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, C...
Mar 21, 2019•3 min
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.en...
Feb 26, 2019•31 min
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.
Feb 16, 2019•44 min
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.
Dec 11, 2018•42 min
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 unti...
Nov 26, 2018•35 min
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.
Nov 02, 2018•1 hr
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...
Oct 22, 2018•44 min
In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sat down with Mark Matthews who has had a long and distinguished career in both the private and public sectors. He is currently a member of Caplin & Drysdale Tax Controversies, Tax Litigation, and Exempt Organizations practice groups and has previous experience with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department, as well as experience serving in senior AML roles. This conversation covers offshore ban...
Oct 10, 2018•47 min
In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sat down with legendary compliance expert, Chuck Lewis. Chuck is retiring after 42 years of work in the banking industry, 40 of those years specifically in compliance. Throughout his career he has worked directly for financial institutions, advisory firms, and finally for the Missouri Bankers Association advising and working with banks on various compliance matters including Bank Secrecy Act issues. Chuck Lewis is w...
Sep 25, 2018•41 min
In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sat down with the founder of the Antiquities Coalition. The Antiquities Coalition is a nonprofit organization created roughly four years ago to stop the use of stolen antiquities as terrorist financing tools for extremist organizations, a very compelling part of anti-terrorist financing. The Antiquities Coalition conducts excellent advocacy and awareness work dealing with the need for countries around the world to c...
Aug 14, 2018•38 min
In this edition of AML Conversations, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, John Byrne, sat down with John Roth. John Roth has spent his career addressing the major challenges facing the AML community in the public sector and now is leading an effort for an important component in a new part of the private sector. John Roth’s distinguished career includes being the lead of the 9/11 Commission Report on terrorist financing, serving as Inspector General at the Department of Homeland Security, and serving ...
Jul 06, 2018•41 min
This edition of AML Conversations by AML RightSource features John Byrne, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, and Jonathan Lopez, Partner in the white collar corporate investigations group at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Washington DC. The discussion revolves around Jonathan’s previous career with the Department of Justice where he covered the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), personal liability cases, and money laundering issues. The conversation also covers his transition to the privat...
May 09, 2018•42 min
In this episode of AML Conversations by AML RightSource, John Byrne, AML RightSource Vice Chairman, sat down with Dan Soto during the 2018 ACAMS AML & Financial Crime conference in Hollywood, Florida. Dan Soto serves as Chief Compliance Officer at Ally Financial and is a member of the ACAMS Advisory Board. The conversation goes through Dan’s career starting in the public sector to where he is today, including comments about compliance in 2018 and some of the things he has learned throughout ...
Apr 17, 2018•31 min
This is the second episode of AML RightSource's new podcast, AML Conversations. Our second episode features John Byrne, former ACAMS Executive Vice President and current AML RightSource Vice Chairman and Board Member, discussing the intersection of fintech and community banking with John Waupsh, Chief Innovation Officer at Kasasa, and author of “Bankruption: How Community Banking can Survive Fintech.”
Feb 12, 2018•35 min
This is the first podcast to AML RightSource's new series, AML Conversations. Our first episode features John Byrne, former ACAMS Executive Vice President and current AML RightSource Board Member, who discusses possible changes in AML and issues currently being discussed by Congress. This discussion is a recording from the Northern Ohio ACAMS Chapter event at the Happy Dog Tavern in Cleveland, Ohio.
Jan 15, 2018•48 min
