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🚨 AML: The Truth Hurts – 2 Days, 2 Insiders, No Spin
Illicit Edge - Edition for August 16, 2025
AML: The Truth Hurts – 2-Part Live Briefing
August 26 & 28 • 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT
💥 Two Days. Two Insiders. No Spin.
Sarah Beth Felix — host of FinCrime Unfiltered — and Jim Richards are two seasoned AML pros with decades of experience across banks, regulators, and enforcement. They aren’t here to sugarcoat. They’ll break down the hard truths shaping AML today in the kind of candid conversations compliance teams actually have behind closed doors.
And this time, you get to press them directly in live Q&A.

Presented by Illicit Edge & Thomson Reuters
⚡ Day 1 – Tue, Aug 26
• Enforcement vs. Non-Enforcement: Which is it?
• CTA, FATF, SAR/CTR thresholds — what’s coming and why it matters
• How shifting priorities will reshape AML programs
• What you should (and shouldn’t) be doing right now
👉 [Register for Day 1]
Includes live Q&A with Felix & Richards
⚡ Day 2 – Thu, Aug 28
• Is “Risk” even real anymore?
• Epstein, de-banking & crypto — more connected than you think
• What “risk” means when rules don’t line up
• Where the next AML shockwaves could hit
👉 [Register for Day 2]
Includes live Q&A with Felix & Richards
🚫 No panels. 🚫 No spin.
✅ Two unfiltered briefings, one hour apiece — shaped by your questions.
Seats are limited — miss it, and you’ll be catching up after everyone else.