AML Conversations

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.

In this edition, AML RightSource Vice Chairman John Byrne sits down with Angel Swift, the Vice President of Compliance and Financial Crimes Solutions at Enigma, an Operational Data Management and Intelligence company headquartered in New York City. They discuss the S.T.A.T. (“Stand Together Against Trafficking”) program; a collaborative tool designed in part, to disrupt finances related to human trafficking. Sit back and enjoy AML Conversations. Additional links: STAT Microsite - https://stat.enigma.com/ Sanctions Tracker: https://labs.enigma.com/sanctions-tracker/

In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sits down with Dr. Louise Shelley, Director of George Mason University’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center. In their conversation they discuss the center, her recent book “Dark Commerce”, and the connection that the center has been able to amplify in its research in understanding the links between terrorism, transnational crime and corruption.

A special edition of AML Conversations, looking at a program at Marquette University that focuses on partnerships, emphasizing how “peacemaking” can improve communities and everyday lives. Numerous peacemaking initiatives are discussed in this conversation between AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, and Patrick Kennelly, the Director of the Center for Peacemaking program at Marquette University.

The importance of asset forfeiture both globally and domestically is analyzed by international expert Stef Cassella in this riveting edition of AML Conversations. This edition features AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, and Stef Cassella who is currently the author and publisher of Money Laundering and Forfeiture Digest, but more importantly has been instrumental in the use, at the federal level, of the asset forfeiture laws used by prosecutors and law enforcement throughout the 80s until today. You cannot understand AML without knowledge of asset forfeiture.

In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sits down with Elise Bean. Elise Bean is the former staff director and chief counsel of the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) and the author of a new book, Financial Exposure: Carl Levin’s Senate Investigations into Finance and Tax Abuse. You’ll hear an in-depth interview on the major financial crime investigations of the past 20 years that are covered in her new book.

In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, talks with Steven Kemmerling. Steven is the CEO and Founder of MRB Monitor, a company that doesn’t support or oppose the banking of marijuana customers, but provides information so that institutions can make more informed decisions on whether or not their account holders are directly or indirectly managing products or businesses that have something to do with the sale of or with the enabling of the sale of marijuana. This conversation delves into the major challenges of banking marijuana businesses with the federal and state conflicts that still exist.