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
Chair Bruna Szego’s Welcome Address
- 9:35
Keynote by Commissioner Albuquerque
- 10:00
Keynote by MEP Aurore Lalucq
- 10:25
Panel 1: The Role of Financial Intelligence in the Fight Against Transnational Organised Crime moderated by AMLA Executive Board Member Hennie Verbeek-Kusters
- 11:15
Coffee Break
- 11:45
Panel 2: AMLA in Practice – Supervision and Cooperation moderated by AMLA Executive Board Member Derville Rowland
- 12:35
Lunch
- 14:30
Keynote by MEP Javier Zarzalejos
- 14:55
Panel 3: Financial Crime and Technology – Risks and Responses in a Digital Age moderated by AMLA Executive Board Member Simonas Krėpšta
- 15:45
Coffee Break
- 16:15
Keynote by Jeanette Schwamberger, State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Finance
- 16:35
Vice-Chair Vega Serrano’s Closing Remarks
- 17:00
Networking Drinks
Bruna Szego
Chair
AMLA
Maria Luís Albuquerque
European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union
European Commission
Aurore Lalucq
Chair, ECON Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Member of European Parliament
Jeanette Schwamberger
State Secretary
German Federal Ministry of Finance
Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz
Chair
Egmont Group
Vito Giordano
Major General, Head of 2nd Department - Coordination, Intelligence and International Relations
Guardia di Finanza HQ
Niamh Davenport
Head of Financial Crime
Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI)
Hennie Verbeek-Kusters
Executive Board Member
AMLA
Grégoire Vuarlot
AMLA GB Member, Director of Business Practices Supervision
Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR)
Brian McKenzie
Managing Director & EU Head of AML
Citi
Francesca Nieddu
Group Chief Compliance 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
Derville Rowland
Executive Board Member
AMLA
Giuseppe Lopez
Head of Department, European Financial & Economic Crime Centre
Europol
James Lee
Global Head of Capacity Building
Chainalysis
Dr. Ioana Karnstedt-Hulpus
Assistant Professor, Department of Information and Computing Science
Utrecht University
Nicolas Vasse
Executive Director
AMLA
Simonas Krėpšta
Executive Board
AMLA
Juan Manuel Vega Serrano
Vice-Chair
AMLA
Javier Zarzalejos
Chair, LIBE Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Member of the European Parliament
Gabriel Seixas
European Prosecutor
European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO)
Daniel Thelesklaf
Head of Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)
Germany
Gita Salden
AMLA GB Member, Member of the Executive Board
De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB)
Beju Shah
Head of Toronto Innovation Centre
Bank for International Settlements (BIS)
Fighting financial crime is a shared endeavour. AMLA's mandate touches the work of authorities, private and public-sector institutions, and organisations across the EU and beyond. Our conference is designed to reflect this by bringing together a broad spectrum of public and private sector stakeholders. Attendance is by invitation to ensure balanced representation across sectors, jurisdictions, and perspectives.
In recognition of the strong interest in the conference, a limited number of seats have been reserved for additional stakeholders of various backgrounds whose work contributes to AML/CFT efforts or whom AMLA’s own work affects.
AMLA welcomes expressions of interest from stakeholders wishing to attend in person. Places will be allocated to achieve a balanced representation. Click here to express your interest.
To ensure the event is accessible to those who cannot travel to Frankfurt, as well as to a wider audience, the conference will be livestreamed. The viewing link will be available on the day of the conference.