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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

Engage With the ACAP Community
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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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Events

The ACAP Experience

Learning Is Better Together.

ACAP BRAND LAUNCH EVENT

JANUARY 2027
NEW YORK CITY

Coming Soon!

Some of the most valuable professional learning happens when people have an opportunity to step outside their day-to-day responsibilities, hear different perspectives, ask questions, and exchange ideas with others who understand the challenges they face.

ACAP creates opportunities for members and guests to do just that.

Through educational programming, interactive discussions, and community events, ACAP provides a forum for professionals to learn from practitioners, industry leaders, regulators, subject-matter experts, and, just as importantly, one another.

 

Come for the knowledge. Stay for the conversation.

Past Events

Auditing AI in Financial Crime Compliance

July 21, 2026

An exclusive interactive executive roundtable exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping financial crime compliance — and what that means for governance, model risk management, and internal audit.As financial institutions increasingly leverage AI to enhance transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, adverse media screening, and investigative processes, organizations must balance innovation with effective governance, model validation, and evolving regulatory expectations. This interactive discussion will bring together industry leaders to examine the opportunities, risks, and practical considerations associated with implementing and overseeing AI-enabled compliance programs.During the roundtable, participants will explore several key questions shaping the industry today.

Developments in Financial Crimes Regulation Webinar

June 7, 2026

Join AIBACP and Davis Polk for an executive discussion exploring the evolving financial crimes regulatory landscape and what may lie ahead for financial institutions, compliance leaders, and financial crime professionals. Taking a step back from any single rule making, this session will examine the broader forces shaping regulatory activity and enforcement trends, including FinCEN priorities, the future regulatory pipeline, evolving AML program expectations, fintech and digital asset developments, and the impact of technology on financial crimes risk management.Attendees will gain practical insights into key questions facing the industry today, including:What is driving the recent wave of FinCEN regulations and guidance?Where may regulators focus next?How are AML expectations evolving for financial institutions, fintechs, and digital assets?

Designed for compliance, audit, risk, and financial crime professionals, this webinar will provide practical perspectives and forward-looking insights from industry leaders.

Compliance and Internal Audit Forum

April 4, 2026

The event will provide participants with insights on key topics impacting Banking Organizations from both the perspectives of the second and third lines, and notably:
Digital assets and Stablecoins – Regulatory update, Opportunities and Risks
Artificial Intelligence and its applicability to Internal Audit & Compliance
Regulatory Update

2026 Outlook on Managing Compliance Risk in an Era of Financial Modern

March 12, 2026

The financial services landscape continues to evolve, bringing heightened expectations, new operating realities, and increased scrutiny of how compliance and audit programs are designed, tested, and sustained. This in-depth discussion with compliance and audit practitioners will explore expectations specifically in the areas of:

  • Designing Leading AML and Sanctions Programs for Banking and Fintechs
  • Bank Charter Models: Constraints and Implications
  • PII Data Breaches and Operational Resilience
  • Human Capital and Accountability in Compliance and Internal Audit

Unlocking Model Potential: Advanced Tuning, AI, and Auditing for Compliance

September 9, 2025

Curious how advanced model optimization, artificial intelligence, and governance intersect to transform AML, sanctions, and regulatory compliance? Join us as Cygnus Compliance and leading voices from the international banking community convene for a dynamic, three-panel program tackling the most pressing opportunities and risks facing financial institutions today.

Cybersecurity, Third-Party Risk Management and Financial Crimes Compliance: Building a Fortress of Trust in a Digital World

November 12, 2025

Cybersecurity and third-party risk management are no longer just IT concerns; they are critical business imperatives. Hear from leading regulatory agencies and subject matter experts from Stout and foreign banking organizations on strategies for building a fortress of trust in an increasingly digital world. This event will help equip compliance and audit professionals with the knowledge and tools to build a fortress of trust around their organization.

Learn Together. Lead Together.

Where Knowledge, Conversation and Community Come Together.

Financial services continue to evolve, creating new challenges, new questions, and new opportunities to learn from one another.

ACAP brings professionals together through educational programs, industry discussions, and networking opportunities designed to encourage the exchange of knowledge, perspectives, and ideas.

Building on a longstanding tradition of member education and peer exchange, ACAP programming will continue to evolve alongside the industry and the expanding community we serve.

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How We Come Together

Different Experiences. Shared Opportunities to Learn and Connect.

ACAP programming takes different forms depending on the topic, audience, and opportunity.

Educational Programs

Stay Informed. Keep Learning.

Participate in educational programs and webinars addressing regulatory developments, industry issues, and topics relevant to ACAP members and the broader financial services community.

Programs are designed to provide timely perspectives, practical insights, and opportunities for continued learning.

Roundtables, Forums & Industry Conferences

From interactive roundtables and industry discussions to half- and full-day conferences, ACAP creates opportunities to explore timely issues, hear different perspectives, ask questions, and learn how others are navigating change across financial services.

Programs may bring together practitioners, industry leaders, regulators, advisors, and subject-matter experts in formats ranging from smaller, highly interactive conversations to broader conferences designed for deeper learning, expanded networking, and greater industry engagement.

As the ACAP community grows, we look forward to expanding these opportunities and bringing professionals together in new and engaging ways.

Networking & Community Events

Build Relationships That Extend Beyond the Event.

ACAP events also create opportunities to meet fellow members, reconnect with colleagues, make new connections, and become more engaged with the community.

Because sometimes the most valuable conversation of the day happens after the formal program ends.

See What’s Next.

Join a growing community of profJoin us at an upcoming ACAP event to learn, connect, exchange perspectives, and experience the community firsthand.

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