Financial Crime Leaders to Convene in New York for CAFC’s Agentic AI Conference

Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference in New York

CAFC brings its Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference to New York on September 10, featuring leaders from Google, Meta, X, Capital One, and Morgan Stanley.

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, September 1, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Coalition Against Financial Crime (CAFC) will host the Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference in New York at St. John's University's Manhattan Campus on September 10, 2026, bringing the conversation to the country's largest financial center just two days after a first stop in Chicago.

New York's concentration of global banks, broker-dealers, and payments platforms puts the city at the center of a widening gap: financial institutions are racing to embed agentic AI into AML, fraud, sanctions, and transaction monitoring programs, while governance, model risk, and audit functions struggle to keep pace. Criminals, meanwhile, are using the same class of technology to scale fraud and automate attacks. For the compliance officers, auditors, and risk executives who anchor much of the industry's financial crime infrastructure from New York, the question is no longer whether to adopt agentic AI, but how to govern it defensibly before regulators, examiners, and bad actors force the issue.

The New York program draws on a distinct set of institutions navigating agentic AI at scale, including a global custody bank's chief audit executive, a major card network's AML platform lead, and compliance officers from brokerages, payments companies, and Big Tech financial arms. Sessions will address:

Where AI is delivering measurable value today, and where the hype is outpacing reality
What effective AI governance and model risk management should look like as systems become more autonomous
How institutions can evaluate, select, and implement AI vendors without creating new compliance, operational, or regulatory risk
What it takes to build AI-enabled financial crime programs that are explainable, auditable, defensible, and capable of withstanding regulatory scrutiny

“New York’s financial institutions are among those operating closest to the front lines of agentic AI adoption, and that is where the governance questions become hardest to ignore. The institutions in this room are helping define a new standard before market pressure, regulatory scrutiny, or emerging threats define it for them,” said John C. Calderon, Founder and Chair of CAFC.

“In more than 20 years of attending anti-financial crime conferences, CAFC’s have been among the best I’ve experienced, and I expect September 10 to be no different. With AI rapidly reshaping financial crime compliance, these conversations have never been more important,” said Robert Williams, Sanctions Director.

The New York conference carries a large sponsor roster, reflecting the market's scale: Flagright returns as Platinum sponsor, joined by Gold sponsors SRA Consulting, AML RightSource, Sumsub, ComplyAdvantage, Philo4Thought, Solytics Partners, and WorkFusion, a UiPath Company.
The New York conference follows the Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference in Chicago on September 8, 2026, which convened AML and compliance leaders from Block, Northern Trust, U.S. Bank, BMO, and Charles Schwab, among others.

About CAFC
The Coalition Against Financial Crime (CAFC) connects financial institutions, compliance and risk professionals, law enforcement, and technology providers to strengthen the industry's collective response to financial crime. Through its certifications, events, and practitioner networks, including the Certified AI Practitioner in Financial Crime (CAPFC) credential, CAFC equips anti-financial crime professionals with the resources needed to respond to evolving threats. Learn more at cafc.org.

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