ACAMS Carolinas Symposium to Cover AML Programs, OFAC, High-Risk Monitoring and AI

The ACAMS Carolinas Chapter will hold its sixth annual AML & OFAC Symposium on 9 September 2026 in Charlotte, North Carolina, bringing together financial-crime professionals for a full day focused on practical AML, sanctions and emerging-technology issues.

The event, titled Protecting People. Protecting the System: The Next Era of Financial Crime Risk, will take place at the Charlotte Convention Center, 501 S. College Street, from 8:00am to 6:00pm EST. ACAMS lists four continuing-education credits for eligible attendees.

Practical AML and sanctions themes

According to ACAMS, the programme will cover tactical approaches to building and operating effective AML programmes, red flags in high-risk customer monitoring, public-private partnerships, sanctions compliance and the integration of artificial intelligence into financial-crime controls.

Registration opens at 8:00am, formal sessions begin at 9:00am and conclude at 4:00pm, followed by a networking period through 6:00pm.

The programme reflects the increasing convergence of traditional AML controls with sanctions, advanced analytics and AI. For compliance teams, the practical challenge is increasingly to integrate those capabilities into a coherent control environment rather than operate them as separate risk functions.