In Focus: Mid-Year Review, Assessing Year-to-Date AFC Issues and Challenges

Kieran Beer is responsible for moneylaundering.com, ACAMS Today and content for ACAMS conferences and programs. 

He has been a financial journalist more than 30 years, with stints at Bloomberg, American Banker, the Bond Buyer and Institutional Investor. Kieran speaks at conferences, has appeared on CNBC and Sky News, and been heard over the airwaves on WBBR and NPR. 

He writes regularly on anti-financial crime issues and hosts “Financial Crime Matters”, an award-winning podcast series.

Colby Adams has served as managing editor of ACAMS moneylaundering.com since 2016 after having joined the publication as a reporter in 2009. He and his staff cover regulatory enforcement actions, laws and regulations impacting AML compliance, civil and criminal cases stemming from AML and BSA violations, and global efforts targeting the finances of terrorist groups and other blacklisted organizations. Prior to joining moneylaundering.com, he covered defense and security issues for Foresight News in London.

Chelsea Carrick recently joined ACAMS moneylaundering.com as the New York reporter. She covers regulatory enforcement actions, laws and regulations impacting AML and compliance, financial crime cases and state and federal efforts to target illicit financing. Prior to joining moneylaundering.com, she reported on Mexican politics.

Koos Couvée has been ACAMS moneylaundering.com’s European reporter since October 2017 and is responsible for covering the development of laws, regulations and compliance procedures designed to clamp down on illicit finance in the United Kingdom and European Union. Prior to joining ACAMS, Koos worked as a news journalist at various regional and national newspapers based in London.

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Gabriel Vedrenne joined ACAMS moneylaundering.com in January 2019 as a reporter in charge of covering the development of AML laws and compliance procedures as well as law enforcement's operations in Europe with a specific focus on French and German-speaking countries. Prior to joining ACAMS, Gabriel worked eight years as a business journalist and managing editor at French radio station Europe 1 in Paris.

Fred Williams writes about AML legislative and regulatory developments in the capital. Before joining ACAMS moneylaundering.com he was a Washington reporter for Bankrate.