LIVE WEBINAR
Resilience in an Uncertain World
Managing Risk and Reducing Dependencies Across Screening, Data and AI
1 hour
Wednesday, November 18 @ 11 AM ET
Imagine a financial institution at 9:00 on a Monday morning. Its primary sanctions or transaction screening service suddenly becomes unavailable.
Customer onboarding stalls. Payments begin to queue. Investigators lose access to critical information. The institution has a disaster recovery plan, but its backup depends on the same cloud infrastructure that has just failed.
What happens next? And could the institution have done more to prepare?
It's a hypothetical scenario, but the risks are real. The 2026 AWS disruption in the Middle East demonstrated how unexpected events can affect critical infrastructure and challenge assumptions about redundancy and recovery.
At the same time, sovereignty has become a buzzword in financial crime, carrying both technical and political implications. For this discussion, we're leaving the politics aside and focusing on the practical issues financial institutions can control: technology dependencies, data accessibility, operational resilience and the ability to maintain effective financial crime controls when disruption occurs.
Regulations including DORA, the EU Data Act and UK operational resilience requirements are bringing greater scrutiny to third-party dependencies, concentration risk, continuity and data portability. But what does this mean for the way financial institutions design and manage their financial crime technology?
Join FinScan for a practical discussion on building resilience across screening, data and AI in an increasingly uncertain world.
We'll explore how financial institutions can identify hidden dependencies, reduce concentration risk and build more resilient financial crime operations through thoughtful technology architecture, vendor diversification and effective data quality management.
Our Panel
Moderator: Hali Khan
Head of Banking UK & Europe
FinScan
Sadi Bezit, CAMS
FinScan
Kieran Holland
Global Head of Solutions Engineering
FinScan
What you’ll learn:
Starting with a hypothetical disruption, we'll examine what could go wrong, what recovery might look like and how different decisions made before an incident could change the outcome.
The discussion will cover three interconnected areas:
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Screening and technology architecture: How do dependencies on cloud infrastructure, screening platforms and third-party providers create operational risk? What role can geographic and platform diversity play in maintaining continuity?
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Data quality and accessibility: How can a strong data quality framework support screening effectiveness, portability and recovery when systems or providers become unavailable?
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AI and operational control: As AI becomes more embedded in financial crime operations, what additional dependencies emerge, and how can institutions maintain oversight, explainability and continuity?
We'll also explore how a diversified technology stack, including established and adaptable screening solutions, can help institutions manage risk without introducing unnecessary complexity.
You'll leave with a clearer understanding of what resilience looks like in practice, questions worth asking now, and how to assess your current approach.
While today's conversations about sovereignty, concentration risk and operational resilience may feel new, the underlying challenges are familiar. With roots dating back 50 years through Innovative Systems, FinScan brings decades of experience helping financial institutions navigate changing risks, regulatory expectations and technology requirements. We'll draw on that experience to explore practical approaches to reducing dependencies, strengthening resilience and maintaining effective financial crime controls.
If a critical screening service failed tomorrow, would your technology architecture give you options, or leave you waiting for someone else to recover?
Join us to explore how to prepare for uncertainty while maintaining control of your financial crime operations.
Who Should Attend?
Chief Compliance Officers
Chief Risk Officers
Chief Operations Officers
Chief Technology Officers
Chief Information Officers
MLROs
Heads of Operational Risk
AML Officers
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