Fighting Financial Crime in the AI Era: AML, Risk and Regulation

How is AI creating real impact in AML? What does it take to align innovation with evolving risk-based regulation?

Join Copenhagen Fintech and CBS for an afternoon of practical insights and forward-looking discussion. Experience a live demo from Lucinity, a practitioner panel on what actually works inside corporate AML, and research perspectives on regulatory shifts and structural challenges in the AML ecosystem. We close the event with a founder conversation on how secure data sharing may enable cross-bank collaboration in the next phase of AML supervision.

You will meet:

• Kalle Johannes Rose, Henrik Axelsen and Kristine Holst Frisk, CBS
• Lucinity (speakers tba)
• Corporate risk/compliance team profile (speaker tba)
• Sine Lomholt Thomsen, Copenhagen Fintech / Nordic Fintech Center

Who is this event for?

Anyone else in the Copenhagen Fintech community, curious to explore and discuss Anti-Money Laundering and AI.

• Financial institutions (risk, compliance, AML, innovation teams)
• Fintech startups and scaleups
• Regulators and policy professionals
• Researchers within fintech, AI, and financial regulation
• Ecosystem builders and corporate innovation professionals

Please chose the way you prefer to join upon registration - whether in-person or online.

Join the first event in the Nordic Fintech Insights - a series of inspirational events exploring the intersection of research-based innovation, entrepreneurship and financial sector interests. The sessions bring together leading voices from academia and industry to discuss how cutting-edge research can drive fintech innovation and create meaningful impact across the financial ecosystem. Events are co-organized with University of Copenhagen (KU), Copenhagen Business Scool (CBS), Aarhus University (AU) and Technical University of Denmark (DTU) - all close partners in the Nordic Fintech Center.

Program

15:00 – 17:00

Arrival & Networking

Welcome: The Nordic context and ecosystem

Segment 1: From Hype to Hands-On

• AI in Action: Lucinity Scaleup Demo
• Where Does AI Truly Add Value in AML? : Panel with Lucinity & Corporate Partner

Segment 2: The Future of AML: Regulation, Coordination & Data

• Risk-Based Regulation and the Structural AML Challenge: Research Perspective (CBS)
• Data & Cross-Bank Collaboration: Founder Conversation (node16.ai)

Closing Remarks & Networking

Why join this event?

• Understand how the risk-based approach in AML regulation reshapes compliance and innovation.
• Gain practical insight into where AI genuinely adds value in AML — and where it does not.
• Learn how startups and scaleups apply AI in regulated environments.
• Explore how regulatory change (incl. upcoming 2027 AML reforms) creates both constraints and market opportunities.
• Understand current structural challenges in AML (coordination, analysis, data sharing).
• Connect with peers across banks, fintechs, academia, and the broader ecosystem.