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20th Annual

European AML/CTF
& Financial Crime Conference

A Global Outlook


9/10 November 2026

Held hybrid - Merchant Taylor's Hall, City of London

Programme 


Day 1 – Main Conference 

 
Monday 9 Nov 26, 13.30 – 18.00 GMT 
   
12:30 Registration & Networking Lunch
   
13:30 Chair’s Welcome Address
  Adriana van der Goes-Juric, Chair, AMLP Forum 
   
13:45 Opening Addresses
   
  Main Hall – FATF in action: The new Presidency agenda – advancing global risk-based standards in a fraud-driven AML landscape
  Giles Thomson, FATF President 2026-2028
   
  Main Hall – Implementing the new AML package: A risk-based, proportionate, and outcome-focused approach
  Ugo Bassi, Director, Banking, Insurance and Financial Crime, DG FISMA, European Commission
   
  Main Hall – Navigating emerging threats while balancing regulation with the competitiveness agenda
  Scott Rembrandt, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Policy, Office of Terrorist Financing & Financial Crime, U.S. DoT
   
15:00 Networking Coffee/Tea
   
15:30 Main Hall – Shaping the future of FinCrime Compliance – risk-based, proportionate & outcome focused approaches to today’s most pressing challenges – when to dial up, when to dial down
  Elan Faidel, Group Head of FinCrime Compliance, Revolut 
  Ralph Nash, Global Head of Anti-Financial Crime, Group Anti-Money Laundering Officer, Deutsche Bank
  Sebastien de Brouwer, Deputy CEO, European Banking Federation
  Lead: Vesna McCreery, Chair, International Advisory Board, MD, AML RightSource, & previously Global Head of Financial Crime at NatWest & Barclays
   
15:30 Parlour Room – Banking-as-a-Service to non-bank PSPs – managing financial crime risk across increasingly interconnected payment chains
  Gregory Dellas, Chief Compliance Officer, Ecommbx
  Mat Seneviratne, Global Head of Product, Risk and Governance FinTech, Payment Service Providers & Digital Assets, Deutsche Bank
  Lisa Chitty, Director, Compliance and Risk, Travelex
  Lead: Alma Angotti, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting, and previously Senior Counsel at FINRA, SEC & FinCEN
   
15:30 Drawing Room – Gambling Hotspot: Meeting increasing regulatory demand in AML/CTF and fraud – step up in oversight
  Rachel Bezzina, Director of AML, Malta Gaming Authority 
  Stefano Barone, Senior FinCrime & Sports Integrity Advisor, former FIFA Investigator and former Chief Investigator with Italy’s Guardia di Finanza
  Tom Günther, AML Officer and Group MLRO, Tipico
  Lead: Dr. Ekaterina Hartmann, Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs, European Gaming and Betting Association 
   
16:30 Main Hall – Following the money: Staying ahead of Europe’s most threatening criminal networks 
  Alexander Resch, Head of Financial Crime Unit, European Financial and Economic Crime Centre, Europol 
  Lead: Adrian Searle, Senior Advisor to TRM Labs & Enveil, and previously Director at the National Economic Crime Centre
   
17:00 Main Hall – AI in FinCrime compliance: Balancing opportunities, risks, governance, human oversight & regulatory safe adoption
  Brad Levy, CEO, ThetaRay 
  David Pope, Chief Operating Officer, DeepDive
  Edel Brophy, Lifecycle, Regulatory and Policy Affairs, FIS 
  Nino Di Teodoro, CEO, Pelican AI
  Lead: Howard Rawstron, Group Functions Economic Crime Oversight & Head of Consumer, Partner Finance, Lloyds Banking
   
17:50 Chair’s Closing Remarks
   
18:00 Cocktail Reception – Courtesy of Platinum Sponsor FIS
   
19:00 Banquet Dinner – Guest Speaker: Elisa De Anda Madrazo, Former President FATF 2024-2026 – Courtesy of Lead Sponsor AML RightSource 
   
21:00 Close of Day 1 

 

 


Day 2 – Main Conference 

 
Tuesday 10 Nov 26, 09.00 – 16.30 GMT 
   
08:15 Registration & Networking Breakfast & Panel — Championing Women in Financial Crime 
   
09:00 Chair’s Welcome Address
  Adriana van der Goes-Juric, Chair, AMLP Forum 
   
09:15 Main Hall – The EU AML Package: What’s Next for AMLA and the Regulatory Roadmap
  Rikke-Louise Ørum Petersen, AMLA Executive Board Member, EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)
  Lead: Adriana van der Goes-Juric, Chair, AMLP Forum
   
9:45 Main Hall – Next-generation KYC: Digital identity, eKYC/pKYC  and continuous risk-based monitoring
  David Howes, Group Head, Compliance, Financial Crime, and Conduct Risk, Standard Chartered Bank
  Luke Horsley, Vice President, Sayari
  Monika Wieczorkowska, Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Danske Bank 
  Nadine Kari, Director AFC & Group MLRO, N26
  Lead: Shahanaz Mueller, Partner, AML & Sanctions, Compliance Advisory, Deloitte
   
9:45 Parlour Room – AI-driven transaction monitoring: From fragmentation, hidden flows & real-time monitoring
  Jocelyn Tait Norval, Global Head of Financial Crime / GMLRO, ING Group
  Matt Brown, Group Head of Financial Crime Detection, HSBC 
  Aaron Elliott-Gross, Global Director of Product Compliance & Risk, Wise 
  Dr. Robert Schmuck, Vice President Product AML, Hawk 
  Lead: Martin Nordh, Group CEO, Acuminor & previously at, Ministry of Justice Sweden 
   
9:45 Drawing Room – EU, UK & U.S. ownership transparency reforms: new guidance, public registers and compliance expectations
  David Hotte, Lead of the EU Global Facility on AML/CFT
  Dr. Firas Nadim Habach, Central Europe MLRO & Swiss Head of FinCrime Compliance, Revolut
  Ryan Caruana, Group Chief Anti-Financial Crime Officer & MLRO, Bank of Valletta
  Thom Townsend, Executive Director, Open Ownership
  Lead: Ignacio Hagelstrom, Associate Managing Director, Kroll & previously Member of the, FATF Secretariat 
   
10:45 Networking Coffee/Tea 
   
11:15 Main Hall – Regulatory & policy roundtable: The New Supervisory Landscape: Broader Mandates, Smarter Oversight
  Mark Francis, Director, Specialist Directorate, Financial Conduct Authority 
  Patricia Dunne, Director Horizontal Supervision, Central Bank of Ireland
  Willem Schudel, Head of Department, Banking Supervision, Financial Crime Risks, AML/TF, De Nederlandsche Bank
  Lead: Adriana van der Goes-Juric, Chair, AMLP Forum
   
12:00 Networking Lunch –  Championing Talent in Financial Crime: Breaking Barriers, and Careers Progression
  Elisa De Anda Madrazo, Former President FATF 2024-2026
  Phale McMillan-To Van, Director of Risk, Economic Crime & GMLRO, NatWest Group
  Rachel Sexton, Non-Executive Director at WWE & UK Government Legal Department formerly with EY, KPMG & Deloitte
   
13:00 Main Hall – Implementing the AML Package & AMLA’s latest direction of travel
  Linda Haslam, Head of EMEA GFC Programme Framework, Morgan Stanley 
  Mauro Zanni, Group Chief Anti-Financial Crime Officer, Intesa Sanpaolo
  Philippe de Koster, Director CTIF-CFI & Advocate General, Supreme Court, FIU Belgium
  Lead: Götz Eric Fischer, Partner, Financial Services, KPMG
   
13:45 Main Hall – Fraud, AML & AI: An interconnected landscape – from silos to intel-sharing, consumer protection, and enhance resilience
  David Janson, VP EMEA, Fivecast
  James Malley, Interim Head of the UK Online Crime Centre, NCA
  Michael Sew Hoy, Director & Associate General Counsel, Compliance Anti Money Laundering and Human Exploitation, Meta
  Zuzana Crawford, Global Strategy Lead, Global Investigations, PayPal
  Lead: Nick Maxwell, Head of the Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing (FFIS) Research Initiative
   
13:45 Parlour Room – Crypto through a practitioner’s lens 
  Luke Dufour, Senior Financial Crime Advisor, Digital Assets, TRM Labs
  Tim Molcsan-Spidel, SPM, Compliance High Risk Task Force within Special Investigations, Binance
  Zornitsa Daskalova, Head of Financial Crime Prevention, Global Financial Crime Lead, Zodia Custody
  Lead: Valerie-Leila Jaber, Senior Advisor, Crypto Council for Innovation & Former Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Coinbase
   
13:45 Drawing Room – Real estate and the evolving AML landscape: navigating new FATF, EU AMLA & UK regulatory standards
  Bion Behdin, Chief Revenue Officer, First AML
  Dr. Nico Basener, Group General Counsel & CHRO, Engel & Volkers
  Neil Lover, Partner, Head of Financial Crime Compliance & MLRO, Knight Frank
  Nicola Parslow, Strategic Lead Estate and Letting Agent Businesses, Economic Crime Supervision, Fraud Investigation Service, HMRC
  Lead: Vicky Moss, Compliance Director & MLRO, Cluttons
   
14:45 Main Hall – Smarter Enforcement for a New Era: Disrupting ML/TF, fraud & FinCrime through intelligence-led action, info sharing, and asset freezing
  Adrian Foster, Chief Crown Prosecutor, CPS Proceeds of Crime Division 
  Alfred Zammit, Director of FIU Malta
  Marc Schroeder, Head of the White-Collar Crime Unit and Executive Secretary of FIU Switzerland/Swiss-FIPPP, the Swiss public-private partnership 
  Max Braun, Director, FIU Luxembourg – Financial Intelligence, Asset Freezing & International Cooperation
  Nick Pailthorpe, Global Director of Government Relations, Kodex
  Lead: T. Raja Kumar, former President FATF 2022-2024
   
16:10 Chair’s Closing Remarks
   
16:15 End of Financial Crime Conference
   
Day 3 Join us also for AMLP’s15th Annual European Anti-Corruption Forum – A Global Outlook,11th November 2026, 09:00 – 17:00, City of London
(Receive a 13% discount on both events – can be shared with a colleague).

 

 


Pre-Conference Masterclass

 
Monday 9 Nov 2026, 09.00 – 12.30 GMT
 
STREAM A – Drawing Room
   
08:30 Registration & Networking Breakfast
   
09:00 Welcome Address
   
09:10 The shifting ML and FinCrime typologies – from red flags to actionable intelligence
 
  • Emerging ML & FinCrime typologies including cyber-enabled fraud – practical insights and lessons learned
  • Identifying what matters, connecting the facts and producing useful, actionable intelligence
  • When and how sharing intelligence can help expose wider networks and emerging threats
  • Implications for the wider compliance programme
  • Harnessing AI – practical applications
  • Case studies on the new vulnerabilities, solutions and evolving best practice compliance 
  Dario Moncalvo, Head of AML Models, Analytics and Processes, Group Anti-FinCrime, Intesa Sanpaolo
  Jan-Gerrit Iken, Senior Adviser, and until recently Global Head of AFC Transaction Monitoring, Deutsche Bank
  Charles Brown, Head of Corporate Intelligence, Blackdot Solutions
  Marco Notarianni, Director of Intelligence, Financial Intelligence Unit, Barclays
  Lead: Marcus Thompson, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis
   
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
   
11:00 From static to dynamic risk assessment processes – evolving best practice compliance
 
  • New techniques for conducting risk assessment for both top-down and bottom-up strategies
  • Streamlining your risk assessment process across the FinCrime disciplines
  • The benefits of automation and integrating real-time FinCrime data for a current view of risks
  • Controls – identifying synergy and efficiency gains
  • Case studies on evolving best practice compliance
  Nadine Kari, Director AFC & Group MLRO, N26 
  Ryan Caruana, Group Chief Anti-FinCrime Officer & MLRO, Bank of Valletta
  Tom Devlin, Managing Director, KYC360 a part of Experian 
  Lead: Angela Molloy, Director Financial Crime, Deloitte  
   
12:30 End of Masterclass
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 


Pre-Conference Masterclass
 
Monday 9 Nov 2026, 09.00 – 12.30 GMT
 
STREAM B – Parlour Room
   
08:30 Registration & Networking Breakfast
   
09:00 Welcome Address
   
09:10 Economic sanctions & ML – navigating fresh challenges amid evolving geopolitical shifts
 
  • Latest EU, UK & U.S. sanctions strategies, and approaches amid areas of convergence & divergence
  • Lessons learnt from latest enforcement actions e.g. Citi
  • Navigating enforcement & secondary sanctions risks
  • Detecting circumvention tactics, AI-driven monitoring, and mitigating correspondent banking risks
  • Scenario planning & risk preparedness – assessing escalation and de-escalation scenarios
  Arjun Ahluwalia, Global Head of FCC Advisory and Geopolitical Risk, Santander Corporate & Investment Banking
  Chris Po Ba, Head of Sanctions, Multinational and Global Regulatory Affairs, Lloyd’s of London
  Mike Casey, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati formerly with the U.S. Federal District Court
  Lead: Anna Bradshaw, Partner, Financial Crime & Economic Sanctions Compliance, Peters & Peters
   
10:30 Coffee/Tea Break
   
11:00 Trade Sanctions in the Spotlight: Tackling Circumvention, Shadow Supply Chains & Illicit Payment Networks
 
  • Evasion tactics in trade & supply chains – a focus on front companies, deceptive shipping & hidden networks
  • High-risk goods – expanded priority item lists, dual-use goods & controls
  • Addressing cyber-enabled sanctions evasion tactics
  • Leveraging AI, blockchain analytics & screening
  • Case studies on lessons learnt, and evolving compliance best practices
  Bouchra El Osri, Group Head of International Sanctions, Generali
  Anu Mathur Boyd, Head of Sanctions & Export Controls, Maersk
  Dawson Law, Conseil Global Advisors, A7 Network peer reviewer, formerly with OFAC, and U.S. Treasury
  Tina Carlile, Head of Financial Crime, Financial/Trade Control/Energy Regulations, Shell International
  Lead: Chloe Cina, International Sanctions Expert, Cina Fernandez
   
12:30 End of Masterclass B
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

 

Day 3 – Don’t miss AMLP’s 15th Annual European Anti-Corruption Forum – A Global Outlook on 11th November 2026, 09:00 – 17:00, in the City of London.
(Enjoy a 13% discount on both events, which can be shared with a colleague).

 

To view the full programme and register, please click here.

 

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This event is held in hybrid format – delegates are able to attend in person or virtually.

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Special Offer

Book both Main European Conference & 15th ABC Forum (Day 3) and receive a 13% discount – can be shared with a colleague

Discounts

 

  • Member discount applies to academics, charities, law enforcement & Government.
  • 10% discount applies to members of Banking Associations in Central & Eastern Europe including Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Slovakia & Sweden (please contact us if your country is not listed).
  • Bring 3 or more delegates – please contact us for enterprise discounts.
  • Book both the Conference and Masterclass – receive a 10% discount
    *Discount offers cannot be combined.

CPD Points

A Certificate of Attendance will be provided to claim your CPD Points.

  • Eligibility: Sign-in required
  • Records: Retained for 5 years
  • CPD Points: 9.5 for Main Conference and 3.5 for each Masterclass Stream
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