Navigating Financial Crime Risk in an Evolving Compliance Landscape

Designed exclusively for banks’ BSA/AML executives, this Roundtable is a peer-driven platform to navigate the ever-changing compliance and financial crime landscape. Members dive into pressing challenges like AMLA implementation, SAR quality, sanctions management, and emerging threats, sharing what’s working across institutions of varying scale and complexity.

Participants gain immense value from benchmarking controls, comparing technology adoption strategies, and understanding how others are preparing for anticipated rulemakings. Whether responding to regulators, refining investigative practices, or evaluating behavioral analytics tools, members leave each meeting with practical, peer-tested insights.

Membership includes access to in-person and virtual executive meetings, custom surveys on timely issues, and the ability to earn CPE credits toward ACAMS certification.

Who Should Join

This group is for executives responsible for AML compliance, transaction monitoring, and financial crimes strategy within consumer and small business banking. Typical members lead BSA/AML operations, financial crimes transformation, or AML policy and control functions.

Why It Matters

The pace of change in AML regulation, risk typologies, and enforcement expectations has accelerated. The BSA/AML Roundtable helps executives compare investigative practices, respond to shifting compliance obligations, and understand where peers are placing their bets on technology and talent. In a high-stakes environment, peer insights reduce uncertainty and support stronger organizational alignment.

Hot Topics

• Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA): Discuss compliance with and implementation of the first major revision to AML/CFT laws in decades.
• Suspicious Activity Reports: Develop best practices to improved SAR quality, from investigating and documenting the suspicious activity to writing insight-filled narratives that are beneficial to law enforcement.
• Tools and Technologies: Understand how peers are evaluating the latest tech, such as behavioral analytics, to be predictive in the fight against money laundering.
• Effective Rule Strategies: Discuss effective rule strategies to identify AML related activity.