ECONOMIC CRIME CONGRESS 2024

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.
Economic Crime Congress 2024
CPD certified
This event provides CPD accreditation from The CPD Certification Service. We offer a valuable opportunity to increase your knowledge and hear from senior stakeholders across Economic Crime as they debate the issues that matter.
CPD-Certified
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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Regulatory change and scrutiny
Opportunities and challenges for 2025
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 2025.

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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Publication
Half Year Fraud Report 2024
Blog
How financial institutions can lead the way in digital trust for 2025
Press release
Take Five to Stop FraudEmpowering English as a Second Language speakers to guard against scams

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 or the public sector and are interested in attending, you may be eligible for a £247.50 +VAT 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
  • APP reimbursement requirement
  • What is keeping MLROs up at night?
  • Mitigating against the harms caused online
  • The threats and opportunities of crypto in economic crime
  • The international economic crime landscape
  • Policing in tomorrow’s world
  • Minimising the Threats to Counter Proliferation Financing Risks
     

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.

 

https://risk.lexisnexis.co.uk/see-what-matters?trmid=BSUKFC24.BSUKFC24.Bnk.WS3P-1360001

 

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, National Economic Crime Centre (NECC)

Dan Holmes

Dan Holmes

Director of Banking Fraud, Identity & Market Strategy, Feedzai

Dan leads the Subject Matter Expert & Market Strategy team for Fraud & Identity. He collaborates closely with banks worldwide and supports the...

Dan leads the Subject Matter Expert & Market Strategy team for Fraud & Identity. He 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 financial crime market.

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.

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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 OBE

Ben Donaldson OBE

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 Intelligence and Investigations, 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 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 Director, Lloyds Banking Group

Liz is the Consumer Fraud Director for Lloyds Banking Group. She is hugely passionate about protecting consumers and the Bank, keeping them safe ...

Liz is the Consumer Fraud Director for Lloyds Banking Group. She is hugely passionate about protecting consumers and the Bank, keeping them safe from the harms of fraud.

Liz leads a team of experts who play a vital role in tackling the ever-evolving fraud risk landscape.

She has previously 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 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

Global Head of Fraud and Financial Crime, PA Consulting

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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Dr. Jon Higham

Dr. Jon Higham

Online Safety Policy Director, Ofcom

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

Dr. 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 Consulting

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

David leads the risk and regulation team at PA Consulting, 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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Marcus Wogart

Marcus Wogart

Economic Crime Product Service Board Chair & Director of Non-Financial Risk, NatWest Group

Marcus has over 20-years of experience in financial crime and compliance oversight, having worked at HSBC, Barclays, UBS and Lloyds. He has extensive ...

Marcus has over 20-years of experience in financial crime and compliance oversight, having worked at HSBC, Barclays, UBS and Lloyds. He has extensive knowledge of the UK and international financial services markets with a strong breadth of product and franchise knowledge across retail, wealth, corporate and investment banking. Marcus has held senior roles across all key financial crime disciplines.

He has worked with UK, US and other key global regulators as well as key bodies including the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT), the European Commission as well as the IMF. Marcus was until recently co-chair of the Wolfsberg Group and is currently the Chair of the Economic Crime Product & Service Board at UK Finance.

He is currently Director of Non-Financial Risk and responsible for Compliance, Operational Risk and Financial Crime for NatWest Group.

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Niall Walker

Niall Walker

Group Director Economic Crime Prevention, Lloyds Banking Group

Niall is the Group Director of Economic Crime Prevention for Lloyds Banking Group. He is responsible for all aspects of Fraud and Financial Crime acro...

Niall is the Group Director of Economic Crime Prevention for Lloyds Banking Group. He is responsible for all aspects of Fraud and Financial Crime across the group. Niall brings experience across a range of firms and roles in the financial services industry covering Banking, Hedge Funds, Mass Market Financial Advice and Management Consulting in the first and second lines of defence. Niall joined from Barclays where as Managing Director for Compliance Risk Frameworks he was responsible for the global framework design for Financial Crime and Conduct. During his 10 years at Barclays, Niall also held a number of senior leadership roles within the second line Financial Crime programme with responsibility for AML, Sanctions and ABC.

 

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Ronya Naim

Ronya Naim

MLRO/SMF17 and Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Clearbank

Ronya Naim is the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and Head of Financial Crime Compliance at ClearBank. She has been working in the financial...

Ronya Naim is the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and Head of Financial Crime Compliance at ClearBank. She has been working in the financial crime field for 16 years and has held financial crime roles at multiple financial institutions, such as JPMorgan, Barclays, and the Europe Arab Bank. Throughout her career she has covered a multitude of businesses, including payments, trade finance, corporate banking, lending, and wealth management. She has a postgraduate degree in Social Anthropology of Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) where she her dissertation focused on Corruption. In addition to her banking roles, she has also consulted in the Middle East on corruption and AML in the art world.

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Paddy O'Hara

Paddy O'Hara

Money Laundering Reporting Officer, First Bank

Paddy is currently the MLRO for FirstBank UK, a subsidiary of the First Bank of Nigeria.He has more than 30 years’ experience in managing financial cr...

Paddy is currently the MLRO for FirstBank UK, a subsidiary of the First Bank of Nigeria.

He has more than 30 years’ experience in managing financial crime, starting as a policeman in the Metropolitan and Royal Hong Kong Police, where he latterly specialised in fraud investigation. 

Paddy moved to the private sector in 1997, and spent 15 years with JP Morgan in Singapore, London and Hong Kong, spending the last seven years as the Head of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) for Asia.

In 2013, Paddy Joined Standard Chartered as the Head of FCC for North East Asia, focused on building, improving and maintaining the financial crime programme in response to issues highlighted by US and UK regulators. His remit was expanded to the whole of Asia in 2020. Paddy was co-head of the nascent Asia Wolfsberg Group, working with other prominent global banks to clarify and develop guidance for the management of financial crime risk. 

In 2021, Paddy returned to the UK with his family, and worked for a year at Deutsche Bank with the UK MLRO and global Financial Crime Training team.

In late 2023, Paddy joined FirstBank UK as the MLRO.

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Mark Tierney

Mark Tierney

CEO, Stop Scams UK

Mark Tierney has held the role of CEO for Stop Scams UK for the past four years, overseeing a rapid growth in membership from across the banking, tech...

Mark Tierney has held the role of CEO for Stop Scams UK for the past four years, overseeing a rapid growth in membership from across the banking, technology and telecoms sectors. Mark has fostered a cross-sector incubator where all three sectors collaborate to overcome policy, technical and cultural barriers to fight fraud at source. He is committed to shifting the focus towards prevention, advocating for innovation and proactive strategies.

Mark Tierney has held the role of CEO for Stop Scams UK for the past four years, overseeing a rapid growth in membership from across the banking, technology and telecoms sectors. Mark has fostered a cross-sector incubator where all three sectors collaborate to overcome policy, technical and cultural barriers to fight fraud at source. He is committed to shifting the focus towards prevention, advocating for innovation and proactive strategies.  

Mark believes that tackling fraud requires shared visions, shared resources, and shared intelligence across industries. He is a vocal supporter of data-sharing initiatives to disrupt fraud networks. Under his leadership, Stop Scams UK is expanding its approach to consider international partnerships, recognising that fraud is a global challenge that requires coordinated action. 

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Zeena Saleh

Zeena Saleh

Partner, Dentons

Zeena holds the role of Partner in the Dentons London office with more than 10 years of extensive experience advising financial institutions, regulato...

Zeena holds the role of Partner in the Dentons London office with more than 10 years of extensive experience advising financial institutions, regulators, listed companies, regulated investment exchanges and senior executives in respect of contentious regulatory and criminal enforcement action. Her experience extends to conducting internal investigations with an international focus involving alleged regulatory breaches, market abuse and corporate crime, including fraud, money laundering, and bribery and corruption.

In addition to completing secondments with the litigation and investigation teams at two retail banks, Zeena has also completed a secondment with the EMEA internal investigations and conduct team at an international investment bank.

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Tom Garner

Tom Garner

Director Solutions Consulting, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Tom Garner works closely with our customers and prospects, leading a team that provides consulting services and SME knowledge on fraud and identity, e...

Tom Garner works closely with our customers and prospects, leading a team that provides consulting services and SME knowledge on fraud and identity, enabling organisations across multiple industries and regions to leverage LexisNexis Risk Solutions products, data and advanced analytics to effectively manage risk.

Prior to joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions in 2018, Tom has over 10 years’ experience in banking including roles at Lloyds Bank, TSB and banking startups, holding several fraud related roles where he was responsible for managing digital fraud and security, application fraud and card fraud.

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Andy Humbles

Andy Humbles

Managing Director Sanctions Compliance, JP Morgan

Andy Humbles is a Managing Director based in Bournemouth in UK, and is JPMorgan’s Deputy Global Head of Sanctions Compliance as well as the Global Hea...

Andy Humbles is a Managing Director based in Bournemouth in UK, and is JPMorgan’s Deputy Global Head of Sanctions Compliance as well as the Global Head of Sanctions Compliance for the Corporate and Investment Bank, with responsibility for co-ordinating day-to-day compliance with the U.S. and international sanctions programs. Andy has worked at JPMorgan since 2003. Prior to joining compliance in 2012, he worked in various project and operations management roles, principally supporting equity and fixed income products within the Markets business within JPMorgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank. Andy graduated with a degree in Law, and started his career in retail banking at Lloyds Bank, after which he joined Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Division in 1997 working in a variety of operations roles both in London and Japan.

He regularly participates in industry dialogue around many of the key sanctions issues, with a particular focus on the challenges posed by the Ukraine / Russia related sanctions over the past 8 years. He was Chair of the UK Finance Sanctions Panel between 2014 and 2020 and is member of UK Finance’s Sanctions Committee. Through these roles, he regularly engages in industry discussions with the European Commission, OFAC, US State Department, European Banking Federation and various UK government departments in the context of key sanctions developments, and has presented at a number of external training seminars and workshops on similar themes.

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Nathalie von Taaffe

Nathalie von Taaffe

Managing Director Global Head of Sanctions, ABC, Financial Crime, Barclays

Nathalie is a Managing Director at Barclays where she is the OFAC Officer and Global Head of Sanctions, ABC and Anti-Tax Evasion, Financial Crime Comp...

Nathalie is a Managing Director at Barclays where she is the OFAC Officer and Global Head of Sanctions, ABC and Anti-Tax Evasion, Financial Crime Compliance. Nathalie was previously Managing Director and Group Head of Financial Crime Compliance and Group MLRO for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Standard Bank (ICBCS). In that role, Nathalie was responsible for all aspects of ICBCS’ sanctions and wider financial crime compliance programme and provided strategic counsel in relation to complex cross-border financial crime issues. Before joining ICBCS, Nathalie was Head of ABC and Sanctions at a global Swiss bank, covering the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.

Prior to working in-house, Nathalie was a white collar criminal defence attorney for WilmerHale in Washington, DC. She also has extensive experience working for a number of international and national government employers and clients, such as the United Nations, the US House of Representatives and the German Bundestag. Nathalie is the former chair of the anti-corruption compliance banking industry forum, the Madison Group and has served as chair and advisor to a variety of expert groups including the International Bar Association, Criminal Law Committee, the American Bar Association former co-chair of UK Finance’s Sanctions Panel and the current Chair of UK Finance’s Sanctions Committee.

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Freya Page

Freya Page

Director of Global Outreach, Kharon

Freya is a sanctions specialist working with public and private sectors across the globe to ensure proper sanctions compliance, enforcement, impl...

Freya is a sanctions specialist working with public and private sectors across the globe to ensure proper sanctions compliance, enforcement, implementation and understanding. Starting in the illicit finance field with HM Treasury in 2015 she went on to be a founding member of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI). Freya has undertaken roles across compliance, enforcement, guidance and engagement.

As Director of Global Outreach at Kharon, Freya now works as a thought leader across a number of geographic sanctions and thematic regimes, speaking regularly to international governments, industry, and non-profits to promote the understanding and use of compliance risk solutions. Freya regularly authors and collaborates on white papers and articles as well as contributing to roundtable discussions, and co-chairs the UK Finance Associate Members Panel.

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Dianne Doodnath

Dianne Doodnath

Principal, Remote Payment Channels, UK Finance

Dianne is a Remote Payment Channels fraud threat lead at UK Finance, working closely with financial institutions and other sectors to close vulnerabil...

Dianne is a Remote Payment Channels fraud threat lead at UK Finance, working closely with financial institutions and other sectors to close vulnerabilities beyond the perimeter of the banks. Having worked in fraud prevention for over 17 years, Dianne now primarily engages with companies outside the FI sector to encourage and foster collaborative initiative to protect mutual customers. 

Prior to joining UK Finance, Dianne worked in the gambling sector mitigating economic crime and meeting regulatory reporting requirements. 

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Nadine Weyers

Nadine Weyers

MLRO-Director of Economic Crime Risk and Compliance, Nationwide Building Society

Nadine is a solicitor by training and brings over 20 years’ experience in Economic crime and compliance oversight in both the UK and International mar...

Nadine is a solicitor by training and brings over 20 years’ experience in Economic crime and compliance oversight in both the UK and International markets. She has held varied roles in a few top tier Global Financial service firms including Credit Suisse, Deutsche, JP Morgan and Barclays.

Nadine joined Nationwide Building Society in late 2022 and is responsible for providing oversight of all aspects of Fraud and Financial Crime risk management as the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO). During her prior 17 years at Barclays, she held several senior leadership roles within the second line Financial Crime Function, including MLRO for Europe Retail and Business banking, Global Head of Sanctions, Interim Head of Barclays Africa Group Limited and finally as the MLRO for the UK ring fenced bank. Throughout her career she has covered a multitude of business areas and worked with UK, US and other key global Regulator’s.

 

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Anu Ratan

Anu Ratan

Director, EMEA Head of Regulatory Change and Global Programmes, BNY

Anu has extensive 22 plus years of experience in UK, USA and Asia including global multi-year complex Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) transformation ...

Anu has extensive 22 plus years of experience in UK, USA and Asia including global multi-year complex Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) transformation initiatives.

She is also Fellow of International Compliance Association and specialises in drafting of Global AML Policy, Standards, and global implementation, advisory at Group / Business / Regional Level.

Anu is currently EMEA Head of FCC Regulatory Change and Global Programmes at BNY. She has previously worked with HSBC, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, RBS, Cisco Financial Services and a FinTech company.

Anu has a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Engineering and started her career in Technology before moving onto FCC.
 

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Sinéad Goss

Sinéad Goss

EMEA Head, AML, Anti-Bribery and Sanctions Legal, Citi

Sinéad Goss is the General Counsel for AML, Anti-Bribery and Sanctions Legal across the UK, Europe and Middle East and Africa at Citi. Having original...

Sinéad Goss is the General Counsel for AML, Anti-Bribery and Sanctions Legal across the UK, Europe and Middle East and Africa at Citi. Having originally trained and qualified as a corporate solicitor she joined Citi in 2007 as the EMEA Head, Investment Banking Legal. Sinéad fulfilled this role for 7 years before moving into her current role in 2014. She provides legal advice to the bank on complex AML, Anti-bribery and sanctions issues across the region, including both advisory and investigations work, and has been substantially involved in navigation of the Russia/Ukraine sanctions. 

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Kathryn Westmore

Kathryn Westmore

Senior Research Fellow, RUSI – Royal United Services Institute Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies

Kathryn is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI. She leads the Financial Crime Policy Programme which provides evid...

Kathryn is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI. She leads the Financial Crime Policy Programme which provides evidence-based research on the implementation and evolution of anti-financial crime policy both in the UK and globally. Prior to joining RUSI, Kathryn spent 15 years at PwC where she worked across the regulated sector, advising institutions on how best to manage their financial crime risks and meet their regulatory obligations. 

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John Sudbury

John Sudbury

Cyber Intelligence Specialist, Metro Bank

John has over a decade of experience in counter-adversarial roles within the financial services sector. With experience in Fraud, Financial Crime, and...

John has over a decade of experience in counter-adversarial roles within the financial services sector. With experience in Fraud, Financial Crime, and Information Security functions, he developed a holistic threat intelligence model which provides both operational and strategic support to his organisation, as well as the wider industry through participation in public-private sector partnerships.

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Tracey Carr

Tracey Carr

Head of Fraud Intelligence, Santander

Tracey Carr is currently the Head of Fraud Intelligence at Santander. In the past Tracey has had numerous Fraud Management roles, her passion is shari...

Tracey Carr is currently the Head of Fraud Intelligence at Santander. In the past Tracey has had numerous Fraud Management roles, her passion is sharing intelligence across public and private sector and strongly believes by collaborating cross-sector, this will reduce the fraud threats we continue to see. Tracey is chair of the UKF Fraud Panel, Co-Chair of the National Economic Crime Command Fraud Public and Private Threat Group, she is also the retail members UKF representative for the DCPCU’s Strategic Tasking & Co-Ordination Group. 

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Abdellah Tayebi

Abdellah Tayebi

Director, Trade Finance Financial Crime, Commerz Bank

Abdellah leads the Trade Finance Financial Crime Programme at Commerzbank where his responsibility mainly revolves around managing Trade Sanctions and...

Abdellah leads the Trade Finance Financial Crime Programme at Commerzbank where his responsibility mainly revolves around managing Trade Sanctions and Export Controls risks with a specific focus on commodities. 

Abdellah has a wide range of experience from working at HSBC in the Middle East and North Africa region as part of the US monitor team. He has also worked at Santander covering Trade Finance Financial Crime. Before joining Commerzbank, he worked for First Abu Dhabi Bank as a Financial Crime Compliance Manager for their London branch.

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Dame Clare Moriarty

Dame Clare Moriarty

Chief Executive, Citizens Advice

Clare is Chief Executive of Citizens Advice and leads the national charity and network of local Citizens Advice charities across England & Wales. ...

Clare is Chief Executive of Citizens Advice and leads the national charity and network of local Citizens Advice charities across England & Wales. She was previously a civil servant for nearly 35 years, latterly as Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs from 2015 to 2019, and of the Department for Exiting the EU until its closure in January 2020.  After leaving the Civil Service, Clare chaired the Health Foundation’s Covid-19 impact inquiry and worked with organisations including Transport for London and the Bank of England.  She is a non-executive member of the Westminster Abbey Strategic Board, a trustee of the History of Parliament Trust and chairs the South Downs Partnership

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Claire Edwards

Claire Edwards

EMEA Head of Global Financial Crimes Compliance, J.P Morgan

Rakesh Patel

Rakesh Patel

Head of Sanctions Policy Oversight & Export Controls, HSBC

Rakesh Patel is the Head of Sanctions Policy Oversight & Export Controls at HSBC, with oversight responsibilities for HSBC’s sanctions and export ...

Rakesh Patel is the Head of Sanctions Policy Oversight & Export Controls at HSBC, with oversight responsibilities for HSBC’s sanctions and export controls policy and control framework globally.

Rakesh joined HSBC in 2014, when the bank was reforming and strengthening its sanctions and AML compliance capabilities under a US Deferred Prosecution Agreement which was successfully lifted in December 2017, and has since overseen further development and enhancements to support HSBC becoming a leader in managing financial crime risk.  Before this, Rakesh spent 14 years at Deloitte LLP working on a wide range of financial crime investigations across Sanctions, AML and AB&C. He began his career as a management consultant in the energy sector with Arthur D. Little Ltd. Rakesh is a regular speaker at industry events and is currently the co-Chair of the UK Finance Sanctions Panel.

He is a Chartered Management Accountant and holds a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London.

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Anila Haleem

Anila Haleem

Principal, Sanctions and Export Controls, UK Finance

Anila represents over 300 firms on sanctions compliance and export controls implementation at UK Finance, the collective voice for the banking and fin...

Anila represents over 300 firms on sanctions compliance and export controls implementation at UK Finance, the collective voice for the banking and finance sector. This includes advancing work with international regulatory bodies, governments and enforcement agencies to align on foreign policy objectives via public and private sector information.

Winner of the 2023 ICA Europe Awards, Anila is recognised and celebrated as Founder of the Women in Sanctions Forum and Co-host of the UK Finance Sanctions School podcast series, regularly bridging the gap as a generational leader promoting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

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Claer Barrett

Claer Barrett

Consumer Editor, Financial Times

Donald Toon

Donald Toon

Head of Threat Mitigation & Strategy, NatWest

Donald is the Head of Financial Crime Threat Mitigation for NatWest Group.  Prior to joining the bank in 2019, he was a civil servant for almost ...

Donald is the Head of Financial Crime Threat Mitigation for NatWest Group.  Prior to joining the bank in 2019, he was a civil servant for almost 30 years, spending most of that time with HMRC, where his last role was as  Director, Criminal Investigation.  From 2014 to 2019, Donald was the Director Economic Crime at the National Crime Agency, where one of his achievement was the establishment of the Joint Money laundering Intelligence Team – a public/private partnership between Law Enforcement, the FCA and banking to improve the effectiveness of the UK response to financial crime.”

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Ben Trim

Ben Trim

Head of Financial Crime Public Policy, HSBC & Money Laundering Advisory Panel Chair, HSBC

Ben Trim is Head of Group Financial Crime Public Policy at HSBC. Ben is a financial crime public policy specialist and leads a team who work with gove...

Ben Trim is Head of Group Financial Crime Public Policy at HSBC. Ben is a financial crime public policy specialist and leads a team who work with governments and international bodies to improve the tackling of economic crime and the management of financial crime risk. In the UK, Ben has worked closely with industry partners and the Government to development a closer partnership to meet these objectives. Ben is the chair of the UK Finance Money Laundering Advisory Panel, and a member of the UK Government's Public Private Steering Group - so has a deep understanding of the UK's Economic Crime Plan. Ben also chairs the Wolfsberg Group's Policy Consultations Working Group, and was previously a member of the APP Scams Steering Group.

Prior to HSBC, Ben spent over 12 years working in the centre of the UK Government. His last post was as Deputy Director for Foreign Policy in the National Security Secretariat. In this role, Ben provided strategic guidance to the Foreign Policy Team; delivering the Prime Minister's and National Security Council's (NSC) priorities. He also led work to embed and develop the NSC policies on prosperity and global growth. Ben's previous roles in Government include Head of the Ebola Unit within the NSS, and positions in the Foreign Office (leading counter-terrorism strategy) and the Prime Minister's Office (Prime Minister's Questions).

Ben holds a Masters in International Strategy and Diplomacy from the London School of Economics for which he was awarded a distinction. Ben is also married with two sons.

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Meeta Rughani

Meeta Rughani

Director, EME Head, Financial Crime Legal, Barclays

Giles Thomson

Giles Thomson

Director, Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, and Economic Crime, HM Treasury

Giles Thomson is the Director of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and Economic Crime at HM Treasury. He is responsible for the ...

Giles Thomson is the Director of the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and Economic Crime at HM Treasury. He is responsible for the UK’s AML/CTF policy, is the UK’s Head of Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force, and runs OFSI – the UK’s competent authority for the implementation and enforcement of financial sanctions. He has close to twenty years' experience in a range of roles across government, working extensively on economic crime policy before joining OFSI in November 2020. 

 

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Andrew Wigston

Andrew Wigston

Head of Department responsible for the supervision of Domestic Retail Banks

Andrew is the Head of Department responsible for the supervision of Domestic Retail Banks and also heads the FCA's Small Business Unit.   He...

Andrew is the Head of Department responsible for the supervision of Domestic Retail Banks and also heads the FCA's Small Business Unit.   He joined the FSA in 2012 and has previously led the FCA's ring-fencing project and the supervision of retail insurance firms.  He has also worked in the FCA's enforcement division (where he led on complex retail investigations).  Prior to joining the regulator, he was a partner in a law firm where he advised financial services firms and other large corporates on regulatory issues and complex disputes. 

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David Reed

David Reed

Commonwealth & Development Office, FCDO

David was appointed as Director for Sanctions at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2022. He is responsible for the development and d...

David was appointed as Director for Sanctions at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in 2022. He is responsible for the development and delivery of UK sanctions policy. Prior to taking on this new role, he served as UK Deputy High Commissioner to Canada, with a particular focus on economic and trade issues. He has had previous diplomatic postings to Poland, France and Cyprus. In London, he has worked in the Foreign Office’s EU Directorate and the Cabinet Office’s European and Global Issues Secretariat. Before becoming a civil servant, David worked in the City of London as a solicitor specialising in commercial litigation, including a secondment to Barclays.

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John Cusack

John Cusack

Chair, Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime, FCC

John Cusack is the first Chair of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime having been elected by Members in October 2020. He was previously...

John Cusack is the first Chair of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime having been elected by Members in October 2020. He was previously Global MLRO at UBS and Standard Chartered Bank and two-time Co-Chair of the Wolfsberg Group. He is an adviser to a number of financial institutions and RegTech providers, and engages with NGOs combatting wildlife and human trafficking. Mr Cusack is the author of Red Alert, the Global Threat Assessment 2019 and Sub Saharan Africa Threat Assessment 2020, as well as a regular publisher of papers including on topics such as fighting corruption, human trafficking, wildlife trafficking and ISIS and the editor and publisher of Financial Crime News.

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Rt Hon Lord Hanson of Flint

Rt Hon Lord Hanson of Flint

Minister of State, Home Office

Vivienne Artz OBE

Vivienne Artz OBE

CEO, FTSE Women Leaders Review and Data

Vivienne is the Chief Privacy Officer of Refinitiv. Previously, Vivienne was a Managing Director and Global Head of Privacy Legal and Head of Internat...

Vivienne is the Chief Privacy Officer of Refinitiv. Previously, Vivienne was a Managing Director and Global Head of Privacy Legal and Head of International for the Intellectual Property and Technology Law Group at Citi in the General Counsel's Office in London. Prior to joining Citi in 2000, Vivienne worked in private practice in London.

Vivienne chairs the International Regulatory Strategy Group Data Working Group and is on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP), having previously served on IAPP European Advisory Board and been co-chair of the IAPP Knowledge Net for the UK. Until recently, Vivienne was the chair of the AFME Data Protection Working Group, and participated in the UK Finance Data Protection Working Group. Vivienne is also on the Business and Law Advisory Board of St Mary's University in the UK.

Vivienne is the current President of Women in Banking and Finance, having been awarded the "Champion for Women" Award at the Women in Banking and Finance Awards for Achievement 2016. Vivienne has many years of experience leading a broad range of diversity initiatives and groups both within firms and across sectors.

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Adam Speakman

Adam Speakman

Head of 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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Anna Deibel-Jung

Anna Deibel-Jung

Deputy Director, Office for Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI)

Anna is responsible for establishing and leading the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) in the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). T...

Anna is responsible for establishing and leading the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) in the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). To maximise the impact of the unprecedented package of sanctions against Russia imposed by the UK, OTSI is being set up as a dedicated Government unit, equipped with new powers, which will strengthen trade sanctions implementation and enforcement. Legislation that will give OTSI civil enforcement powers is currently before Parliament; these powers come into force and OTSI will ‘go live’ on 10th October 2024. 

Anna is a highly experienced senior civil servant. Prior to moving to DBT to take up her current role last year, Anna spent most of her career at HM Treasury in wide-ranging leadership, policy and delivery roles, including leading the economic response to the Covid pandemic, on savings and pensions, consumer policy and financial services regulation.

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Phil Triggs

Phil Triggs

AML & Sanctions Policy Manager, Barclays

Phil is the Barclays group AML policy lead. He has 16 years’ experience in AML, sanctions and anti-bribery and corruption compliance, and specialises ...

Phil is the Barclays group AML policy lead. He has 16 years’ experience in AML, sanctions and anti-bribery and corruption compliance, and specialises in drafting global policies. Passionate about driving system-wide effectiveness through innovation and public and private collaboration, Phil is deputy chair of the UK Finance Money laundering Advisory Panel and Economic Crime Committee. Phil also works with the Wolfsberg Group, primarily on policy, legal and regulatory developments.

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Katie Darlington

Katie Darlington

Financial Exploitation Lead, The Children’s Society

In January 2024 Katie joined The Children’s Society’s National Prevention Programme which drives improved collaboration and professional practice...

In January 2024 Katie joined The Children’s Society’s National Prevention Programme which drives improved collaboration and professional practice around child exploitation across England and Wales. As the Financial Exploitation Lead, Katie is responsible for guiding the programmes response to Financial Exploitation.

Katie has a background in youth work and creative industries but has spent the last 6 years working to support victims of child trafficking and exploitation both directly and indirectly in specialist exploitation services. Katie has worked extensively with both internally and internationally trafficked children and young people who have experienced child criminal exploitation and overlapping harms including child financial exploitation and child sexual abuse and exploitation.

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James Babbage

James Babbage

Director General for Threats, NCA

Claire Simpson

Claire Simpson

Senior Manager - Policy, PSR

Lloyd Meadows

Lloyd Meadows

Director, Sanctions Advisory, Africa Middle East Group Sanctions Regional Team, Standard Chartered

Lloyd Meadows is responsible for regional sanctions policy and advisory work across the Africa & Middle East Group Sanctions Regional Team in Duba...

Lloyd Meadows is responsible for regional sanctions policy and advisory work across the Africa & Middle East Group Sanctions Regional Team in Dubai. He has undertaken two recent secondments with SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s FinTech arm. He was previously a Senior Sanctions Advisor in the Group Sanctions Specialist Team in London from 2014-16.

From 2009-14, Lloyd served in the State Programmes Team in the Counter Proliferation Department of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, where he worked on the implementation of sanctions regimes targeting Iran, Syria, Libya and North Korea. 

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Chris Ainsley

Chris Ainsley

Head of Fraud Strategy, Santander

Chris Ainsley has worked in the Fraud and Economic Crime environment for 20 years, and is currently the Head of Fraud Risk Management at Santander UK....

Chris Ainsley has worked in the Fraud and Economic Crime environment for 20 years, and is currently the Head of Fraud Risk Management at Santander UK. He is passionate about finding the best preventative solutions to fraud problems, educating consumers about fraud risks and managing all types of financial crime.

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Samuel Hill

Samuel Hill

Head of Financial Sanctions Policy, HM Treasury, HM Treasury

Joined HM Treasury in 2018, first working on securities and markets policy in the Financial Services Group before moving to the International Group to...

Joined HM Treasury in 2018, first working on securities and markets policy in the Financial Services Group before moving to the International Group to work on sanctions and counter-illicit finance policy. Then transferred to the Department of Health in 2021 before returning to HMT’s Sanctions and Illicit Finance Team in 2023. 

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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 Consulting

PA Consulting

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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Dentons

Dentons

As the world's largest law firm with more people in more places than any of our competitors, Dentons provides in-house teams with expert advice a...

As the world's largest law firm with more people in more places than any of our competitors, Dentons provides in-house teams with expert advice across a range of integrated services and locations. Our full-service approach and deep roots in the communities in which we operate enable us to deliver tailored solutions to our clients' most complex legal and business challenges. We work on prominent transactions, regulatory (including economic crime) and disputes with innovation and commercial expertise at the heart of what we do and have advised on some of the most significant deals, disputes and advisory matters in domestic and global markets.

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ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide is a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software. Our proven, secure and scalable software solutions enable leading c...

ACI Worldwide is a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software. Our proven, secure and scalable software solutions enable leading corporations, fintechs and financial disruptors to process and manage digital payments, power omni-commerce payments, present and process bill payments, and manage fraud and risk. We combine our global footprint with a local presence to drive the real-time digital transformation of payments and commerce.

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BioCatch

BioCatch

BioCatch is the leader in behavioral biometrics which analyses an online user's physical and cognitive digital behavior to protect individuals and the...

BioCatch is the leader in behavioral biometrics which analyses an online user's physical and cognitive digital behavior to protect individuals and their assets. Our mission is to unlock the power of behavior and deliver actionable insights to create a digital world where identity, trust and ease seamlessly co-exist. Leading financial institutions around the globe use BioCatch to more effectively fight fraud, drive digital transformation and accelerate business growth. With over a decade of analysing data, over 60 patents and unparalleled experience, BioCatch continues to innovate to solve tomorrow's problems. For more information, please visit www.biocatch.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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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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JT

JT

JT has evolved from a government-owned telecom provider into a global tech leader, offering diverse connectivity and business solutions. With over 135...

JT has evolved from a government-owned telecom provider into a global tech leader, offering diverse connectivity and business solutions. With over 135 years of history and more than 500 employees worldwide, JT is headquartered in the British Channel Islands and excels in Mobile Intelligence and fraud prevention, messaging, IoT, and roaming.

JT’s Mobile Intelligence division came from the growing need for banks and financial services to better authenticate the identity of customers using matched data. Our continued collaboration with global telecoms operators and financial services creates ground-breaking identity and fraud solutions using the wealth of user and device datasets available from mobile network operators. These solutions include real-time KYC insights, silent network authentication without the need of SMS one-time-passcodes and Scam Signal, an award-winning solution used by UK high-street banks to detect and stop Authorised Push Payment fraud. Find out more at JTGlobal.com/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
  • Risk and Compliance 
  • Legal
  • Insurance
  • 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