ECONOMIC CRIME CONGRESS 2024

APP Reimbursement Requirement
The implementation and impact of the regulation
Since 7 October, banks and other payment firms have had to reimburse victims of authorised push payment (APP) fraud with a reimbursement limit of £85,000. The rules aim to standardise the process for fraud victims, although banks may still reimburse higher amounts on a case-by-case basis.

Join the APP Reimbursement Requirement panel and hear senior experts across regulation and industry discuss the impact of the new APP reimbursement rules post-implementation.
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Economic Crime Congress 2024
Working together for a safer tomorrow
The Economic Crime Congress is shaping up to be a fantastic day. We have some brilliant speakers joining us for the plenary and interactive discussions, looking at topics we know are high on your agenda – such as the threats and opportunities of AI in economic crime; regulatory change and scrutiny; and making sure you’re ready for the APP reimbursement requirement coming into force in October.
Regulatory change and scrutiny
Opportunities and challenges for 2024
Following another year of regulatory and legislative changes, we sit down with key policy makers and thinkers to discuss recent scrutiny, activity and changes for 2024.

From a new opportunity to reform the Money Laundering Regulations, to increased scrutiny on PEPs and new legislative opportunities on Companies House this panel of experts will discuss how to practically manage regulatory change within institutions as well as areas of potential change.
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Money Laundering
What is keeping MLROs up at night?
In this session we put Money Laundering Reporting Officers (MLROs) under the spotlight to discuss the most pressing challenges of today, extracting their key takeaways and advice for compliance and risk management colleagues in 2024.

We will discuss the breadth of emerging compliance themes and their effect on risk management, focusing in on hot topics such as the role of technology, the existing and emerging regulatory landscape, and thoughts on political and supervisory priorities.
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Money Mules
Tackling the harms and exploitation caused by the threat
With the government announcing its 22-point action plan to tackle Money Mules this panel will discuss the harms of child financial exploitation, the wider threat caused by money mules and the disruption of organised crime gangs.
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Blog
Do digital currencies and cryptocurrencies pose a higher risk of money laundering?
Press release
Authorised push payment fraud information
Webinar
Stop Fraud and Build Trust While Enhancing Customer Acquisition

The Congress overview

The UK Finance and financial sector flagship event for Economic Crime, the Economic Crime Congress 2024, will be held this year on Thursday 12 December at the iconic Business Design Centre in London.

The overarching theme of the day will be to bring to life the harms and impact of economic crime, and through sessions and insights from our expert speakers, discuss what needs to be done to build a better society and community, domestically and globally.

Pricing

  • Member Ticket -  £495.00
  • Non-Member Ticket - £695.00

Law enforcement, third and public sector

If you work in law enforcement, the third or public sector and are interested in attending, you may be eligible for a concessionary rate. Contact us for further information.

The Congress key topics

This year our agenda will be packed with plenary discussions, exhibition and networking opportunities. It will focus on topics we know are high on people’s agendas such as:

  • Tackling economic crime: A view from the top
  • Mitigating against the harms caused online
  • Money Mules: Tackling the harms and exploitation caused by the threat

Take a look at the agenda to find out about all the topics we’ll be covering on the day.

Don't pass up this fantastic opportunity to network in person with your peers and hear from an exceptional line up of speakers on 12 December at the Business Design Centre in London. We look forward to seeing you on the day and we hope you can stay for the Networking Drinks reception at 5pm.

Confirmed organisations attending 2024

  • Barclays Plc
  • Pay.UK
  • Lloyds Banking Group
  • NatWest Group Plc
  • National Economic Crime Centre (NECC)
  • Home Office
  • City of London Police
  • National Crime Agency (NCA)
  • HM Treasury
  • Metropolitan Police

Sponsorship opportunities

If you would like to support the Economic Crime Congress or are interested in speaking or exhibiting please contact Darren Jeyasingam.​​​​ For more information about supporting our 2024 event, please contact our associate membership team here.

Kate Frankish

Kate Frankish

Chief Business Development Officer, Pay.UK at Pay.UK

Kate has worked in financial services for over 20 years. Through a number of diverse roles in marketing, product development, technology and payments,...

Kate has worked in financial services for over 20 years. Through a number of diverse roles in marketing, product development, technology and payments, the common thread for Kate is the delivery of great end user journeys and solutions. Kate has a very strong focus on innovation, driven by consumer demand and global market movements. Kate actively works with Fintech companies and this has given her further insight into the types of problems that end users experience and how to go about providing relevant and meaningful solutions. Kate now leads the Business Development function at Pay.UK with the purpose to power payments, champion innovation and give the UK choice in how it pays.

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Nick Sharp

Nick Sharp

Deputy Director, National Economic Crime Centre

Nick Sharp has worked in the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) within the National Crime Agency since October 2023. Nick is the Deputy Director fo...

Nick Sharp has worked in the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) within the National Crime Agency since October 2023. Nick is the Deputy Director for Fraud and heads up the cross-system, operational response to tackling fraud against individuals and businesses. Prior to joining the NECC, Nick worked in HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) for 17 years, 14 of which he spent combating serious and organised criminal attacks on the tax system in either HMRC’s intelligence or investigation divisions. His most recent post was as Deputy Director of Economic Crime where he led HMRC’s anti-money laundering and financial investigation teams. 

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Shahmeem Purdasy

Shahmeem Purdasy

Head of the Line 1 Financial Crime Advisory Team, Virgin Money

I am the Head of the Line 1 FC Advisory Team at Virgin Money. I have over 23 years of Financial Crime Compliance experience in advisory, supervision, ...

I am the Head of the Line 1 FC Advisory Team at Virgin Money. I have over 23 years of Financial Crime Compliance experience in advisory, supervision, enforcement, policy development and legislative drafting, acquired through a variety of roles in both a private sector and governmental setting. I have the industry Diploma in Money Laundering (ICA) and I am a (former) Financial Action Task Force Assessor (on behalf of the UK). I am a Barrister and a New York Attorney.

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Adrian Searle

Adrian Searle

Director, NECC

Dan Holmes

Dan Holmes

Director of Banking, Identity & Market Strategy, Feedzai

Part of the Feedzai Product Strategy team, Dan collaborates closely with banks worldwide and supports them to understand the range of fraud prevention...

Part of the Feedzai Product Strategy team, Dan collaborates closely with banks worldwide and supports them to understand the range of fraud prevention and detection capabilities offered by Feedzai. He focuses on aligning the company product strategy with the direction of the future market, ensuring that Feedzai stays ahead of the curve.

In addition to working directly with clients, Dan also plays a crucial role in enabling other teams within Feedzai to provide exceptional customer service and results. He is a thought leader within the industry, frequently authoring white papers and blogs, speaking with press and analysts, and appearing on stage at various events across the globe.

Before joining Feedzai, Dan served as the Director of Solutions at LexisNexis Risk Solutions and held various fraud-related positions at Lloyds Banking Group UK. In these roles, he leveraged the latest digital fraud technology to protect the bank's online and mobile users, demonstrating his extensive expertise in the field.

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David Postings

David Postings

Chief Executive, UK Finance

David has worked in financial services for over 40 years. At Barclays he worked for three Group chairmen, helped set up Large Corporate Banking, had w...

David has worked in financial services for over 40 years. At Barclays he worked for three Group chairmen, helped set up Large Corporate Banking, had wide experience in SME and consumer banking and ran the Group’s IT and operations function. David subsequently led Commercial Banking for Lloyds Bank, then was chief executive of Cattles PLC (a consumer finance and invoice finance business) before joining Moneycorp (an independent FX provider) as CEO. Before joining UK Finance David spent eight years at Bibby Financial Services as the chief executive.

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Ben Donaldson

Ben Donaldson

Managing Director, Economic Crime, UK Finance

Ben Donaldson OBE is our Managing Director for Economic Crime. His teams work on behalf of our members across fraud, financial crime, sanctions, and e...

Ben Donaldson OBE is our Managing Director for Economic Crime. His teams work on behalf of our members across fraud, financial crime, sanctions, and export controls. The UK Finance Economic Crime team provides traditional trade association services to our members, but also a range of operational services. The blend of the services we provide enables us to work in collaboration with our members, other sectors, government, regulators and law enforcement to protect society and the economy by reducing economic crime. 

Prior to joining UK Finance, Ben spent 23 years working for the UK Government in Defence and Foreign Affairs. In 2015, he was awarded an OBE for services to Defence.

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Iggy Azad

Iggy Azad

Senior Director, Coinbase London

Iggy Azad is a Senior Director at Coinbase, where he leads a team of investigators focused on targeting illicit crypto activity, ranging from fraud to...

Iggy Azad is a Senior Director at Coinbase, where he leads a team of investigators focused on targeting illicit crypto activity, ranging from fraud to terrorist financing. With 20 years of experience in the Met. Police in London, Iggy has worked in various roles, investigating crimes such as domestic violence, gang crime, drugs supply, cybercrime, money laundering, and fraud. Since joining Coinbase in 2019, he has risen to the position of Senior Director, overseeing investigations and intelligence while also managing law enforcement relations. Iggy has presented at many international conferences and serves as a board member for the ACAMS UK chapter.

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Nick Perkins

Nick Perkins

Director of Fraud Prevention, NatWest Group

Nick Perkins is currently Director of Fraud Prevention for NatWest Group, responsible for designing and delivering the Fraud prevention, detection and...

Nick Perkins is currently Director of Fraud Prevention for NatWest Group, responsible for designing and delivering the Fraud prevention, detection and response strategy for the Bank, whilst helping drive societal change at industry level. He has over 25 years’ experience gained working globally across the Financial Services sector from Investment Banking and Markets to Retail, Commercial and Branch banking.

Nick joined NatWest in 2005 and since then has taken on a number of roles within the Group including Director of EC Solutions, responsible for delivering key components of RBS’ State Aid Obligations, COO for Non Core Division involved in winding down businesses and exiting non core markets and loan portfolios as part of RBS’ restructuring and implementation of the Asset Protection Scheme as part of RBS’ bail-out.  He has also been involved in the execution of a number of major change programmes across the Group.

Prior to joining the Bank, Nick was consulting for Accenture for over 10 years managing complex and wide-ranging programmes to support global investment banks.

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Adam Speakman

Adam Speakman

Head of Consumer Relationships Fraud Systems & Controls, Lloyd's Banking Group

Adam joined Lloyds Banking Group in January 2022 as Head of Consumer Servicing Fraud Systems & Controls. Prior to this, Adam has held a numbe...

Adam joined Lloyds Banking Group in January 2022 as Head of Consumer Servicing Fraud Systems & Controls. Prior to this, Adam has held a number of senior roles in other financial institutions.

Adam has extensive experience from a career in fraud prevention spanning over 20 years. He has worked within fraud prevention at two other tier 1 banks and most recently as Head of fraud for 7 years at a challenger bank.

He has provided representation at key industry forums including UK Finance and is currently the chair of the Money Mule cross industry Working Group.

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Liz Ziegler

Liz Ziegler

Consumer Fraud & Financial Crime Director, Lloyds Banking Group

Liz is the Consumer Fraud & Financial Crime Director for Lloyds Banking Group.  She has held a number of senior roles in Lloyds Banking Gro...

Liz is the Consumer Fraud & Financial Crime Director for Lloyds Banking Group. 

She has held a number of senior roles in Lloyds Banking Group, mainly in retail banking, across credit cards, customer services, transformation as well as integrations & divestments. 

Earlier in her career Liz worked for the Group in a number of jurisdictions including the Spain, the Channel Islands, Switzerland and Australia. 

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Steve Elliot

Steve Elliot

Managing Director, LexisNexis Risk Solutions UK & Ireland

Steve Elliot, Managing Director of LexisNexis Risk Solutions UK & Ireland, is a specialist in financial crime compliance, with a wealth of relevan...

Steve Elliot, Managing Director of LexisNexis Risk Solutions UK & Ireland, is a specialist in financial crime compliance, with a wealth of relevant experience, having had responsibility for Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Financial Crime, Security, Investigations / Litigation, Payments and Controls (1st line) across a range of roles in consulting, as a practitioner and within international law enforcement.

Steve has considerable experience of operating across a number of different industry sectors, including a strong focus around Financial Services, both in his former role with consultancy firm, Huntswood, and in previous roles with Old Mutual Wealth and Zurich Financial Services.

Steve is passionate about the role of technology and innovation in supporting effective risk management and compliance, and has advised many organisations on the transformation to digital KYC to create a safer customer on-boarding process.

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AC Nik Adams

AC Nik Adams

T/Assistant Commissioner (NPCC Coordinator for Cyber and Economic Crime), CoLP

Nik Adams was appointed as Temporary Assistant Commissioner to oversee the City of London Police’s Economic and Cyber Crime Directorates in October 20...

Nik Adams was appointed as Temporary Assistant Commissioner to oversee the City of London Police’s Economic and Cyber Crime Directorates in October 2023, having transferred to the City of London Police in March 2022 as Commander for Economic and Cyber Crime. Prior to that, Nik spent 4 years as the National Coordinator for Prevent and the lead for Safeguarding within Counter Terrorism Policing based within CTPHQ. 

Nik spent most of his earlier service with West Yorkshire Police working in Leeds, where he was latterly the Leeds City Centre Commander and Neighbourhood Policing lead for South Leeds, before moving into Counter Terrorism Policing in 2015. He is passionate about working with other agencies and organisations to develop new ways to better protect the public, prevent crime, and bring offenders to justice, and he has put this at the heart of his approach during two decades in policing. 

As Assistant Commissioner, Nik is focussed on national delivery, which includes Action Fraud and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau. He oversees the national Economic and Cyber Crime Academy and a diverse range of operational units within the City of London Police. These units tackle complex and specialist aspects of economic crime, and include partnership units specialising in intellectual property crime, insurance fraud and payment crime. He is additionally the NPCC lead for the Financial Investigation, and the NPCC lead for Elections.  

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Aminah Samad

Aminah Samad

Director, Economic Crime, UK Finance

She specialises in delivering policy and advocacy on behalf of members, leading on UK Finance's domestic anti-money laundering offering and wider econ...

She specialises in delivering policy and advocacy on behalf of members, leading on UK Finance's domestic anti-money laundering offering and wider economic crime reform matters. She leads on anti-money laundering related regulatory and legislative projects, oversees the Money Laundering Advisory Panel and provides support on strategic issues within the wider economic crime reform programme. 

Prior to UK Finance, Aminah worked as consultant at KPMG within the financial crime department. She specialised in providing advisory, investigation and analytical services within AML and sanctions to global financial services clients.

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Julie Carruthers

Julie Carruthers

Managing Director, UK Finance

Julie joined UK Finance in March 2020 as Managing Director, Major Projects. Reporting to the CEO as part of the Executive leadership team she is respo...

Julie joined UK Finance in March 2020 as Managing Director, Major Projects. Reporting to the CEO as part of the Executive leadership team she is responsible for leading the delivery and execution of mission critical, high profile, large scale industry projects.

Prior to UK Finance, Julie was Global Head of Operations and Chief of Staff at TP Icap. Spanning a 30 year career, Julie has held a number of senior roles delivering and implementing large scale strategic projects and organisational transformation programmes across operations and technology. Julie spent the earlier part of her career in roles at Deutsche Bank, Nikko Europe and UBS. Julie is also a Trustee of Leadership through Sport and Business and Futures for Kids.   

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Jana Mackintosh

Jana Mackintosh

Managing Director, Payments, Innovation and Resilience, UK Finance

Jana is the Managing Director for Payments, Innovation and Resilience at UK Finance where she leads discussions on payments, fintech and digital agend...

Jana is the Managing Director for Payments, Innovation and Resilience at UK Finance where she leads discussions on payments, fintech and digital agendas.

Before joining UK Finance, she was head of the Worldpay (then FIS) Global Government Affairs team, shaped competition and regulatory policies at the Financial Conduct Authority and Payments Systems Regulator and prior to that supported companies across public and private sectors globally through her various roles.

She has added commercial credentials delivering and implementing policies in practice, holds several board positions and works with a number of charities.

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Paul Maskall

Paul Maskall

Strategic Fraud Prevention and Behavioural Lead, UK Finance and City of London Police

Paul believes that technology isn’t necessarily the enemy, but it is our relationship with it that needs some work. Applying behavioural principles to...

Paul believes that technology isn’t necessarily the enemy, but it is our relationship with it that needs some work. Applying behavioural principles to the core of his work in order to maximise impact in the prevention of fraud and cybercrime. Paul explores the relationship we have with our technology and how it amplifies our vulnerability and changes the meaning behind our communication.  With a background in law enforcement, intelligence, counter terrorism and later finding a passion in cybercrime and fraud, he now works in a joint partnership role as the Strategic Fraud Prevention and Behavioural Lead for UK Finance and City of London Police, assisting in the coordination of the Economic and Cyber Police Headquarters.

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Iain Armstrong

Iain Armstrong

Regulatory Affairs Practice Lead, ComplyAdvantage

Iain has held a number of senior compliance roles in major financial institutions, including NatWest, HSBC, and Barclays. Iain also spent eight years ...

Iain has held a number of senior compliance roles in major financial institutions, including NatWest, HSBC, and Barclays. Iain also spent eight years working at the UK's Financial Conduct Authority.

As part of Global Regulatory Affairs team at ComplyAdvantage, Iain supports our teams to build industry-leading financial crime detection tools, acting as the 'voice of the customer'.

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Rob Woods

Rob Woods

Director, International Fraud & Identity, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Rob Woods is a senior expert for LexisNexis Risk Solutions with a particular focus on fraud, identity, Authentication and biometrics. With more than a...

Rob Woods is a senior expert for LexisNexis Risk Solutions with a particular focus on fraud, identity, Authentication and biometrics. With more than a decade in threat readiness and fraud prevention, Rob is a leading industry expert on this topic.

Rob is responsible for international market planning for financial services for LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. One of his core priorities within the fraud and identity leadership team is delivering the product portfolio and planning the strategic roadmap to service current and future client needs.

Rob’s background and product expertise has led the design and delivery of major agile transformation programmes in financial services that are purposefully focused on authentication, fraud and digital identity. A notable project was the implementation of an authentication as a service platform for PSD2 / strong customer authentication at Lloyds Banking Group.  

Rob’s philosophy is customer oriented, which he applies to create services that are centred on identity protection and focused upon a smooth digital banking experience, whilst enabling end users to shop and carry out online transactions with confidence.

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Duncan Tessier

Duncan Tessier

Director for Economic Crime, UK Home Office

Duncan joined the UK Home Office in 2019 as Director, Economic Crime. He leads Home Office policy on anti-money laundering, fraud and asset recovery. ...

Duncan joined the UK Home Office in 2019 as Director, Economic Crime. He leads Home Office policy on anti-money laundering, fraud and asset recovery. Duncan started his career as an economist, including in the UK Treasury and Cabinet Office before moving to be Deputy Finance Director at the UK Department for Business. He has also held senior roles in Local Government, focused on leading major infrastructure and IT delivery programmes.

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Faraaz Nakvi

Faraaz Nakvi

PA

Faraaz leads PA’s global Fraud and Financial Crime business, helping clients adopt market-leading practices to enhance risk mitigation. He specialises...

Faraaz leads PA’s global Fraud and Financial Crime business, helping clients adopt market-leading practices to enhance risk mitigation. He specialises in combining technical expertise with technology accelerators to deliver effective outcomes in regulatory compliance and digital transformation.

Faraaz has led end-to-end Financial Crime reviews, regulatory assessments, and remediation programmes across major financial services and payments institutions. 

He has worked with government bodies to build and deploy advanced Fraud prevention technologies and global regulators to deliver comprehensive cross divisional Financial Crime reviews. His experience includes developing technology architecture frameworks and leading large-scale strategic migrations, ensuring operational efficiency, data integrity, and sustainable risk management solutions.

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Jon Higham

Jon Higham

Online Safety Policy Director, Ofcom

Jon Higham is Director of Policy Development in Online Safety Group at Ofcom, UK's communications regulator. He oversaw the development and delivery o...

Jon Higham is Director of Policy Development in Online Safety Group at Ofcom, UK's communications regulator. He oversaw the development and delivery of Ofcom’s recent consultation on protecting people from illegal harms online. Jon has worked on online safety since 2020 and has played a central role in developing Ofcom’s approach to online regulation. Prior to working on online issues, Jon spent 12 years working in a variety of regulatory policy roles across Ofcom focusing on a range of sectors. 

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Stephen Kinsella OBE

Stephen Kinsella OBE

Founder, Clean Up The Internet

Stephen Kinsella OBE is founder of Clean Up The Internet, a UK non-profit campaigning for action to address the harm caused by fake and anonymous soci...

Stephen Kinsella OBE is founder of Clean Up The Internet, a UK non-profit campaigning for action to address the harm caused by fake and anonymous social media accounts, whose work was instrumental in securing the inclusion of a "user identity verification duty" in the Online Safety Bill. 

A competition lawyer by background, he's previously been Managing Partner of Herbert Smith’s Brussels office and global head of antitrust at Sidley, and is currently a Specialist Partner at Flint Global. Stephen is also a founder of public interest legal project Law For Change. In 2024 Stephen was recognised by the Law Society with a "Legal Hero" award "for his exceptional contributions to legal practice and social justice". 

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Stephen Senior

Stephen Senior

Head of Financial Crime, Leeds Building Society

Stephen currently holds the position of Head of Financial Crime Prevention within Leeds BS.Stephen engages in various industry fora relating to the pr...

Stephen currently holds the position of Head of Financial Crime Prevention within Leeds BS.

Stephen engages in various industry fora relating to the prevention of financial, has been on the board of National Hunter since 2018 and holds the position of chair of the BSA’s Financial Crime panel.  He has over 25 years in a variety of financial crime related roles with Bradford & Bingley, Santander and Leeds Building Society bringing broad experience on many aspects of financial crime within the financial services sector. 

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David Biggin

David Biggin

Partner, Head of Risk and Regulation, PA

David leads the risk and regulation team at PA, an innovation and transformation consultancy. David’s expertise includes supporting financial institut...

David leads the risk and regulation team at PA, an innovation and transformation consultancy. David’s expertise includes supporting financial institutions to respond to disruptive market change and emerging regulation to improve corporate governance, risk management arrangements and commercial and operational changes required for regulatory compliance. 

David works with large banks, as well as medium-sized retail and commercial lenders, insurers and asset managers. Earlier in his career, David worked closely with the UK regulatory authorities, where he was responsible for the implementation of Solvency II and Structural Reform regulation and also co-authored the Financial Conduct Authority’s approach to supervising governance, risk management and conduct across financial services.

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Manuel Fajardo

Manuel Fajardo

Director and Head of Digital Assets, Plenitude

Manuel heads the Digital Assets Practice at Plenitude Consulting, advising both crypto and traditional finance firms on their regulatory obligations a...

Manuel heads the Digital Assets Practice at Plenitude Consulting, advising both crypto and traditional finance firms on their regulatory obligations and the development of robust control frameworks for their cryptoassets-related activities, and playing an active role in shaping discussions on regulation through industry trade bodies. 

Prior to that, Manuel acquired over 17 years of experience in the global asset management industry across control functions like Compliance, Internal Control and Internal Audit, in positions with a global remit based in Paris, London and Los Angeles.

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Dr. Ellison Anne Williams

Dr. Ellison Anne Williams

Founder and CEO, Enveil

Dr. Ellison Anne Williams is the Founder and CEO of Enveil, the pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use. Building on ex...

Dr. Ellison Anne Williams is the Founder and CEO of Enveil, the pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use. Building on experience leading avant-garde efforts in the areas of large-scale analytics, information security, and machine learning, Ellison Anne founded the startup in 2016 to transform how and where data can be securely and privately leveraged to unlock value. Enveil’s award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions are deployed and operational at scale helping global customers securely utilize data across silos and organizational, jurisdictional, and security boundaries in entirely new ways to reduce risk and accelerate the timeline for extracting actionable insights.

A mathematician by training, Ellison Anne leverages her deep technical background and passion for evangelizing the impact of disruptive technologies to advocate for the impact and advancement of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs). She has raised $40M in venture funding to cultivate and deliver Enveil’s category-defining capabilities for use cases ranging from cross-jurisdictional data usage to Secure AI, validating the substantial impact of PETs for business and mission users alike. Under Ellison Anne’s leadership, the company has been recognized by global influencers such as the World Economic Forum, Gartner, EY, and Frost & Sullivan, and won an expanding list of industry accolades: SINET 16 Innovator, RegTech 100, RSA Innovation Sandbox Finalist, SC Award Winner, Gartner Cool Vendor, and WEF Technology Pioneer.

Ellison Anne is a thought leader, speaker, and mentor in the broader privacy and technology communities, with contributed works appearing in publications including Forbes, CPO Magazine, SecurityWeek, Information Age, and HelpNetSecurity. She has been honored as a Business Insider Cybersecurity Leader, SC Media Reboot Leadership Innovator, EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, and a Cyberscoop Leet List Honoree.

Beginning her career in the U.S. Intelligence Community with roles at the National Security Agency and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ellison Anne is accomplished in the fields of distributed computing and algorithms, cryptographic applications, graph theory, combinatorics, computer network exploitation, network modeling, machine learning, and data mining. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics), a M.S. in Mathematics (Set Theoretic Topology), and a M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning).

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions

LexisNexis Risk Solutions

With our unique approach to data, insight, and analysis enables our customers to uncover complex risks, identify hidden opportunities and see what oth...

With our unique approach to data, insight, and analysis enables our customers to uncover complex risks, identify hidden opportunities and see what others can’t see, helping them to make smarter, more-timely decisions, with greater clarity.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions helps many of the world’s most recognisable financial brands to cut through the noise and see what matters when assessing complex fraud and identity verification challenges or navigating the complexity of KYC, AML, and other CDD screening processes.

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Feedzai

Feedzai

Feedzai is the world’s first RiskOps platform, and the market leader in safeguarding global commerce with today’s most advanced cloud-based risk manag...

Feedzai is the world’s first RiskOps platform, and the market leader in safeguarding global commerce with today’s most advanced cloud-based risk management platform, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. 
Feedzai is securing the transition to a cashless world while enabling digital trust in every transaction and payment type. 
 
The world’s largest banks, processors, and retailers trust Feedzai to protect trillions of dollars and manage risk while improving the customer experience for everyday users, without compromising privacy.  With a valuation of +$1.5B, the company’s technology protects 900 million people in 190 countries. For more information, visit feedzai.com.

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ComplyAdvantage

ComplyAdvantage

ComplyAdvantage is a leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and fraud detection technology. ComplyAdvantage’s mission is to neutralize ...

ComplyAdvantage is a leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and fraud detection technology. ComplyAdvantage’s mission is to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crimes. More than 1,000 enterprises in 75 countries rely on ComplyAdvantage to understand the risk of who they’re doing business with through the world’s only global, real-time database of people and companies. 

ComplyAdvantage has five global hubs in New York, London, Singapore, Cluj-Napoca, and Lisbon and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers, Index Ventures, and Balderton Capital. Learn more at complyadvantage.com.

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PA

PA

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity...

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. 

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. 

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

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Plenitude

Plenitude

Plenitude provides market-leading Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) advisory, transformation, technology, data analytics, and managed services. We are ...

Plenitude provides market-leading Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) advisory, transformation, technology, data analytics, and managed services. We are committed to building a secure financial system, safeguarding society, and empowering our clients to meet their regulatory obligations.

Appointed to the FCA’s Skilled Person Panel for Financial Crime, we enable our clients to stay ahead of emerging risks and evolving regulations by optimising systems and controls, leveraging the latest AI-powered technology and data analytics, in order to drive greater effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability, reducing the overall cost of compliance. Our best-in-class team come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. This breadth and depth of industry and deep subject matter expertise, alongside our scalable, full-service offering and tech-enabled delivery, enables us to meet all of our clients’ needs, inspiring confidence and delivering excellence. 

We work with a broad range of retail, commercial and investment banks, insurers, asset managers, as well as payment service firms, electronic money issuers, FinTechs and crypto firms across the world, ranging from startups to global financial institutions. We have a proven delivery track record and have provided advisory and transformation services on some of the most challenging projects in the industry. Our depth of expertise and quality of service, combined with our commercial integrity, competitive rates and innovation, is second to none. Discover more about our services and see why our integrity, passion and delivery excellence have been praised by so many clients.

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Sayari

Sayari

Sayari is the counterparty and supply chain risk intelligence provider trusted by government agencies, multinational corporations, and financial insti...

Sayari is the counterparty and supply chain risk intelligence provider trusted by government agencies, multinational corporations, and financial institutions. Its intuitive network analysis platform surfaces hidden risk through integrated corporate ownership, supply chain, trade transaction and risk intelligence data from over 250 jurisdictions.

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ThreatFabric

ThreatFabric

ThreatFabric is a leading company in online fraud, mobile malware, and threat intelligence. Founded in 2015 and based in Amsterdam, ThreatFabric offer...

ThreatFabric is a leading company in online fraud, mobile malware, and threat intelligence. Founded in 2015 and based in Amsterdam, ThreatFabric offers data-driven solutions to protect the financial sector. Their platforms help major brands prevent malware-assisted fraud, scams, account takeover, device takeover, and information theft, ensuring customer confidence, trust, and loyalty. 

ThreatFabric has a diverse team of experts, data scientists, and thought leaders from around the world. Their innovative technology leverages thousands of indicators from devices, behaviour, identity, and intelligence. They regularly contribute to the infosec community by sharing insights, trends, and threat intelligence. Learn more at https://www.threatfabric.com/

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Blackdot Solutions

Blackdot Solutions

Blackdot Solutions is a UK-founded and owned SME and enterprise software company based in Cambridge. Our mission is to help investigators use OSINT fo...

Blackdot Solutions is a UK-founded and owned SME and enterprise software company based in Cambridge. Our mission is to help investigators use OSINT for good by equipping them with the software they need to combat criminal activity effectively.

Our end-to-end OSINT investigations platform, Videris, was designed to centralise and streamline the OSINT workflows of anti-financial crime investigators in private and public sectors alike. Users of Videris can expect to work up to five times faster, generating higher-quality actionable intelligence. Organisations equipped with Videris can effectively future-proof their investigations with the innovative technology needed to combat financial crime effectively.

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Blackdot Solutions

Blackdot Solutions

Blackdot Solutions is a UK-founded and owned SME and enterprise software company based in Cambridge. Our mission is to help investigators use OSINT fo...

Blackdot Solutions is a UK-founded and owned SME and enterprise software company based in Cambridge. Our mission is to help investigators use OSINT for good by equipping them with the software they need to combat criminal activity effectively.

Our end-to-end OSINT investigations platform, Videris, was designed to centralise and streamline the OSINT workflows of anti-financial crime investigators in private and public sectors alike. Users of Videris can expect to work up to five times faster, generating higher-quality actionable intelligence. Organisations equipped with Videris can effectively future-proof their investigations with the innovative technology needed to combat financial crime effectively.

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CIFAS

CIFAS

Cifas leads the fight against fraud and financial crime by sharing data, intelligence and learning. Hundreds of organisations drawn from all sectors, ...

Cifas leads the fight against fraud and financial crime by sharing data, intelligence and learning. Hundreds of organisations drawn from all sectors, work together with Cifas to stop fraud and financial crime. 

For 35 years, Cifas has facilitated the sharing of trusted fraud risk data of unparalleled depth and diversity; hosting the largest databases of fraud risk in the UK. 

Cifas provides dynamic intelligence and cutting edge fraud prevention tools to understand the threat landscape and strengthen organisations response to fraud and financial crime.  

They deliver accredited education and trusted training for organisations and individuals. 

Cifas will always be there to seek out and stop fraud and financial crime. When organisations join Cifas, they join the most effective defence against fraud and financial crime in the UK. 

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Clue Software

Clue Software

Clue offers a comprehensive solution for intelligence, investigation, and case management. Trusted by law enforcement, the public sector, and lea...

Clue offers a comprehensive solution for intelligence, investigation, and case management. 

Trusted by law enforcement, the public sector, and leading corporations, Clue empowers organisations to detect threats early, conduct agile investigations, and protect clients' assets.

By centralising intelligence from diverse sources, Clue simplifies management and uncovers pivotal insights to proactively mitigate emerging threats. Its advanced technology supports compliant, efficient, and collaborative investigations, enabling users to stay ahead in the fight against economic crime and safeguard both customer money and commercial banks' assets.

Join a global intelligence and investigations community with Clue and contribute to a safer, more secure financial landscape.

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ComplyAdvantage

ComplyAdvantage

ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry's leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. ComplyAdvantage's mission ...

ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry's leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. ComplyAdvantage's mission is to neutralize the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime. More than 1000 companies rely on ComplyAdvantage to understand the risk of who they're doing business with through the world's only global, real-time database of people and companies. The company identifies thousands of risk events daily from millions of structured and unstructured data points.

ComplyAdvantage has four global hubs in New York, London, Singapore, and Cluj-Napoca and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers, Index Ventures, and Balderton Capital. Learn more at complyadvantage.com.

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DCM Operations

DCM Operations

DCM provide rapid response services and business outsourcing to prevent Financial Crime and manage operational demand. We offer deep domain expertise,...

DCM provide rapid response services and business outsourcing to prevent Financial Crime and manage operational demand. We offer deep domain expertise, fast response, scalability, and continuity of trusted teams.

We operate three business divisions to support the unique needs of our customers:

Managed services – supporting client on-boarding, periodic and on-going reviews, and complex remediation 

Advisory – full spectrum support covering; Financial Crime Control assessments, policy and Framework build, AML & Safeguarding Audits, Regulatory gap assessments & investigations 

Standby Service - quick intervention with maximum flexibility - rapid response deployment of our operational taskforce to assist with urgent needs or unexpected events (BAU surges, Backlog clearance or volume spike cover).

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The Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU)

The Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU)

The Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU) is a unique proactive police unit, with a national remit, formed as a partnership between UK Finance...

The Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU) is a unique proactive police unit, with a national remit, formed as a partnership between UK Finance, the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police together with the Home Office.

It is fully sponsored by the banking and finance industry, with an ongoing brief to investigate, target and, where appropriate, arrest and seek successful prosecution of offenders responsible for card, cheque and payment fraud crimes.

It is headed up by a Detective Chief Inspector and comprises officers from the Metropolitan and City of London police forces who work alongside banking industry fraud investigators and colleagues.

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Digital Marketplace

Digital Marketplace

UK Finance’s Digital Marketplace features, from a number of select organisations, certain products and services that offer solutions to the chall...

UK Finance’s Digital Marketplace features, from a number of select organisations, certain products and services that offer solutions to the challenges our members face, or which may be of interest more generally.

Membership of UK Finance offers members access to these products and services, many of which have favourable rates. Some of the products and services listed are only available exclusively to UK Finance members.

UK Finance has worked on behalf of our members to secure these benefits to save your organisation time, money, and resources.

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Don't Be Fooled

Don't Be Fooled

Don’t Be Fooled is a collaboration between UK Finance and Cifas. It aims to inform students and young people about the risks of giving out their bank ...

Don’t Be Fooled is a collaboration between UK Finance and Cifas. It aims to inform students and young people about the risks of giving out their bank details, and deter them from becoming money mules.

As part of the campaign, we recently worked with education specialists iChild to create a free education resource pack for primary and secondary school pupils to educate about the dangers of being a money mule.

The resource pack is available to schools across the country and contain positive messages on how pupils can stay safe online and in person, protect their financial privacy, friends and family.

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Enveil

Enveil

Enveil is a pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use to enable secure data usage, sharing, collaboration, and monetisati...

Enveil is a pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use to enable secure data usage, sharing, collaboration, and monetisation. The business-enabling and privacy-preserving capabilities delivered by its award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions change the paradigm of how and where organizations can leverage data to unlock value at scale.

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Feedzai

Feedzai

Feedzai is the world’s first RiskOps platform, and the market leader in safeguarding global commerce with today’s most advanced cloud-based risk manag...

Feedzai is the world’s first RiskOps platform, and the market leader in safeguarding global commerce with today’s most advanced cloud-based risk management platform, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. 
Feedzai is securing the transition to a cashless world while enabling digital trust in every transaction and payment type. 
 
The world’s largest banks, processors, and retailers trust Feedzai to protect trillions of dollars and manage risk while improving the customer experience for everyday users, without compromising privacy.  With a valuation of +$1.5B, the company’s technology protects 900 million people in 190 countries. For more information, visit feedzai.com.

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FORM3

FORM3

At Form3, the introduction of our APP Fraud Prevention solution is transforming the landscape of account-to-account payments. This solution ensures ev...

At Form3, the introduction of our APP Fraud Prevention solution is transforming the landscape of account-to-account payments. This solution ensures every transaction whether inbound or outbound is comprehensively managed to prevent financial crime, placing control firmly back in the hands of businesses.

Established in 2016, Form3 challenges the conventional payment infrastructure with our robust, always-on, cloud-native, Payments-as-a-Service platform. Our offering goes beyond traditional gateway services to include comprehensive fraud prevention, sophisticated payment orchestration, and in-depth data metrics. As a trusted partner to prominent Tier 1 banks and the fastest-growing fintechs in the UK and Europe, Form3 is committed to enhancing your critical payments architecture. Discover how at www.form3.tech/fraud

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Kharon

Kharon

Kharon helps leading organisations identify a wide range of sanctions and compliance risks, critical to managing financial crimes, supply chain exposu...

Kharon helps leading organisations identify a wide range of sanctions and compliance risks, critical to managing financial crimes, supply chain exposure, export controls, investment risk, and more. 

Powered by The Kharon Core—the premier global risk analytics engine—our solutions deliver essential insights needed for an all-encompassing perspective on illicit finance and other commercial risks.

The Kharon leadership team includes former senior officials from the U.S. Government who have leveraged their unique expertise to build a risk management solution that’s trusted by the world’s top financial institutions, global corporates, and professional services firms.

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LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

With our unique approach to data, insight, and analysis enables our customers to uncover complex risks, identify hidden opportunities and see what oth...

With our unique approach to data, insight, and analysis enables our customers to uncover complex risks, identify hidden opportunities and see what others can’t see, helping them to make smarter, more-timely decisions, with greater clarity.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions helps many of the world’s most recognisable financial brands to cut through the noise and see what matters when assessing complex fraud and identity verification challenges or navigating the complexity of KYC, AML, and other CDD screening processes. 

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Smartnumbers

Smartnumbers

We help companies in the fight against fraud. Our solutions help protect organisations from downstream fraud by ensuring the contact centre stays sec...

We help companies in the fight against fraud.

Our solutions help protect organisations from downstream fraud by ensuring the contact centre stays secure. 

Our cloud-based AI-powered platform - Smartnumbers Protect - analyses call signalling data, caller behaviour and data on known fraudsters shared by our customers to assign a risk rating to incoming calls. This helps contact centres prevent downstream fraud and improve customer experience for genuine callers.

Through the Smartnumbers Consortium, our community of customers and partners share intelligence in real time on the fraudsters they know. Organisations are also able to connect and collaborate through Smartnumbers Consortium events

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Synectics Solutions

Synectics Solutions

Synectics Solutions creates bespoke solutions which mitigate financial and identity fraud with outstanding effectiveness.  For over 30 years...

Synectics Solutions creates bespoke solutions which mitigate financial and identity fraud with outstanding effectiveness.  

For over 30 years, it has championed the use of syndicated data across the private and public sectors to prevent crime, appropriately manage risk, better understand customers, and promote financial inclusion.  

Tier 1 banks, leading insurers, fintechs and the Cabinet Office trust Synectics Solutions’ award-winning services, which have prevented fraud losses surpassing five billion pounds.    

Synectics Solutions wins many accolades for its pioneering work, including the European Insurance Technology awards and European/UK FinTech awards. In addition, its people are proud contributors to local charities and initiatives. 

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Thomson Reuters® Confirmation

Thomson Reuters® Confirmation

Thomson Reuters Confirmation is the leading digital platform and global network for confirming financial data. We help auditors, bankers, lawyers and ...

Thomson Reuters Confirmation is the leading digital platform and global network for confirming financial data. We help auditors, bankers, lawyers and businesses around the world work more efficiently, find truth in financial data, and detect fraud. Recognised as the industry standard for digital verification worldwide, today Confirmation helps 1.5 million customers in 170 countries to confirm financial data. 

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Telesign

Telesign

Telesign provides Continuous Trust™ to leading global enterprises by connecting, protecting, and defending their digital identities. Telesign verifies...

Telesign provides Continuous Trust™ to leading global enterprises by connecting, protecting, and defending their digital identities. Telesign verifies over five billion unique phone numbers a month, representing half of the world’s mobile users, and provides insights into the remaining billions. The company’s powerful machine learning and extensive data science deliver identity risk recommendations with a unique combination of speed, accuracy, and global reach. Telesign solutions provide fraud protection, secure communications, and enable the digital economy by helping companies and customers to engage with confidence. 

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Take Five to Stop Fraud

Take Five to Stop Fraud

Take Five is a national campaign that offers straight-forward and impartial advice to help everyone protect themselves from preventable financial frau...

Take Five is a national campaign that offers straight-forward and impartial advice to help everyone protect themselves from preventable financial fraud. This includes email deception and phone-based scams as well as online fraud – particularly where criminals impersonate trusted organisations.

Led by UK Finance, the campaign is delivered with and through a range of partners in the UK payments industry, financial services firms, law enforcement agencies, telecommunication providers, commercial, public and third sector organisations.

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UK Finance

UK Finance

UK Finance delivers an extensive programme of events and training courses covering the latest developments in finance and banking. Explore a dive...

UK Finance delivers an extensive programme of events and training courses covering the latest developments in finance and banking. 

Explore a diverse range of topics designed to advance your career and broaden your knowledge. Stay informed on regulatory updates to ensure you’re up to date with the latest developments.  

Online learning
UK Finance delivers an exciting and extensive programme of digital training throughout the year. Our Learning Hub offers a range of award-winning eLearning content and hosts our in-depth Invoice Finance and Asset based Lending certification programme.

In-house training solutions
We can unlock the full potential of your team with our tailored in-house training solutions. Whether you are seeking to upskill your team, enhance productivity or foster a culture of continuous learning, we can deliver customised training programs designed to meet your specific needs.

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ThreatFabric

ThreatFabric

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Amsterdam, ThreatFabric is a fast-growing fraud company and one of Europe’s thought leaders in onl...

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Amsterdam, ThreatFabric is a fast-growing fraud company and one of Europe’s thought leaders in online fraud detection and intelligence. ThreatFabric’s Fraud Risk Suite enables safe and frictionless payment journeys by integrating industry-leading threat intelligence, behavioural analytics, advanced device fingerprinting and 10.000+ adaptive fraud indicators.

In an age of ever-changing fraud, ThreatFabric helps banks stay in control of APP fraud, Account Takeover (ATO) fraud, Device Takeover (DTO) fraud, and more. Using a proactive fraud strategy, the never-ending cat & mouse game with fraudsters is avoided, creating peace of mind for banks and their customers.

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Sayari

Sayari

Sayari is the counterparty and supply chain risk intelligence provider trusted by government agencies, multinational corporations, and financial insti...

Sayari is the counterparty and supply chain risk intelligence provider trusted by government agencies, multinational corporations, and financial institutions. Its intuitive network analysis platform surfaces hidden risk through integrated corporate ownership, supply chain, trade transaction and risk intelligence data from over 250 jurisdictions.

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Decision makers from:

  • Economic Crime
  • Capital Markets
  • Commercial Finance
  • Payments
  • Financial and Risk
  • Personal Finance
  • Academia
  • Government
  • Technology
  • Law enforcement

Some of our attendees this year:

Accenture (UK) Ltd
Ashurst LLP
Bank Leumi (UK) plc
Banking Circle
Barclays Plc
BP Plc
City of London Corporation
City of London Police
Close Brothers
Danske Bank
Deloitte LLP
DF Capital
Dun & Bradstreet
Enveil
Equiniti Lenvi
Eversheds Sutherland
Experian
Fair Isaac Services Ltd
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Ford Motor Company
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
HM Treasury
Home Office
HSBC UK Bank Plc
Independent Age
Investec Bank Plc
Kroll Advisory Ltd
Landmark Mortgages Limited
Lloyds Banking Group
Metropolitan Police
National Crime Agency (NCA)
National Economic Crime Centre (NECC)
Nationwide Building Society
NatWest Group Plc
Ofcom
PA Consulting Services Ltd
Paragon Banking  Group
Pay.UK
Payments Systems Regulator
Pinsent Masons LLP
Principality Building Society
Reliance Bank Ltd
Riyad Bank
Royal United Services Institute
Sainsbury's Bank plc
Santander UK Plc
Societe Generale
Spring Financial Group Ltd (t/a MQUBE)
Standard Chartered
Starling Bank Limited
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd
SWIFT Ltd
Swift UK & Ireland Ltd
The Children's Society
TLT LLP
TSB Bank
Virgin Money UK Plc
Visa Europe
Walker Morris LLP