LIVE EVENT
Financial Services Connection
20th - 22nd October 2026
SAS Institute Milan, Italy
Confidence in Every Decision: AI‑Driven Risk, Fraud & Compliance for Trusted Financial Services
Financial services organizations are operating in an environment defined by rapid technological change, rising volatility, and increasingly sophisticated financial crime. Generative AI, complex networks, evolving regulations, and growing efficiency demands are reshaping how institutions must apply technology to manage fraud, financial crime, and risk—often simultaneously and under intense scrutiny.
Join us 20th – 22nd October for the Financial Services Connection, an exclusive in person forum designed for fraud, financial crime, and risk professionals across banking and financial services. Over three days, we’ll explore how data, AI, and advanced analytics can help organizations strengthen resilience, improve decision making, and respond more effectively to today’s interconnected challenges. Through engaging keynotes, interactive breakout sessions, real world case studies, and peer to peer discussions, you’ll gain practical insight into how leading institutions are modernizing fraud detection, enhancing financial crime controls, improving risk assessment, and meeting regulatory expectations with greater confidence and transparency.
This collaborative event offers a unique opportunity to connect with industry peers and SAS experts, share experiences, and discover how innovative analytics driven approaches can help you protect your organization, support smarter decisions, and navigate an increasingly complex financial landscape—today and into the future.
This year’s agenda will encompass:
Banking Fraud best practices
- Key industry trends and challenges shaping fraud, risk, and financial services
- AI powered fraud detection, financial crime prevention, and regulatory compliance
- Real time orchestration and decisioning across the enterprise
- Balancing customer experience and security optimization
- Future ready technology roadmaps considering regulatory readiness
Banking Risk best practices
- Enterprise decisioning: Credit Risk, Fraud and Compliance/Financial Crime decision
- Model lifecycle automation, validation, and model risk management
- Dynamic IBSM: regulatory capital, loss provisions, ALM, liquidity & market risk, stress testing
- Governance: operational risk, operational resilience, BCBS 239
AML/Compliance best practices
- Key industry trends and challenges for AML and Screening services
- Explore use cases related to AI and agentic AI in AML Detection and Investigation
- Recent and upcoming regulatory changes and the impact on Screening and AML services
- Event Intelligence, how intelligent workflows enhance AML processes
- Real Time Screening: What do customers expect from screening services today?
Insurance best practices
- Insurance Enterprise Decisioning: insurance modeling and decisioning, automated underwriting, onboarding
- AI in insurance – Insurance Lifecycle Transformation - How AI and Generative AI can accelerate and transform end to end business processes
- Agentic AI and decision automation
- AI Governance
- Insurance modernization – from a regulatory perspective (Solvency II, IFRS17, EU AI Act) to a productivity and efficiency standpoint
- Asset management: mark to market and portfolio optimization
Agenda
The agenda will be updated on a frequent basis.
Tuesday 20th October
Pre-Conference Enablement (Optional)
Enablement Day
4 Breakout enablement sessions: Fraud Banking, Risk Banking,
AML/Compliance, Insurance
Wednesday 21st October
Conference Day 1
Plenary Session in the morning
4 Breakout sessions: Fraud Banking, Risk Banking,
AML/Compliance, Insurance
Thursday 22nd October
Conference Day 2
4 Breakout sessions: Fraud Banking, Risk Banking,
AML/Compliance, Insurance
Location and Directions
Plenary (Morning 21st Oct, 08:30-14:00)
Magna Pars L' Hotel à Parfum
Via Vincenzo Forcella, 6,
20144 Milano MI, Italy
Telephone: +39 02 833 8371
Hotels
Hotel arrangements are the responsibility of individual conference attendees. A contingent of hotel rooms will be available and anounced soon.
Registration
Registration will open in the near future.
Registration
Registration and Fees
Registration is free, compliments of SAS, and includes conference materials, admission to all sessions and meals.
It does not include travel and hotel expenses.
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