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

• • 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

• • 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? 

• • 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?