Financial Crime Clinic (Chatham House Rules): Peer Benchmarking and Decision-Making
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Course Overview
This Financial Crime Clinic is a confidential, peer-led session delivered under Chatham House Rules, designed for senior compliance and financial crime professionals within UK-regulated financial services firms who want to benchmark, challenge, and refine their approach to complex, real-world financial crime risk.
The clinic provides a trusted forum for open discussion of practical issues across anti-money laundering, sanctions, fraud, and market abuse, without attribution to individual firms or participants. Scenarios are grounded in current regulatory expectations and common supervisory themes, enabling participants to test their decision-making against peer practice and regulatory standards.
Through facilitated discussion and detailed case studies, participants work through end-to-end financial crime decision-making, from risk identification and assessment through to detection, escalation, reporting, and documentation. The focus is on applying professional judgement, evidencing rationale, and understanding how different firms interpret and operationalise regulatory expectations in practice.
The Chatham House format allows senior compliance professionals to openly compare approaches, identify areas of divergence or inconsistency, and leave with clear, practical insights they can use to strengthen governance, controls, and regulatory defensibility within their own organisation.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Benchmark their financial crime decision-making against peer firms in a confidential setting
Apply professional judgement to complex and ambiguous scenarios without reliance on prescriptive rules
Understand how different firms interpret regulatory expectations in practice
Assess when escalation, reporting, or regulatory engagement is appropriate
Evidence defensible rationale and documentation aligned with supervisory expectations
Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or over-engineering within their existing frameworks
Clearly articulate “what good looks like” in discussions with Boards, auditors, and regulators
Who this session is for
This clinic is designed for senior-level practitioners with responsibility for financial crime oversight, including:
MLROs and Deputy MLROs
Heads of Compliance and Financial Crime
Senior Compliance and Risk Managers
Sanctions, Fraud, and Market Abuse leads
Internal audit and assurance professionals
Senior managers accountable for financial crime risk
Participation is intentionally limited to ensure meaningful discussion and effective peer benchmarking.