Advancing Detection: Introducing Hybrid Threat Finance™ for AML Professionals

As financial crime threats evolve beyond fraud, money laundering, and sanctions evasion, compliance professionals face growing pressure to detect more complex, coordinated adversaries. Hybrid Threat Finance™ (HTF) is a next-generation methodology that extends the boundaries of traditional AML by fusing threat intelligence, behavioral indicators, and geopolitical context into financial crime detection.

Designed for experienced AML and compliance practitioners, this session introduces the core concepts of HTF and demonstrates how they complement and enhance existing transaction monitoring and investigative frameworks. Participants will explore how adversarial actors—including nation-states, extremist groups, and transnational criminal organizations—strategically exploit financial systems through hybrid tactics that blend licit and illicit channels.

When you join us, you’ll learn:

• Core Concepts of HTF: Explore how HTF complements existing transaction monitoring and investigative frameworks.

• Adversarial Tactics: Understand how nation-states, extremist groups, and criminal organizations exploit financial systems through hybrid tactics.

• Typology-Based Case Studies: Learn to recognize hidden threat patterns through real-world examples.

• Intelligence Tradecraft: Apply advanced intelligence techniques to enhance customer risk assessments.

• Differentiating Threat Indicators: Identify true financial threats amidst compliance noise.

Through typology-based case studies and analytic exercises, attendees will learn to recognize hidden threat patterns, apply intelligence tradecraft to customer risk, and distinguish between compliance noise and true financial threat indicators. This session is ideal for CAMS-certified professionals and FIU teams seeking to elevate their detection strategy, align with public-private intelligence priorities, and prepare for the next generation of financial crime risk.