February 15-18, 2022
Future of FinCrime Skills
- Thank you to all attendees, speakers and sponsors, for making this event a success!
February 15-18, 2022
Future of FinCrime Skills
- Train to be a FinCrime Fighting Champion
#TheFightOfTheYear
- Future of FinCrime Skills
The Future of FinCrime Skills is all about honing the practical skills and applied knowledge you need to thrive in the future of fincrime prevention and become a champion. Earn more than 20 continuing education credits with sessions that focus exclusively on teaching you techniques and equipping you with tools you can apply directly on the job.
You’ll experience a range of formats and focus areas – From quick tips to deep dives, hard skills, and soft skills. Explore a different theme each day, and join the dialogue with experienced investigators, compliance pros and law enforcement. Acquire the guidance you need to adapt to emerging risks, and turn disruption into opportunity.
#TheFightOfTheYear
- Future of FinCrime Skills
The Future of FinCrime Skills is all about honing the practical skills and applied knowledge you need to thrive in the future of fincrime prevention and become a champion. Earn more than 20 continuing education credits with sessions that focus exclusively on teaching you techniques and equipping you with tools you can apply directly on the job.
You’ll experience a range of formats and focus areas – From quick tips to deep dives, hard skills, and soft skills. Explore a different theme each day, and join the dialogue with experienced investigators, compliance pros and law enforcement. Acquire the guidance you need to adapt to emerging risks, and turn disruption into opportunity.
#TheDifference
- It’s About Heart
Train like a champion with a stacked roster of trainers and topics allowing you to excel on the job. Bad actors are constantly learning new techniques and developing their skills – shouldn’t you be doing the same?
This event might be online, but it’s built with dialogue in mind. All sessions feature Q&A and interactivity, and many will incorporate live exercises, take-home learning activities, resource guides and more.
#TheRightPeople
- We Fight For Perfection
As long as we persevere and endure, we can meet any goals we set. The most successful professionals and organizations are focused on continuous improvement and skills development.
Over four packed days, connect with seasoned experts and peers during interactive roundtables and speed networking sessions. Together we can cultivate the skills, navigate the tech disruption, and build the mindset to be ready for the future of financial crime fighting.
#TheFlavorsOfFun
- The Sweet Science
Work hard and play hard is the nature of this game! We believe that virtual doesn’t have to be boring, and now more than ever before we can all use some time to unwind, reenergize and boost our moods.
Join in on the good times with live music and visual performances, morning motivations, exhibitor raffles, real-life illustrations, scavenger hunts, trivia and your chance to win prizes.
#SavedByTheBell
- Explore the Program
Hard Skills
February 15, 2022
Welcome and Kick-Off - The Present and Future of FinCrime Investigations
To know where we're going, we have to understand where we've been… and perhaps more importantly, where we are currently. This old adage holds true in the investigative arena. Effective investigations in the public and private sectors remain at the heart of fincrime detection and prevention, even as tech disruption, new financial products and emerging criminal typologies threaten to upend investigative work. In this session, experts provide their take on some of the most pressing questions facing fincrime investigators - how is the skillset of an investigator or analyst changing? What's required for individuals and organizations to adapt and thrive in a more data-driven, automated and real-time financial world? And what does the future hold?
Researching Weapons Proliferators - Top 3 Tips and Techniques
Investigating proliferation finance takes patience, persistence and the right tools and knowledge at your disposal. In this session, an expert provides insights and guidance on how to conduct investigations into individuals, organizations and transactions suspected to be tied to financing weapons of mass destruction. You'll gain perspective into how proliferation finance networks operate, key suspicious indicators to look out for, and resources to add to your investigative arsenal.
Harnessing Social Media Intelligence in Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance
Participants will learn how to discover intelligence by investigating popular social media platforms and search engines as well as gain knowledge of new social media platforms on the horizon. During the training, you will review social media pages, learn how hashtags and images can play a role in a case, and identify further leads. Participants will learn how to open every aspect of social media to explore where key information can be hidden or overlooked. You will identify which search engine to use, when to use it, and what results you should expect from each by conducting hands-on advanced internet and social media searches. We will also evaluate and review several free and fee-based resources on the market for locating unique information and monitoring social media. Focus will be on popular platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram, among others.
Soft Skills
February 16, 2022
Morning Movement & Motivation - There’s an Inner Power that Makes Us Winners
Get up and get moving! Join our fitness instructor, Christian, who will guide us through a unique session that combines yoga, tai chi and mixed martial arts. The goal here is to connect the body and brain through movement and motivation. Feel some stress relief and get a boost of energy to take on day two of FinCrime Skills with ease.
The Write Stuff – Effective Writing for Reports, Investigative Files and More
Can you 'see the forest through the trees'? Amid the myriad of rules, regs and obligations for compliance programs, one of their most essential functions is to produce effective and useful financial intelligence for law enforcement. For most institutions, that intelligence comes in the form of suspicious activity/suspicious transaction reports. Yet despite their importance, many producers of SARs feel they fall into a black hole after filing – despite the fact that law enforcement is actively consuming SAR data to support existing cases and trigger new ones. On this session, find out what happens beyond that “black hole” and get practical tips to help improve your reporting and financial intelligence. You’ll hear from law enforcement, regulators and compliance professionals on the elements of a truly useful SAR, learn how regulators and law enforcement agents actually utilize SARs, and much more.
You Need a Network to Fight a Crime Network
While industry analysts have predicted trends around tighter collaboration between Fraud & Anti-Money Laundering (FRAML) for some time, the pandemic caused a convergence of crime pathways around digital, making this an idea whose time has come. Learn how to better collaborate both internally across Fraud, AML, and InfoSEC and externally across the ecosystem to better identify emerging digital threats.
Future Skills
February 17, 2022
Critical Issues for Credit Unions – Risky Business, Effective Reports, and More
While fintechs may get all the attention lately, credit unions represent a vast and vital sector of the financial services landscape, with over 120 million members in the US and Canada alone. It’s clear that credit unions will remain part of the present and future of finance, and financial crime risk management. In this session, a compliance expert with one of Canada’s largest credit unions brings his insights on some of the key fincrime challenges facing the sector.
Hacking Humans - How Cyber Fraudsters Target People and Techniques to Stop Social Engineering
Human mistakes and vulnerabilities are the reason for an estimated 90% of cyber attacks. Despite vast spending, criminals and fraudsters are still finding it easier to hack people instead of hacking computers, and social engineering methods are their weapons of choice. In this session, leading experts in online fraud prevention and security guides you on the present reality of social engineering attacks, and gives you a preview of emerging threats. Join us for an entertaining and interactive session where we’ll challenge you with real-world fraud scenarios and see if you can catch social engineers!
ACFCS Demo: Tools for Prescriptive Learning
Take a look at the newly redesigned platform and learning experience. We've made it easier for you to find the education you need with everything in one place, at your fingertips and to meet your specific needs. On demand webinar content has been organized into Catalogues based on the areas of financial crime most important to you, and newly created Learning Plans help prescribe a pathway for your targeted training needs. And did you know we have a mobile app where you can complete training and gain credits on the go? Whether you are new to the platform, or just haven't visited in a while, come back and check out the brand new experience!
Future Skills
February 18, 2022
Demystifying NFTs for the FinCrime Professional
Bored apes, crypto kitties, and digital art with multi-million dollar prices - non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a strange new world for most financial crime professionals. As NFTs grow in appeal and value, it's likely that financial criminals will seek to exploit these digital assets, if they haven't already. Fortunately, those in the NFT and crypto space are already taking steps to secure this burgeoning industry and provide transparency in ways that may surprise you. In this session, experts directly involved in compliance related to NFTs and crypto investigations give you a crash course in what NFTs are, how they work, and what they mean for financial crime investigators and analysts.
Demo: Workflow Orchestration Tools for Perpetual KYC
Smart risk screening and management for you can also be a frictionless experience for your customers. Join us for this demonstration of our workflow orchestration tools where automation makes consistent, rules-based decisions for your KYC and AML policies. Learn how leveraging our updated-by-the-day data into real intelligence about your customers allows for better management of those relationships and can help you build a perpetual KYC program.
Fighting Back Against Online Scams
Online banking has been widely adopted over the past 10 years – and especially so during the global pandemic as the world became contact-less. Consumers have embraced the shift to digital banking and payments for its speed and convenience. In recent memory, there hasn’t been such a rapid disruption to banking that has truly altered our relationships between both our financial organization and how we view money. Unfortunately, fraudsters have capitalized on these innovations and exploited disruptions from the pandemic. With the pervasive adoption of digital banking and payments and the investments made by financial services organizations to provide seamless online account opening and friction-less real-time payments, the criminals are not far behind. While fraudsters are always finding new ways to defraud consumers and organizations, the largest threat in 2022 and beyond is from scams. Join this session as we: • Take a deep dive into the most prevalent scams • Review key risk signals that are indicative of a scam • Discuss how to strengthen the weakest link: your customers
Future Skills
February 18, 2022
Demystifying NFTs for the FinCrime Professional
Bored apes, crypto kitties, and digital art with multi-million dollar prices - non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are a strange new world for most financial crime professionals. As NFTs grow in appeal and value, it's likely that financial criminals will seek to exploit these digital assets, if they haven't already. Fortunately, those in the NFT and crypto space are already taking steps to secure this burgeoning industry and provide transparency in ways that may surprise you. In this session, experts directly involved in compliance related to NFTs and crypto investigations give you a crash course in what NFTs are, how they work, and what they mean for financial crime investigators and analysts.
Demo: Workflow Orchestration Tools for Perpetual KYC
Smart risk screening and management for you can also be a frictionless experience for your customers. Join us for this demonstration of our workflow orchestration tools where automation makes consistent, rules-based decisions for your KYC and AML policies. Learn how leveraging our updated-by-the-day data into real intelligence about your customers allows for better management of those relationships and can help you build a perpetual KYC program.
Fighting Back Against Online Scams
Online banking has been widely adopted over the past 10 years – and especially so during the global pandemic as the world became contact-less. Consumers have embraced the shift to digital banking and payments for its speed and convenience. In recent memory, there hasn’t been such a rapid disruption to banking that has truly altered our relationships between both our financial organization and how we view money. Unfortunately, fraudsters have capitalized on these innovations and exploited disruptions from the pandemic. With the pervasive adoption of digital banking and payments and the investments made by financial services organizations to provide seamless online account opening and friction-less real-time payments, the criminals are not far behind. While fraudsters are always finding new ways to defraud consumers and organizations, the largest threat in 2022 and beyond is from scams. Join this session as we: • Take a deep dive into the most prevalent scams • Review key risk signals that are indicative of a scam • Discuss how to strengthen the weakest link: your customers
Future Skills
February 17, 2022
Critical Issues for Credit Unions – Risky Business, Effective Reports, and More
While fintechs may get all the attention lately, credit unions represent a vast and vital sector of the financial services landscape, with over 120 million members in the US and Canada alone. It’s clear that credit unions will remain part of the present and future of finance, and financial crime risk management. In this session, a compliance expert with one of Canada’s largest credit unions brings his insights on some of the key fincrime challenges facing the sector.
Hacking Humans - How Cyber Fraudsters Target People and Techniques to Stop Social Engineering
Human mistakes and vulnerabilities are the reason for an estimated 90% of cyber attacks. Despite vast spending, criminals and fraudsters are still finding it easier to hack people instead of hacking computers, and social engineering methods are their weapons of choice. In this session, leading experts in online fraud prevention and security guides you on the present reality of social engineering attacks, and gives you a preview of emerging threats. Join us for an entertaining and interactive session where we’ll challenge you with real-world fraud scenarios and see if you can catch social engineers!
ACFCS Demo: Tools for Prescriptive Learning
Take a look at the newly redesigned platform and learning experience. We've made it easier for you to find the education you need with everything in one place, at your fingertips and to meet your specific needs. On demand webinar content has been organized into Catalogues based on the areas of financial crime most important to you, and newly created Learning Plans help prescribe a pathway for your targeted training needs. And did you know we have a mobile app where you can complete training and gain credits on the go? Whether you are new to the platform, or just haven't visited in a while, come back and check out the brand new experience!
Soft Skills
February 16, 2022
Morning Movement & Motivation - There’s an Inner Power that Makes Us Winners
Get up and get moving! Join our fitness instructor, Christian, who will guide us through a unique session that combines yoga, tai chi and mixed martial arts. The goal here is to connect the body and brain through movement and motivation. Feel some stress relief and get a boost of energy to take on day two of FinCrime Skills with ease.
The Write Stuff – Effective Writing for Reports, Investigative Files and More
Can you 'see the forest through the trees'? Amid the myriad of rules, regs and obligations for compliance programs, one of their most essential functions is to produce effective and useful financial intelligence for law enforcement. For most institutions, that intelligence comes in the form of suspicious activity/suspicious transaction reports. Yet despite their importance, many producers of SARs feel they fall into a black hole after filing – despite the fact that law enforcement is actively consuming SAR data to support existing cases and trigger new ones. On this session, find out what happens beyond that “black hole” and get practical tips to help improve your reporting and financial intelligence. You’ll hear from law enforcement, regulators and compliance professionals on the elements of a truly useful SAR, learn how regulators and law enforcement agents actually utilize SARs, and much more.
You Need a Network to Fight a Crime Network
While industry analysts have predicted trends around tighter collaboration between Fraud & Anti-Money Laundering (FRAML) for some time, the pandemic caused a convergence of crime pathways around digital, making this an idea whose time has come. Learn how to better collaborate both internally across Fraud, AML, and InfoSEC and externally across the ecosystem to better identify emerging digital threats.
Welcome and Kick-Off - The Present and Future of FinCrime Investigations
To know where we're going, we have to understand where we've been… and perhaps more importantly, where we are currently. This old adage holds true in the investigative arena. Effective investigations in the public and private sectors remain at the heart of fincrime detection and prevention, even as tech disruption, new financial products and emerging criminal typologies threaten to upend investigative work. In this session, experts provide their take on some of the most pressing questions facing fincrime investigators - how is the skillset of an investigator or analyst changing? What's required for individuals and organizations to adapt and thrive in a more data-driven, automated and real-time financial world? And what does the future hold?
Researching Weapons Proliferators - Top 3 Tips and Techniques
Investigating proliferation finance takes patience, persistence and the right tools and knowledge at your disposal. In this session, an expert provides insights and guidance on how to conduct investigations into individuals, organizations and transactions suspected to be tied to financing weapons of mass destruction. You'll gain perspective into how proliferation finance networks operate, key suspicious indicators to look out for, and resources to add to your investigative arsenal.
Harnessing Social Media Intelligence in Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance
Participants will learn how to discover intelligence by investigating popular social media platforms and search engines as well as gain knowledge of new social media platforms on the horizon. During the training, you will review social media pages, learn how hashtags and images can play a role in a case, and identify further leads. Participants will learn how to open every aspect of social media to explore where key information can be hidden or overlooked. You will identify which search engine to use, when to use it, and what results you should expect from each by conducting hands-on advanced internet and social media searches. We will also evaluate and review several free and fee-based resources on the market for locating unique information and monitoring social media. Focus will be on popular platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram, among others.
Morning Movement & Motivation - There’s an Inner Power that Makes Us Winners
Get up and get moving! Join our fitness instructor, Christian, who will guide us through a unique session that combines yoga, tai chi and mixed martial arts. The goal here is to connect the body and brain through movement and motivation. Feel some stress relief and get a boost of energy to take on day two of FinCrime Skills with ease.
The Write Stuff – Effective Writing for Reports, Investigative Files and More
Can you 'see the forest through the trees'? Amid the myriad of rules, regs and obligations for compliance programs, one of their most essential functions is to produce effective and useful financial intelligence for law enforcement. For most institutions, that intelligence comes in the form of suspicious activity/suspicious transaction reports. Yet despite their importance, many producers of SARs feel they fall into a black hole after filing – despite the fact that law enforcement is actively consuming SAR data to support existing cases and trigger new ones. On this session, find out what happens beyond that “black hole” and get practical tips to help improve your reporting and financial intelligence. You’ll hear from law enforcement, regulators and compliance professionals on the elements of a truly useful SAR, learn how regulators and law enforcement agents actually utilize SARs, and much more.
You Need a Network to Fight a Crime Network
While industry analysts have predicted trends around tighter collaboration between Fraud & Anti-Money Laundering (FRAML) for some time, the pandemic caused a convergence of crime pathways around digital, making this an idea whose time has come. Learn how to better collaborate both internally across Fraud, AML, and InfoSEC and externally across the ecosystem to better identify emerging digital threats.
Critical Issues for Credit Unions – Risky Business, Effective Reports, and More
While fintechs may get all the attention lately, credit unions represent a vast and vital sector of the financial services landscape, with over 120 million members in the US and Canada alone. It’s clear that credit unions will remain part of the present and future of finance, and financial crime risk management. In this session, a compliance expert with one of Canada’s largest credit unions brings his insights on some of the key fincrime challenges facing the sector.
Hacking Humans - How Cyber Fraudsters Target People and Techniques to Stop Social Engineering
Human mistakes and vulnerabilities are the reason for an estimated 90% of cyber attacks. Despite vast spending, criminals and fraudsters are still finding it easier to hack people instead of hacking computers, and social engineering methods are their weapons of choice. In this session, leading experts in online fraud prevention and security guides you on the present reality of social engineering attacks, and gives you a preview of emerging threats. Join us for an entertaining and interactive session where we’ll challenge you with real-world fraud scenarios and see if you can catch social engineers!
ACFCS Demo: Tools for Prescriptive Learning
Take a look at the newly redesigned platform and learning experience. We've made it easier for you to find the education you need with everything in one place, at your fingertips and to meet your specific needs. On demand webinar content has been organized into Catalogues based on the areas of financial crime most important to you, and newly created Learning Plans help prescribe a pathway for your targeted training needs. And did you know we have a mobile app where you can complete training and gain credits on the go? Whether you are new to the platform, or just haven't visited in a while, come back and check out the brand new experience!
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COMPLIMENTARY EVENT
Thanks to our sponsors
for allowing us to make
this event complimentary
to the FinCrime compliance
community!
#PullNoPunches
- No Way But to Fight
Never let go of a good thing without a fight they say, but luckily you don’t have to fight to get your complimentary seat at the Future of FinCrime Skills. Save your spot now and get pre-event access to Grip, the greatest driving force behind ACFCS’ virtual experiences. Start connecting with peers who share your same business interests and build your agenda as early as two weeks before the event.
COMPLIMENTARY EVENT
Thanks to our sponsors
for allowing us to make
this event complimentary
to the FinCrime compliance
community!
#PullNoPunches
- No Way But to Fight
Never let go of a good thing without a fight they say, but luckily you don’t have to fight to get your complimentary seat at the Future of FinCrime Skills. Save your spot now and get pre-event access to Grip, the greatest driving force behind ACFCS’ virtual experiences. Start connecting with peers who share your same business interests and build your agenda as early as two weeks before the event.
- 100% live sessions
- Certificates of participation with CEUs
- Recordings and speaker presentations
- Exhibit booths with free resources
- Private chat and video meetings
- Entertainment, scavenger hunt and daily winners
COMPLIMENTARY EVENT
Thanks to our sponsors
for allowing us to make
this event complimentary
to the FinCrime compliance
community!
#PullNoPunches
- No Way But to Fight
Never let go of a good thing without a fight they say, but luckily you don’t have to fight to get your complimentary seat at the Future of FinCrime Skills. Save your spot now and get pre-event access to Grip, the greatest driving force behind ACFCS’ virtual experiences. Start connecting with peers who share your same business interests and build your agenda as early as two weeks before the event.
- 100% live sessions with audience interaction
- Education credits and certificates of participation
- On-demand recordings and speaker presentations
- Exhibit booths with free downloadable resources
- AI networking via private chat and video meetings
- Entertainment, scavenger hunt and daily winners
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Single day pass
$150
- One catered lunch
- Afternoon snacks
- Fun swag
- Entrance Afterparty
