How to use Large Language Models to Manage Export Controls Compliance - Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists

How to use Large Language Models to Manage Export Controls Compliance

November 07, 2024 | 09:00 AM – 10:15 AM NYC

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Duration:

75 minutes

Speakers:

  • Ravi Amin
  • Byron McKinney
  • Suman Senapati

Moderator:

Ivy Llena, Sanctions Training Coordinator, ACSS

Date:

Thursday, November 07, 2024

Time:

  • 09:00 AM – 10:15 AM NYC
  • 02:00 PM – 03:15 PM London
  • 03:00 PM – 04:15 PM Amsterdam

Description:

Advanced AI and large language models (LLMs) are being used to solve multiple business cases, including compliance tasks. Harnessing training datasets based on goods descriptions, trading entities etc with LLMs can provide compliance teams with the building blocks for an export control identification tool. This webinar session will discuss the potential for creating and building such a model, the type and size of data required and its governance processes.

What the webinar aims to cover:

  • LLMs and their application to sanctions compliance and export controls
  • Build or buy – what data is applicable, where can it be sourced from and how it can be used
  • Governance processes to ensure LLM remains relevant and compliant to those who use it

Certificate of Attendance:

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Speakers

Ravi Amin

Product Specialist
S&P Global Market Intelligence

Ravi is responsible for providing expertise, knowledge and valuable insight to customers, helping them to reduce global supply chain risk, and provide transparency in the maritime and trade sector through incorporating in-depth risk and compliance procedures. Ravi has more than 7 years’ industry experience in relation to trade finance compliance, covering global sanctions compliance, regional export control regulation including dual-use and military goods and vessel compliance covering sanctions and behavioral analytics to name a few. He has provided comprehensive trade compliance knowledge to multiple clients including trade finance banks and freight forwarders across North America, the Middle East, Northern Africa and Europe.

Ravi has a background working in trade finance compliance, where he previously was pivotal in the innovation and building of risk monitoring products fit for multiple industries, including the financial and transport industries. He has also written several whitepapers; examples include: “The Impact of Expansive Sanctions on Financial Institutions in Relation to Trade Finance Compliance,” “The Expectations of Parties Within the Global Supply Chain Following Extensive Amendments to Goods Classifications,” and “Analyzing Whether the Trade Finance and Global Supply Chain Industries Are Equipped to Manage Sanctions Screening for Complex Military and Dual-Use Goods Technologies.”

Ravi holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from City, University of London, United Kingdom.

Byron McKinney

Product Management Director
S&P Global Market Intelligence

Byron McKinney is the product management director for trade finance and compliance solutions at S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Byron’s focus at S&P Global Market Intelligence is on the automation and simplification of the compliance and workflow process within trade finance. He has over 15 years of experience in trade finance and commodity trading most recently from Accuity, where he led the business team in designing and delivering dual-use goods identification and vessel monitoring for the banking and cargo markets. Previously, he worked at Thomson Reuters in the energy and shipping business with time spent on developing cargo tracking models and price forecasting applications for gas and power. Byron holds a degree in History and Iranian Studies.

Suman Senapati

Data Analytics Associate Director
S&P Global Market Intelligence

Suman oversees a group of data scientists and analysts at S&P Global Market Intelligence as an Associate Director. The team provides research guidance and specialized solutions for maritime risk and compliance.

Suman has developed and commercialized real-time AI technologies for more than 15 years, and has a solid foundation in machine learning, natural language processing, and the supply chain for maritime and trade. His goal is to use his knowledge and abilities to help customers and stakeholders tackle the opportunities and problems associated with shipping sustainability and decarbonization by providing creative and effective solutions.

Suman has collaborated on internationally acclaimed and award-winning AI initiatives, including TESCO’s AI Margin Discovery Tool, Sandvik’s OptiMine Analytics, and Natwest Group’s Ask Archie. He has worked with top organizations like IBM, Citi Bank, and Samsung. Suman graduated with a PhD in machine learning from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and has multiple Azure AI and blockchain certifications.

Moderator

Ivy Llena

Sanctions Training Coordinator
ACSS

Ivy Llena has over 14 years of experience in the learning and development field, providing capacity-building and professional development programs for corporate and social service agencies in the US and the Philippines.

Before joining ACSS, she was a program director at a non-profit organization in the Philippines, where she co-designed and co-implemented economic empowerment programs and services for survivors of human trafficking and their families. Ivy also served at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, where she led and contributed to inclusive economic growth initiatives.

Customer Testimonials

“I really appreciated the detail and references on the slides, very helpful”.

Scott Kinney, CAMS

Compliance Manager Global Sanctions Group, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

“Great job. Very informative”.

Brianna Long

Senior Compliance Analyst Compliance and Risk Investigations and Analysis, Convera