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Fireside Chat: Navigating AML and Sanctions in North America

The regulatory landscape for AML and sanctions in North America is shifting fast





With a new administration, intensifying regulatory scrutiny, and a surge in technological innovation, financial institutions face mounting pressure to stay compliant while managing complexity and cost.
In this candid fireside chat, Elizabeth Callan shares an insider’s view of what’s changing. She also shares what’s next for AML, sanctions , and financial crime compliance professionals across the region.
Featuring:Elizabeth Callan , AML & Sanctions Risk Management SME, SymphonyAI Financial Services

Key discussion highlights:

  • A changing regulatory climate: What the new administration means for financial crime compliance - and how enforcement priorities are evolving.
  • The regulator’s mindset: How expectations for risk management, governance, and reporting are shifting across North America.
  • Common compliance pitfalls: The most frequent challenges financial institutions face and how leading organizations are avoiding them.
  • Technology’s new role in compliance: How AI and advanced analytics are transforming AML and sanctions operations.
  • Lessons from enforcement: What recent high-profile cases reveal about gaps in detection, oversight, and governance.
  • Future outlook: The trends set to define the next two to three years in AML and sanctions compliance and how to prepare today.

Why watch

Whether you’re leading a compliance program, shaping risk strategy, or modernizing AML operations , this discussion offers rare insight into where regulators, risks, and technology are converging.
Gain actionable guidance from a recognized industry expert on AML and sanctions in North America. Learn how forward-thinking institutions are building smarter, more adaptive anti-financial crime frameworks.
Watch the webinar on demand and stay ahead of the next wave of regulatory and technological change.

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about the author
Elizabeth Callan
Principal Strategic Advisor, Financial Services

Elizabeth Callan is a recognized leader and innovator in the fightagainst money laundering and financial crime with 25 years of experience acrossintelligence, law enforcement, and the private sector. At SymphonyAI, she is atthe forefront of redefining the future of financial crime compliance and riskmanagement. She drives strategy and innovation, developing groundbreakingAI-led, intelligence-driven solutions that are transforming how globalinstitutions detect, disrupt, and prevent money laundering, sanctions evasion,and other sophisticated financial crimes. Her work is helping to shift theindustry approach from reactive, technical compliance to proactive, risk -aligned, and highly effective risk management. Prior to SymphonyAI, Elizabethserved in the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement communities. As a SeniorIntelligence Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Departmentof the Treasury, she shaped high-impact U.S. policy and enforcement actions —including Section 311 designations — while directly advising senior officialsacross the USG, including at OFAC and FinCEN, on critical threats and nationalsecurity strategies. She also served as Intelligence Liaison and Senior Advisorto the DEA’s Special Operations Division, where she led complex, large-scalemoney laundering investigations, enhanced intelligence collection efforts,trained law enforcement agents and analysts, and forged strong internationalpartnerships. In the private sector, Elizabeth has held leadership roles in financialinstitutions and consulting firms, where she built and managed investigationsteams, designed robust AML and sanctions programs, and developed riskmanagement strategies for complex products and services. A recognized subjectmatter expert, Elizabeth teaches AML and sanctions courses at the universitylevel. She holds a master's degree in economics and analytics and ACAMS’Advanced Certification in Financial Crimes Investigations (CAMS-FCI).

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