April at the We Fight Fincrime Association: What’s Coming Up

April is now live at the We Fight Fincrime Association.

We have a focused programme of training and a headline webinar, all built around the practical challenges financial crime professionals are dealing with right now.

If you are responsible for fraud, AML or financial crime risk, this is what is coming up.

What’s coming up this month

April brings a focused mix of live training and a headline webinar, designed for practitioners who are dealing with financial crime risk in real time.

15 April (AM) – Fraud Risk Management: Prevention, Detection and Response
15 April (PM) – Anti-Bribery and Corruption: Managing Risk, Accountability and Culture
16 April – Webinar: Are You Looking for Fraud in the Wrong Places?
21 April – Webinar: Introducing the Crooks Project
23 April (AM) – AML Risk Assessment: Identifying, Assessing and Managing Financial Crime Risk
23 April (PM) – Key Skills for AML Officers and MLROs
30 April – Webinar: WFF Association presents The Monthly Fincrime Q&A: Sextortion

Webinar: Are you looking for fraud in the wrong places?

📅 16 April | 11:00–12:00 BST

Financial crime frameworks are typically designed to detect familiar threats such as external criminals or internal misconduct, but an uncomfortable question remains: what if fraud is sitting somewhere else entirely? This webinar challenges that assumption by exploring how risk can emerge within trusted partners, intermediaries and professional relationships that firms rely on every day.

During this session, Tony Sales and Martin Schofield will draw on real-world cases to highlight overlooked vulnerabilities in financial crime controls, encouraging MLROs and Heads of Fraud to reassess where risk truly sits and how it should be addressed.

The discussion will explore:

How fraud manifests through trusted relationships
Where controls fail despite appearing robust
Why traditional detection models miss these risks
What needs to change in how firms assess exposure

Webinar: Introducing the Crooks Project

📅 21 April | 12:00–12:45 BST

Financial exploitation of young people is often treated as a downstream issue, addressed only once harm has already occurred. But an uncomfortable question remains: what if organisations are intervening too late? This webinar introduces The Crooks Project and explores how earlier insight, lived experience and education can help organisations better understand how young people are being targeted and respond before risks escalate.

Building on the OLAF project and the Crooks on Campus docudrama, Tony Sales and Danielle Karanicholas will share key findings from their work to date and introduce Rookie Crooks, the next phase of the series. Drawing on real-world insights and emerging threat intelligence, the session will explore how financial exploitation is evolving and what organisations can do to better protect young people.

The discussion will explore:

How financial exploitation is affecting young people in practice
What recent projects have revealed about emerging threats and behaviours
Where current safeguarding approaches fall short
How organisations can identify risks earlier and respond more effectively
What the train-the-trainer programme will deliver and how to get involved

WFF Association presents The Monthly Fincrime Q&A: Sextortion

📅 30 April | 10:00–10:30 BST

The We Fight Fincrime Association’s Monthly FinCrime Q&A is a regular session designed to explore a specific financial crime risk in a practical, open format, giving professionals the opportunity to engage directly with real-world insights and ask questions.

This month, the focus is on sextortion — a fast-growing and often underreported form of online exploitation where financial crime, coercion and digital behaviour intersect.

Our webinars are free to attend.
Recording access is exclusive to members.

Training that reflects how financial crime actually works

This is not a theoretical curriculum.

Each April session is structured around how financial crime risk presents, evolves and escalates inside firms.

Fraud Risk Management (15 April – AM)

Fraud remains a significant financial, operational and reputational risk for UK-regulated financial services firms, requiring a structured and proactive approach to prevention, detection and response. This interactive half-day workshop is designed for senior compliance and financial crime professionals, providing a practical overview of key fraud typologies, regulatory expectations, and how to design and evidence proportionate, risk-based controls across the full fraud lifecycle.

It places strong emphasis on governance, accountability, decision-making and escalation, while helping participants assess their firm’s frameworks and clearly articulate control effectiveness to regulators, auditors and Boards.

This session focuses on:

Prevention, detection and response as a connected system
Control design that holds up under pressure
Escalation, governance and decision-making
How to articulate fraud risk clearly at Board level

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Anti-Bribery and Corruption (15 April – PM)

Bribery and corruption present significant legal, regulatory and reputational risks for UK-regulated financial services firms, particularly across third-party relationships and cross-border activity. This interactive half-day workshop is designed for senior compliance and risk professionals, offering a practical overview of key risks, legal obligations and regulatory expectations, alongside how to design and evidence proportionate, risk-based ABC controls across governance, due diligence, monitoring and escalation.

This session addresses:

Real-world bribery exposure across business models
Senior management accountability
Embedding controls beyond documentation
Building a culture that actually withstands challenge

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AML Risk Assessment (23 April – AM)

A clear understanding of how a firm could be exposed to money laundering or terrorist financing is essential to managing financial crime risk effectively. This interactive half-day workshop is designed for senior compliance and financial crime professionals, focusing on the structure, purpose and practical application of a business-wide AML risk assessment in line with UK expectations. It covers how to identify key risk drivers, ensure assessments are proportionate and decision-useful, and link outputs to customer due diligence, monitoring and controls.

Participants will develop the skills to review, challenge and evidence the effectiveness of their firm’s AML risk assessment to senior management, auditors and regulators.

This session focuses on:

Building risk assessments that are defensible and dynamic
Aligning methodology with real exposure
Linking risk assessment outputs to controls and decisions
Avoiding common weaknesses seen in supervisory reviews

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Key Skills for AML Officers and MLROs (23 April – PM)

AML Officers and MLROs must be able to demonstrate clear competence, judgement and oversight to manage effective anti-money laundering frameworks within UK-regulated firms. This interactive workshop is designed for senior compliance and financial crime professionals who hold, support, or are preparing for these roles, focusing on the practical application of the risk-based approach across AML systems and controls.

Participants will also develop the communication skills needed to produce defensible reporting, advise Boards and senior management, and engage confidently with regulators and law enforcement.

This session covers: