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From the editor
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Member spotlights
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Financial crime matters and beyond
AFC CHALLENGES
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Seeing positives in false positives
Learn why FIs should focus on strategies to manage false positives instead of eliminating them .
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Elections
and suspicious activity
A
look at straw donations to political campaigns : What they are and the red flags for detecting them .
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When
to make the call to LE
Find out which situations ― including terrorism and ransomware attacks ― require that FIs contact LE .
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BSA scofflaws and black boxes
Technological advances in AML monitoring are blurring the lines between low-level and major financial criminals .
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Credit unions and the new age of financial crime
Explore the history of credit unions and how they are adapting to the changing financial landscape .
COMPLIANCE
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SAR optimization for financial institutions
Tips for FIs on how to strengthen the information in their SARs to maximize their usefulness for LE .
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Scaled-down suspicious activity investigations
How LE can leverage continuous activity report ( CAR )/ SAR histories to benefit their investigations .
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