Financial Crime Summit New York 2027

March 10, 2027 | Pier Sixty, New York

55+

Expert Speakers

400+

Delegates

55+

Sessions

Collaboration, Capability, And Confidence In Financial Crime

The Financial Crime Summit is a forum for senior financial crime practitioners who work in anti-money laundering (AML), know your customer (KYC), anti-bribery and corruption (ABC), sanctions and fraud functions across all business divisions within banks and other financial institutions to combat financial crime
It is where banks raise and reinforce their profiles, position their people as thought leaders and access an international audience of senior decision makers and influencers
This is a dynamic one-day in-person event, run three times a year, once in London, New York and Singapore
This event attracts 400+ attendees in London and New York and 300+ in Singapore

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Plenary Panel Discussion

Actively Fighting Financial Crime – Where do Banks’ Responsibilities End?

As expectations on banks to actively prevent financial crime continue to expand, where should their responsibility end?

Headlining the plenary programme at the Financial Crime Summit New York 2027, this panel examines when ongoing monitoring and controls remain a proportionate, risk based response, and when firms are effectively carrying risk that cannot realistically be resolved within the private sector.

Panellists will explore:

What responsibility banks have to intervene beyond formal regulatory requirements when financial crime is clearly harmful but enforcement action is unlikely or slow
How to ensure judgement calls made with incomplete information and evolving threats remain reasonable, well evidenced and defensible years later under enforcement scrutiny
Whether current expectations around financial crime prevention encourage meaningful disruption of criminal activity, or risk driving conservative behaviours such as exit and derisking despite stated commitments to proportionality and financial inclusion

Agenda

Speakers

Who Is The Financial Crime Summit For?

The Financial Crime Summit is a forum for senior financial crime practitioners who work in AML, KYC, ABC, sanctions and fraud functions across all business divisions within banks and other financial institutions to combat financial crime

Managing Directors, Directors & Heads of:

Anti-Financial Crime / Anti-Fraud / Anti-Money Laundering (AML) / Anti-Bribery & Corruption (AB&C)/ Sanctions / Know Your Customer (KYC) / Client & Enhanced Due Diligence (CDD / EDD) / Financial Crime Intelligence / Financial Crime Investigations (Unit) / Transaction monitoring / MLRO / SMF17 / Financial Crime Risk Management / Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) / Financial Crime Operations / Economic Crime / Sanctions Audit / Financial Crime Audit / Fraud Risk / Heads of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) / 1st line COOs and Heads of Financial Crime within the 1st line

You Will Learn How To

Optimise the operating model and determine the roles of all 3 lines of defence
Increase efficiencies and reduce costs
Actively fight financial crime rather than purely meet technical compliance
Leverage technology and automation to maximise efficiencies and cost savings
Enhance collaboration, coordination and integration within the organisational structure
Develop enhanced intelligence and data sharing strategies
Facilitate data sharing across diverse financial crime teams

Key Features

This is a one-day event
1LoD events are run under Chatham House Rule and are off the record. Any quotes from speakers or delegates cannot be linked back to an individual
To encourage discussion, events are closed to the press
Keynote addresses from international regulators and public sector agencies
Panel discussions featuring senior practitioners within banks working to tackle financial crime
Private, interactive roundtable discussions on key themes and topics
Comprehensive breakout streams discussing AML & KYC, Emerging Threats and Technology, Sanctions, and Fraud Risk

The 2026 Financial Crime Benchmarking Survey & Report

Financial Crime: Betting on Tech

Financial crime functions are approaching an inflection point driven by three forces at once: technology that can now do a meaningful share of routine review, regulation that continues to add obligations faster than it removes them, and a cost sustainability agenda that no longer tolerates the headcount-led growth of the past two decades.

The 2026 Financial Crime Benchmarking Survey & Report was designed to measure where that inflection sits: how large internationally supervised wholesale financial crime functions are staffed, funded, tooled and measured today, what they intend to change over the next twelve months and beyond, and what stands in the way.

The report sections will cover i: people and operating model; ii: budget, resourcing, investment and effectiveness iii: technology. iv: operational efficiency and v: regulation and intelligence in financial crime prevention.

Read the full Report

When & Where

Wednesday, 10 March 2027

Pier Sixty, 60 Chelsea Piers, New York, NY 10011

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Thank you 1LoD for a well run event! The calibre of delegates and their participation made the discussions meaningful.

Anusha O’Donoghue Global Financial Crimes, UK Head of GFC, Bank of America

"Amazing day today at 1LoD's Financial Crime Summit - New York! It was, as ever, great to engage in person with both long-time and new colleagues”

Max Lerner Managing Director Global Head, Sanctions Compliance & Anti-Bribery and Corruption Compliance, State Street