Date
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
Location
Parklane Resort & Spa, Limassol
Language
English
Compliance Unbound 2026: Crime, Conduct & the New Rules of Risk
As the compliance landscape continues to evolve at unprecedented speed, organisations are being challenged to rethink long-standing assumptions about risk, governance, and responsible conduct. 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 is no longer optional.
FACTS AND FIGURES
The Forum
Europe’s “Big Compliance Reset” is here: 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
Key Topic
PRELIMINARY TOPICS
Welcome Address from the USA Ambassador to Cyprus
Europe’s Big Compliance Reset: Crime, Culture & the Age of Accountability
AMLA – single rule book, AML trends, complliance culture, cross border enforcemement
Panel Discussion:
The Great Convergence: When AML, Conduct & ESG Collide
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- Supervisory shift: behaviour + data + risk culture
- ESG & greenwashing enforcement
- AMLA + prudential convergence
- Compliance as a “whole-company” function
Sanctions, Secrets & Supply Chains: What We’re Not Supposed to Talk About
Sanctions circumvention, geopolitics, “hidden economy”
Cyprus 3.0: Reinvention, Reform & Reality Checks
AML improvements, FIU performance, crypto/gambling supervision, enforcement, and renewed trust.
Code, Cryptos & Compliance: Losing Sleep in the MiCA Era
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- MiCA supervision
- AML in VASPs
- Forensics & new crypto typologies
- High-risk wallets & mixers
- What AMLA will look for in crypto
Humans Behaving Badly: The Psychology of Misconduct
Fixing the Plumbing: DORA, Data & the Death of Silos
- 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
Compliance vs Complexity: Are We Solving Problems or Creating Them?
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- 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?
Main Sposnors
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