Validating Digital Asset Financial Crime Detection Models
8/25/2026 1:00 PM Eastern
8/25/2026 2:00 PM Eastern
Event details
Financial services organizations are navigating a rapidly evolving digital asset environment while managing regulatory expectations for financial crime compliance. Traditional compliance programs remain foundational, but digital asset activity introduces additional considerations related to blockchain data, wallet attribution, transaction transparency, sanctions screening, and evolving illicit finance typologies.
In this webinar, Crowe specialists will discuss how financial crime compliance programs and model validation practices can adapt to these emerging challenges. Participants will explore how established compliance controls and model validation concepts apply to digital asset-related activities and where additional capabilities, including blockchain analytics, can strengthen risk management.
After attending this session, you should be able to:
- Describe the key characteristics of digital assets that create unique financial crime compliance risks
- Explain how traditional financial crime compliance activities apply to organizations that offer or support digital asset products and services
- Identify new and enhanced controls, including blockchain analytics capabilities, that help detect, monitor, and manage digital asset-related financial crime risks
- Recognize how traditional model validation principles apply to models used in digital asset environments
- Evaluate how model validation approaches should be adapted for models that monitor digital asset activity
- Assess key validation considerations, including blockchain data quality, typology coverage, threshold tuning, model explainability, vendor reliance, and change management
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 1.0 hour 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
Bank Secrecy Act officers, anti-money laundering (AML) compliance officers, sanctions compliance officers, financial crimes risk management teams, board members, chief compliance officers, chief risk officers, chief AML officers, AML reporting officers, chief audit executives, compliance executives, risk executives, general counsel, internal audit directors, internal audit professionals, model governance teams, model risk managers, model validation teams, financial intelligence unit managers, and financial intelligence unit analysts
Presenters
- Sara Krople, Partner, Audit & Assurance
- Tom Lazard, Principal, Risk Consulting
- Arben Latifaj, Senior Manager, Risk Consulting
Moderator
- Ralph Wright, Principal, Risk Consulting
Additional information
For additional information, please contact Jonathan Losey.