Financial Crime Trends and Hot Topics in 2026
1/20/2026 12:00 PM Eastern
1/20/2026 1:30 PM Eastern
Event details
Join a panel of Crowe professionals for our annual financial crime trends webinar as we explore the fast-moving developments reshaping the risk landscape in 2026. This session will unpack the growing influence of AI in both criminal innovation and financial crime prevention, the evolving regulatory landscape, and the accelerating risks tied to digital assets and decentralized finance. We’ll also examine how the continued growth of banking as a service (BaaS), embedded finance, and fintech partnerships is creating new exposure points and oversight challenges.
Participants will gain a clear view of the emerging threats defining the year ahead, along with practical guidance for strengthening their strategies, technologies, and controls to prepare for increasingly complex financial crime risks.
After attending this session, you should be able to:
- Describe how AI, digital assets, and regulatory changes are influencing financial crime trends and organizational risk exposure
- Identify governance and detection practices that support effective mitigation of increasingly complex and tech-enabled threats
- Evaluate how BaaS, embedded finance, and fintech partnerships introduce new risk dimensions and explore strategies to oversee distributed ecosystems effectively
Continuing professional education
Prerequisites: None
Program level: Overview
Advance preparation: None
Delivery method: Webinar (group internet based)
Field of study: Specialized knowledge
This session is recommended for 1.5 hours of CPE credit.
Note: All participants MUST be logged into the webinar INDIVIDUALLY to receive CPE credit. CPE credit will only be granted in the name of the individual logged into the LIVE presentation. Crowe is unable to grant CPE credit for groups viewing the webinar or for viewing on-demand recordings of the webinar.
There is no registration fee for participating in this webinar; therefore, there is no cancellation fee.
Who should attend
AI risk and governance leaders, anti-money laundering officers, board members, Bank Secrecy Act officers, chief audit executives, chief compliance officers, chief risk officers, compliance executives, general counsel, internal audit directors, internal audit professionals, risk executives, financial intelligence unit managers, financial intelligence unit analysts, and model risk managers
Presenters
- Troy La Huis , Principal, Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crime Leader
- Clayton Mitchell, Managing Principal, Fintech
- Tom Lazard, Principal, Risk Consulting
- Ralph Wright, Principal, Risk Consulting
- Tamara Kolb, Principal, Risk Consulting
- Tapan Shah, Principal, Consulting
Additional information
For additional information, please contact Jonathan Losey.