Agenda

Welcome to the 2025 North American FinCrime Leaders' Summit

AML and BSA leaders discuss how current developments could shape 2026 FinCrime issues and trends
Moderator: Chris Caruana, Conference Chair

Sponsor: Hummingbird
In a use-case discussion, learn more about how Financial Institutions are accelerating compliance efficiency with AI solutions.                                                                                                                                         

Establishing a certified, robust risk framework and on-going ecosystem.

Tom Hardin will share his challenging career journey and the compliance lessons reinforced from insider trading.

He'll vividly describe the spiral of personal connections, deceptive client info, quarterly expectation and market value followed by rationalizations.

This first-person examination from the East Coast investment industry highlights risky behavior and consequences in financial services:

• The Fraud Triangle
• When Information becomes Temptation
• Pressure points in the Investment Sector
• Red Flags in Account and Asset Performance
• Evasion and Tough Questions
• Mentorship and Accountability
• Compliance as the 3rd Parent: guidance and protection

Collaborative small group chats and problem-solving with this year's Sponsors:

• Hummingbird: Compliance Rewired: Navigating the Journey from Legacy Silos to Orchestrated Intelligence
  Compliance teams don’t lack ambition – but they don't have the benefit of a level playing field. They’re hampered by fragmented systems, manual handoffs, and tech debt.
  In this discussion, Hummingbird CEO Joe Robinson will help attendees chart a practical roadmap for transforming a compliance program into something more modern and flexible. In particular, Joe will discuss strategies for modularization, data integration, and AI implementation. The roundtable will deliver real-world insights on how to shift from reactive “case chasing” to proactive oversight.
• SAS: The Compliance Chasm: Bridging AML Gaps in Global Correspondent Networks​
• Castellum.AI: AI Agent Use Cases - How to Get Immediate ROI

  --AI Agents Deliver Measurable ROI: Domain-specific agents can reduce compliance workloads by up to 94% through automated alert adjudication, enhanced due diligence, and SAR filing — without requiring system replacement.
  --Real-Time, Explainable Automation: Agents should leverage continuously refreshed global risk data and integrate seamlessly for rapid ROI.
  --Proven Business Impact: Work with proven agentic partners delivering measurable results, not just chatGPT wrappers.

• Silent Eight: Too Big to Monitor? AML in the Age of Real-Time Payments
• FinScan: Who are you? Technology eKYC and pKYC Trends and Best Practices for 2026

  --Shift from periodic, scheduled checks to event-driven models based on changes in a customer's behavior, product usage, or data.
  --Create unified compliance engines that map varying cross-border regulatory requirements into a single workflow
  --Leverage AI, enhanced verification and remote onboarding to spot risky patterns and create better customer experiences

• Quantifind: Purpose-Built AI in Financial Crime: Cutting Through the Hype to What Really Works

  A candid, interactive discussion exploring real-world examples, lessons learned, and practical approaches to adopting purpose-built AI responsibly.
  --The shift from generic AI models to purpose-built intelligence engineered for financial crime detection, compliance, and investigation.
  --Agentic vs. Non-Agentic AI: What the evolution from task-based models to autonomous reasoning systems means for risk detection, false-positive reduction, and investigator enablement.

• CUBE3.AI: Operationalizing verified scam data: How to integrate it into decisioning, rules, and controls

• Nasdaq

• SymphonyAI

• Minerva

How to increase KYC efficiency and accuracy with careful consideration of best practices and compliance guardrails.
Moderator, Angel Nguyen Swift

Utilizing strong ML and AI tools to successfully shift to proactive and real-time threat detection strategies & frameworks.
Moderator, Chris Caruana, Conference Chair

Sponsor: Silent Eight

Sponsor: SAS
This session outlines the growing threat of first-party fraud (FPF), where legitimate customers exploit financial systems for personal gain.  It highlights key fraud types, quantifies the increasing financial impact, and shows potential projections reaching billions in losses.  

To counter the evolving risk, there is an urgent need for cross-industry collaboration, advanced analytics, and stronger authentication to mitigate risk and protect trust across issuers, merchants, and deposit institutions.

The real-world reach of FinCrimes and the associated effects on identity, reputation, transactions and institutional trust.
Moderator: Angel Nguyen Swift

Moderator: Chris Caruana, Conference Chair

Sponsor: FinScan

The next-generation strategy for Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) moves beyond reactionary, rule-based compliance to an Intelligence-Driven, Proactive Offense. This requires a re-focus on the foundational data layer with on-going data governance.

Leverage advanced analytics to predict and preempt emerging threats for your institution:

– Data First: Establish a "single source of truth" for all underlying customer and transactional data.
– A proactive offense means targeting the underlying criminal activity (the predicate offenses) before the laundering or fraud is complete.
– Technology, including AI, should be adopted strategically in your techstack to augment analysts as a "force multiplier.”

 

Sponsor: Quantifind

From banking to fintech to government, women are driving a new era of precision, innovation, and purpose in financial crime risk management. Join the Women in Risk and Risky Women collectives as these industry leaders share how they’re transforming compliance, leveraging AI responsibly, and shaping the future of financial integrity through collaboration and courage.

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Discover how intelligent automation pinpoints financial crime signals and empowers institutions to detect and disrupt illicit threats.

Insights from women advancing leadership in financial crime and risk intelligence

A conversation that welcomes allies - leaders who champion and sponsor women in risk roles

Opportunities to connect, share experiences, and spark action

A wide-ranging conversation addressing cross-border coordination, regulatory considerations and future outlooks.
Moderator: Chris Caruana, Conference Chair

The digital assets future has already arrived.
What does Regulatory Compliance look like for crypto?
How does Risk Management fit into DeFi?
Moderator: Chris Caruana, Conference Chair