AML & Financial Crimes Congress 2020

This year’s underlying theme is all about raising the standards and finessing an organisation’s AML and financial crime frameworks or practices. There are the perennial issues like undertaking better risk assessments across all the elements in regard to AML risks, implementing updates and changes in a more timely manner, using technology and data better, improving SMRs, and other reporting, getting more value from your AUSTRAC reporting and understanding ‘feedback’ (the variety of notices and advice) from AUSTRAC and what you need to do with it.

This one-day event is an opportunity for risk and compliance professionals to receive industry updates, measure different perspectives in the financial crime space, learn about merging career trends, hear from regulators, assess the impact of emerging technologies such as Fintech and RegTech, and network with like-minded professionals.

• Update from the Regulator: AUSTRAC

• Sanctions: Gavin Coles, Independent Consultant, Kasker Consulting Pty Ltd 

• 2020 Vision - AML Program Governance: Paddy Oliver, Managing Director, AML Experts

• AML Governance - where directors need skill uplift: Samantha Carroll, Practice Director, Governance, Compliance & Regulation, Ash St. Legal & Advisory

• AUSTRAC notices versus a letter - can they be mutually useful? What do they mean?: Paul Derham, Partner, Holley Nethercote

• Data analysis and the value add - what being able to ask the right questions and understand the data can reveal - and how it can keep you out of the headlines: a working example: Deepak Pillai, Director, Clayton Utz & Jack Dong, Manager, Clayton Utz

• Panel Session - the anatomy of a high quality AML risk assessment - from product to customer to transactions etc: Anthony Quinn, Founder, Arctic Intelligence & Co Founder, AML Accelerate and Julian Hunn, Deloitte

• SMR's and the implications of tipping off: Alexander Graham, Director, KPMG & Jeremy Allan, KPMG