New York Forum on Economic Sanctions

The 16th New York Annual Forum on Economic Sanctions is organized by the American Conference Institute, part of C5 Group’s Economic Sanctions Global Series. ACI produces professional conferences and roundtables for senior legal, regulatory, compliance, and business decision-makers.

The conference examines how organizations can manage geopolitical and financial-system risk as sanctions converge with export controls, anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, and outbound investment restrictions. The program focuses on regulatory divergence, enforcement priorities, emerging evasion methods, technology, and the operational challenges facing global sanctions programs.

The conference will take place on December 2–3, 2026, at the New York City Bar, 42 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. Registration and continental breakfast begin at 8:00 a.m. on December 2 and 8:15 a.m. on December 3.

The forum is designed for sanctions, global trade, export controls, AML, financial crime, legal, risk, and regulatory compliance professionals. Relevant roles include General Counsel, sanctions counsel, Chief Compliance Officers, global trade leaders, AML and sanctions program heads, financial crime counsel, screening specialists, regulatory affairs professionals, investigators, and compliance technology leaders.

The program brings together professionals from banking, financial services, payments, fintech, technology, software, e-commerce, insurance, manufacturing, real estate, and legal services. Multinational corporations, financial institutions, law firms, credit unions, and international organizations are represented across the faculty.

Key topics include sanctions enforcement priorities, Iran, China, Venezuela, Russia, Cuba, Africa, and the Middle East; U.S. and EU regulatory divergence; gatekeeper liability; beneficial ownership; export controls; AML and CFT convergence; illicit networks; shadow banking; maritime evasion; digital assets; and data quality. The program also examines AI-enabled sanctions compliance, the GENIUS Act, the COINS Act, outbound investment restrictions, and emerging national security priorities.

Attendees will gain practical strategies for adapting sanctions programs to rapid policy shifts, enforcement expansion, geopolitical uncertainty, and conflicting regulatory requirements. Sessions will address how to strengthen governance, escalation, documentation, risk assessments, screening, monitoring, investigations, beneficial ownership analysis, and supply-chain due diligence.

Participants will also learn how organizations are scaling AI across screening and investigative workflows, improving data quality, detecting links to illicit networks, and integrating sanctions with export controls, AML, and CFT. Breakout sessions provide opportunities to benchmark approaches to regional risk, maritime and shadow-banking exposure, digital assets, and sanctions data management.

The faculty includes senior in-house sanctions, AML, global trade, financial crime, legal, regulatory, and compliance leaders. Speakers hold roles such as Head of Global Sanctions, Chief Global Trade Counsel, Global Sanctions Officer, Head of AML, Managing Director, Associate General Counsel, Senior Sanctions Legal Counsel, and sanctions-focused law firm partner.

Confirmed faculty organizations include American Express, BNP Paribas, Capital One, Caterpillar, Deutsche Bank, eBay, Fidelity Investments, Golden State Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Liberty Mutual Insurance, M&T Bank, Meta, Mercury, MUFG, Newmark, Raymond James Financial, Salesforce, Santander, SAP America, Société Générale, Standard Chartered Bank, Stripe, TD, Uber, United National Federal Credit Union, United Nations, and U.S. Bank.

The legal faculty includes Morrison & Foerster. Conference co-chairs represent Salesforce and BNP Paribas.

The program includes continental breakfasts, morning and afternoon networking breaks, networking luncheons, and a Day One cocktail reception. Discussion-driven breakout sessions also allow attendees to exchange practical approaches and benchmark sanctions priorities with peers in smaller groups.

Yes. Register three or more participants together and receive 20% off each registration. This team offer is available only through Customer Service by emailing [email protected] or calling 1-888-224-2480.

The complete cancellation and refund policy is available through the conference terms and conditions. Registrants should review the latest policy before booking, as specific cancellation deadlines and available remedies have not been published in the current conference information.

A limited number of rooms are available at a negotiated rate at the New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. Guests should contact the hotel directly and quote “ACI / American Conference Institute.”

The guest-room block cut-off date is November 9, 2026. Availability and the negotiated rate cannot be guaranteed after that date or once the room block is filled. See venue page for more information.

CLE credit is available. The program has been approved for CLE credit by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board and the State Bar of California and is identified as nontransitional for New York CLE purposes.

Accreditation will also be sought in jurisdictions requested by registrants that have continuing education requirements, although approval varies by state. CPD and CME credit availability has not been confirmed.