What’s a GTO? While the term geographical targeting order (GTO) sounds like something out of a James Bond film, it...
What’s a Geographical Targeting Order (GTO)?
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Money Laundering Expert, Author, and Professor Indicted
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York has indicted Bruce Bagley, a University of Miami professor in...
The Biggest Dangers of Money Laundering
When many people hear the term “money laundering,” they think about the cartel or a corrupt businessmen. Very few people...
“From Capone To Compliance” Seminar Agenda: Anti-Money Laundering Essentials Training
Click to see a list of destination onsite classroom locations and live streaming virtual classroom dates. For more...
SAR Gazing In A Post 9/11 World
On this, the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I reminisce my experience and consider where the financial community is...
Varsity Blues And A Cocaine Cruise – Media Headlines And Your Role
In the last few days there have been two major predicate crime incidents. One is the university admissions scandal and the other...
3 Signs of an Effective AML Course
More and more businesses are catching on the importance of anti-money laundering (AML) training. However, as you hear or...
Inside The White Collar Criminal Mind (Predictive forecasting or palm reading?)
While doing my research for this article I ended up going to a psychic. I wanted to see how accurately a psychic could...
A SAR IS BORN
Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) is an AML procedural topic that confuses many and harvests many varied positions and...
Developing the Investigative Mind
A bad guy thinks like a bad guy. He does bad guy things. He acts like a bad guy. He spends his day trying to think up more bad...
Voo-Due Diligence
So you think all is well with your compliance/AML system…Your deflector shields are up and on...
Dancing with the SARs: Navigating the BSA Suspicious Activity Report
Way back in the Mesopotamia Era… well, ok, it was really only 1992, but it just feels like such a long time ago as so much has...
Anti-Money Laundering in a Nutshell
Awareness and Compliance for Financial Personnel and Business Managers." Kevin Sullivan, CAMS draws on a distinguished career as...
5 Pillars of a Successful Anti-Money Laundering Program
We are quite familiar with the four pillars of a quality anti-money laundering program. They have been established and should be...
“Anti-Money Laundering In A NutShell”
Author, Kevin Sullivan, CAMS
A concise, accessible, & practical guide to compliance with anti–money laundering law for financial professionals, corporate investigators, business managers, and all personnel of financial institutions…
✯✯✯✯✯ Entertaining and Simplified Overview of the Complicated World of AMLPerfectly written book by an industry leader! Gives the reader a solid foundation and understanding of the multiple moving parts of AML and BSA. Highly recommend for anyone in the field, or anyone interested in financial crimes.