Author Archives: Erin O’Loughlin
Emerging Risks Interview Series: Environmental, Social, and Governance Risk: The New Risk Frontier?
In ACFCS’s Emerging Risks series, we sit down with Thomas Mangine, Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for the Bank of Montreal, to explore how Environmental, Social, and Governance risk (ESG) is helping financial institutions examine their levels of risk in a new way. Tom provides his expertise on how ESG emerged, which institutions are implementing […]
Emerging Risks Interview Series: Ukraine and Human Trafficking
In ACFCS’s Emerging Risks series, we sit down with Timea Nagy, Founder and CEO of Timea’s Cause, to update the fincrime community regarding intelligence gathered on the current state of human trafficking (HT) along the western borders of Ukraine. Timea provides her expertise on how financial institutions around the world can be proactive in the […]
Emerging Risks Interview Series: Decentralized Fundraising – From Canada to Russia
In ACFCS’s Emerging Risks series, we sit down with Stephen Sargeant, Founder and Chief Web3 and Airdropd, Inc, to explore the role that decentralized fundraising has played within recent international events, from the Trucker Convoy in Canada to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Stephen provides his expertise on where he feels the decentralized fundraising industry is […]
Risk and Russia – What Are We Missing?
In ACFCS’s Emerging Risks series, we sit down with Ross Delston attorney and expert witness, to shed light on the issues that have NOT been widely discussed in regard to Russia and the global financial industry, to include geographic, credit, and operational risk. Ross also discusses the need for financial institutions to remain vigilant when reviewing […]
The Front Lines – The Investigations Series: Charity Scams Amid International Turmoil
By Erin O’Loughlineoloughlin@acfcs.orgMarch 16, 2022 Welcome to The Front Lines – a publication for the front-line investigator, risk officer, and compliance professional. Here, ACFCS will discuss issues that directly affect your everyday work life, with the goal of offering practical, tactical takeaways that can immediately help you think differently, analyze more fully and act and react more quickly […]
Can European Union Sanctions Stop Russia?
In ACFCS’s Emerging Risks series, we sit down with Constantine David Allen, Fraud Risk Assessor for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, to explore a critically important question in the financial crime arena – can EU’s recent targeted sanctions against Russian entities and oligarchs slow the movement of funds fueling this invasion into Ukraine? […]
The Front Lines – The Investigations Series: The Importance of Leadership in a Compliance Program
By Erin O’Loughlineoloughlin@acfcs.orgDecember 13, 2021 Welcome to The Front Lines – a publication for the front-line investigator, risk officer, and compliance professional. Here, ACFCS will discuss issues that directly affect your everyday work life, with the goal of offering practical, tactical takeaways that can immediately help you think differently, analyze more fully and act and react more quickly […]
The Front Lines – The Investigations Series: How to Transition from Public to Private Sector
The Skinny: Leaving government service can be a difficult decision and even more difficult task to undertake. Before leaving your federal job, employees should do the following: Research, Research, Research Utilize the transition office of your current employer The onus is on you, employee, so do the work to know the industry you want to […]
Financial Intelligence: A Band-Aid for Human Intelligence?
By Erin O’Loughlin, Senior Director of Training, ACFCS With last week’s developments in Afghanistan – the fall of Kabul to the Taliban – hordes of questions are front and center for everyone, particularly within the financial industry. Our financial institutions (FI) need to act swiftly to review their risk models with regard to money movement […]