Course Description:

Compliance expectations continue to rise, but staffing and budgets don’t always follow. This session focuses on where AML programs can find efficiencies without sacrificing effectiveness. We’ll look at ways to simplify onboarding, improve the quality of alerts, align monitoring tools to risk, and tighten up governance documentation. If your team is being asked to do more with less, this session will offer practical ways to keep your program on track.

Instructor: Sharon Blanchette

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This training provides a practical overview of Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Identification Program (CIP), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) processes for high-risk customers and businesses.

Participants will learn how to identify, assess, and manage elevated risk profiles in accordance with regulatory requirements. The session covers red flags, documentation expectations, and best practices for mitigating financial crime risks associated with high-risk individuals and entities.

Instructor: Justin Muscolino

Course Description:

Money laundering is a global issue that evolves as criminals find new ways to clean illicit funds. In high-risk sectors, these activities are particularly complex, involving three phases to conceal the source of the money. Illicit funds often stem from drug trafficking, theft, organized crime, embezzlement, bribery, and corruption.

Anti-money laundering (AML) laws target these crimes, including market manipulation, illegal trade, public fund corruption, and tax evasion. This training will focus on the unique risks high-risk areas face and the regulations aimed at combating money laundering in these areas.

Instructor: Justin Muscolino

Course Description:

Even as financial crime and sanctions grab headlines, consumer protection remains a top priority for regulators. This session outlines why consumer compliance should remain a focus in 2025, and where examiners are still finding weaknesses. Topics include SCRA, MLA, Regulation E, FCRA, FDCPA, UDAAP, and complaint management. If your institution is thinking of shifting resources away from consumer compliance, this session offers reasons to think twice..

Instructor: Sharon Blanchette

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This training covers two key areas of fraud that continue to affect financial institutions: elder fraud and online fraud. The first part focuses on elder fraud, including how criminals target older adults through scams and how institutions can implement preventative measures. We’ll look at examples, warning signs, and how to respond when fraud is suspected. The second part addresses online fraud trends, including how fraud schemes are being used to move illicit funds. We’ll also review related money laundering risks and recent regulatory guidance. This session is practical, focused, and designed to help front-line and compliance teams better protect customers and their institutions.

Instructor: Timothy Dunfey

Course Description:

The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) is a US law that fights money laundering and other financial crimes. BSA requires businesses to keep records and file reports that are determined to have a high degree of usefulness in criminal, tax, and regulatory matters. Individuals and financial institutions who fail to comply with BSA requirements may face severe penalties and, for more serious offenses, prison sentences. BSA rules and regulations must be followed by financial institutions.

Although financial institutions have been managing BSA operations in accordance with regulatory requirements, the shift to BSA audits has become increasingly important. During this webinar, we will discuss an overview of BSA, the reporting requirements, when and how to report and best tips for submitting and completing BSA reports.

Instructor: Justin Muscolino

Course Description:

The IRS possesses powerful investigative tools that go beyond traditional tax enforcement and are often used in financial crime cases involving fraud, money laundering, and asset concealment. This course, led by Michael DeBlis, provides an in-depth look at how IRS Criminal Investigation (CI) develops cases and the methods it uses to gather evidence.

Financial professionals, compliance teams, and legal advisors will learn to recognize the scope and limitations of administrative summonses, understand the growing role of international cooperation through MLATs, and anticipate how digital footprints and financial records are used to build cases. The session also explores the concept of willfulness and how it is interpreted in enforcement actions.

Instructor: Michael DeBlis

Course Description:

U.S. sanctions regulations continue to evolve in response to global events, and financial institutions must keep pace. This training provides an update on OFAC sanctions compliance in 2025, including recent developments related to Russia, Syria, and the use of dual-use goods. We’ll also cover the enforcement of secondary sanctions and the risks that apply to fintechs, MSBs, and community banks. Participants will learn what regulators expect when it comes to customer screening, due diligence, and internal controls. The goal of this session is to help institutions strengthen their sanctions compliance programs and reduce exposure to enforcement actions.

Instructor: Timothy Dunfey

Course Description:

Digital payments are reshaping the way money moves—and bringing new challenges for compliance teams. This session focuses on how fintechs, MSBs, and community banks are adapting to the rise of digital wallets, real-time payments, and nontraditional payment systems. We’ll explore how these trends may affect global transaction flows, especially with the increasing interest in alternatives to the U.S. dollar. The session also looks at the potential impact of the proposed Capital One–Discover merger and what it could mean for competition and access in the payments space. Attendees will gain a clearer view of where payment systems are headed and what risks they need to manage.

Instructor: Timothy Dunfey

Course Description:

This session will discuss the practical application of AI and machine learning in financial crime programs. We will explore model validation, compliance considerations, business use cases and share lessons from early adaptation.

Instructor: Stephanie Surratt

Course Description:

Identify key components of AI governance: model validation, explainability, audit trails, and regulatory compliance. This session will explore how institutions can embed compliance and governance into AI systems by focusing on model validation, explainability, auditability, and transparency.

Instructor: Stephanie Surratt

Course Description:

Implementing AI is not just a technology initiative, it’s an enterprise-wide transformation. This session explores how risk, compliance, and data science teams can work together to ensure responsible, scalable, and ethically sound AI adoption. We will discuss governance structures, team roles, and how to break down silos for better decision-making and risk alignment.

Instructor: Stephanie Surratt

Course Description:

This session will explore how AI can reduce escalation rates/ false positives, improve typology detection. We will walk through use cases and show how AI supports—not replaces investigative judgment.

Instructor: Stephanie Surratt

Course Description:

In the race to use AI, AI unfortunately isn’t a silver bullet. Deploying to the wrong use case without a strategic fit can backfire. This session discusses how to evaluate where AI truly adds value, how to assess readiness, and how to avoid the hype trap.

Instructor: Stephanie Surratt