AI, automation and consortium intelligence are changing the way financial crime prevention can and must be approached — with greater efficiency, effectiveness and a network-level view of risk. In 2026, as financial institutions faced evolving predicate crimes, increased cross-border payment activity, rising digital asset adoption and growing compliance obligations, these approaches underpinned everything from insights and innovation to challenges and change.
Join us for an industry panel discussion as AML experts examine the year in review and what may lie ahead for 2027.
Discussion Highlights
- AI and Consortium Intelligence in AML: Financial institutions are embracing agentic AI as innovations leveraging the power of leveraging consortium data offer further opportunities to enhance investigations.
- AML Effectiveness: Regulators are increasingly focused on whether AML programs effectively identify and mitigate risk, as shifting national priorities, evolving threat landscapes, and growing transaction volumes expose the limitations of traditional rules-based monitoring approaches.
- Evolving Predicate Crimes: Traditional predicate crimes such as drug trafficking and human trafficking continue to expand, while emerging threats like healthcare fraud, synthetic identity schemes, and organized fraud networks are creating new challenges for detecting and investigating illicit financial activity.
- Cross-Border Payments, Geographic Risk & Payment Transparency: As faster payments, cross-border transactions, and evolving geographic risk patterns continue to grow, financial institutions face increasing expectations around payment transparency, sanctions compliance, beneficial ownership visibility, and the identification of emerging money laundering threats.
- Rapidly Changing Compliance Landscape: New effective actions and legislation in 2026 as well as other proposed regulatory changes are shifting the compliance landscape in 2026 and creating important considerations for 2027.
- Stablecoins and Digital Assets: Increasing use of stablecoins and digital assets is creating new expectations for monitoring, risk assessment and investigative capabilities.
