AML Conversations

In this edition of AML Conversations, Elliot Berman, Marketing Advisor at AML RightSource sits down with Steven Cohen, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Basis Technology. The company is engineering a safer & more productive world by building proven Artificial Intelligence solutions for analyzing text, connecting data silos, and discovering digital evidence. The conversation focuses on how various elements of AI are influencing the effectiveness of transaction monitoring in the financial services space and what AML compliance professionals need to know about AI as it plays and increasing role in our interdiction activities.

In this edition of AML Conversations, John sits down with Kent Belasco, Director of the Commercial Banking program at Marquette University, one of only two undergraduate programs dedicated to banking in the United States. As the AML community continues to figure out the variety of skill sets needed by financial crimes professionals, having a potential workforce with actual banking backgrounds can certainly assist with understanding the risk challenges with certain products and services.

With the horrific shootings in Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton, AML Conversations asked former FBI TFOS head Dennis Lormel how the AML community can further assist law enforcement in dealing with white supremacists.

AML RightSource is launching a quarterly webinar series, "AML RightSource Voices". The first installment will be broadcast live on July 23rd, 2019 beginning at 12:30 pm ET, with this edition focusing on AML Hot Topics. The discussion will include insights into the intersection of AML compliance and the art and antiquities markets, how to ensure your compliance program supports working effectively with charities, the recently published Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments, updates on sanctions relating to Iran and North Korea, high risk customers, customer due diligence, and the pending AML legislation in the House and the Senate. Participating in the broadcast will be AML RightSource staff members, John Byrne, Vice Chairman, Chuck Taylor, Executive VP, Head of Financial Crimes Advisory, and Tim White, Vice President, Business Development and Sanctions; as well as Rick Small, Executive Vice President, Director Financial Crimes, at BB&T and a member of the AML RightSource Advisory Board. The webinar will be moderated by Elliot Berman, Marketing Advisor at AML RightSource. Register on the AML RightSource website today!

In this special advisory board edition, AML RightSource Vice Chairman John Byrne interviews Marilu Jimenez, who recently joined the AML RightSource Advisory Board in early April. Marilu has extensive legal and compliance experience in both the United States and internationally. She runs her own advisory practice and shares her views on the regulatory environment in Latin America, as well as her dedication to training and other interesting aspects of the AML challenges we all face. Now sit back and enjoy AML conversations.

In this edition of AML Conversations, we dig deep into how prosecutors in the Commonwealth of Virginia get trained on many areas of law, including financial crime. Vice Chairman John Byrne’s guest, Elliott Casey, a former prosecutor himself, now trains law enforcement officials (prosecutors and investigators alike) on such disparate issues like digital evidence, forfeiture and complex financial crime. Casey also shares his views on the civil safe harbor, an extremely useful protection for financial institutions.

In this edition, we join AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne as he moderates a live panel of veteran AML experts during the 2019 ACAMS moneylaundering.com 24th Annual International AML & Financial Crime Conference in Hollywood, FL. The panel, made up of Chuck Taylor – AML RightSource Executive Vice President and Head of Financial Crime Advisory, Rick Small – BB&T Executive Vice President and Director of Financial Crimes, and Dennis Lormel – President of DML Associates, review community-specific topics like career progression, current AML legislation, as well as Chuck’s unique take on the ideal valuation process for SARs. We thoroughly enjoyed the live aspect of the panel interactions, and hope you will too. Sit back and enjoy AML Conversations.

In this edition, AML RightSource Vice Chairman John Byrne sits down with Dr. Thomas Kaczmarek, Director of the Center for Cyber Security Awareness and Cyber Defense, at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In their conversation, John and Thomas talk about the myriad of challenges facing the AML community, and the importance of recognizing how to combat cyber threats through communication and collaboration with all relevant parties. They also discuss the skill sets needed to enter this program and similar programs around the country, as well as a number of other hot topics in the cyber area that continue to challenge all of us. Sit back and enjoy AML Conversations. Additional Link: https://www.marquette.edu/cyber-security/

In this episode, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sits down with the chief of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, Don Fort, to talk about a number of important elements in the AML community. John and Don discuss private-public partnerships and how essential it is for law enforcement and their counterparts in the private sector, to work together. Don also talks about the value of Bank Secrecy Act data, the importance of suspicious activity reports, and how all reports are analyzed and reviewed by the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division. This year marks 100 years since IRS CI has been in existence. John and Don talk about changes in financial crime over the past century, and explore some of the similarities with crimes committed at the start of the IRS CI as they relate to crimes today. Sit back and enjoy AML Conversations. Additional Links: Feds charge 2 dozen in billion dollar Medicare brace scam: https://apnews.com/a4991f62e2f84b8cb9869efeaeb57a02

We are going live! AML RightSource Vice Chairman, and host of the “AML Conversations” podcast, John Byrne, will be the moderator for a live version of this podcast during the 24th Annual ACAMS Moneylaundering.com International AML & Financial Crime Conference in Hollywood, Florida. The AML Knowledge Session, sponsored by AML RightSource, will be held on Monday April 15th at 3:05PM. The session will feature a panel of AML community leaders including AML RightSource Executive Vice President, Chuck Taylor, ACAMS advisory board chairman and BB&T Executive Vice President and Director of Financial Crimes, Rick Small, and DML Associates President/CEO, Dennis Lormel. The expected topics of conversation include legislative proposals that have a high likelihood of traction in 2019, what the potential impact of the legislative moves might look like for the AML community, how to continue working with law enforcement, and the essential nature of private-public partnerships. John and the panel will also take audience questions.