2026 Top Trends: Shifting Geopolitics and Financial Crime Risks

This episode is the first in a series exploring the Top Financial Crime Compliance Trends to Watch in 2026.

Geopolitical shifts are rapidly driving sanctions and export controls and changing how countries access financial systems — creating exploitable gaps across payments, trade, shipping, and compliance operations.

In this episode Saskia Rietbroek, Executive Director and Founder of the Association of Certified Santions Specialists, joins us to discuss:

• How sanctions evasion is evolving beyond “following the money” to “following the goods” (and the vessels moving them)
• Why trade flows, vessels, controlled goods and tariff evasion are increasingly central to compliance programs
• What firms can do now to stay agile as rules, risks and enforcement priorities shift quickly

Links:

Financial Crime Compliance Trends to Watch in 2026 infographic

Controlled Goods Screening article

Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS) website

LexisNexis Risk Solutions website

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