ACSS New York Chapter Event | Renewed Focus on Cartels...

Join the ACSS New York Chapter for a timely and provocative panel discussion examining the evolving sanctions landscape at the intersection of narcotics trafficking, cartel networks, and financial crime risk.

What We’ll Cover:

• The FTO Question: What does the designation of major cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations mean for financial institutions, and how does it reshape your sanctions and AML exposure overnight?
• Illicit Corridors: The deepening role of China and India in the fentanyl supply chain, and what compliance teams need to know about the financial networks that support them
• Fentanyl Disruption: How OFAC, FinCEN, and allied regulators are deploying sanctions as a tool to disrupt trafficking networks, and where the gaps remain
• Red Flags in Practice: Identifying high-risk clients and suspicious transaction patterns linked to cartel activity, narco-financing, and fentanyl-related money flows, with practical guidance for frontline compliance teams
• High-Risk Client Exposure: How to assess and manage relationships where cartel nexus, trade-based money laundering, or illicit corridor activity may not be immediately obvious, but the indicators are there
• The War on Drugs, Revisited: A candid conversation about whether the sanctions toolkit is equal to the threat, and what “winning” even looks like.

This is a conversation designed for practitioners who operate at the front line of financial crime compliance, and who need to understand not just the rules, but the risk landscape driving them.

This event is proudly sponsored by Crowell and Moring.

Agenda:

• 5:30 - 5:50: Registration
• 5:50 - 6:00: Welcome
• 6:00 - 7:00: Panel Discussion
• 7:00 - 7:15: Q&A with our panelists
• 7:15 – 7:30: Post event quiz with prizes
• 7:30 - 8:30: Networking over drinks and appetizers

Know what’s Happening Next — before everyone else does.

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