AFB Financial Crime Masterclass: Cybercrime Managing Converging Threats in AML Compliance

An interactive masterclass designed to provide financial crime professionals with the knowledge and awareness to identify, mitigate, and manage cyber-enabled risks.

This masterclass will provide learners with practical guidance on how to manage cyber-enabled crime typologies (e.g. account takeover, mule networks, synthetic identities, ransomware-linked laundering) and mapping attack paths into onboarding, payments and investigations, assessing firm vulnerabilities, determining when cyber activity triggers suspicion and a SAR, and documenting risk decisions so assessed risks reflect actual business operations.

Learners are supported with practical notes, working templates, and hands-on exercises based on real-world scenarios and work-based challenges—ensuring the session is interactive and outcomes-focused, with clear takeaways to strengthen resilience across cyber, fraud, and financial crime controls.

COURSE CONTENT

During this masterclass, you can expect to learn more about:

• AML cyber-crime threat assessment – risk identification, risk analysis, risk evaluation, and risk treatment
• Evaluating and strengthening your firm’s integration of cybersecurity measures within existing AML and financial crime masterclass
• Cyber security controls – UK NCSC Capability Assessment Framework (CAF) and other sources of good practice
• Cyber response and recovery – legal & regulatory obligations, and good practice
• Glossary, definitions and ecosystem – cyber enabled and cyber dependent crime

COURSE STRUCTURE

• In person instructor led
• 3 hours of learning
• Case study analysis
• CPD credits for any session attended

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

• Recognise the critical role of cybersecurity in maintaining an effective and compliant AML framework
• Assess your firm’s vulnerabilities to the most common and emerging cyber threats that intersect with financial crime risk
• Identify cyber-enabled money laundering techniques, including those linked to large-scale cyber heists and digital fraud
• Apply best practice approaches for collaboration between AML, fraud, and cybersecurity teams to improve overall risk management
• Develop a holistic, proactive approach to detecting, mitigating, and responding to cyber-enabled financial crime across the business

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• MLROs and Deputy MLROs seeking to understand cyber-enabled financial crime risks.
• Financial Crime and AML Analysts involved in investigating complex and emerging typologies, including cyber-enabled money laundering
• Compliance and Risk Officers responsible for integrating cybersecurity risk into broader compliance frameworks
• Fraud and Cybersecurity Specialists looking to strengthen collaboration with AML and financial crime teams
• Nominated Officers and SAR Manager needing clarity on when cyber activity should be escalated and reported

LOGISTICS & BOOKING INFORMATION

Venue:       Central London location – TBC

Date:          Thursday 14 May 2026

Time:          09:00 – 12:30 (Registration and light breakfast from 09:00)

Price:         £410 plus VAT

For further information please contact secretariat@foreignbanks.org.uk