From AML analysts to fraud investigators, regulators to security officers, all financial crime professionals have one thing in common – quite often, they feel like they’re one step behind the financial criminals.
The ACFCS 2015 Financial Crime Conference is an opportunity to change that dynamic. Conference panels are uniquely focused on helping attendees to leverage tools and best practices across departments and disciplines, confront threats that span the public and private sectors, and get ahead of financial criminals in all their forms.
Leading experts will provide practical knowledge on how to improve results in compliance, investigations and more, in a hands-on format that encourages the audience to ask questions and engage in the discussion.
The first nine panels are below, with more to be announced soon:
- Breached! – The explosive rise of data breaches and cyber financial crime, and the keys to an effective response
- Navigating the new reality of customer due diligence – How to prepare for FinCEN’s beneficial owner rules, new tax reporting systems, and other sweeping KYC challenges
- Terrorist financing’s shifting terrain – How to recognize and counter emerging threats in your customer base, business lines and supply chain
- Building (and borrowing) an effective anti-corruption program – Leveraging AML and anti-fraud tools to combat bribery and mitigate corruption risks
- The hunt for beneficial owners – How to pierce corporate structures, peel back layers, and uncover the true owners behind legal entities
- Unlocking ‘open source intelligence’ – Harnessing online tools to excel in investigations, due diligence and more
- The evolution of financial crime careers – A guide to the skills that professionals need and employers want in compliance, investigations and more
- The data-driven approach to financial crime detection and prevention – How to make the most of your data in an organization of any size
- Countering illicit finance in the year 2020 – Unpacking the emerging challenges and pressures that will reshape AML and anti-fraud compliance over the next five years
Roundtable Sessions – April 20
The ACFCS community encompasses compliance officers, regulators, law enforcement, auditors, lawyers and a diverse range of other professionals. Roundtable sessions will bring them all together to tackle some of the most pressing issues and emerging risks in the financial crime field.
Led by moderators, attendees will share their thoughts and insights, connect with their peers, and come away with useful tips on how to respond to new financial crime threats. A sampling of roundtable session topics is below, and more will be added in the coming weeks.
- Emerging money laundering channels and techniques
- Identity theft and fraud
- Detecting and preventing elder financial abuse
- Doing more with less – converging existing resources to deal with new financial crime risks and regulatory expectations
Problem-Solving Workshops – Bring Real-World Challenges and Get Solutions on April 21
The ACFCS 2015 Financial Crime Conference is all about equipping attendees with actionable tools and knowledge. That’s why this year’s conference will offer problem-solving workshops – a chance to bring your most vexing real-world questions related to compliance, investigation or other financial crime challenges directly to a panel of experts.
In dialogue with audience members, experts and moderators will help attendees work through their problem, and offer solutions they can apply directly to their jobs. Questions can be submitted in advance or during an open Q&A session. The first two workshop topics are below, with more details coming soon:
- Financial crime compliance programs
- Questions related to risk assessment, customer due diligence policies, regulatory trends and expectations, transaction monitoring, and more
- Investigative tools and techniques
- Questions related to public and private sector investigative best practices, recommendations on information sources, cross-border cases, public-private cooperation in investigations, and more