The continued movement towards a principals-based regulatory environment, coupled with ongoing development in anti-financial crime technology, has led to a significant shift in the approach many take to their anti-financial crime strategy. Technology offers advantages and insight which cannot be matched by human expertise, but is there a risk of losing sight of the critical expertise needed by an anti-financial crime leader?
In a world of constantly shifting regulatory landscapes, sometime things can go wrong. This session will provide an insight into how to remediate a compliance program, getting business buy-in, and handling regulatory scrutiny. In a case-study format, this session will look at how to overcome the typical challenges associated with implementing or revising compliance strategies, using both innovative and practical solutions.
This session will consider the key challenge around creating and maintaining the right anti-financial crime culture within your business; one which has the required focus on balancing regulatory adherence with the necessary business growth. Financial crime risks and criminal methodologies are forever changing, and this session will offer guidance on how vital a unifying ethos is within your business to fight these risks.
Delivering practical guidance, this session will look at identifying and applying the behaviours required within the first and second lines, as well as how to drive a philosophy across the business which is a) customer-centric and b) adheres to the requirements of a risk-based regulatory environment
Regulatory investigations are a challenge potentially encountered by many who lead their firm’s anti-financial crime strategy. This practical think-tank will offer insight into how to best manage such a situation; how to deal with internal stakeholders, maintain positive relationships with regulators and law enforcement and identify where technology can help mitigate the risks you may face.
As the importance of ESG, in particular C&E continues to grow, it is becoming increasingly important for banks/ big financial institutions to integrate ESG risks into their Compliance frameworks. This round table discussion will explore the challenges and opportunities of integrating ESG factors into compliance frameworks. How can ESG risks drive compliance and the challenges and opportunities of reporting and disclosure requirements?
discussing how to maintain the right balance between a frictionless client experience and the opening up potential risks during your onboarding processes. How can you define the right approach for you, and how can you manage the inevitable business pressures with the right risk-based approach?
Within this session, we will explore how to achieve – and maintain – the difficult balance between risk management and simply avoiding any level risk as a compliance leader when it comes to financial crime risk management. The discussion considers how a compliance function can maintain a focus on financial crime prevention by nuanced risk management strategies, and in doing so, allow the business to continue to grow into new markets and with new products
As financial crime typologies increase, and new predicate crimes are identified within the EU’s latest AML directive, how do you ensure your transaction monitoring strategy is flexible enough to keep up to date with these changes? In a world of machine learning solutions, how can you ensure system rules are fit for continued purpose?