Companies face mounting pressure to back up their sustainability claims and navigate the complexities of ESG compliance in an increasinglyregulated environment. This session will examine the growing regulatory scrutiny and challenges surrounding corporate investigations, focusing on ESG concerns and the risks of greenwashing.

• Enhance your understanding of ESG compliance to ensure your company’s sustainability efforts can withstand intense examination.
• Learn strategies to protect your company from potential reputational damage caused by greenwashing allegations, investigative journalism, and activist scrutiny.
• Acquire practical lessons on effectively managing corporate investigations, with real-world examples that highlight the importance of thorough and transparent approaches.

In today’s financial landscape, banks and insurance companies are increasingly focused on achieving greater efficiency without compromising effectiveness in combating financial crimes like sanctions evasion, AML and terrorism financing.

This session will delve into the evolving priorities within the financial services sector, particularly the shift towards cost reduction and streamlined operations in compliance efforts.

• Analyse how banks and insurance companies can reduce costs and staffing while maintaining effective financial crime prevention, with a focus on technology-driven solutions.

• Discover the importance of integrated processes, data quality, and regulatory education in building efficient, less siloed systems that comply with emerging regulations such as the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689).

How can the state of international relations and global conflicts impact the implantation of laws and regulations against financial crime? In countries affected by war, maintaining the priority of controlling corruption and money laundering becomes challenging. Additionally, international cooperation between law enforcement agencies may be affected, as their priorities may shift towards addressing war crimes rather than economic crimes. This session will study how countries in wartime can alter the influence of the shared global fight against corruption, bribery and money laundering, using cases of bribery and corruption in such contexts.

• Uncover how international conflicts reshape the enforcement and implementation of anti-financial crime regulations.
• Look at the potential for corruption and mismanagement of funds during the post-war reconstruction efforts, using the example of Ukraine as a concern.

• Examine real-world cases to understand the impact of war on global cooperation in the fight against corruption, bribery, and money laundering.
• Analyse how the role of the IMF, UN and World Bank as part of the overall architecture of fighting financial crime has a role to play here.
• Equip yourself with strategies to navigate the complex challenges of maintaining financial integrity in conflict affected regions.

Financial Institutions in the DACH region face the challenge of US, and European sanctions, and their impact on transactions.

There are complexities surrounding sanction enforcement requirements in the US versus Europe versus Switzerland. This session will delve into practical challenges and solutions facing financial service industries.

• Recognize techniques to detect sophisticated sanction evasion.
• Ascertain what are legal and operational safeguards to detect clients attempting to circumvent sanctions.
• Understand the implications and procedures for effective sanction withdrawals.
• Draw parallels from the approach used in high-profile investigation cases like Lava Jato (2014).
• Enhance proactive risks and optimise available tools for calibration.

Financial Institutions in the DACH region face the challenge of US, and European sanctions, and their impact on transactions.

There are complexities surrounding sanction enforcement requirements in the US versus Europe versus Switzerland. This session will delve into practical challenges and solutions facing financial service industries.

• Recognize techniques to detect sophisticated sanction evasion.
• Ascertain what are legal and operational safeguards to detect clients attempting to circumvent sanctions.
• Understand the implications and procedures for effective sanction withdrawals.
• Draw parallels from the approach used in high-profile investigation cases like Lava Jato (2014).
• Enhance proactive risks and optimise available tools for calibration.

• Sharing the design, initiation and early developments of the REACH consortium through partnerships and community insight.
• Breaking down the latest regulatory framework surrounding Diversity Action Plans.
• Advice to sponsors on setting goals and what to do if enrolment is not achieving the outlined plan.

Advances in technology over recent years mean one has the power to ‘future-proof’ compliance strategies and transform your organisation’s operational capabilities.

• Explore the currently available tools and methods in the market to increase efficiency and effectiveness relating to:

- Adverse media screening
- Sanction screening
- AML transaction monitoring
- Organizational Governance

• Efficient AI: Examine case studies where tools can help in-house translation to handle sensitive client information, improve customer satisfaction, reduce costs (whilst increasing profit) and increase productivity through examples such as a policy chatbot to address repetitive questions.

- Analyse how this can reduce the workload of employees.

• Avoid potential pitfalls, achieve the desired efficiency gains and improve the quality of their work for clients.

• Investigate what could the future hold:

- Explore Future AI Tools in:
-Content Management
-Red Flag identification and due diligence
-Third Party Supplier Management
-AML and Screening