AMLA’s first conference will take place 9 June 2026 at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
The event will bring together senior representatives from Europe’s supervisory, financial intelligence, and regulatory communities, alongside private sector leaders, marking a defining moment in the EU’s approach to combating money laundering and terrorist financing.
Through a mix of keynote speeches and panel discussions, the conference will address a wide range of issues shaping today’s fight against financial crime, from policy and supervision to operational practice and innovation.
Panel discussions will examine three interconnected dimensions of the AML/CFT landscape: the role of financial intelligence in tackling transnational organised crime; effective supervision and cooperation in practice; and the opportunities and risks posed by technology in an era of rapidly evolving financial crime.
- 8:45
Registration & Welcome Coffee
- 9:15
Welcome Address by Bruna Szego, Chair, AMLA
- 9:35
Keynote by Maria Luís Albuquerque, European Commissioner for Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union
- 10:00
Keynote by Aurore Lalucq, Member of European Parliament
- 10:25
Panel 1: The Role of Financial Intelligence in the Fight Against Transnational Organised Crime
Moderator:
Hennie Verbeek-Kusters, Executive Board Member, AMLA
Panelists:
Daniel Thelesklaf, Head of FIU Germany
Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz, Chair, Egmont Group
Major General Vito Giordano, Head of 2nd Department - Coordination, Intelligence and International Relations, Guardia di Finanza HQ
Niamh Davenport, Head of Financial Crime, BPFI
Gabriel Seixas, European Prosecutor, EPPO
- 11:15
Coffee Break
- 11:45
Panel 2: AMLA in Practice – Supervision and Cooperation
Moderator:
Derville Rowland, Executive Board Member, AMLA
Panelists:
Grégoire Vuarlot, AMLA GB Member, Deputy Secretary General, ACPR
Gita Salden, AMLA GB Member, Member of the Executive Board, DNB
Brian McKenzie, Managing Director & EU Head of AML, Citi
Raffaele Cosimo, Group AML Officer, Intesa Sanpaolo
Nicolas Véron, Senior Fellow, Bruegel (Brussels) and Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington DC)
Rikke-Louise Ørum Petersen, Executive Board Member, AMLA
- 12:35
Lunch
- 14:30
Keynote by Javier Zarzalejos, Member of European Parliament
- 14:55
Panel 3: Financial Crime and Technology – Risks and Responses in a Digital Age
Moderator:
Simonas Krėpšta, Executive Board Member, AMLA
Panelists:
Giuseppe Lopez, Head of Department - European Financial & Economic Crime Centre, Europol
James Lee, Global Head of Capacity Building, Chainalysis
Beju Shah, Head of Toronto Innovation Centre, BIS
Dr. Ioana Karnstedt-Hulpus, Assistant Professor - Department of Information and Computing Science, Utrecht University
Nadine Kari, Director of Global Anti-Financial Crime, N26 Bank
Nicolas Vasse, Executive Director, AMLA
- 15:45
Coffee Break
- 16:15
Keynote by Jeanette Schwamberger, State Secretary, German Federal Ministry of Finance
- 16:35
Closing Remarks by Juan Manuel Vega Serrano, Vice-Chair & Executive Board Member, AMLA
- 17:00
Networking Drinks
Maria Luís Albuquerque
European Commissioner for Financial Services and the Savings and Investments Union
European Commission
Raffaele Cosimo
Group AML Officer
Intesa Sanpaolo
Niamh Davenport
Head of Financial Crime
Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI)
Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz
Chair
Egmont Group
Vito Giordano
Major General, Head of 2nd Department - Coordination, Intelligence and International Relations
Guardia di Finanza HQ
Nadine Kari
Director of Global Anti-Financial Crime
N26 Bank
Dr. Ioana Karnstedt-Hulpus
Assistant Professor, Department of Information and Computing Science
Utrecht University
Simonas Krėpšta
Executive Board Member
AMLA
Aurore Lalucq
Chair, ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Member of European Parliament
James Lee
Global Head of Capacity Building
Chainalysis
Giuseppe Lopez
Head of Department, European Financial & Economic Crime Centre
Europol
Brian McKenzie
Managing Director & EU Head of AML
Citi
Rikke-Louise Ørum Petersen
Executive Board Member
AMLA
Derville Rowland
Executive Board Member
AMLA
Gita Salden
AMLA GB Member, Member of the Executive Board
De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)
Jeanette Schwamberger
State Secretary
German Federal Ministry of Finance
Gabriel Seixas
European Prosecutor
European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO)
Beju Shah
Head of Toronto Innovation Centre
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Bruna Szego
Chair
AMLA
Daniel Thelesklaf
Head of Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)
Germany
Nicolas Vasse
Executive Director
AMLA
Juan Manuel Vega Serrano
Vice-Chair
AMLA
Hennie Verbeek-Kusters
Executive Board Member
AMLA
Nicolas Véron
Senior Fellow
Bruegel (Brussels) and Peterson Institute for International Economics (Washington DC)
Grégoire Vuarlot
AMLA GB Member, Deputy Secretary General
Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR)
Javier Zarzalejos
Chair, LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Member of European Parliament