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ACAMS New Jersey Chapter Financial Crimes Summit 2026, Atlantic City

May 7, 2026 / 8AM–3:50PM EST • In-Person • 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, NJ 08401 • 4 ACAMS Credits

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Overview

Please join the NJ ACAMS Chapter for a one-day financial crimes summit. Summit will feature a regulatory update panel, presentations on human trafficking and fraud, and more. Event will include networking breakfast and lunch, as well as a happy hour the night before. Attendees will be eligible for four hours of ACAMS credit.

Agenda

Wed, May 6
7:00 to 9:00 pm – Happy Hour

Thurs, May 7
8:00 am – Registration Opens
8:30 am to 9:00 am – Breakfast
9:00 am to 9:05 – Opening Remarks
9:05 am to 9:55 am – Financial Crime at an Inflection Point: Adapting to Rapid Regulatory Change. This panel will feature a discussion on the accelerating pace of regulatory change and what banks must do now to stay ahead. Panelists from the OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, and NJBOI will explore emerging exam themes, evolving priorities around digital assets and fintech charters, and the growing convergence of AML and fraud, and share perspectives on the promise and pitfalls of advanced technologies like AI. Attendees will gain practical insights on testing, monitoring, and governance to strengthen financial crime compliance programs in a rapidly shifting landscape.
Panelists:
-    OCC: Seth Schwartz, Compliance Team Leader, Large and Global Financial Institutions
-    FED: Michelle Owens, Supervisory Risk Specialist
-    FDIC Nunzia Riina, Case Manager (Special Activities)
-    NJ Dept of Banking and Insurance: Vincent LaSala, Interim Chief Examiner
-    Moderator – Kieran Bier, Chief Analyst and Director of Editorial Content, ACAMS

9:55 am to 10:45 am – Presentation – AI and Deepfakes: Safeguarding your CIP Against Scams and Fraud. AI-powered deepfakes are increasingly used in scams and fraud targeting banks’ Customer Identification Programs (CIP). This session highlights how synthetic media can compromise identity verification, enabling impersonation and manipulation during onboarding and transactions. Attendees will explore real-world fraud scenarios, learn about AI-based detection tools, and discover practical strategies to strengthen CIP controls. Gain actionable insights to protect your institution from evolving deepfake threats and maintain robust compliance standards.
Presenter:
-    Dominic Hulick, Director, Mercadien

10:45 am to 11:05 am – Networking Break/Vendor Intros

11:05 am to 11:10 am – Matrix Intro
11:10 am to 11:15 am – Crowe Intro
11:15 am to 11:20 am – Refine Intro

11:20 am to 12:10 pm – From Casinos to Core Banking: A 360° View of Fraud This panel will explore how fraud is evolving across both traditional banking and the gaming industry, and what financial crime professionals can learn from each sector’s unique challenges. Speakers will examine emerging schemes, including digital payments abuse, account takeovers, and bonus or promotion fraud, and how criminals move seamlessly between channels to exploit gaps. The discussion will highlight practical strategies for detection, data sharing, and customer education, as well as the role of analytics and AI in staying ahead of attackers. Attendees will come away with cross industry insights to strengthen their own fraud prevention and response programs.
Panelists:
-    Richard Vitale, Head of Fraud Investigations, Valley Bank
-    Ashwin Satish, Managing Director, Financial Crime Technologies, Matrix IFS
-    Stephani Suazo, Payments & Fraud Ops Senior Manager, Fan Duel
-    Moderator – Stuart Feldhamer, Regulatory Compliance Financial Crime Principal, Crowe LLP

12:10 pm to 1:00 pm – Case Study: Operation Blue Skies. This session explores a multi-state federal investigation into the illegal diversion of Schedule II narcotics involving a physician, two pharmacists, and multiple co-conspirators operating between New Jersey and South Carolina. The case featured complex financial activity, including cash movement, stored value cards, money laundering, structuring, tax violations, and links to Atlantic City casinos and regional aviation channels. Led collaboratively by IRS-CI, DEA, and FBI, the investigation also advanced financial forensic techniques now used in narcotics and healthcare fraud cases across the District of New Jersey.
Presenter:
-    Lawrence Clifton, Special Agent, IRS-CI

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm – Networking Lunch
2:05 pm to 2:10 pm – Quantexa Intro
2:00 pm to 2:05 pm – RedCompass Intro

2:10 pm to 3:00 pm – “Caught in the Light: A Human Trafficking Documentary.” A short documentary from RedCompass Labs that exposes the scale and human impact of modern human trafficking, and explores how financial institutions are fighting human trafficking. Through the voices of survivors, advocates, financial crime experts, and banking leaders, the documentary shows how the flow of money can reveal trafficking networks—and how financial institutions have a crucial role in detecting, reporting, and disrupting this exploitation.

3:00 pm to 3:50 pm – From Darkness to Light: Exposing Human Trafficking Through the Financial System This panel will confront the devastating reality of human trafficking, an exploitation that often hides in plain sight. Bringing together lived experience, frontline banking insight, and advanced network detection technology, the panelists will explore how transaction data, behavioral patterns, and emerging analytics can uncover these hidden signals and bring visibility to victims whose suffering is too often unseen. Attendees will leave with practical insight into strengthening detection frameworks, using data more effectively, and collaborating across sectors to help disrupt this tragic and urgent crime.

Panelists:
-    Andrea Walser, US Head of AML Solutions for Global Markets, Quantexa
-    Silvija Krupena, Director of Financial Intelligence Unit, RedCompass Labs
-    Hollie Nadel, Director of Advocacy and Engagement, 3Strands Global Foundation
-    Juliana Bogatinoska, BSA Officer, OceanFirst Bank

3:50 pm – Closing Remarks

Venue

Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa
1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, NJ 08401

The Chapter has not set aside a block of rooms. If attendees want to stay overnight, they will need to book directly through the Borgata Hotel.

Parking is $10 for self-parking, $15 for valet.

To locate the meeting room from the main casino floor, follow overhead signs for “Central Conference Center” or “Meetings/Conference Center”; these are posted from the gaming areas toward the conference wing. Staff at table games pits or the nearest players club desk can also point you to the closest sign.