Register for ACAMS/Hawk Webinar: Building Better AI, Faster - Governing and Optimizing Models in Financial Crime
Register today for ACAMS & Hawk's webinar "Building Better AI, Faster: Governing and Optimizing Models in Financial Crime", taking place on Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 11am EST / 4pm GMT.
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With 91% of banks now supporting the use of AI for financial crime and compliance, teams are discovering that building models is the “easy” part. The harder challenge lies in validating, operationalizing, governing, and optimizing those models. In practice, there is no clear playbook, often leaving teams to interpret what "efficient" development and "good" governance looks like on their own.
Join ACAMS and expert AML and fraud practitioners for a webinar focused on how institutions are approaching managing the full AI model lifecycle today—from development and validation to ongoing monitoring, retraining, and documentation. Panelists will share real-world lessons on what has worked, what hasn’t, and how teams are navigating uncertainty around governance, tooling, and ongoing operational maintenance.
Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of best practices and tooling for AI model development and governance, along with practical guidance on how to build efficiency, oversight, and confidence in the models they rely on every day.
Join ACAMS and Hawk to:
1) Gain practical insight and best practices into how AML and fraud teams are defining, operationalizing, and scaling model governance across the AI lifecycle without slowing innovation.
2) Learn how financial crime teams are managing trade-offs between detection effectiveness, explainability, and operational efficiency while reducing manual effort and improving oversight in complex environments. This includes what tooling and controls support this balance in practice.
3) Explore how AML and fraud teams monitor models in production, identify performance degradation, and decide when and how to retrain or tune models to maintain effectiveness over time.
Speakers
Michael Morrison, VP – Compliance Technology Product Management, Wintrust
Kyle Daddio, Partner, Risk Advisory, Grant Thornton Advisors
Moderator
Erica Brackman, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Hawk
11am EST / 4pm GMT
Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Register today to attend the webinar.
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