Agenda
Day 1 — Main Conference
March 2, 2027
Registration and Breakfast
Co-Chairs Opening Remarks
Settle in and connect in smaller-group settings for interactive, ice-breaking sessions that will operate as a series of Roundtable discussions on hot button issues. Our speakers will rotate to a different set of tables after each 30-minute session.
- The Rising Interplay Between Export Controls and Sanctions Compliance: Preparing for the BIS 50% Affiliates Rule and Its Impact on Ownership and Control Screening
- The Intersection of Cartels, Transnational Criminal Organizations, and Counter-terrorism Efforts: Understanding How Cartels and TCOs Infiltrate Legitimate Businesses and Exploit Corporate Structures
- Shipping, the Dark Fleet, and the Mirage of Coverage: The Role of Fale or Unlicensed P&I Coverage in Enabling Dark Fleet Operations
Extended Networking Break
OFAC Keynote Interview
Responding to Fast Breaking Geopolitical Risks: Building a Rapid-response Framework for Sudden Sanctions Actions or Designations
Geopolitical developments can transform an organization’s risk profile almost overnight. New sanctions, armed conflicts, political instability, trade restrictions, and other emerging threats can create immediate challenges for insurers and regulated financial institutions. Join us in this engaging session as we examine how insurance and AML compliance leaders can respond effectively when geopolitical events move faster than traditional risk-management and compliance processes. Topics for discussion include:
- Reviewing the regulatory implications of rapidly changing sanctions and AML requirements
- Identifying exposure across multi-jurisdictional global operations and policyholders
- Venezuela, Cuba, China, and other risky jurisdictions
- Strengthening escalation and decision-making frameworks
- Balancing speed with effective controls and regulatory expectations
- Developing practical strategies for enhancing:
- Horizon scanning
- Sanctions screening
- Transaction monitoring and cross-functional coordination
Networking Luncheon
Utilizing AI to Mitigate Sanctions and AML Risk: Practical Insights to Balance Innovation with Effective Governance, Accountability and Regulatory Compliance
As insurers face increasingly complex regulatory requirements, evolving sanctions regimes, and sophisticated financial crime threats, traditional compliance approaches are being challenged by growing volumes of data and increasingly complex risk patterns. AI can offer new opportunities to strengthen sanctions screening, anti-money laundering (AML) controls, and overall financial crime risk management, but there can be risks and practical challenges. Be sure to join us in this practical session as we examine best practices for:
- Implementing an AI-enabled transaction, claims, and risk monitoring program
- Reviewing entity and beneficial-ownership analysis
- Optimizing sanctions screening, risk scoring, and anomaly detection
- Utilizing AI to prioritize investigations and reduce false positives
- Analyzing the risks associated with relying on AI-generated results in a highly regulated environment
Networking Break
Russia Sanctions Compliance Amid Evasion and Divergence: Unravelling Key Developments and Russia Sanctions Impacting the Insurance Industry
With sanctions increasingly targeting shipping, energy, financial networks, sanctions-evasion mechanisms and designated entities, the compliance challenges with Russia are extending well beyond traditional screening. The continuously changing sanctions regime signals an urgent need for firms and companies to ensure processes are robust and that proper due diligence is in place, and companies must unravel a complex web of rapidly changing economic sanctions. Topics for discussion in this session include:
- Implementing robust processes to ensure proper due diligence
- Reconciling US, EU, UK and other global requirements where policies, insureds, brokers, reinsurers, assets and payment flows span multiple jurisdictions
- Ensuring risk-based compliance programs in response to expansive use of sanctions and new methods of evasion
- Understanding the expansive scope and targets for the latest – and continuing – sanctions
SARS Filing and Money Laundering: A Practical Overview of SARS Filing Requirements and the Role of AML Controls in Identifying and Reporting Potentially Suspicious Activity
Insurance companies increasingly face complex financial-crime risks, from fraud and money laundering to suspicious transactions involving policyholders, beneficiaries, intermediaries, and other counterparties. As such, it’s critical to understand common money-laundering typologies, key red flags, and the circumstances that may warrant escalation and SARS consideration. In addition, effective approaches to transaction monitoring, investigation, documentation, and regulatory reporting, with emphasis on developing a risk-based AML program. Topics for discussion include:
- Analyzing the new FinCEN guidance and regulatory expectations
- Identifying critical information that must be included in a well-supported SAR
- Applying a risk-based approach to AML compliance and suspicious activity monitoring
- Understanding how sophisticated fraud schemes are driving increased SAR filings
- Strengthening detection and escalation processes to improve SAR quality and consistency
End of Day One / Networking Cocktail Reception
Day 2 — Main Conference
March 3, 2027
Registration and Breakfast
Co-Chairs’ Opening Remarks
Settle in and bring your most critical questions and concerns as our panel of regulators and enforcers discuss best practices for:
- Ensuring accurate the timely regulatory submissions
- Streamlining complex reporting requirements
- Implementing real-time transaction monitoring
- Enhancing the effectiveness of your sanctions screening program
- Developing strategies to decode advanced evasion tactics and crack down on illicit finance
As insurers increasingly rely on third-party vendors to perform KYC, customer due diligence, and related compliance functions, outsourcing can create new operational efficiencies. However, it does not necessarily outsource regulatory responsibility, as insurers may remain accountable for the quality, timeliness, and effectiveness of KYC processes performed on their behalf. Be sure to join us in this engaging session as we examine the legal, regulatory, and practical risks insurers should consider when delegating KYC and due diligence activities to vendors. Topics for discussion include:
- Implementing real time customer and third party verification and transaction monitoring
- Identifying where liability and regulatory exposure may remain with the insurer despite outsourcing
- Conducting effective due diligence and risk assessments on KYC vendors
- Establishing effective ongoing monitoring and quality-control frameworks for outsourced KYC activities
- Addressing data quality, documentation, privacy, cybersecurity, and record-retention considerations
- Responding to KYC failures, vendor deficiencies, and regulatory inquiries without creating additional exposure
Networking Break
As EU “snapback” sanctions reshape the Iran risk landscape, insurers and reinsurers face heightened compliance and claims challenges, including sector exposure for insurers with Iranian oil or shipping ties. As such, it’s critical to understand the importance of underwriting and portfolio management, policy wording and sanctions clauses, claims handling, reinsurance arrangements, and ongoing customer and counterparty screening. Bring your most pressing questions and join us in this informative session as we:
- Analyze the changing Iran sanctions environment
- Examine the issues most relevant to insurance transactions
- Review actionable considerations for maintaining compliance – while managing legitimate commercial exposure
- Assess the expected and unexpected impact on the insurance and reinsurance
- Highlight key areas of:
- Regulatory risk
- Potential conflicts between sanctions regimes
- Practical steps insurers can take to strengthen controls as restrictions take effect
Insurance Industry Conflicts of Law: Identifying and Addressing Choice-of-Law Issues That Can Arise at the Outset of a Dispute
Insurance disputes increasingly cross state and national borders, creating complex questions about which jurisdiction’s law governs—and, ultimately, which party bears the risk. In addition, key conflict of law issues can arise in insurance coverage and claims disputes that lead to critical implications for insurers, policyholders, brokers, and counsel.
Be sure to join us in this session as we highlight the emerging trends, significant judicial decisions, and practical considerations for navigating multijurisdictional insurance disputes effectively. Topics for discussion include:
- Reviewing key choice-of-law principles
- Examining best practices for forum selection
- Exploring the different governing-law provisions
- Highlighting the important differences among jurisdictions in interpreting policy language and applying substantive insurance law
- Addressing blocking and anti-boycott statutes in foreign jurisdictions as a US parent company reinsurer
Ethics Lab: Putting Your Judgment to the Test and Resolving Ethical Dilemmas in AML & Sanctions Compliance
Step into this fast-paced, interactive ethics lab where real-world scenarios will challenge your instincts and decision-making in high-stakes sanctions and anti-money laundering matters. Using live polling and group discussion, compare your responses to those of your peers, and see how seasoned practitioners would navigate the gray areas of the law and compliance expectations. Topics of discussion will include:
- Responding to ethically ambiguous scenarios when vetting clients, suppliers, and third-party vendors
- Deciding when to act, and when to escalate ethical concerns in multiple jurisdictions
- Establishing clear ethics and compliance protocols, including internal policies and training programs
- Assessing and monitoring human rights impacts of decision-making
- Collaborating across departments to build a culture of ethical accountability and risk mitigation