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🕵️‍♂️ Financial Crime Divide: Where DC Policy, Technology, and Compliance Collide — Live Oct 28

Illicit Edge - Edition for October 18, 2025

You’re invited!

DC policy doesn’t stay in Washington.
Sanctions expand. export controls shift. AML evolves — and compliance leaders mobilize their teams to adapt.

On October 28, Illicit Edge and Hummingbird bring both sides of that equation together — live — to explore what really happens when Washington, DC’s sanctions and national security policies collide with real-world AML implementation and financial crimes compliance technology.

Elaine Dezenski — host of Illicit Edge’s Coercive Capital podcast and Head of the Center on Economic & Financial Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies — sits down with Matt Van Buskirk, Founder & CEO, Regulatory at Hummingbird, for an unscripted conversation and audience Q&A on how Washington’s policy ambitions become operational realities — and what’s next for compliance innovation.

Financial Crime Divide: Where DC Policy, Technology, and Compliance Collide

🗓 Tuesday, October 28 • 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT
💻 Presented by Illicit Edge × Hummingbird

Why Attend // What You’ll See
  • Ripple Effect: How DC policy priorities ripple through compliance programs and regulatory expectations.

  • Inside the Machine: What policymakers see — and what they often miss — about how their decisions land inside real compliance operations.

  • Innovation Wave: What DARPA’s A3ML initiative and similar efforts signal for future compliance oversight and technology.

  • Ask Live: Bring your best policy, risk, and tech questions — and get real answers, in real time.

No slides. No marketing pitch.
Just one candid hour where policy meets practice — and the people shaping both.