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Financial Crime in the Digital Era: Tools, Risks & Regulatory Challenges

Financial Crime in the Digital Era: Tools, Risks & Regulatory Challenges

Dates

  • November 2026
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    Delivered Online
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Highlights

  • Live Online

  • 4 CPD Units | 4 Hours

The EIMF Live Online Learning Experience

Participants will receive access to the recorded sessions of the course.

EIMF subject-matter experts deliver engaging and interactive courses across a broad spectrum of areas, that can be enjoyed in the comfort of your own chosen environment. Read more

Course Overview

Technology is one of the key pillars in any operational risk framework. In the current environment of advanced analytics solutions, increasing regulatory requirements and fast-evolving geopolitical events, we study how technology can make a difference for Financial Services Institutions and help them remain both compliant and cost-effective.

This seminar also provides an overview of the latest advancements in compliance technology: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI and the challenges and opportunities these technologies face from a implementation and regulation perspectives.

Lastly, this course will study recent real-life cases where technology was involved and the role it played in either achievements or led to negative outcomes.

Training Objectives

By the end of the programme, participants will:

  • Understand the evolution of technology applied to Financial Crime

  • Basic principles and systems terminology

  • Technology Regulatory and Standards Environment: FATF recommendations, AMLA, ESMA, EBA and other regulatory frameworks

  • Transforming business requirements into technology capabilities

  • Compliance Technology applied to the customer journey triggers in KYC, main transaction monitoring scenarios

  • Study of different use cases e.g. AML (KYC, Transaction Monitoring), Sanctions, Fraud

  • Future of technology: Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI, AgenticAI

  • Risks, challenges and opportunities presented by Artificial Intelligence in Financial Crime Technology

Training Outline

Technology and Financial Crime

  • Compliance systems: types and operating principles e.g. Rules-based

  • Systems terminology e.g. rules vs models

  • Regulatory environment: EU AI Act, overview across regions: UK, MENA and APAC

Technology & systems lifecycle

  • Business requirements

  • Development and procurement

Technology and Regulatory standards

  • FATF recommendations

  • Regulation across different frameworks: AMLA, ESMA, EBA

  • AI and emerging regulation e.g. EU AI Act

Technology and Customer Journey

  • Controls mapping to technology: what systems do in each part of the customer journey e.g. from KYC/onboarding to exit

Use Cases

  • ID&V

  • KYC

  • Transaction Monitoring

  • Sanctions

  • Fraud

  • Case Managers

  • SAR/STR Managers

  • Analytics Plaforms

Future of Technology

  • Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

  • Generative AI

  • Regulation

  • Challenges and Opportunities

  • Agentic AI

Risk, challenges and opportunities in AI in Financial Crime Technology

  • AI use cases and applications

  • Regulation

  • Challenges and Opportunities

Training Style

The programme is designed to deliver an overview of how technology and systems are applied to different challenges faced by financial institutions today, including operational and regulatory aspects

It will aim to improve participants’ skills and knowledge via lectures supported by power-point presentations and practical examples. The training style is both training-focused, involving a combination of presentation and real-live examples, but also learner-focused, where participants are encouraged to raise questions, seek clarifications and share their opinions from their different perspectives and engage in an exchange of views and personal professional experiences.

CPD Recognition

This programme may be approved for up to 4 CPD units in Financial Regulation. Eligibility criteria and CPD Units are verified directly by your association, regulator or other bodies which you hold membership.

For the CySEC requirements, CPD units attained from this course should not exceed the 50% of the total CPD Units of each individual.

Who Should Attend

  • COOs

  • Directors,

  • Senior Managers

  • Regulatory compliance officers

  • AML Officers

  • Sanction Officers

  • Fraud Officers

  • National supervisors

  • Internal ITC specialists

  • Chief data officers

In-house Training

For groups within the same organisation, this course may be customized to meet any specific needs and delivered in-house.

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Facilitators

  • Francisco Mainez Vidal

    Francisco Mainez Vidal

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    Francisco Mainez is the former Head of Data and Analytics for Wealth and Personal Banking Financial Crime Risk at HSBC. Throughout his career, Francisco has specialised in activities related to data extraction, analysis and Money Laundering, Financial Crime Typologies, Operations, Customer Due Diligence and Tax Evasion, among other areas. His team was also deeply involved in rolling out initiatives related to Advanced Analytics solutions for Financial Crime. While in HSBC, Francisco worked in other Financial Crime Teams, such as the Financial Intelligence Unit and Global Compliance Reporting. Prior to HSBC, Francisco fulfilled roles in Standard Chartered Bank in London and Singapore, after completing several tours of operations in Military Intelligence for NATO and the European Union in different geographical locations. More recently, he joined NICE Actimize and has been providing subject matter expertise and leading transformation programs covering operational excellence, regulatory, automation and investigative processes. Francisco holds a MSc in Information and Knowledge Management and a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the University of London, along with several professional certifications: CAMS, CISI Investment Operations, CFCI (Certified Financial Crimes Investigator) and SAFe (Scalable Agile Framework).

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