Event Information
- Event Type: Webinar
- Delivery Channel: Virtual
- Date: 09/12/2026 - 09/12/2026
- Duration: 1Hours
Event Description
Sanctions Complexity in a Fragmented World: How Institutions Can Strengthen Screening and Governance
Global sanctions regimes are evolving at a pace that outstrips traditional compliance models. Fragmented geopolitical alliances, rapid regulatory shifts, and increasingly sophisticated evasion tactics have created a sanctions environment that is more volatile, more complex, and more operationally demanding than ever before.
In this session, we unpack how sanctions risk has transformed in 2026 - from multi‑regime divergence and secondary‑sanctions exposure to hidden ownership structures, indirect relationships, and behavioural indicators that traditional screening often misses.
Participants will gain a clear, practical understanding of how to strengthen sanctions screening, uplift governance, and build resilience in an environment where sanctions are no longer static obligations but dynamic, strategic risks.
Designed for compliance leaders, MLROs, sanctions teams, regulators, auditors, and risk professionals, this webinar delivers a forward‑looking view of what effective sanctions management requires in a fragmented world.
Key Themes
Geopolitical fragmentation and sanctions divergence How competing blocs, shifting alliances, and regional tensions are reshaping sanctions obligations.
Secondary‑sanctions exposure and indirect relationships Why institutions face heightened risk through counterparties, intermediaries, and cross‑border networks.
Modern sanctions‑evasion typologies Hidden ownership structures, layered intermediaries, front companies, digital‑asset channels, and behavioural indicators.
Screening challenges in a multi‑regime world Data quality, list discrepancies, transliteration issues, false positives, and beneficial‑ownership blind spots.
Governance uplift and accountability Board‑level oversight, escalation pathways, documentation standards, and model validation expectations.
Technology‑enabled sanctions detection Network analysis, behavioural analytics, continuous monitoring, and intelligence‑driven controls.
Regulatory expectations and enforcement trends What supervisors are prioritising - and how institutions can demonstrate effectiveness.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Explain how geopolitical fragmentation is reshaping global sanctions regimes and why institutions must adopt multi‑regime, multi‑jurisdictional approaches to screening.
- Identify the operational challenges created by secondary sanctions, indirect exposure, and cross‑border relationships that extend beyond traditional list‑based controls.
- Recognise modern sanctions‑evasion typologies, including complex ownership structures, front companies, layered intermediaries, and digital‑asset‑enabled transfers.
- Evaluate weaknesses in existing sanctions screening frameworks, including data gaps, static rules, siloed processes, and insufficient beneficial‑ownership visibility.
- Apply advanced detection methods, such as behavioural analytics, network analysis, and intelligence‑driven monitoring, to uncover hidden sanctions exposure.
- Strengthen governance and oversight, ensuring clear accountability, effective escalation pathways, and board‑level visibility of sanctions risk.
- Interpret emerging supervisory expectations, including documentation, model validation, and evidence of proactive sanctions‑risk management.
- Develop a practical roadmap for sanctions‑control uplift, integrating technology, governance, training, and cross‑functional collaboration.
1pm - London
8am - New York
4pm - Dubai
8pm - Hong Kong
2pm - Johannesburg
Expert Trainer
Mitzi Danielson-Kaslik
Founder & Chief Consultant @ VERITAS | Governance • Risk • Compliance
Mitzi is the Founder and Consultant at VERITAS, where she helps organisations turn regulatory expectations into practical, commercially sustainable outcomes. Her work spans governance, risk and compliance, translating complex requirements into effective systems, behaviours and decision-making.
She provides independent advisory and consulting support across governance, risk, compliance, financial crime, operational resilience and AI governance. Working with boards, senior leaders and regulated firms, Mitzi focuses on making governance a practical driver of better decisions. She welcomes consulting engagements, board advisory work, speaking opportunities and collaborative projects.
Mitzi holds the ICA Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance, is a Member of the International Compliance Association (MICA), and received the ICA Outstanding Achievement Award in Anti-Money Laundering. Her work connects governance, culture and commercial realities, helping organisations embed effective governance into everyday decisions.
Her particular interests include leadership behaviour, risk culture, operational resilience, AI governance and the practical challenges of evolving regulation. She believes governance should influence daily conversations, behaviours and decisions, as well as organisational policies.
Alongside her consulting work, Mitzi serves as Chair of the IoD Emerging Leaders and regularly writes, speaks and comments on governance, financial crime, leadership, neurodiversity and the future of regulation.
She is also a published author and neurodiversity advocate. Her writing background informs her ability to communicate complex ideas clearly, while her advocacy reinforces her belief that effective governance depends on people as much as processes.
Eugene Marshalov
UK Sanctions Leader - Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC)
Eugene Marshalov is a sanctions advisory and financial crime professional with more than a decade of experience in financial intelligence, anti-money laundering (AML) and investigations into money laundering and sanctions evasion networks.
He has extensive experience examining complex financial arrangements across multiple jurisdictions, assessing them against applicable regulatory requirements and international compliance standards. His work focuses on understanding how financial relationships, transaction flows and cross-border structures can expose organisations to financial crime and sanctions risk.
Eugene plans, oversees and delivers investigative, AML and sanctions advisory engagements across diverse regulatory landscapes. He helps organisations identify and assess risks, develop appropriate mitigation measures and respond to regulatory scrutiny through structured analysis and evidence-based findings.
Combining investigative expertise with a practical understanding of compliance challenges, Eugene supports organisations in navigating complex sanctions requirements and making informed, defensible decisions.
Jordan Duffy
Financial Crime SME | CDD • AML • Sanctions - Barclays Investment Bank
Jordan Duffy is a financial crime professional with more than eight years of experience in investment banking, specialising in Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), sanctions and financial crime risk management. He holds the ICA Advanced Certificate in Managing Sanctions Risk, complementing his practical experience in applying regulatory and policy requirements.
Jordan provides subject matter expertise and advisory support to first-line teams, translating global and local policies into practical operational requirements. His experience also includes supporting second-line functions and delivering process and control improvements to strengthen financial crime risk management.
Combining compliance expertise with technology skills, Jordan has designed and implemented Microsoft Power Platform solutions to automate workflows, enhance governance and improve management information. These solutions support consistent processes, clearer oversight and data-led decision-making.
His current focus spans financial crime advisory, governance, controls and transformation, helping organisations improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their financial crime frameworks.