Date
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Location
Parklane Resort & Spa, Limassol
Language
English
Compliance Unbound 2026: Crime, Conduct & the New Rules of Risk
Over the years, compliance has been recognized as the defining force shaping how organisations are governed, how risk is understood and managed, how trust is earner – or lost. As enforcement around the world intensifies, technology accelerates and public tolerance for misconduct evaporates, long-stnading assumptions about risk, culture and accountability are being fundamentally challenged.
The 12th International Compliance Forum brings together regulators, compliance experts and industry leaders to navigate the continent’s “Big Compliance Reset”: a convergence of technology, enforcement, ethics, and risk that is reshaping how organisations operate in a world where transparency and accountability are no longer optional, and compliance failures are not an option.
FACTS AND FIGURES
The Forum
Europe’s “Big Compliance Reset” is underway: a convergence of AML, conduct, ESG and digital regulation reshaping how organisations manage risk, culture, and accountability. From AMLA’s single rulebook to sanctions evasion, crypto oversight under MiCA, Cyprus’s reform journey, and the behavioural drivers of misconduct, the forum explores the forces redefining compliance. With DORA, data governance, operational resilience and cross-border enforcement rising in importance, participants will examine whether regulation brings clarity or complexity—and how firms can build integrated, resilient, and culture-driven compliance frameworks for the age of transparency.
Audience
The Forum is addressed to:
- Compliance Officers
- Risk Officers
- Audit Officers
- Ethics Officers
- Privacy Officers
- Corporate Governance Officers
- Company Secretaries
- General Counsels
- Board Members
- Senior Management Executives
- Finance and Legal professionals
From Various Sectors:
- Banks
- Electronic Money Institutions
- Payment Institutions
- Investment Firms
- Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASPs)
- Crypto-Assets Entities (MiCAR)
- AIFs
- UCITs
- Accounting, Audit, Tax firms
- Law firms and legal consultants
- FINTECH Firms
- Insurance firms and re-insurance firms
- Asset Managers, Wealth Management firms
- Trust services providers
- ASP – Fiduciary Firms – Company formation and administration firms and other corporate services providers
- Other Financial services providers
- Regulatory authorities
- Law enforcement agencies
- Software/technology providers
- Casinos and Betting Companies
Speakers
Agenda
*invitation
- Supervisory shift: behaviour + data + risk culture
- ESG & greenwashing enforcement
- AMLA + prudential convergence
- Compliance as a “whole-company” function
- Why firms still misjudge exposure
- Where banks vs regulators disagree
- What enforcement cases actually show
AML improvements, FIU performance, crypto/gambling supervision, enforcement, and renewed trust
- Enforcement vs perception
- Crypto, gambling, banking, payments: who learned fastest?
- Is supervision credible or just louder?
- MiCA supervision
- AML in VASPs
- Forensics & new crypto typologies
- High-risk wallets & mixers
- What AMLA will look for in crypto
- DORA implementation
- Operational resilience
- Data governance & record-keeping
- Third-party risk
- How AFC, IT, ops and risk teams must finally work together – breaking up silos
- Is regulation becoming unmanageable?
- Are we measuring the right things?
- Should compliance own culture?
- Is AI the cure or the new risk?
- Will AMLA create harmony or bureaucracy?
*invitation
- Supervisory shift: behaviour + data + risk culture
- ESG & greenwashing enforcement
- AMLA + prudential convergence
- Compliance as a “whole-company” function
- Why firms still misjudge exposure
- Where banks vs regulators disagree
- What enforcement cases actually show
AML improvements, FIU performance, crypto/gambling supervision, enforcement, and renewed trust
- Enforcement vs perception
- Crypto, gambling, banking, payments: who learned fastest?
- Is supervision credible or just louder?
- MiCA supervision
- AML in VASPs
- Forensics & new crypto typologies
- High-risk wallets & mixers
- What AMLA will look for in crypto
- DORA implementation
- Operational resilience
- Data governance & record-keeping
- Third-party risk
- How AFC, IT, ops and risk teams must finally work together – breaking up silos
- Is regulation becoming unmanageable?
- Are we measuring the right things?
- Should compliance own culture?
- Is AI the cure or the new risk?
- Will AMLA create harmony or bureaucracy?
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