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Growing Professionals

Build Your Career. Build Your Community.

The relationships you establish early in your career can shape where it takes you.

ACAP gives growing professionals opportunities to learn alongside experienced practitioners, meet peers navigating similar career stages, expand their professional network, gain exposure to different disciplines and career paths, and become more actively involved in the industry community.

Come to learn. Stay to contribute. Grow with the community.

Best for:

Early- and mid-career compliance, audit, risk, financial crime, and related professionals looking to learn, connect, contribute, and grow.

What you’ll find:

Professional development | Access to experienced professionals | Peer networking | Educational programs | Volunteer opportunities | Exposure to different career paths and industry perspectives

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Senior Leaders & Mentors

Share Your Experience. Expand Your Influence. Shape What’s Next.

For senior executives, longtime practitioners, and leaders approaching the next chapter of their careers, ACAP offers an opportunity to remain engaged with the industry while sharing the experience and perspective developed over a career.

Build relationships with fellow senior leaders, participate in industry conversations, mentor emerging professionals, contribute to programming and volunteer leadership, and help strengthen the community for the generation coming next.

Best for:

Chief Compliance Officers, Chief Audit Executives, Chief Risk Officers, C-suite executives, Managing Directors, Partners, senior practitioners, and experienced leaders seeking continued industry engagement.

What you’ll find:

Senior peer relationships | Opportunities to contribute expertise | Speaking and programming involvement | Mentoring | Volunteer leadership | Continued industry engagement

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Experienced Professionals
Regulators & Public-Sector Professionals

Where Industry and Regulatory Perspectives Come Together.

ACAP provides a professional environment where regulators and industry practitioners can participate in educational programming, exchange perspectives, build professional relationships, and better understand the evolving issues affecting financial services, while respecting the appropriate boundaries that govern regulatory participation.

Best for:

Examiners, supervisory professionals, policy professionals, and others working within federal, state, and other public-sector organizations whose responsibilities intersect with financial services.

What you’ll find:

Industry perspectives | Educational forums | Regulatory dialogue | Cross-sector relationships | Exposure to evolving industry practices

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FinTech, RegTech, Digital Assets & Non-Bank Financial Services

Your World Is Part of the ACAP Community.

Financial services no longer begins and ends with traditional banking.

As the regulatory landscape expands, professionals working across FinTech, payments, RegTech, digital assets, embedded finance, and other non-bank financial services are navigating increasingly complex compliance, audit, risk, financial crime, and regulatory responsibilities.

ACAP brings these professionals together with peers from both traditional and emerging financial services organizations, creating opportunities to exchange perspectives, learn how others are navigating change, compare approaches, and build relationships across an increasingly interconnected industry.

Best for:

Compliance, audit, risk, financial crime, legal, and regulatory professionals working within FinTech, payments, RegTech, digital assets, embedded finance, and other non-bank financial services organizations.

What you’ll find:

Bank and non-bank perspectives | Peer exchange | Regulatory dialogue | Cross-industry relationships | Practical learning | Executive networking | Emerging-industry discussions

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Traditional Finance. Emerging Finance. One ACAP Community.

ACAP’s evolution reflects the changing shape of financial services itself.

Our community creates connections across established financial institutions and emerging financial services organizations, bringing together professionals whose roles increasingly intersect across:

  • Compliance
  • Internal Audit
  • Enterprise Risk
  • Financial Crime
  • Legal
  • Regulatory
  • Banking
  • FinTech
  • Payments
  • RegTech
  • Digital Assets
  • Technology
  • Consulting
  • Advisory

Different perspectives broaden the conversation, and give members opportunities to understand challenges beyond the boundaries of their own roles and organizations.

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Experienced Professionals

Expand Your Network. Broaden Your Perspective. Keep Growing.

As your responsibilities grow, so does the value of having a trusted network outside your own organization.

ACAP connects experienced practitioners with peers and industry leaders across traditional and emerging financial services, creating opportunities to exchange perspectives, stay connected to regulatory and industry developments, build professional visibility, and develop relationships that can support the next stage of your career.

Best for:

Directors, VPs, senior managers, and established practitioners across compliance, internal audit, enterprise risk, financial crime, and related disciplines.

What you’ll find:

Peer relationships | Educational programming | Cross-disciplinary perspectives | Professional networking | Opportunities to contribute | Career-long connections

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Advancing the Industry. Strengthening the Community.

About ACAP

The Association of Compliance and Audit Professionals (ACAP) is a dynamic professional community bringing together leaders and practitioners from across the financial services industry, including compliance, internal audit, enterprise risk, financial crime, legal, regulatory, advisory, and emerging technology disciplines.

 

Built on more than three decades of professional education, collaboration, and relationship-building, ACAP creates opportunities for professionals across the financial services ecosystem to connect with trusted peers, exchange perspectives, expand their knowledge, and grow throughout their careers.

 

As the industry evolves, so do we.

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Our Evolution

More Than Three Decades of Connection, Learning and Growth.

Founded in 1992, the organization began as a not-for-profit trade association created to bring together internal audit professionals working within the U.S. operations of international banks.

As the industry evolved, so did the organization. In 2013, its identity expanded to become the Association of International Bank Audit and Compliance Professionals (AIBACP), formally recognizing the growing role of compliance professionals within its membership.

Today, financial services are transforming once again. Compliance responsibilities have expanded. Internal audit continues to evolve. Enterprise risk, financial crime, legal and regulatory matters increasingly intersect, while technology, FinTech, digital assets, and artificial intelligence are reshaping both the industry and the responsibilities of the professionals and organizations that serve it.

Our evolution from AIBACP to ACAP represents the next chapter in that journey.

The Association of Compliance and Audit Professionals honors the foundation established in 1992 while creating a broader community that reflects the increasingly interconnected nature of today’s financial services industry.

Our name has changed. Our commitment to our members has not.

Our Journey

1992

Our Beginning

Founded to connect internal audit professionals working within the U.S. operations of international banks. 

2011

Expanded Professional Education

Collaborated with Pace University’s Lubin School of Business to offer the Certified Compliance and Regulatory Professional (CCRP®) program. 

2013

Audit + Compliance

Expanded the organization’s identity to formally recognize the growing role of compliance professionals, becoming the Association of International Bank Audit and Compliance Professionals (AIBACP). 

2026

The ACAP Era

Became the Association of Compliance and Audit Professionals (ACAP), honoring more than three decades of history while embracing a broader vision for the professionals, organizations, and financial services ecosystem we serve. 

Our Mission 

Connecting Professionals. Advancing Knowledge. Building Community. 

 

ACAP’s mission is to advance the knowledge, skills, relationships, and professional development of those working across compliance, audit, risk, and related disciplines throughout the financial services industry. 

Building on more than three decades of professional education and peer exchange, ACAP provides a trusted forum where professionals can connect with one another, exchange ideas and experiences, learn from industry leaders and regulators, and strengthen the knowledge and relationships they need to succeed in an increasingly complex financial services environment. 

Through educational programming, executive forums, networking opportunities, collaborative learning, and volunteer leadership, ACAP creates opportunities for members to broaden their perspectives, strengthen their expertise, advance professionally, and contribute to the future of the industry. 

 At the heart of that mission is a belief that has guided the organization since its founding: 

 Professionals are stronger when they learn from, and alongside, one another. 

Our Legacy, Our Future

Honoring Our Legacy. Embracing the Future.

For decades, AIBACP has brought together professionals committed to excellence in international banking compliance and audit. Today, as our profession continues to evolve, so do we.

Welcome to the Next Chapter of Our Community.

Introducing the Association of Compliance and Audit Professionals (ACAP).

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Who We Serve

One Community. Many Perspectives.

One Community. Many Perspectives.

ACAP welcomes professionals and organizations whose work intersects with the evolving compliance, audit, risk, regulatory, legal, financial crime, and technology landscape, including:

  • Senior executives and functional leaders
  • Experienced compliance, audit, and risk professionals
  • Emerging and early-career professionals
  • Regulators and public-sector professionals
  • Legal, consulting, and advisory professionals
  • FinTech, RegTech, digital asset, and technology professionals
  • Financial institutions and other organizations supporting the industry
  • Different perspectives strengthen our community, broaden the conversation, and create greater opportunities to learn from one another.

Different perspectives strengthen our community, broaden the conversation, and create greater opportunities to learn from one another. 

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Our Leadership

Experienced Leaders. Shared Commitment.

ACAP is guided by a volunteer Board of Directors whose members bring extensive experience across compliance, audit, risk, financial services, regulatory matters, and related disciplines.

Their collective experience and commitment to giving back helps shape ACAP’s programming, priorities, partnerships, and future direction.

Our volunteer-led model is an important part of who we are. ACAP is shaped by leaders who understand firsthand the opportunities, challenges, and changes affecting the industry and the professionals who serve it.

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Join a growing community of professionals committed to connecting, learning, growing, and leading together.

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