AMLA Holds First Conference as EU Coordinates Fight Against Financial Crime

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The EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) is holding its first conference in Frankfurt, Germany, as the bloc strengthens and harmonizes its response to money laundering and terrorist financing.

The event, titled Building Trust, Enhancing Integrity: A New Chapter in the EU’s Fight Against Financial Crime, is taking place today, June 9, at the city’s Alte Oper building in Frankfurt am Main. It brings together senior figures from Europe’s supervisory, regulatory, and financial intelligence communities, as well as representatives from the private sector.

AMLA said the conference would focus on the major issues shaping the fight against what it describes as “rapidly evolving financial crime,” including intelligence in combating organized crime, practical supervision and cooperation, and technological risks and opportunities.

The program includes opening remarks from AMLA Chair Bruna Szego, as well as keynote speeches from European Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque and Members of the European Parliament Aurore Lalucq and Javier Zarzalejos. Jeanette Schwamberger, State Secretary at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Finance, is also due to address the event.

Speakers also include representatives from FIU Germany, Europol, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, Chainalysis, the Bank for International Settlements, and several European supervisory bodies.

The conference comes as AMLA begins to establish itself as a central institution in the EU’s anti-financial crime framework, with a mandate to improve national coordination and consistency across the bloc’s AML/CFT regime.