Homeland Security Launches Operation Boiling Point
Homeland Security Investigations has launched Operation Boiling Point an initiative to curb organized retail crime and cargo theft. The effort brings together public and private organizations. John an...
21 Loka 202211min
AML Compliance for Start-ups – Bittrex
This week the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued enforcement actions against Bittrex, Inc., a virtual currency exchange. John and Elli...
14 Loka 202213min
Basel AML Index 2022 – Moving Backward
This week, the Basel Institute on Governance published its 2022 AML Index. The index assesses countries’ money laundering and terrorist financing risks and capacity to counter them. John and Elliot ch...
7 Loka 202212min
Can I Send a Remittance to Cuba?
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued updated FAQs clarifying the regulations about people in the US sending electronic remittances to Cuba. This update is particularly timely given t...
30 Syys 202210min
Another Busy Week in AML
John and Elliot discuss several topics from this week: a recent ProPublica article on human traffickers forcing victims into cyberscamming, recent releases from the US Treasury Department, and insight...
23 Syys 202211min
The Impacts Of De-Risking On The Caribbean
The US House Financial Services Committee held a hearing this week on the availability of financial services in the Caribbean region. The hearing included testimony from Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minist...
16 Syys 202215min
A Discussion with Jenni Halleran
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 pr...
14 Syys 202224min
Chief Security Officers need to be more proactive on issues of national security
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 p...
13 Syys 202224min
