Webinar | 2025 AML Tune-Up: Mid-Year Essentials

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2025 AML Tune-Up: Mid-Year Essentials

As we move further into 2025, the compliance landscape continues to evolve, shaped by significant legislative changes and emerging risks. This webinar brings together regulatory and compliance professionals to explore how subject persons can proactively prepare for these shifts and stay ahead in the dynamic AML ecosystem. We will focus on the changing regulatory framework impacting Malta's AML/CFT landscape.  Starting with recent developments in the local sphere, including the FIAU AML supervisory plan, constitutional rulings and the Moneyval 6th Round Evaluation, the discussion will then consider international influences, focusing on the recently issued MiCA regulation.  The discussion will explore MiCA's implications for subject persons servicing Crypto-Asset Service Providers and Issuers of Crypto-Assets.  Following this overview of regulatory changes, the discussion will explore key international and national risks, emerging trends, typologies and their impact on Maltese Subject Persons.

The webinar, which will be taking the form of a moderated discussion addressing the central questions:

• What is the impact of the recent legislative changes both locally and internationally on Subject Persons?
• Where do the key risks lie, and how can businesses remain proactive in the evolving AML sphere?

Agenda

1. Legislative Changes and Regulatory Expectations

• Key Constitutional Rulings
• Regulatory expectations as defined by the FIAU Supervisory Plan 2024/2025.
• Crypto Regulations – Regulators’ Perspectives

2. Moneyval’s 6th Round Evaluation of Malta’s AML/CFT Framework

3. Typologies and emerging risks:

• The impact of geopolitical instability on subject persons and the risk of sanctions evasions

Who should attend?

-        Financial Institutions

-        RegTech providers

-        MLROs and designated employees

-        Compliance officers

-        Risk management professionals

-        Partners, directors and other persons responsible for governance

-        Business consultants and legal advisors

-        Financial Services Professionals

-        Regulatory Bodies and Government Officials

-        Students

Guest Speakers:

Camille Pepos

Head , FinTech supervision, MFSA

Elena Tabone 

Head, Enforcement, FIAU