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During the first part of this two-day event, we will be opening the conference with industry experts discussing topics including Terrorist Financing, 6MLD and Behavioural Compliance.
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Emerging risks in money laundering and terrorist financing
With financial criminals using ever more sophisticated methods to evade detection, there is an increasing need for financial crime compliance practitioners to adopt an intelligence-led approach in order to understand, detect and manage emerging risks. Key to this is the sharing of information between public and private partners, and the deployment of network tools to improve detection capabilities.
This session will outline the specific money laundering and terrorist financing threats and vulnerabilities currently facing Nordic banks and will discuss the insights gained since the launch of the Swedish Anti-Money Laundering Initiative (SAMLIT), as well as future positive developments expected to result from the initiative.
David Gilchrist, Head of Complex cases and Intelligence, Danske Bank
Sven Kivvistik, Head of GSI Investigations, Anti-Financial Crime, Swedbank
Ilze Znotina, Head of Latvia FIU, Financial Intelligence Unit, Latvia
Lev Yuriditsky, Head of Intelligence, Sqope S.A
Complex investigations: From theory to practice
As financial crime threats increase in number and complexity, financial institutions must take a more proactive attitude towards the identification and investigation of such threats, using an intelligence-led approach. This practical session will suggest novel ways of thinking about investigations and will discuss different types of proactive investigations and their triggers, as well as considering how such investigations fit into a larger framework, aligning with identified risks. It will include a detailed case study outlining how to put these concepts into practice.
David Gilchrist, Head of Complex cases and Intelligence, Danske Bank
6MLD implementation: Implications and opportunities
5AMLD
6AMLD
Hugo Veazey, Director, Anti-Financial Crime Solutions, Moody's Analytics
James Wood-Rickett, Global Lead, AML. International Compliance Association
Graham Barrow, Director, Dark Money Files
Behavioural compliance
Paul Eccleson, Governance, Risk and Compliance Consultant, Gail Bragg Consulting Ltd
Conduct risk: From behaviours and outcomes towards social purpose?
Regulators are taking an ever-keener interest in behaviours, outcomes and organisational purpose which, mirrored by society’s evolving expectations of financial services providers, is placing conduct risk high on the compliance agenda. COVID-19 has only served to exacerbate existing concerns regarding the financial sector’s impact on consumers and society. For example, greater attention has been placed on the protection of vulnerable customers; ESG issues have risen sharply up the regulatory agenda; while in the UK the regulator has introduced a ‘consumer duty’, more clearly articulating firms’ obligations. Are such trends temporary or do they signal a further direction change for regulators?
In this session, Rhodri Kettle, ICA Global Lead – Governance, Risk and Compliance, will discuss these developments and their implications for the management of conduct risk across the region.
EU Whistleblowing regulations: practical insights
You can expect practical insights on:
Whistleblowers' rights Minimalistic versus best practice approach
Frank Staelens, Managing Director, Whistleblowing Management EU
The final day of this impactful event will focus on Regulation of Virtual Assets, ESG and Sanctions Trends amongst many other topics.
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Regulation of virtual assets
Malcolm Wright, Chief Compliance Officer, GDF
ESG
ESG is rapidly rising up the corporate agenda, through a combination of:
What is current best practice across the Nordic region with regard to ESG issues, and what steps should compliance practitioners be making to keep their organisations on top of this fast-moving area and how is this influenced by ethical decision making??
Jonathan Pert – ESG Offering Specialist, OneTrust
Anna Romberg, Executive Vice President Legal, Compliance & Governance, Getinge
Pekka Dare, Vice President, International Compliance Association
Panel: Sanctions trends
Sanctions, the Baltics and the Russia dimension:
Antoine Stoll, Acting Head of Sanctions Response Unit - Group Financial Crime Prevention, Nordea
Tapani Holopainen, Chief Compliance Officer, Head of Group Sanctions Advisory, Nordea
Maddalena Tovazzi, SME in Sanctions Risk Management, Nordea
Louie Vargas, Principle Compliance Officer, Sanctions Control and Technology, Danske Bank
Sophio Tabatadze, VP Sanctions Compliance Nordics, Citibank Europe
'The need for speed' - Changing the pace of AML Transaction Monitoring
Around the world, we are seeing regulators demanding faster turnarounds for suspicious activity reporting, with some even pushing for real-time AML TM. Whilst this has already been adopted in the PSP/MSB space, this is a significant new development for financial institutions.
The shift will affect the way analytics and reviews are set up, and create new requirements for technology and systems.
This session will look at:
Araliya Samme, Head of Financial Crime, Featurespace
KYC utilities
Katja Laurila, Head of Client and Case Management, Invidem
Morten Host, Senior Project and Programme Manager, Nordea
Stuart Gilliland, Head of KYC, Nordea