On November 14-15, Moscow hosted the 5th International Scientific and Practical Conference of International Network Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism Institute called "The AML/CFT system in the global world: risks and threats to the global economy." The conference was organized by the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) in cooperation with the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, and the Federal Financial Monitoring Service.
The minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kotyukov, the rector of the MEPhI Mikhail Strikhanov and the director of Rosfinmonitoring Yuri Chikhanchin welcomed the participants at the conference opening at the MEPhI.
In his speech, Mikhail Kotyukov noted that the key role in ensuring financial security belongs to highly qualified personnel.
“Universities are active participants in a project of the network institute in the field of combating money laundering and financial terrorism. In the field of training higher school personnel, the constant work on updating curricula, including teaching the most modern methods of effective information analysis and decision-making, remains the most important task,” said Mikhail Kotyukov.
The day before, Nikolay Kolachevsky, the director of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, emphasized while opening the forum that the current conference brought together 518 participants from twenty countries, which indicates the relevance of the topic for the scientific community.
The key topics of this year's conference were the development of the AML/CFT system in the digital era; recent trends, achievements and plans in the field of combating money laundering (digital identification-biometrics, providers of digital assets); IT industry and AML / CFT software; digital technology in the service of financial monitoring; problems, risks and threats of digitalization of the economy and its individual sectors, assessment of the potential and risks of using digital technologies in the field of AML / CFT.
The conference was held in the form of section meetings, round tables, presentations, debates, competitions. On the second day of the event, organizers arranged a student sports competition. In addition, the presentation of a student laboratory of financial intelligence at Rosfinmonitoring was done in the framework of the conference at the MEPhI.
