Beyond the Pilot: Deploying Governed, Audit-Ready AI in Financial Crime Compliance
A practitioner panel on what it takes to move AI in financial crime compliance out of pilot and into governed, audit-ready production.
What you will take away
- What readiness actually means when moving an AI use case from pilot to production.
- How to build governance, risk tiering and human oversight in from the outset.
- What auditors and regulators need to understand about AI-supported outcomes.
- What evidence to retain so an AI-enabled decision holds up under review.
Overview
What this webinar is
A panel discussion hosted by the Coalition Against Financial Crime on deploying AI-enabled financial crime capabilities responsibly at scale.
Financial institutions are moving beyond experimentation with AI in AML, sanctions, fraud, and investigations. This panel explores what it takes to deploy AI-enabled financial crime capabilities responsibly at scale—balancing innovation with effective governance, explainability, quality assurance, monitoring, and auditability. Panelists will share practical perspectives on building controls into the lifecycle from design through production and ongoing oversight.
Audience
Who it is for
Built for the teams accountable for putting AI into production and defending it afterwards.
You should attend if you are
- A BSA/AML, sanctions or fraud compliance leader
- A model risk, validation or internal audit lead
- A financial crime investigations manager
- A compliance technology or transformation owner
- Accountable for regulatory readiness of AI-supported processes
What this panel covers
- Readiness criteria, ownership and deployment gates
- Risk tiering and human oversight designed in from the start
- Evidence trails for inputs, outputs, versions, approvals and overrides
- Testing for accuracy, policy adherence and failure modes
- Post-deployment drift, control breakdowns and data-quality issues
Themes
Key focus areas
Contents
Table of Contents
The full running order for the day. Breakout workshops run in parallel; you choose one of three.
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01
Moving from pilot to production
Defining readiness criteria, ownership, and deployment gates.
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02
Building governance into AI use cases from the outset
Including risk tiering and human oversight.
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03
Explainability
Determining what users, compliance leaders, auditors, and regulators need to understand about AI-supported outcomes.
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04
Audit readiness
Maintaining clear evidence of inputs, outputs, model or workflow versions, approvals, overrides, and decisions.
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05
QA and validation
Testing accuracy, consistency, policy adherence, escalation behavior, and potential failure modes.
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06
Monitoring after deployment
Identifying drift, control breakdowns, data-quality issues, and changes in performance.
Speakers
Who you will hear from
Select any speaker for their full biography.
John Calderon
Founder and Chair, CAFC (Moderator)
Founder and Chair of the Coalition Against Financial Crime. Moderating this panel.
Christopher Phillips
Director of Financial Crime Industry Engagement, Flagright
Crystal Hu, CAMS
BSA Program Governance Director, Flagstar Bank
Nancy Brady Boyle, CAMS, CISA
Managing Director, Regulatory and AML Sanctions Compliance, Grant Thornton
Coalition Against Financial Crime
Online
cafc.org
info@cafc.org
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Registration
Reserve your seat
Complete the form and we will send your joining details by email. Seats are limited and allocated in order of registration.
- Full-day access to all panels and one breakout workshop
- Catered lunch and the afternoon networking social
- Discounted rates for CAFC members
- Counts toward recertification requirements
Logistics
Date, venue and organiser
Timing
- Date to be announced
- To be announced
Venue and organiser
- Online
- Coalition Against Financial Crime
- info@cafc.org