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ACFCS · Five-day virtual event
Money Laundering Awareness Week
November 2–6, 2026 Live online
A dynamic lineup of expert-led sessions, practical case studies and global perspectives designed to inform, inspire and empower financial crime professionals.
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MLAW 2026 is live this week. Join today's sessions below.
Free for ACFCS members. Opening keynote free to everyone.
Opening keynote from the FBIMonday, Nov 2 · 11:00 AM ET
November 2–6, 2026 · Virtual
About the event
The Association of Certified Financial Crime Specialists (ACFCS) presents Money Laundering Awareness Week (MLAW), a five-day virtual event designed to equip financial crime professionals with the latest insights, tools and strategies to combat money laundering.
Industry experts, regulatory leaders, law enforcement officials and compliance professionals come together to uncover hidden connections in illicit finance. Each day features live webinars with real-world case studies, the latest enforcement actions and policy developments, red flag indicators, and the role of public-private partnerships in dismantling laundering networks.
Topics include
- Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
- Cryptocurrency, NFTs and the Dark Web
- Shell Companies and Offshore Accounts
- The Role of AI and Machine Learning
- And much more
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Free for members. First session free to everyone.
Opening keynote from the FBIMonday, Nov 2 · 11:00 AM ET
5 daysNovember 2–6, 2026
9Live, 90-minute sessions
13.5Credits you can earn (max)
18Expert speakers and moderators
Who should attend
Built for financial crime compliance professionals
Hosted by ACFCS for the first time, MLAW is for professionals who need to stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape.
With increasingly complex illicit finance typologies, regulatory shifts and cross-border enforcement actions, MLAW connects you with thought leaders, policy makers and frontline practitioners. Whether you're navigating new sanctions regimes, applying data analytics to transaction monitoring or building resilient risk frameworks, you'll leave with the tools and connections to raise your impact.
Relevant roles include
- Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)
- Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) Officer
- Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Director
- Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Manager
- Transaction Monitoring Analyst
- Compliance Risk Manager
- AML Investigations Team Lead
- KYC/CDD/EDD Program Manager
- OFAC/Sanctions Compliance Officer
- Regulatory Reporting Officer
Why attend
More than a week of programming
MLAW is a strategic catalyst for compliance officers to deepen their expertise, expand their professional networks and align with the global trends shaping financial crime prevention.
Deepen your expertise
Learn from experts presenting real-world case studies, enforcement actions and the policy developments shaping the field.
Get timely intelligence
From trade-based laundering and crypto abuse to shell structures and environmental crime, see how criminal methods are changing.
Protect your organization
Take home practical tools to strengthen detection, reporting and investigations, and meet regulatory expectations.
Lead from the front
Whether you're new to AML or a seasoned leader, show your commitment to continuous learning and proactive defense.
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Choose how you'll join MLAW 2026
Complimentary for ACFCS members. Not a member yet? Join today for full access to every session.
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ACFCS Members
Freewith your membership
- All 9 live sessions, November 2–6
- Earn up to 13.5 credits
- On-demand recordings in the learning portal
New to ACFCS
1 Year ACFCS Membership
$325per year
- Full access to every MLAW session
- Earn up to 13.5 credits
- On-demand recordings in the learning portal
- 12 months of ACFCS membership
Government professionals
1 Year ACFCS Membership, Government
$245per year
- Full access to every MLAW session
- Earn up to 13.5 credits
- On-demand recordings in the learning portal
- 12 months of ACFCS membership
Not ready to join? The opening keynote is free to everyone. Monday, November 2 · 11:00 AM ET · FBI Unit Chief Tim Lynch on overseas scam centers
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November 2–6, 2026
The week at a glance
Nine live, 90-minute sessions. All times Eastern. Select a session to see the details.
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Money Laundering Awareness Week Welcome and Keynote
Keynote speaker Tim Lynch, Unit Chief, FBI Cyber Enabled Fraud and Money Laundering Unit
Opening MLAW 2026 with one of today's most urgent transnational threats: overseas scam centers, and how they combine cyber-enabled fraud, social engineering, cryptocurrency, money laundering, human trafficking and organized crime to exploit victims worldwide.
Why attend the keynote
- Hear the current state of FBI investigations into overseas scam centers.
- Understand how fraud, crypto, laundering and trafficking combine inside these operations.
- See where public-private information sharing makes the difference.
The Role of AI and Machine Learning in Detecting Money Laundering
How institutions apply AI and machine learning across transaction monitoring, customer risk assessment, sanctions screening, network analysis and investigations, along with the data quality, explainability, bias, validation and governance questions that come with them.
You will be able to
- Explain how AI and machine-learning models can complement traditional rules-based AML monitoring and investigative processes.
- Identify practical applications of AI in transaction monitoring, customer risk assessment, network analysis, alert prioritization, and suspicious-activity investigations.
- Evaluate the limitations and risks associated with AI, including poor data quality, model bias, false positives, limited explainability, privacy concerns, and model drift.
- Apply essential governance principles—including human oversight, model validation, documentation, performance monitoring, and clear accountability—to the responsible use of AI in AML programs.
Digital Laundering: Cryptocurrency, NFTs, and the Dark Web
How cryptocurrency, NFTs, darknet marketplaces, mixers, privacy-enhancing technologies and cross-chain transactions are exploited to conceal, move and integrate illicit proceeds, plus the red flags, investigative approaches and controls that help trace them.
You will be able to
- Explain how criminals use cryptocurrency, NFTs, and dark-web platforms during the placement, layering, and integration of illicit proceeds.
- Identify red flags associated with darknet marketplaces, mixers, privacy coins, chain-hopping, cross-chain bridges, and suspicious NFT transactions.
- Assess how blockchain analytics, open-source intelligence, and traditional financial data can be combined to trace transactions and attribute illicit activity.
- Apply risk-based investigative and compliance practices to detect, escalate, document, and report suspected digital money laundering.
Scams at Machine Speed: How AI Is Accelerating Fraud and Reshaping the Threat Landscape
How generative AI, deepfake video and audio, automated messaging and synthetic identities are changing the scam lifecycle, from victim targeting and social engineering to verification evasion and the movement of stolen funds, and how fraud, AML, cyber and law enforcement teams can respond.
You will be able to
- Explain how criminals use generative AI, deepfakes, voice cloning and automation to enhance traditional scam techniques.
- Identify emerging typologies and red flags associated with AI-enabled impersonation, investment, romance and business email compromise scams.
- Evaluate how synthetic identities, manipulated media and rapidly evolving payment methods create challenges for fraud and AML controls.
- Apply practical strategies to improve detection, escalation, investigations and customer protection.
- Recognize opportunities for cross-functional and public-private collaboration to disrupt scam networks and trace illicit proceeds.
Regulatory Updates and Compliance Best Practices for AML Professionals
Significant AML regulatory developments and enforcement trends, and how to translate them into effective policies, risk assessments, due diligence, monitoring, investigations, SAR reporting, governance and training that hold up to regulatory scrutiny.
You will be able to
- Identify significant regulatory developments and enforcement trends shaping the current AML compliance landscape.
- Assess how evolving regulatory expectations may affect risk assessments, customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, investigations, and suspicious activity reporting.
- Recognize common weaknesses identified through regulatory examinations and enforcement actions.
- Apply practical best practices to strengthen governance, documentation, controls, training, testing, and regulatory readiness.
- Develop strategies for monitoring regulatory change and incorporating new requirements into a sustainable, risk-based AML compliance program.
The Human Side of Money Laundering: Insider Threats and Professional Enablers
The people behind laundering schemes: malicious or compromised insiders and trusted professionals such as attorneys, accountants, company-formation agents and real estate professionals, along with the warning signs, investigative challenges and insider-risk controls that address them.
You will be able to
- Distinguish among malicious, compromised, negligent, and unwitting insiders, as well as professionals who knowingly or unknowingly facilitate money laundering.
- Identify behavioral, transactional, and organizational warning signs associated with insider threats and professional enablers.
- Explain how trusted access, specialized expertise, control overrides, and legitimate business structures can be exploited to conceal illicit activity.
- Apply risk-based controls—including due diligence, access management, monitoring, internal reporting, investigations, and escalation—to detect and mitigate human-enabled financial crime.
- Evaluate how compliance, legal, human resources, cybersecurity, audit, and business teams can collaborate while respecting privacy, employment, and legal considerations.
Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: Key Differences and Overlaps
Where money laundering and terrorist financing converge, where traditional AML assumptions fall short, and how charities, informal value-transfer systems, trade, cash and digital assets can be misused for either threat.
You will be able to
- Distinguish money laundering from terrorist financing based on the source, movement, concealment, and intended use of funds.
- Identify common methods and risk indicators shared by money laundering and terrorist-financing networks.
- Recognize terrorist-financing indicators that may not align with traditional AML expectations, including the use of legitimate funds and low-value transactions.
- Assess how financial institutions, charities, informal value-transfer systems, trade channels, cash, and digital assets may be exploited for either activity.
- Apply risk-based monitoring, investigation, escalation, and reporting practices that address both shared and threat-specific risks.
Real Estate and Art: High-Value Targets for Money Laundering
How real estate, fine art, luxury vehicles, jewelry and precious metals are used to convert and conceal illicit wealth through shell companies, third-party purchases, rapid resales and manipulated valuations, and how to apply risk-based due diligence to high-value transactions.
You will be able to
- Understand how criminals use real estate, luxury goods, and other high-value assets to conceal, transfer, and legitimize illicit funds.
- Identify key red flags, transaction patterns, and vulnerabilities associated with high-value asset purchases and sales.
- Recognize the roles played by shell companies, intermediaries, third-party buyers, and complex payment arrangements.
- Apply effective due diligence, source-of-funds, source-of-wealth, and beneficial ownership controls.
- Examine global regulatory developments and enforcement efforts targeting financial crime in these industries.
Shell Companies and Offshore Accounts: Unmasking the Hidden Flow of Illicit Funds
How layered entities, nominee arrangements, trusts and offshore accounts obscure beneficial ownership, and practical methods for connecting entities, accounts, intermediaries and people using due diligence, corporate registries, open-source intelligence and cross-border information sharing.
You will be able to
- Distinguish legitimate shell companies and offshore arrangements from structures exhibiting indicators of concealment or financial crime.
- Explain how criminals use layered entities, nominee owners and directors, trusts, and offshore accounts to obscure beneficial ownership and the movement of funds.
- Identify customer, transactional, geographic, and documentary red flags associated with potentially illicit corporate structures.
- Apply investigative techniques and information sources to uncover connections among entities, accounts, intermediaries, and ultimate beneficial owners.
- Strengthen risk-based due diligence, ongoing monitoring, escalation, documentation, and suspicious activity reporting involving complex or opaque ownership structures.
Can't make a session live? Recordings are available in the learning portal within 1–3 business days.
Featured Speakers
Investigators, compliance leaders and advisors from across the financial crime community
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Principal
EKM Global Risk Management Consulting
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Manager, Financial Crimes Solutions
Mastercard
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Rena Neville
Head, Art Division
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Robert Nordlander, CPA, CFE
Owner
Norlander CAP, PLLC
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Orlando Perez
Sr. Manager, North and Latin America
RKA Worldwide Group LLC
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Katrina Pistun
Special Agent
FBI
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Chad Ratashak
Owner
Midwest Frontier AI Consulting
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Christina Rea-Baxter, Esq
Principal
Semafor World Economy
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Mo Ruehsen
Founder & President
FinCAT Group
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Lakeidra Smith
Founder & Principal
The Cyber Consultant LLC
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Jonelle Still
Subject Matter Expert
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
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John Tobon
Principal
Tobon Consulting LLC
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Alex Turkhanov
Chief Product Officer
Zestic AI
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Amanda Wick
Head of Americas
VerifyVASP
Moderators
Guiding each discussion and the audience Q&A
