Insights

How insurers across lines of business and around the world are modernizing financial-crime compliance across risk assessment, sanctions screening, and artificial intelligence.

Entering a new country or securing a new payments or banking license can change a firm's sanctions and payment screening obligations, and the change usually arrives before the first local customer is onboarded.

Regulators worldwide continued to sharpen enforcement and raise supervisory expectations this month.

Attendees will discover practical approaches to leading with confidence, creating space for diverse perspectives, navigating difficult decisions, and remaining true to their principles in high-pressure environments.

This month’s developments include new FinCEN advisories on human trafficking, unauthorized employment schemes, and Iranian sanctions evasion, along with significant sanctions actions targeting Russian, Cuban, and Brazilian networks.

Under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), disruptions to critical systems, including sanctions screening, can now trigger mandatory incident notification to regulators, often within hours.

Global regulators are raising expectations around AML, sanctions, and financial crime compliance programs, with growing emphasis on effectiveness, operational resilience, and risk-based oversight.

Becki LaPorte, Principal - AML Strategy and Innovation at FinScan, explores how the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is fundamentally reshaping sanctions exposure and AML risk across global trade and payments ecosystems.

Becki LaPorte, Principal – AML Strategy & Innovation at FinScan, shares expert insight on how escalating disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is reshaping risk across global trade, insurance, and financial crime compliance.

Becki LaPorte, Principal – AML Strategy & Innovation at FinScan, offers her sharp insight into what this means in practice.

These amendments raise expectations for how existing obligations are executed. For MLROs, that distinction matters.

Compliance is becoming more data-driven, more real-time, and less forgiving of gaps in governance. We break down the most important developments and what they mean for compliance teams now.