Associate Member briefing and networking drinks - Personal Finance

Briefing overview:

Join us for our first Associate Member briefing on Personal Finance; the session is aimed at a senior level concerning the forward agenda for personal finance.

We will share our strategic c-suite insights on legal and regulatory policy and update on our associated advocacy and related project initiatives for 2025.

The session will be led by Eric Leenders, Executive Director, Personal Finance and our policy directors leading on consumer credit, mortgages and personal banking, including savings. Our aim is to help to support your client discussions with contextual briefings on the key policy files in the coming year.

To enable us to maximise the value-add of these sessions, we would encourage you to submit subject areas that you are keen to address a couple of weeks in advance of the briefing so that we can prepare accordingly. Please also come equipped with questions for the team, who will be only too happy to answer them!

There will also be an opportunity to network after the event.

This in person session is free for UK Finance Associate Members and will be hosted in our offices in Angel Court. A Zoom link will also be available for those unable to attend in person.

Agenda:

15:15 – 15:30 Arrival

15:30 – 16:30 Presentation and networking drinks till 17:45

Area of expertise:

Payments, innovation & resilience Personal banking

Tags:

Personal Finance

Eric Leenders

Managing Director, UK Finance

In his role as managing director of personal finance, Eric is responsible for all personal finance matters, including cards, complaints handling, cond...

In his role as managing director of personal finance, Eric is responsible for all personal finance matters, including cards, complaints handling, conduct regulation, consumer credit, payments, savings and supporting vulnerable customers across retail and private banking portfolios. Eric is accountable to retail, private and mid-tier bank CEOs for the development and delivery of sector specific strategies, maintaining active senior-level engagement with politicians, regulators, consumer advocates and policy makers on a range of issues to support the economy, serve customers better and earn trust in the sector.

Eric is a chartered banker and a non-executive director at the Buckinghamshire Building Society (chair of risk), Registry Trust Limited and also holds non-executive roles on the government's Credit Union Expansion Project and Regional Growth Fund.

Jackie Barodekar

Director, Cards and Consumer Credit, UK Finance

Jackie is director of UK Finance’s cards and consumer credit area. The consumer credit team supports all aspects of consumer lending products with par...

Jackie is director of UK Finance’s cards and consumer credit area. The consumer credit team supports all aspects of consumer lending products with particular expertise in cards, loans and overdrafts.

For the ten years prior to joining UK Finance Jackie held the position of General Counsel at MBNA, where she was also a member of the senior leadership team and advisor to the main Board. She joined the MBNA legal department in 1997 following her early career in private practice and in-house legal roles within financial services.