On this, the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I reminisce my experience and consider where the financial community is...
SAR Gazing In A Post 9/11 World
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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 to the importance of anti-money laundering (AML) training. However, as you hear or read...
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 maximum. OFAC – check; Patriot Act...
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...
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...
Bribe Backfires on S.A.R. Reporter
Bribe Backfires on S.A.R. Reporter, and everyone in the AML field should know this – the SAR is confidential. That is certainly...
Tom DeLay The Hammer Gets Nailed
Former coordinator of New York’s money-laundering task force explains why Congressman Tom Delay was found guilty of money laundering.
Fallout – The Real Cost of Non-Compliance with the BSA
When a bank like HSBC gets called on the carpet the dramatic economic effects shows up in several ways. I was interviewed about what this means, exactly, not just for the bank, but for the bank’s customers.
Money Laundering Update
Kevin has been interviewed about what’s hot in the money laundering world.
“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.