Navigating the Regulatory Landscape for Money Laundering Reporting Officers in Financial Services

Introduction

Navigating an ever-changing regulatory landscape in such a technically complex subject area as anti-money laundering is a constant challenge for Money Laundering Reporting Officers. Failure to do so can result in the most severe enforcement penalties for the MLRO’s firm.

For the 2024/25 enforcement year, the FCA reports over 57% of all enforcement action related to financial crime, but over 86% of all criminal enforcement action.

This webinar provides practical tips for navigating internal and external relationships and building pragmatic compliance frameworks that can respond to change, making it essential for MLROs and those aspiring to the role.

By attending this session, you will gain actionable insights into how to effectively manage financial crime compliance oversight, mitigate risks, and embed accountability within your organisation.

What you will learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The MLRO as the focal point for anti-money laundering activity
• Understand the breadth of responsibilities: all-crimes money laundering offences and extraterritorial application
• Relevance of other regulatory principles (e.g. consumer duty)
• Managing relationships with key stakeholders
• Best practices
• Building pragmatic policy and control frameworks that can respond to legal and regulatory change
• Getting the best from your compliance monitoring programme
• Effective communication with C-suite and Audit and Risk Committees
• Horizon-scanning
• Emerging trends
• How the approach of other jurisdictions might impact or influence the UK

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Friday 3rd July 2026

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