Gain invaluable insights into the evolving landscape of financial crime compliance. Join us for an immersive journey over two days at the Virtual Financial Crime Compliance Workshop.
This event brings together leading experts in the field of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and financial crime. Spearheaded by senior AML and financial crime stalwarts from Deloitte, including Miriam Ratkovicova, US AML & FinCrime Managing Director; Bahar Hatami, National AML Lead for Canada; Peter Dent, Regional Market Leader, Financial Crime Practice; alongside Deepa Sinha, VP for Payments & Financial Crime at BAFT. This workshop also features a lineup of distinguished subject matter experts as guest speakers, promising a comprehensive and insightful learning experience.
Just Announced! This workshop is approved for 3 Continuing Professional Development credits (CPDs) towards your CDCS recertification.
Engage in a dynamic format over two (2) days of three-hour sessions each.
This workshop is designed for both BAFT members and non-members. It is ideal for professionals seeking to enhance their understanding and capabilities in preventing and mitigating financial crime, Ideal participants are those in operations, compliance, and business line professionals of financial institutions, corporations, government agencies, and other entities engaged in international trade and cross-border payments.
A selection of topics critical to the financial crime compliance landscape will be covered including:
For a detailed agenda and session specifics, please visit our Program Page.
Times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
Miriam Ratkovicova
Managing Director
Deloitte
Deepa Sinha
Vice President, Payments and Financial Crimes
BAFT
Emcee
Bahar Hatami
Partner & National AML Lead for Canada
Deloitte
9:05 AM - 9:50 AM
Designing a compliance and audit program that is increasingly outcome based, targeting effectiveness principles.
Speaker
Alan Ketley
Executive Secretary
Wolfsberg Group
9:50 AM - 10:45 AM
The session will cover: -Overview of financial crime and correspondent banking -Key risks and mitigations strategy -Key messaging of the updates made to Respondent’s Playbook 2.0: A Correspondent Banking Relationship Guide
Speaker
Deepa Sinha
Vice President, Payments and Financial Crime
BAFT
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:55 AM
Exploring emerging risks and mitigation strategies in financial crime. The session will cover: • Data and AI trends in banking and trade finance financial crime detection and the role of AI, machine learning, and data analytics in risk management • Technological advancements: discuss how tech innovations, including AI, blockchain, and cybersecurity threats, contribute to emerging risks • Evolving criminal tactics and emerging threats • Regulatory changes: discuss the need for adaptive regulatory frameworks to address threats effectively
Moderator
Nikhil Aggarwal
Managing Director
Deloitte
Panelists
Graham Bailey
Chief Operating Officer
Quantifind
Wen Chi Chang
Vice President, Risk, Insights & Optimization
Enterprise AML, CIBC
Sterling Daines
Global Head of Financial Crime
BNY Mellon
11:55 AM - 12:00 PM
Bahar Hatami
Partner & National AML Lead for Canada
Deloitte
Times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
9:00 AM - 9:05 AM
Emcee
Deepa Sinha
Vice President, Payments and Financial Crime
BAFT
9:05 AM - 9:50 AM
How professional money laundering networks shape the global illicit financial flows landscape and what actions are required from public and private sector
Speaker
Emmanuelle Klassen
Associate Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM
Speaker
Rob Campbell
Head of United for Wildlife
The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales
with
Miriam Ratkovicova
Managing Director
Deloitte
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
Reflections and recommendations on how the public and private sectors can continue to collectively improve effective outcomes in combatting illicit financial flows whilst addressing evolving capabilities, risks, and priorities.
Speaker
Chris Bostock
Director, Head of Deloitte’s Global Forum for Tackling Illicit Finance
Deloitte
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 11:55 AM
Overview of the importance of addressing economic sanctions and money laundering in trade finance. -Understanding economic sanctions - definition and types of economic sanctions; implications for international trade and finance; recent developments and global trends -Trade Finance in the Context of Sanctions - challenges and considerations for financial institutions; best practices for compliance and risk mitigation -Technological Solutions - role of technology in enhancing AML efforts; innovations and tools for sanctions screening and detection of suspicious transactions.
Moderator
Peter Dent
Partner, Regional Market Leader, Financial Crime Practice
Deloitte
Panelists
Stephen Alsace
Global Head, Economic Sanctions
RBC Financial Group
Laura Miller
Director, Sanctions Compliance & Investigations, ICRM Sanctions
Citi
Catherine Morand
Head of International Sanctions
Credit Agricole
11:55 AM - 12:00 PM
Bahar Hatami
Partner & National AML Lead for Canada
Deloitte
Deepa Sinha
Vice President, Payments & Financial Crime
BAFT
Registration is open to all members and non-members. The workshop is approved for 3 Continuing Professional Development credits (CPDs) towards your CDCS recertification.
Registration Type | Member Rate | Non-Member Rate |
Individual | $150 USD | $250 USD |
Bring the Bank* (unlimited) | $1250 USD | $1750 USD |
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Nikhil is a Managing Director in Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP’s AML and Sanctions practice He draws on 25 years of analytics experience to advise clients on AML and financial crime compliance He has extensive experience in program design and review, with a focus on applying machine learning and analytics to transaction-monitoring system optimization, models for rating client risks, suspicious-activity reporting, risk assessments, metrics and reporting, and model validation. He served as an expert on efficiency/effectiveness reviews, MRIA/MRA remediation and lookback exercises. Nikhil holds an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MA in Economics from the University of Southern California. He has made presentations at a number of conferences on AML Analytics and Technology. Nikhil serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Financial Compliance.
As Chief Operating Officer at Quantifind, Graham leads the oversight and operations of the company with direct management of sales, marketing, and people functions. Developing risk management solutions for the public and private sector with AI enabled open-source decision intelligence. In his previous role, Graham was an Executive Vice President for Wells Fargo, and the company’s deputy BSA Officer, driving change and operations globally for Financial Crimes, Compliance and Conduct. Graham has 30 years of risk management experience from the Ministry of Defense to Financial services. Graham was a founding board member a first-of-its-kind, not for profit entity for shared investigations across the top global financial institutions. The entity utilized public/private partnerships to fight money laundering and terrorist financing through cross-institutional, collaborative information sharing and investigations.
Wen-Chi leads the Risk, Insights & Optimization team in the Enterprise Anti-Money Laundering (EAML) Division at CIBC. The team is (i) the centre of excellence for optimization activities in EAML, (ii) responsible for the transaction monitoring and name screening strategies and solutions, (iii) supports change management activities and (iv) provides insights on EAML’s operations and money laundering/terrorist financing/sanctions risks. Previously, he led EAML’s Governance, Programs and Advisory teams upon joining CIBC. Wen-Chi has over 15 years of AML experience from working at different organizations in both Canada and the U.S. Prior to joining CIBC, he led teams at another Canadian bank responsible for AML Risk Assessment, AML Testing and the tuning and optimization of transaction monitoring, client risk rating and name screening applications. Wen-Chi started his AML career at a bank in New York City before joining one of the Big Four Firms to provide AML and Sanctions advisory services to financial institutions.
Bahar is a Partner in Deloitte’s Financial Crime Practice with 13+ years of experience assisting financial institutions with assessing and transforming their AML programs and controls from design to implementation. She leads complex, cross-functional programs to enhance risk detection and transaction monitoring capabilities, including risk assessments, control effectiveness and TM model reviews, large-scale KYC remediation programs, transaction monitoring reviews/lookbacks, and multifaceted business investigations.
Alan is the Executive Secretary of the Wolfsberg Group - an association of global banks which aims to develop frameworks and guidance for the management of financial crime risks, particularly with respect to Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing policies. Current Wolfsberg priorities include auditing for effectiveness and updates of several papers including our Payment Transparency Standards. Prior to joining Wolfsberg, Alan spent 40 years working at six major global banks in London and New York split almost equally between business and financial crime compliance. He has deep experience in wholesale banking activities including payments, fx, trade, and correspondent banking from a first- and second-line perspective. From 2017 to 2021 Alan co-chaired Wolfsberg’s Correspondent Banking Due Diligence Questionnaire Committee. Alan is a regular contributor to and presenter at industry events. Originally from the UK, Alan now lives in the US.
Miriam Ratkovicova is a Managing Director in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions practice of Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. She has more than 20 years of experience advising US, Canadian, European and Asian large financial institutions on various Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and other Financial Crime compliance matters. Specifically, Miriam has led multiple large and complex projects involving historical transaction investigations, Know Your Customer (KYC) remediations, AML and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) risk assessments, and customer risk ratings. Miriam has delivered AML/Sanctions engagements in numerous countries throughout Europe, including Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, Cyprus and Slovakia. Currently, Miriam is serving several large financial institutions based in China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.
Deepa Sinha is the new Vice President of Payments and Financial Crime at BAFT, and will work to advance the goals of the payments and cash management industry through standardization, defining best practices and developing usable industry data. She will also be responsible for formulating policy recommendations and educating industry stakeholders including practitioners, regulators, policymakers and the broader business community. Prior to joining BAFT, Sinha accumulated more than 25 years of treasury and cash management experience at both corporations and banks. She formerly served as Treasurer at Caliburn International, now Acuity International, where she oversaw cash forecasting, working capital and debt management, and implemented policies and banking technology to support all core treasury functions. As the Associate Vice President of Banking Operations and Relationships at the Carlyle Group, she developed the cash management, FX and banking platforms, and built and managed the infrastructure for multicurrency cash management across 5,000+ bank accounts at more than 100 global banks. She also served on both the JPMorgan Chase Treasury and Wells Fargo Treasury Advisory Councils.
Stephen Alsace has over 20 years’ experience providing advice on financial crime, AML and sanctions issues. He recently assumed the role of Global Head of Sanctions at RBC in May of last year. Prior to joining RBC, Stephen was a Director in the Global Investigations and Compliance practice of Guidehouse consulting since 2018. While at Guidehouse, Stephen led projects relating to AML and sanctions gap assessments for global financial services and digital asset clients, and was embedded as a Senior Leader on the Compliance Team for a global payments service provider. Stephen also spent over 18 years at CIBC, starting in the Legal Department as the lead lawyer on AML and Sanctions, then as the Global Head of Sanctions and Terrorist Financing. Stephen has spoken at numerous conferences in Canada, the US and UK on sanctions matters, provided sanctions and terrorist financing instruction to the RCMP, FBI and MI-5, and has testified as an industry expert on sanctions matters Canadian Parliamentary and Senate Subcommittees in 2017 and 2022. Stephen has law degrees from the University of Windsor and University of Detroit Mercy and a Master’s degree on European Integration from the University of Strasbourg.
Chris leads the Deloitte Forum for Tackling Illicit Finance, coordinating the Firm’s thought leadership on key financial crime issues including asset recovery, transparency of beneficial ownership and improving the effectiveness of the financial crime framework through innovations including public private partnership and information sharing utilities. He has published numerous papers including with the Institute of International Finance and as rapporteur for the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime. He also works extensively with public sector clients on national AML reform programmes. Chris joined Deloitte after 17 years with the UK National Crime Agency, where he was national Threat Lead for Money Laundering and where he established and led the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce.
Rob Campbell leads United for Wildlife (UfW) on behalf of The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales. UfW provides a platform to convene the public, private and third sectors, alongside policymakers to promote cross-industry and cross-border efforts required to eradicate the illegal wildlife trade (IWT) for good. Its Transport Taskforce was established in 2014 and more recently, Financial Taskforce in 2018, both act to make recommendations on how those industries can best respond to the crisis represented by IWT. The Taskforces have been successful in disrupting IWT supply chains, and the sometimes “untouchable” criminal networks behind it. Most prominently UfW supported the break-up of the largest ivory trafficking network in East Africa in June 2019, and more recently have supported more than 500 law enforcement investigations globally.
Peter is a partner in Deloitte Forensic with more than 23 years of experience working with clients in conducting internal investigations and providing advice regarding anti-fraud and anti-corruption compliance frameworks to enhance accountability, transparency, and governance. His specialties include working with international organizations in post-crisis environments, and he has worked in more than 35 countries as well as the United Nations. Peter also once led the forensic services unit at World Bank Group, investigating international fraud and corruption procurement in projects financed by the World Bank. Peter is the past chair of Transparency International—Canada and a current faculty member of the Director’s Education Program at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he lectures about the governance of internal investigations and financial crime prevention. Early in his career, he worked with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s commercial crime unit.
Bahar is a Partner in Deloitte’s Financial Crime Practice with 13+ years of experience assisting financial institutions with assessing and transforming their AML programs and controls from design to implementation. She leads complex, cross-functional programs to enhance risk detection and transaction monitoring capabilities, including risk assessments, control effectiveness and TM model reviews, large-scale KYC remediation programs, transaction monitoring reviews/lookbacks, and multifaceted business investigations.
Emmanuelle Klassen works as Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Officer with UNODC’s Global Programme Against Money Laundering, Proceeds of Crime, and the Financing of Terrorism. She joined UNODC in 2019 and is responsible for the implementation of counter-terrorist financing technical assistance in Central and Eastern Africa. Prior to joining UNODC, Emmanuelle worked as an Analyst with Global Affairs Canada. She holds an MA in Terrorism, Security and Society from King’s College London.
Miriam Ratkovicova is a Managing Director in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions practice of Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. She has more than 20 years of experience advising US, Canadian, European and Asian large financial institutions on various Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and other Financial Crime compliance matters. Specifically, Miriam has led multiple large and complex projects involving historical transaction investigations, Know Your Customer (KYC) remediations, AML and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) risk assessments, and customer risk ratings. Miriam has delivered AML/Sanctions engagements in numerous countries throughout Europe, including Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, Cyprus and Slovakia. Currently, Miriam is serving several large financial institutions based in China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.
Deepa Sinha is the new Vice President of Payments and Financial Crime at BAFT, and will work to advance the goals of the payments and cash management industry through standardization, defining best practices and developing usable industry data. She will also be responsible for formulating policy recommendations and educating industry stakeholders including practitioners, regulators, policymakers and the broader business community. Prior to joining BAFT, Sinha accumulated more than 25 years of treasury and cash management experience at both corporations and banks. She formerly served as Treasurer at Caliburn International, now Acuity International, where she oversaw cash forecasting, working capital and debt management, and implemented policies and banking technology to support all core treasury functions. As the Associate Vice President of Banking Operations and Relationships at the Carlyle Group, she developed the cash management, FX and banking platforms, and built and managed the infrastructure for multicurrency cash management across 5,000+ bank accounts at more than 100 global banks. She also served on both the JPMorgan Chase Treasury and Wells Fargo Treasury Advisory Councils.
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