AEB, CECA and Unacc, in collaboration with Sepblac, celebrate the Sectorial octave Meeting of Prevention of the Money Laundering and of the Financing of the Terrorism
The recent agreement is tackled between the ECB and the AMLA, that establishes a structured frame of cooperation and information exchange
The annual meeting gathers to outstanding representatives of the Directorate General of the Treasure and Financial Policy, the Sepblac, sectorial credit institutions and associations
Associations of credit institutions AEB, CECA and Unacc, in collaboration with Sepblac, have celebrated the octave edition of the Sectorial Meeting of Prevention of the Money Laundering and of the Financing of the Terrorism, in which have participated experts of reference in the matter, in addition to supervisors organisation' representatives and of the regulatory main authorities.
The meeting, held in the headquarters of CECA in Madrid, was marked for the recent agreement between the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European authority, Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA), that establishes a structured frame of cooperation and information exchange to strengthen the monitoring with regard to prevention of the money laundering and avoid the duplicity of efforts.
This agreement exemplifies how the coordination between the public sector and the collaboration with the private banking strengthen a more effective system in the fight against the money laundering and the financing of the terrorism (BCP/FT). In this context, the Spanish financial institutions emphasise for its rigorousness and commitment in the compliance with standards, as well as for its active cooperation with the statutory authorities, an effort that has received the recognition of the specialised international organisations.
The meeting gathered to the main representatives of the credit institutions integrated in the associations organisers, all of them specialised in BCP/FT, who tackled the latest innovations with regard to regulation, the new risk classifications and emerging trends in the field of the money laundering.
The meeting has been inaugurated by Lourdes Jiménez Ramos, Inspection general assistant manager and Capital movement Control of the Treasure, who has emphasised the challenges to those which the private and public sector are going to have face jointly in the next few months, emphasising the adjustment of the institutional framework and regulatory, with the starting up of AMLA, as well as the mutual rating of the Financial Operational unit International that it will begin in 2026 and that testeará the state of the preventive system Spanish. The deputy chairman of AMLA, Juan Manuel Vega Serrano, has intervened with a lecture on the new European authority and the presentation of a strategic road map to strengthen the monitoring of money laundering and help to the coordination of the financial intelligence.
Below, celebrated are had three round tables concentrating on monitoring, financial and novelties intelligence regulatory, respectively, in which have participated representatives both of the public sector and of the sector private.
The first table, dedicated to the novelties with regard to monitoring and inspection, she has been lowered by Raquel Cabeza, corporate director of Risks and CECA's Fulfillment. They have intervened Alejandro Valiñas, Inspection Division boss of Financial Institutions of Sepblac, and Juan Casillas, person responsible for the Unit of Inspection of Banking, Insurance and Securities of the same organisation. Both explained the conclusions extracted from the most recent inspections, as well as the detected discoveries and the next challenges in the future inspection plan, highlighting the importance of the coordination between national and European supervisors in a stage in which the new authority AMLA starts to assume responsibilities.
The second table has debated on the novelties and classifications more relevant in the field of the financial intelligence. The debate has been moderate by Cristina Freijanes, general secretary for UNACC, and it has had Juan Carlos Calleja's share, Intelligence Division boss Strategic of Sepblac; Guillermo Yubero, inspector of the National Police in the Central Brigade of Financial Intelligence assigned to Sepblac; David Saludes Moronval, director of Compliance With standards of Ibercaja Bank, and Luis Francisco Luján Moralejo, person responsible for Financial Crime Compliance in Banco Santander. The speakers shared its experience on emerging classifications of whiten and illicit financing, underlining the role of the cooperation public-private and the need of innovative tools to detect suspected operations, as new communications for indication of mule and frauds accounts.
Lastly, the third table, has been moderate by María Peco, adviser sénior of Legal Affair and Prevention of the Money Laundering in the AEB. Between the participants have appeared Irene Sánchez, vowel adviser in the Office of the General Secretary of the International Treasure and Financing of the Exchequer; Belén Álvarez, expert in BCP/FT of the Division of Inspection of Non-financial and Technical Office of Sepblac, as well as Gemma Serrano Villajos, of the unit of prevention of Caja Rural's money laundering of the South. The principal intention of the table has been explore some introduced changes in the recent update of the standard of the European Union and international and as the same shock in the national domain and in the organisations.
The meeting concluded with Pedro Comín's intervention, director of the Sepblac, who highlighted the contributions carried out throughout the round tables and it underlined the importance of maintaining a solid framework for cooperation between supervisors, authorities and financial institutions.