FINCRIME VIRTUAL WEEK | AUGUST 1-5, 2022
- THANK YOU TO ALL ATTENDEES, SPEAKERS AND SPONSORS, FOR MAKING THIS EVENT A SUCCESS!
- FinCrime Virtual Week 2022
Running from August 1 to 5, turn a full working week into a star-hopping adventure with engaging online training sessions and lively conversations, interactive elements, and opportunities to connect with experts and your peers, all in a format that fits your schedule and respects your time.
This year, we’re challenging you to join ACFCS and like-minded professionals in a quest for a better future in financial crime prevention. Quests can be as arduous, demanding and potentially dangerous as interstellar exploration, but they promise valuable discoveries and vital experience at their end. So too does the quest for better, stronger financial crime compliance and enforcement.
- FinCrime, the Final Frontier
We’re not talking about space exploration, we’re talking about financial crime prevention. You may not be warping off to the far reaches of the galaxy, but you’ll still boldly go where no fincrime professionals have gone before during FinCrime Virtual Week, August 1–5. Join the innovators, the daring and the restless as we quest to the farthest frontiers of financial crime compliance, investigations and enforcement.
A quest for stronger financial crime compliance programs. For better cooperation between private sector, law enforcement and regulators. For a financial system free of the scourge of illicit finance, and a world with less suffering from the effects of financial crime. Are you one of those brave few, adventurer? Will you join the quest?
- Dare to Explore
We believe that the journey matters more than the destination, that’s why now more than ever before we can all use some time to connect, unwind and enjoy this journey.
Expect new interactive training activities, new deep dive learning and case study presentations, expanded opportunities to connect with the global fincrime community and much more.
- Everything You Need!
You’ve traveled too far and seen too much to ignore the fact that quests can be perilous, and explorers need the right tools, skills and allies to survive and thrive. FinCrime Virtual Week provides everything you need to navigate the strange encounters and alien menaces of money laundering, fraud and financial crime.
Hone your skills across presentations, panels and roundtables while earning up to 25 continuing education sessions. Immerse yourself in the latest fincrime risks, from sanctions developments to crypto crime to cyber threats, and supplement your knowledge base with extensive toolkits and takeaways. Recruit allies through collaborative challenges and the robust networking features of the event app.
- Explore the Program
Welcome and Keynote - Advancing the Fight Against Illicit Finance: A View from U.S. Treasury on the National Strategy
Faced with ever-expanding criminal threats and channels for illicit finance, prioritizing the highest risks and creating effective controls can be a daunting task for financial crime professionals. Fortunately, they're not alone - the U.S Treasury's National Strategy for Combating Terrorist Financing and Other Illicit Financing provides a wealth of insights on threats and vulnerabilities to the financial system, and governmental priorities to address those weak points. Join a representative of the U.S. Treasury as he gives perspective on how the national government is working to boost corporate transparency, close regulatory gaps, and encourage innovation, and what it all means for your efforts to strengthen fincrime compliance.
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The United States of Money Laundering? How the US Became a Global Destination for Illicit Proceeds, and What to Do About It
What countries are on your list as the top destinations around the world for money laundering and financial crime? Whatever international bodies like the FATF may say, if the United States is not on your list, you may want to take a hard look at your list. Despite recent reforms like the AML Act of 2020 and a reputation as a global leader in enforcement, the U.S. remains rife with loopholes and vulnerabilities that make it attractive to corrupt public officials, transnational organized crime, and other illicit actors of all stripes. It may not be a stretch to say that the U.S. is a leading country in money laundering penalties and in money laundering.
How did it arrive at this point, and what will it take to change? In this session, experts from law enforcement and financial crime compliance examine how criminals are exploiting weaknesses in the U.S. financial system and regulatory regime to move funds and keep assets in the U.S., and provide insights on how the fincrime prevention community can better collaborate to make the country unsafe for illicit proceeds.
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The Hunt for Kleptocrat Assets – The Seismic Shift inCombating Corruption and What It Means for FinCrime Compliance
Efforts to staunch the flow of kleptocrat assets moving through the global financial system have been super-charged in recent months. As law enforcement steps up freezes and boosts cooperation, financial institutions also have a critical role to play, with far-reaching implications for correspondent banking, customer due diligence and more. In this session, compliance pros explore how to incorporate the anti-corruption push into your risk assessment, enhanced due diligence on high net-worth customers, and more.
Following Mule Tracks – A Case Study of Money Muling from Detection to Law Enforcement
It’s been boom times for money mules and their handlers. Surging cybercrime, frauds and scams have created unprecedented demand for mule accounts, and organized crime rings and professional launderers have expanded and adapted their mule recruitment. A wide range of vulnerable populations are ripe for targeting – from unemployed people to elderly adults spending more time online.
Meanwhile, many financial institutions are still struggling to identify mule accounts and effectively report them. Join a compliance and AML expert and a DOJ representative as we follow a mule account from detection through suspicious activity, on to reporting and follow-up by law enforcement, to guide you on how to follow mule tracks.
ACFCS Training for the Next Frontier
Join members of the ACFCS team in this energetic session to get a behind-the-scenes look at how ACFCS training, including the CFCS Certification, prepares professionals to rise to the challenge and accelerate their careers. Attend this demo for your chance to win a complimentary one-year membership (2 winners will be selected).
Fraud War Games - An Interactive Adventure to Find the Fraudster
Are we making progress in global AML/CTF efforts? It's not an easy question to answer, but if anyone can offer a valuable perspective on the topic, it's former head of the FATF David Lewis. Join this session for a pulse check on international efforts to fight financial crime, as Lewis explores progress and challenges in bolstering beneficial ownership transparency, the regulation and supervision of non-financial gatekeepers, information-sharing and public-private collaboration, and more. Don't miss this exciting conversation with a renowned expert.
Fighting the Finances of Human Trafficking - Case Studies of Illicit Trafficking Models Around the Globe
Do all human trafficking cases fit the same mold? Of course not - yet sometimes human trafficking red flags and typologies are presented as one-size-fits-all, when the reality is more complicated. Honing investigations and transaction monitoring requires a more in-depth knowledge of the techniques, models and operations used by human trafficking organizations. In this session, an expert in human trafficking breaks down different models used by different trafficking organizations, and gives you actionable guidance to help support better investigations.
Speed Networking
Speed Networking
ACFCS Training for the Next Frontier
Join members of the ACFCS team in this energetic session to get a behind-the-scenes look at how ACFCS training, including the CFCS Certification, prepares professionals to rise to the challenge and accelerate their careers. Attend this demo for your chance to win a complimentary one-year membership (2 winners will be selected).
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Following the Finances of Weapons Proliferators - Choose Your Own Investigative Adventure
In light of North Korea and Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, countering weapons proliferation and cutting off financial channels to proliferators has become more urgent than ever before. Yet financial institutions and other industries often lack the training and programmatic elements to identify the financial traces and footprints of weapons proliferation. Are you ready to rise to the challenge? Join this interactive session to find out! Using elements of real cases of weapons proliferation and sanctions evasion, we'll ask the audience to take on the role of investigators, and follow your choices to see if you can crack the case. Along the way, you'll learn red flags, investigative tools and practical steps to take on weapons proliferation.
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The State of Play
08/01/2022
Welcome and Keynote - Advancing the Fight Against Illicit Finance: A View from U.S. Treasury on the National Strategy
Faced with ever-expanding criminal threats and channels for illicit finance, prioritizing the highest risks and creating effective controls can be a daunting task for financial crime professionals. Fortunately, they're not alone - the U.S Treasury's National Strategy for Combating Terrorist Financing and Other Illicit Financing provides a wealth of insights on threats and vulnerabilities to the financial system, and governmental priorities to address those weak points. Join a representative of the U.S. Treasury as he gives perspective on how the national government is working to boost corporate transparency, close regulatory gaps, and encourage innovation, and what it all means for your efforts to strengthen fincrime compliance.
Break
The United States of Money Laundering? How the US Became a Global Destination for Illicit Proceeds, and What to Do About It
What countries are on your list as the top destinations around the world for money laundering and financial crime? Whatever international bodies like the FATF may say, if the United States is not on your list, you may want to take a hard look at your list. Despite recent reforms like the AML Act of 2020 and a reputation as a global leader in enforcement, the U.S. remains rife with loopholes and vulnerabilities that make it attractive to corrupt public officials, transnational organized crime, and other illicit actors of all stripes. It may not be a stretch to say that the U.S. is a leading country in money laundering penalties and in money laundering.
How did it arrive at this point, and what will it take to change? In this session, experts from law enforcement and financial crime compliance examine how criminals are exploiting weaknesses in the U.S. financial system and regulatory regime to move funds and keep assets in the U.S., and provide insights on how the fincrime prevention community can better collaborate to make the country unsafe for illicit proceeds.
Law Enforcement Case Study Day
08/02/2022
Following Mule Tracks – A Case Study of Money Muling from Detection to Law Enforcement
It’s been boom times for money mules and their handlers. Surging cybercrime, frauds and scams have created unprecedented demand for mule accounts, and organized crime rings and professional launderers have expanded and adapted their mule recruitment. A wide range of vulnerable populations are ripe for targeting – from unemployed people to elderly adults spending more time online.
Meanwhile, many financial institutions are still struggling to identify mule accounts and effectively report them. Join a compliance and AML expert and a DOJ representative as we follow a mule account from detection through suspicious activity, on to reporting and follow-up by law enforcement, to guide you on how to follow mule tracks.
ACFCS Training for the Next Frontier
Join members of the ACFCS team in this energetic session to get a behind-the-scenes look at how ACFCS training, including the CFCS Certification, prepares professionals to rise to the challenge and accelerate their careers. Attend this demo for your chance to win a complimentary one-year membership (2 winners will be selected).
Fraud War Games - An Interactive Adventure to Find the Fraudster
Are we making progress in global AML/CTF efforts? It's not an easy question to answer, but if anyone can offer a valuable perspective on the topic, it's former head of the FATF David Lewis. Join this session for a pulse check on international efforts to fight financial crime, as Lewis explores progress and challenges in bolstering beneficial ownership transparency, the regulation and supervision of non-financial gatekeepers, information-sharing and public-private collaboration, and more. Don't miss this exciting conversation with a renowned expert.
FinCrime Around the Globe
08/03/2022
Speed Networking
ACFCS Training for the Next Frontier
Join members of the ACFCS team in this energetic session to get a behind-the-scenes look at how ACFCS training, including the CFCS Certification, prepares professionals to rise to the challenge and accelerate their careers. Attend this demo for your chance to win a complimentary one-year membership (2 winners will be selected).
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