AFC in Practice: Insights from the ACAMS Global AFC Threats Report

Sam is the Anti-Financial Crime and Sanctions Research Lead at ACAMS, responsible for driving research across the breadth of global financial crime risks. His role includes co-authoring and leading the data analysis behind ACAMS flagship annual Global AFC Threats Report, as well as other research initiatives. Sam also delivers sanctions masterclasses and webinars, including the monthly sanctions watch series, and regularly speaks at conferences, helping institutions strengthen their AFC and sanctions controls and capabilities.

Prior to ACAMS, Sam worked on the Sanctions Policy team at UK Finance - the trade association for the UK banking sector, as well as at NATO’s Center of Excellence for Defence Against Terrorism.

Joby is a global subject matter expert on cryptoassets, illicit finance and emerging threats. Joby has 18 years of experience and expertise in strategic policy making, critical thinking, threat and risk analysis across the U.K. Government, intelligence and regulatory community. In his previous role Joby was responsible for the management of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Strategic Assessment Team, overseeing a team of analysts tasked with delivering high quality intelligence reporting on money laundering, fraud, market abuse, corruption and other forms of criminality across the regulated sector.

As part of his role Joby has undertaken extensive regulatory and threat analysis of cryptoassets and represented the U.K. on a variety of high-profile engagements. Recently Joby has produced a range of thought leadership papers covering cryptoassets, their regulatory framework, the threat environment and cryptoasset business models. Joby has also had articles published relating to the importance of threat analysis and intelligence sharing.

Riley Green is a project coordinator at ACAMS, where she supports the organization's thought leadership initiatives by coordinating global convenings, managing publication workflows, and collaborating with internal teams and external experts to advance high-level discussions, research, and social impact priorities across the anti-financial crime community. She also supports the production of the annual ACAMS Global AFC Threats Report.

Prior to joining ACAMS, Green worked on the Research and Data Team at The Sentry, developing illicit financial network visualizations, supporting open-source investigations, and analyzing gaps in international sanctions regimes.

Craig Timm is the Senior Director of AML at ACAMS.

Prior to joining ACAMS, Craig had more than 15 years of anti-financial crime experience across the public and private sectors. At the Department of Justice, Craig served as a Deputy Chief in the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section (now Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section) at headquarters in Washington, DC. In that role, he led a team of prosecutors responsible for enforcing criminal violations of the Bank Secrecy Act, U.S. economic sanctions, and money laundering laws committed by financial institutions and their employees. He led the prosecution of some of the largest financial institutions in the world including HSBC and BNP Paribas. Craig began his career with the Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney in Arizona. At the Department of Justice, he was the recipient of numerous awards including the Attorney General’s Crime Victim’s Restoration Award, the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director’s Meritorious Service Award.

At Bank of America, Craig was a Financial Crimes Executive responsible for Strategic Initiatives. These initiatives included participation in the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, 314(b) information sharing initiatives, and the Wolfsberg Group as well as managing the day-to-day liaison with FinCEN, the U.S. Treasury, senior financial crimes policy officials at the OCC and Federal Reserve, key law enforcement agencies, and the U.S. Department of Justice. He also spent several years as the Financial Crimes Executive for the Global Wealth and Investment Management business lines where he served as the designated Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Officer for Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust.

Craig has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree from the Northwestern University School of Law.