Cost:

Members: $180
Non-members: $215

A hot breakfast and fabulous lunch are included. Please indicate any dietary restrictions on your Registration.

Join CCA and your financial institution colleagues as we get an update on BSA/AML/CFT related topics from industry experts. A great opportunity to network with your BSA/AML peers!

The session has been approved for 6 CAFP, CRCM and CERP credits, and certain courses may be CAMS eligible.

Please send any questions you have for our speakers, in advance to: Speaker Questions.

Location: Maggiano’s Little Italy

Speakers & Topics:

Heather Trew, Senior Vice President & Counsel, American Bankers Association
BSA/AML/CFT Reform: Emerging Developments and What They Mean for Banks
This session will explore key developments shaping the AML/CFT landscape, including FinCEN’s proposed reforms to program requirements, recent regulatory guidance, and relevant Presidential Executive Orders and federal policy initiatives. Attendees will gain practical insight into how these changes are shifting expectations toward more risk-based, effectiveness-driven compliance programs and what they mean for financial institutions’ strategy, operations, and supervisory engagement.

Kevin Olsen, The Payments Professor & SVP Innovation & Strategy, Pidgin
GENIUS Act & Stablecoins: What BSA/AML Professionals Need to Know
This session will examine how the GENIUS Act is reshaping the regulatory framework for payment stablecoins in the United States and what those changes may mean for BSA/AML compliance programs. Attendees will explore topics from what a stablecoin is and why it matters to the emerging expectations related to customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, and third-party risk management as stablecoin activity becomes more integrated into the traditional financial system.

Brian Crow, Managing Partner and Co-President, TCA Compliance
The Synergy Between BSA and Fraud
As the volume and type of fraud continues to increase, the challenges to combat fraud and mitigate losses to the institution continue to escalate. Sometimes, the fact that a SAR may be required gets lost in the shuffle. This can lead to inefficiency when BSA and Fraud Departments are separately working the same case or worse, a violation of law in the form of a missed SAR. In this session we will consider the various business lines where fraud can occur, and best practices for fraud and BSA to collaborate, whether separate departments or all under the same umbrella.

Chris Stenzel, Detective, Financial Crimes Unit, Chicago Police Department
Danielle (Dani) Levin, Assistant State’s Attorney, Financial Crimes Division, Multi-Jurisdictional Prosecution Bureau, Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office
When SARs go Criminal: Turning Intelligence into Indictments
The session will cover how data received from financial institutions can be the lynchpin in successful investigation, arrest and prosecution of financial crimes. A broad overview of important tips and tricks to assist in preventing fraud and case studies will be included.

Ray Olsen, SVP Senior Director of Enterprise Fraud Management, Wintrust Financial Corp
Fraud Risk Management: Governance, Compliance, and Emerging Threats
This session outlines the core governance and regulatory expectations for enterprise fraud teams, highlighting mandatory Fraud Risk Management (FRM) frameworks. The session will also address compliance strategies to mitigate evolving threats, including advanced scam typologies, new account onboarding vulnerabilities, and synthetic identity exploitation.

Registration and Breakfast begins at 8:00 am
Session runs from 9:00 am to 3:30 pm

Last day of registration is 5:00pm CT on July 21, 2026

As a reminder, CCA no longer accepts cash or checks as payment for meetings or membership dues. Payment is only accepted in advance by debit or credit card via our website. Registration for meetings or membership will not be considered complete without prepayment. CCA is no longer able to invoice for events and entry will be denied if payment has not been received. Payment can be made in advance using a debit or credit card via CCAs PayPal page. Failure to pay in advance may result in removal of registration for the event.

Speakers and Topics may be subject to change.

This session is not to be recorded electronically without written permission from the Chicagoland Compliance Association and all speakers. materials and opinions shared from the speakers are not necessarily those of the organization they represent and therefore, unless otherwise indicated, should be assumed personal and not indicative of any implied liability or accountability back to the respective organization.

Reservation cancellations received by the CCA after the registration deadline of 5:00pm on July 21, 2026 will not receive a refund. If you choose to cancel you will not be entitled to a refund for the third-party processing charges incurred for the payment method used.

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