges both the private and public sectors are facing in 2014.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, sat down with Brian Stoeckert, managing director and chief strategy officer of CoinComply, to discuss the state of virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin and other concerns about the virtual currency space in 2015.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, sat down with Chip Poncy, president and co-founder of Financial Integrity Network (FIN), to discuss the challenges in the Middle East and to also discuss Poncy’s passion for customer due diligence (CDD) or the beneficial ownership rule as it is known in the U.S.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, sat down with Nicolas Burbidge, senior director of OSFI’s AML and Compliance Division, to discuss AML within the Canadian banking structure and his involvement with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, sat down with Raul Perez, a retired sergeant from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, to discuss how asset forfeiture laws can be used as tools in anti-money laundering.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, spoke with Rich Weber, chief of Criminal Investigation for the IRS, about his commitment to public service and the critical role the IRS plays in financial crime prevention and detection, not only in the United States, but also around the world.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, chatted with John Cassara, a former covert intelligence officer and a Treasury Special Agent. Mr. Byrne and Mr. Cassara discussed Cassara’s work in the Middle East, his training styles and his points regarding the government’s involvement in counter-terrorist financing.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, spoke with Abdul-Hafiz Mansour, secretary for the Special Investigation Commission (SIC) for the FIU of Lebanon, during the ACAMS 4th Annual AML & Financial Crime Conference- MENA in Bahrain. Mr. Byrne and Mr. Mansour discussed themes and trends in the AML field as well as Mr. Mansour’s views about ACAMS and the role it plays in the MENA region.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, spoke with Juan C. Zarate about his upcoming book: Treasury’s War, The Unleashing of a New Era of Financial Warfare, the key points made in his study of counter terrorism since 9/11 and his views on where the United States is going in terms of combatting terrorism.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, discusses AML issues covered during the recent 10th Puerto Rican Symposium of Anti-Money Laundering with Alan Abel, a representative of the AICPA and long-time money laundering prevention veteran.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, visited with Matt Gamble during the second day of the ACAMS 3rd Annual MENA AML & Financial Crime Conference in Dubai. Byrne and Gamble discussed important topics from the MENA conference, regional challenges and the risk-based approach.

In this segment of AML Now, John J. Byrne, ACAMS executive vice president, visited with Dennis M. Lormel, founder and president of DML Associates, to discuss the challenges facing the private sector and the changes that have occurred in the fight against terrorist financing in the past 10 years.