Recording: Developments in BSA/AML and Financial Crime Compliance: Emerging Risks and Enforcement in 2025

About the Webinar

PRESENTER:

• Jonathan “Jack” Harrington, Partner & Chair of the Financial Crime and Economic Sanctions Team, Bradley

ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

As the financial crime landscape rapidly evolves, banks must stay ahead of shifting regulatory expectations, national security priorities, and emerging threats. This timely webinar will provide banking professionals with critical insights into the most pressing BSA/AML and financial crime compliance challenges in 2025.

We’ll explore recent, high-profile enforcement actions and what they signal about examiner expectations moving forward. You’ll also hear how the Trump administration’s national security and foreign policy agenda—including potential sanctions expansions and efforts to designate Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations—is reshaping risk exposure for financial institutions.

The session will also spotlight new and emerging financial crime threats, such as AI-enabled fraud schemes and the growing influence of Chinese Money Laundering Organizations (CMLOs). Additionally, we’ll break down FinCEN’s expanded whistleblower program and its implications for banks’ internal controls and risk management strategies.

THIS WEBINAR WILL COVER: 

• Recent, high-profile enforcement actions and what they indicate about the future of BSA/AML compliance and examiner expectations. 
• How Trump national security and foreign policy priorities are impacting BSA/AML and financial crime compliance.  
• How new financial crime threats, such as AI-enabled fraud and Chinese Money Laundering Networks, are shifting the risk landscape for banks. 
• The Financial Crime Enforcement Network’s new whistleblower program and what banks can do to manage their risk.  

TOP 3 BENEFITS TO ATTENDEES:

1. Gain Actionable Intelligence on AML and Financial Crime Trends: Get the latest policy developments, threat vectors, and best practices to mitigate financial crime risk in the new administration.  
2. Prepare for Examinations and Enforcement: Understand what examiners and regulators are focusing on in 2025—so you’re audit-ready and proactively compliant.
3. Enhance Risk Management Strategies: Learn how to adapt your institution’s financial crime risk framework to evolving threats, technologies, and regulatory expectations. 
    

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:

Jonathan “Jack” Harrington

Partner & Chair of the Financial Crime and Economic Sanctions Team, Bradley

Jack Harrington represents clients facing complex criminal, regulatory, enforcement, and reputational matters with a particular focus on the financial services, defense, and technology sectors.

Prior to joining Bradley, Jack served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in Birmingham, where he investigated and prosecuted complex fraud, money laundering, trade sanctions, cybercrime, and national security matters in partnership with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. His work included coordinating and managing Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Anti-Money Laundering/Bank Secrecy Act (AML/BSA) matters and liaising with the financial services community to identify criminal activity worthy of federal prosecution. He also served as the office’s COVID-19 fraud coordinator, prosecuting more than two dozen Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan fraud cases and a Nigerian criminal network’s $4.1 million pandemic unemployment insurance scheme. Leveraging his years of military and intelligence community experience, Jack also prosecuted a range of counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and export control cases, including an Alabama defendant who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to export U.S.-origin goods to the Islamic Republic of Iran in violation of trade sanctions. Jack also served as the United States Attorney’s Office’s national security liaison to the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama.

Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Jack served as a senior associate in the Washington, D.C. and New York offices of a large, international law firm where he advised Fortune 100 clients on legal, national security, and regulatory matters affecting cross-border business development, financial services, and technology initiatives, including anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, and foreign investment (CFIUS) compliance.

Beyond his legal experience, Jack is an Afghanistan veteran and intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve currently supporting U.S. European Command (EUCOM). He previously served in operational roles at two different Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reserve units and is a graduate of several military leadership and technical intelligence courses. Jack was deployed to Afghanistan (2018-2019), where he led a strategic intelligence analysis cell and regularly advised senior policymakers, diplomats, and general officers, including the four-star commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan. Jack possesses an active Top Secret-SCI security clearance and is an ACAMS Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

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