Homepage - Comms Surveillance Deep Dive 2025

Join the AML Deep Dive & Annual Report

As financial crime threats become more sophisticated, the pressure on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) functions continues to intensify. A 2025 report by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) reinforced that financial institutions globally are still underperforming in effectively identifying and preventing complex illicit activity, particularly as criminals exploit real-time payments, digital assets and fragmented global sanctions regimes.

Today’s AML functions must balance evolving regulatory expectations, operational efficiency, technological innovation and enhanced client experiences. This is especially challenging as financial institutions navigate resource constraints, outdated risk models, and fragmented data landscapes. Enforcement actions and the development of new AML supervisory bodies, such as the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA), underscore the growing regulatory momentum toward stronger oversight, cross-border coordination, and greater accountability for AML failings.

Firms are now having to rethink how AML operates across all three lines of defence, shifting away from static, manual processes to embedding more proactive and intelligence-led strategies. There is a clear movement toward automation, more real-time insights, and explainable AI to improve detection, reduce false positives, and meet transparency expectations.

This year’s AML Deep Dive will bring together global leaders to tackle the sector’s most pressing issues from optimising AML operating models and workforce capabilities to managing complex sanctions and modernising monitoring across digitised wholesale payments. The agenda provides practical insights into how firms can future-proof their AML frameworks to keep pace with both innovation and intensifying regulatory focus.

Register

Agenda

What to Expect

Gain insights into upskilling AML teams to work effectively alongside advanced technologies
Strengthen client risk rating (CRR) models through better data validation, governance, and explainability
Learn how to respond to compliance challenges and regulatory developments shaping goods-based sanctions enforcement
Adapt AML controls to meet the demands of the digital wholesale payment environments
Identify opportunities to optimise AML resourcing models and embed strategic automation at scale
Explore how AI and machine learning can reduce false positives while maintaining regulatory transparency
Benchmark best practices in onboarding, transaction monitoring, and sanctions screening
Engage in expert-led roundtables focused on crypto risks, UBO data, risk-based approaches, and more

Debates

Sessions where four or five Managing Director-level practitioners discuss and debate a particular topic or issue. Panel debates are a great way to explore complex topics and get multiple perspectives on a subject.

Underpinning Client Risk Rating (CRR) to Ensure Robust Financial Crime Prevention
Modernising AML to Tackle Financial Crime in Digitise Wholesale Payments
Combatting AML Amid the Complexity of Modern Sanctions
Future-proofing AML Functions Through Resource Optimisation and Strategic Automation

Roundtable Discussions

Private, off the record roundtables are moderated by leading practitioners in the field of culture and conduct and are designed to promote dialogue and collaboration among the attendees.

•Transitioning to Real-Time Transaction Monitoring

•Upskilling the Lines of Defence to Strengthen anti-money laundering (AML) Capabilities

•Adapting AML Frameworks to the Evolving Risks of Crypto and Digital Assets

•Creating a Unified Front for a Strengthened AML Effort

•Tailoring Risk-Based Approaches (RBAs) to Evolving AML Threats

•Managing Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO) Data at Scale

AML DEEP DIVE 2024: ANNUAL REPORT

The panel discussion began with an exploration of the challenges inherent in achieving consistency within a global AML framework. Participants acknowledged the tension between the need for harmonised standards and the practical reality of complying with jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements.

Read the full Report

Who Should Attend

Managing Directors, Directors, and Head of Functions from Banks, Asset Managers and other Financial Institutions working within:

Anti-Financial Crime / Anti-Money Laundering (AML) / Anti-Bribery & Corruption (AB&C)/ / Know Your Customer (KYC) / Client & Enhanced Due Diligence (CDD / EDD) / Financial Crime Intelligence / Financial Crime Investigations (Unit) / Transaction monitoring / MLRO / SMF17 / Financial Crime Risk Management / Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) / Financial Crime Operations / Economic Crime / Financial Crime Audit / Heads of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) / 1st line COOs and Heads of Financial Crime within the 1st line

Networking

Deep Dives offer virtual interaction through an intra-delegate messaging system, opportunities to pose questions to speakers in real time, and interactive roundtable discussions.

Chatham House Rule applies, creating a safe environment for a free discussion and no press attend.

Annual Report

Deep Dives are 1LoD's annual update on a non-financial risk function or topic. Content is presented in a 6- or 8-page report which summarises 4 hours of debate between 16 practitioners at Managing Director level who are leaders for their functions, often joined by the relevant regulators

Roundtables

Private, off the record roundtables are moderated by 1LoD, and attended by delegates from financial institutions who have booked their place in advance. They take place on Zoom. Delegates are sent discussion topics, and an overall structure of the debate in advance to assist the flow of the discussion.