Bridging communities for a safer financial world.
Connecting financial institutions, regulators, law enforcement and technology leaders against financial crime through collaborative intelligence.
Different sectors. Shared intelligence.
Financial crime crosses borders and industries. Fighting it effectively demands collaboration across traditional silos — aligning banks, regulators, and technologists.
Meet CAFC Alliance ↗Financial institutions and fintechs
Sharing verified fraud typologies and synthetic AML vectors.
Regulators and law enforcement
Harmonizing compliance mandates with emerging AI technologies.
Academics, advisers and technology providers
Validating algorithm governance against NIST AI RMF and SR 11-7.
Trusted by compliance leaders at institutions worldwide
The first AI governance certification built for financial crime.
Certified AI Practitioner in Financial Crime (CAPFC™)
The practitioner-led credential for professionals who govern, validate and oversee AI across AML, sanctions, fraud and financial crime risk.
Recertification
CAPFC holders recertify on a three-year cycle, so the credential stays current as the regulations and the models move.
Enrollment and eligibility
Open to experienced anti-financial crime professionals across compliance, BSA, sanctions, fraud and model risk. Group rates for institutions.
Stay close to the conversations that matter.
Events that bring leaders and practitioners across the financial crime community into the same room.
Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference
BMO Tower, 320 S. Canal Street, Chicago
Agentic AI in Financial Crime Conference
St. John's University, Manhattan, New York
The Coming Hemp Crackdown: What Financial Institutions Must Do Now
Online · 14:00 to 15:00
The New Frontier: Governing AI in AML Without Guidance
Online · 12:00 to 13:00
One mission, every sector, no barriers.
The Coalition brings together financial institutions, regulators, law enforcement, and technologists to build pragmatic, verifiable defenses against modern illicit finance.
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Join a coalition of compliance officers, fraud executives, and model risk practitioners.
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For compliance teams, audit departments, and financial institutions.
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- Consolidated CE reporting for audit assurance
- Volume discounts for conferences
“CAFC stands out for its practical focus on the frontline realities of financial crime. The peer exchanges alone have reshaped how our team approaches typology development and model oversight.”
Insights from CAFC experts
State of Financial Crime 2026: Legacy Compliance Is Running Out of Time
How agentic autonomous financial tools, cross-border sanction evasion, and legacy rule engines are forcing a complete architectural overhaul in bank compliance departments.
Understanding Modern Sanctions Name Screening
Evaluating vector search, transliteration fuzzy matching, and secondary identifier weighting for OFAC compliance.
Sanctions Screening Model Validation: A Practitioner Guide
Meeting SR 11-7 expectations for automated transaction screening pipelines without sacrificing false positive precision.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know about CAFC credentials, institutional membership, and how our cross-border community operates.
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