Chaos Leads to Change

The ACAMS Today magazine is a quarterly publication for career-minded professionals in the financial crime detection and prevention fields and it is an exclusive benefit for ACAMS members. The ACAMS Today is dedicated to keeping members up to date on the latest anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing challenges, legislative, regulatory and international developments in financial crime prevention, and practical solutions to compliance problems.

Anyone familiar with the anti-financial crime industry will tell you that change is inevitable. The editor captures the chaos of 2020 that we all experienced and continue to experience into 2021 and incorporates it into the ACAMS Today Law Enforcement (LE) special decade-anniversary edition. Our LE and financial institutions have faced ongoing change in the past decade, but the editor also highlights that the chaos and disruptions experienced in the industry have led to greater partnerships between the public and private sectors whose goal is the same—to end financial crime. The key theme illustrated by the editor is that anti-financial crime professionals are adaptable and as such true change comes about with the never-ending chaos created by criminals.