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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. Enforcement actions and the development of new AML and sanctions 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 financial crime failings.

Firms are now having to rethink how AML operates across all three lines of defence, shifting away from static, manual processes to more proactive, intelligence-led operating models. There is a clear movement toward automation, real-time risk insights, and explainable AI to enhance detection effectiveness and reduce false positives. This needs to be coupled with transparency, strong governance, and demonstrable outcomes to satisfy the regulatory requirements.

At the same time, the rapid evolution of digital assets, including crypto trading, tokenisation and stablecoins, is introducing new financial crime risks and operational complexity. AML frameworks must adapt to on-chain activity, emerging typologies, and decentralised environments, while strengthening sanctions intelligence to keep pace with fast-changing geopolitical threats and increasingly evasive actors.

This year’s AML Deep Dive will bring together global leaders to tackle the sector’s most pressing issues, from modernising AML operating models and workforce capabilities to enhancing sanctions intelligence, as well as managing financial crime risk across digitised payments and digital assets. The agenda provides practical insights into how firms can future-proof their AML frameworks to keep pace with innovation and intensifying regulatory focus.
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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

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.

  • AI: Friend or Foe in AML? 
  • Adapting AML Frameworks for Digital Assets
  • Enhancing AML Risk Detection with Sanctions Intelligence Amid Evolving Global Threats 

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.

  • Ensuring Appropriate and Effective Client
  • Maintaining SME Expertise for the Next
  • Case study: Lessons Learned from AI Adoption
AML Deep Dive Report 2024
AML DEEP DIVE 2025: 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. 
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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

How the Deep Dives and Annual Reports work

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.
Networking
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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.
Interactive Roundtables
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Why sponsor the Annual Report?

Deep Dives provide the industry with an annual update on the latest trends and thinking on the function or topic in focus. They:

• Generate Demand
• Gather Intelligence
• Raise Your Profile
• Create Content
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