Abigail joined the civil service in 2002, and has worked in the Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Department for Exiting the EU and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, including five years posted to Brussels. She has been Deputy Director for Sanctions since February 2022, where she is responsible for sanctions strategy, legislation, engagement and data and leads on the Economic Deterrence Initiative. Prior to joining the UK Government, Abigail was a solicitor in private practice, specialised in civil litigation.   

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.

Anna is a financial crime regulatory expert who helps clients understand the changing supervisory landscape, build and implement customer due diligence controls and anti-financial crime capabilities. She has more than 12 years' experience within the financial services industry in the UK, the Middle East and continental Europe dealing with a diverse range of clients from banks, private wealth and asset managers through to Money Service Businesses (“MSBs”) and gaming and gambling operators. 

Anna has delivered financial crime function reviews (including several s.166 Skilled Person Reviews on behalf of the UK FCA) and led people and projects varying from responding to regulatory events and criticism through designing financial crime controls to providing regulatory advisory and delivering process improvements. 

Her recent client engagements include oversight of a multi-phase s.166 Skilled Person Review of a Tier 1 bank and leading independent compliance reviews of UAE-based branches of a European private bank on behalf of the Dubai FSA and Abu Dhabi FSRA. 

Anna is recognised as a trusted advisor and SME and, in addition to leading larger project teams, she has provided clients with ongoing advisory support on a personal retainer-basis and has been seconded into interim financial crime SME and leadership roles. Most recently Anna served as a Special Advisor on Financial Crime for a UK challenger bank.

Anna’s gaming and gambling sector work includes advising casinos, online betting platforms, and retail bookmakers on anti-money laundering and safer gambling compliance, risk management, and customer engagement strategies. In addition to working directly with operators, she delivered financial crime and safer gambling control frameworks reviews – including acting as an independent compliance expert providing assurance to UK Gambling Commission and was of FTI Consulting’s team of experts delivering a multi-year regulatory monitorship of a major Australian casino. 

Anu currently serves as Head of FCC Regulatory Change and Global Programmes for BNY’s EMEA region.

She brings over 23 years of cross-jurisdictional experience in the UK, US and Asia, specialising in global and regional regulatory developments, drafting, and rolling out global AML policies and standards.

She is an active member of UK Finance Money Laundering Advisory Panel and Co-Chairs the Proliferation Finance Working Group.

Prior to joining BNY, Anu worked with HSBC, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, RBS, Cisco Financial Services and a leading fintech firm.

She is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

Ben leads TLT's economic crime team and has over 20 years' experience advising governments, financial institutions, corporates and individuals on all aspects of economic crime. This includes advice on asset tracing, bribery and corruption, complex investigations, corporate ethics, criminal proceedings, fraud, money laundering, sanctions, tax evasion and terrorist proliferation financing.

Ben also has extensive experience assisting clients to develop, implement and operate global economic crime compliance programmes utilising his experience in senior compliance roles for HSBC, Global Head of Financial Crime Functions and Global Head of AB&C, and Al Dahra (an Abu Dhabi based agribusiness), Global Head of Ethics and Compliance.

Ben also worked for the Asset Recovery Agency and Serious Organised Crime Agency (now the National Crime Agency) and so is uniquely placed to advise clients on handling enquiries and investigations from law enforcement agencies.

Ben Donaldson OBE is the Managing Director for Economic Crime at UK Finance. He leads the teams delivering our collective effort across anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, sanctions, fraud, intelligence, and our industry-funded police unit, the DCPCU. Ben is also the private sector co-Chair of the Public/Private Operational Board at the National Economic Crime Centre within the National Crime Agency.  

Prior to joining UK Finance, Ben had a 23-year operational career in Defence, both in the UK and in a wide variety of locations overseas. In 2015, he was awarded an OBE for services to Defence in recognition of his specialist operational work.  

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.

Craig Rice is a career information security and intelligence professional with experience spanning all intelligence and security disciplines in both the public and private sectors. 

Within UK financial services he has held senior cyber security and resilience leadership roles in critical national infrastructure and systematically important financial institutions. 

His advisory work has included contributions to the Bank of England cyber policy, sector capability development and exercising, CPMI-IOSCO cyber policy, DSIT cyber guidance and UK Finance cyber policy and guidance. Within academia he has supported the Centre of Doctoral Training at Royal Holloway University London (CDT at RHUL) and the Research Institute for SocioTechnical Cyber Security (RISCS). 

He was appointed CEO of the Cyber Defence Alliance (CDA) in September 2023.

Daniel Drake is Deputy Director in HM Treasury's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), leading on Licensing, CT & Intelligence. Daniel has been a UK civil servant for over 20 years, working in the FCDO including on overseas postings to Ethiopia and Egypt, in the Cabinet Office and in the Ministry of Defence. For the past four years his focus has been on sanctions. 

Within the FCDO he was closely involved in the rollout of sanctions on Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, after which he spent nine months on secondment to the private sector before joining OFSI in March 2025. He was awarded an OBE in 2023 for services to British foreign policy, including his work on sanctions.

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

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

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

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.

David Rukin is currently Head of Financial Crime Risk Advisory and Oversight at Virgin Money, alongside acting as the firms Sanctions Officer. David has worked at Virgin Money for just over three years in a variety of Policy and Advisory roles. Before joining Virgin Money, David spent time at HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group in the Group Sanctions Policy teams. David is also an active member of the UK Finance Sanctions Committee and has been part of the Sanctions panel for many years.

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.

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. 

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.”

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.

Lord Hanson of Flint OBE was appointed Minister of State for the Home Office on 9 July 2024. He has previously served as the MP for Delyn from 1992 to 2019. Lord Hanson held a number of different positions whilst serving as an MP. He was a member of the Welsh Affairs Select Committee from 1992 until he joined the Public Accounts Committee in 1996.He became the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 1997 and became Assistant Government Whip in 1998. He was promoted in 1999 on his appointment as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Wales Office. Following the 2001 general election he became the PPS to Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Lord Hanson served as Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office from the 2005 election until May 2007. He was Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice from May 2007 until June 2009. On 21 February 2007 he was appointed to the Privy Council. He was also Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing at the Home Office from 8 June 2009 until the 2010 general election.

As Minister of State at the Home Office, Lord Hanson’s responsibilities are fraud policy, finance, corporate and delivery, science and technology, Overseas Territories, Union Devolution, all Home Office business across the missions in the Lords and public appointments, sponsorship and inquiries. 

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.

During his tenure at the City of London Police, Jonathan led the development of the UK National Fraud and Cybercrime Reporting system. He also contributed to the evidential workstream of the Contingent Reimbursement Scheme (CRM), the voluntary scheme for Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud reimbursement. 

Recently, he served as the Director of Technical Collaborations at Stop Scams UK, working with companies like Meta, Google, and BT to combat fraud at source. Jonathan also worked on several data science projects for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Home Office during his time with faculty.ai. 

Jonathan currently sits on the board of the Stop Scams Alliance (US 501(c)(3) nonprofit). He has recently joined BioCatch, a provider of next-generation digital identity solutions that focus the detection of financial crime through online user behaviours.

Katarina leads investigations and regulatory policy strategy in economic crime prevention as Market Planning Director at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, focusing on anti-money laundering, fraud, identity, payments, credit risk decisioning, and investigations. With over 15 years of experience in economic crime and risk management, Katarina previously worked as a practitioner and consultant at PwC before joining LexisNexis Risk Solutions.

As part of the strategic planning function, Katarina analyses regulatory dynamics and changes that impact the market, helping to build regulation-driven strategies across the UK and Ireland whilst considering global trends that influence domestic markets. In her role, she leads strategy development for investigations-related customer challenges, acting as a subject matter expert supporting broader company strategy and operations. She collaborates across the business to proactively shape strategy in line with customer needs and emerging regulatory requirements, whilst representing LexisNexis Risk Solutions externally before regulators, trade bodies, and media. She creates thought leadership content and speaks at conferences and trade shows, sharing her expertise and insights on economic crime and regulatory matters.

In 2024, Katarina served as Board Chair of Open Identity Exchange (OIX) until its closure, where she advocated for technology supporting accessible and effective compliance. In 2025, she was recognised on the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Powerlist in the Policymakers and Regulatory Experts category, reflecting her influence across the industry. That same year, she began pursuing a Master's degree in Economic Crime at the University of Portsmouth's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, furthering her academic knowledge in the field. A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) since 2016, Katarina is based in London. Originally from Croatia, she takes pleasure in engaging with industry practitioners across a wide array of markets and territories.

Ksenia's current research interests are economic warfare and sanctions, energy security, critical minerals and economic sustainability. Ksenia has a diverse background, including experience as an oil and gas analyst; her recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions (2023), and the Political Economy of Sanctions: Resilience and Transformation in Russia and Iran (2022). 

Her career is marked by a variety of senior roles within retail banking and most recently in economic crime prevention. Liz’s early career journey has taken her from the UK to Spain, the Channel Islands, Switzerland, and even Australia.

Her unwavering commitment to safeguarding consumers, LBG and more widely the UK from fraud-related threats is evident as she leads a formidable team of approximately 4,000 specialists, playing a pivotal role in combating the ever-evolving landscape of fraud threats.

Lucy Rigby MP was appointed Parliamentary Secretary (Economic Secretary to the Treasury) at HM Treasury on 6 September 2025.

She was previously Solicitor General between 2 December 2024 and 6 September 2025. She was elected as the MP for Northampton North in July 2024.

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 is 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.

Baroness Hodge is the Prime Minister’s Anti-Corruption Champion. Her role builds on longstanding advocacy on anti-corruption and economic crime as Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Corruption and Responsible Tax and as the first female Chair of the Public Accounts Committee. Before this, she served in ministerial roles in the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and was the MP for Barking, which she represented between 1994 and 2024. In addition to her role as Champion, she is currently conducting the independent review of Arts Council England, is Chair of College Council for Royal Holloway, University of London and is a visiting professor at the Policy Institute at King’s College London.

Since being appointed Chief Executive at Cifas in May 2018, Mike has actively worked to grow the community of stakeholders sharing data, intelligence, and insight in the pursuit of preventing fraud and financial crime.  Mike is passionate about Cifas becoming the driving force behind fraud prevention in the UK and with over 30 years’ experience of tackling and preventing fraud across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, he is determined to bring together a strong cross-sectoral collaborative approach to tackling fraud. 

With a master’s degree in Criminology, Mike has led investigative teams in the National Health Service, Ministry of Defence, Office of Fair Trading, HM Revenue and Customs and Solicitors Regulation Authority.   He has also worked at the National Fraud Authority directing cross sector fraud prevention strategies.  Mike believes that the battle against fraud is one that cannot be won alone and by collaborating as a community, we can be relentless in our effort to put the spotlight on fraud and not only protect each other but also make the UK a safer place to live and do business.

Neil has 29 years of experience in managing financial crime risk and was, until recently, the Head of the Financial Crime Unit at Societe Generale.

He has undertaken similar roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Neil also represented UK Finance for 7 years as their Director on the Board of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group.  He holds an MBA from Strathclyde Graduate Business School. 

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.

Nick worked in UK law enforcement for over 30 years and led several significant operations with partner agencies around the world into organised crime threats against the UK. He has significant experience in leading complex multi-national investigations and working with public and private bodies to develop effective strategies to reduce and tackle the harm caused by organised crime activity - in particular building effective public-private partnerships and taskforce models.

In 2008, Nick was posted to the British Embassy, Washington DC. As well as leading the UK’s strategic engagement on organised crime with the US government, Nick led an extensive team of embedded UK liaison officers across the US and the Caribbean, tackling organised crime groups operating at a global level.

In March 2013, Nick was awarded the National Intelligence Medallion by the US Government, and in 2014 was awarded an OBE for “services to international law and order” by Her Majesty the Queen.

Nick joined Standard Chartered in 2016. He is an adviser to the RUSI “Future of Financial Information Sharing” Programme, a member of the UK Finance Information and Intelligence Committee, represents industry on a number of UK Economic Crime reform programmes and is a board member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime

Nigel is the Head of the Group Financial Intelligence Unit (GFIU) at Lloyds Banking Group and interim Nominated Officer.  He was formerly the Deputy Director for the Economic Crime Command in the National Crime Agency (NCA).

At Lloyd’s, Nigel works in Economic Crime Prevention and leads intelligence and investigation teams responsible for identifying and mitigating the threats from criminals and terrorists.  The FIU works in partnership across the industry and with Law Enforcement to protect customers, communities and the UK from Economic Crime risks.   Nigel leads on information sharing and is member of the UK Finance Intelligence and Information (I&I) Committee and a member of the UK’s Public Private Operating Board (PPOB).   

Whilst Deputy Director at the NCA, Nigel established the National Economic Crime Centre (NECC).  He also led the UK’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU); Criminal and Civil Investigation teams; Threat Response and Policy/Strategy units.   Nigel pioneered the creation of the UK’s International Corruption Unit (ICU) and the UK’s Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT) and is an international advocate for Public Private Partnerships.   He is a fellow of the International Compliance Association (ICA) and holds a post-graduate Diploma in Financial Crime Compliance.

Oliver is the UK Head of Sanctions & Embargoes at Société Générale, London Branch and Société Générale International Limited. He previously spent 10yrs at a leading Japanese investment bank where he was the European Head of Sanctions and AML Transaction Monitoring. Oliver has 15yrs of regulatory and banking compliance experience in large and mid-sized investment banking and brokerage firms across the globe, with particular focus on financial and economic crime compliance.

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.

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.

Rachael Herbert has been the Director of the National Economic Crime Centre in the UK’s National Crime Agency since May 2025. She is also responsible for the UK Financial Intelligence Unit (UKFIU).  Her remit is to translate the threat understanding for illicit finance and fraud, into strategic and operational priorities for the UK’s response to economic crime.  She does this in partnership with law enforcement, the private sectors, regulators, legislators and policy makers.  She is passionate about harnessing the intelligence from all parts of the system, and finding shared objectives to amplify collective impact on economic crime.  She has worked in economic crime in the NCA for ten years, having previously worked across UK Government in multiple roles.

Rakesh Patel is the Head of Sanctions Oversight & Export Controls at HSBC, responsible for oversight across the bank’s global sanctions and export controls policy and framework. With over 20 years of experience in financial crime, Rakesh is a recognised subject matter expert in sanctions and export controls. 

Rakesh joined HSBC in 2014 during a critical period and played a key role in strengthening the bank’s Sanctions compliance programme, which led to the successful lifting of a US Deferred Prosecution Agreement in 2017. Since then, he has been instrumental in further enhancing HSBC’s controls and positioning the bank as an industry leader in managing financial crime risk. Prior to HSBC, Rakesh spent 14 years at Deloitte, specialising in financial crime investigations across sanctions, AML and Bribery & Corruption. He began his career as a management consultant in the oil & gas sector. 

In addition to responsibilities at HSBC, Rakesh also currently serves as chair of the sanctions panel of the UK Finance Sanctions Panel and is a Sanctions Committee member. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, where he shares his insights and experience of best practices in financial crime prevention.

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

Rosamund de Sybel is Head of Advisory Services, International Institute for Strategic Studies. She was formerly a director at a US-headquartered due-diligence and investigations firm, and held the position of Editor/Economist Middle East & Africa at a global research firm. She was also editor of a Middle East business and economics journal, and helped to launch the Geo-Economics programme for a leading British defence and security think-tank. She has a first-class degree from King’s College London, having spent an exchange year at University of California, Los Angeles.

Struan is Head of Threat Intelligence & Analysis at NatWest, leading the bank’s response to emerging financial crime threats. He leads a team responsible for Public Private Partnerships initiatives – including JMLIT, Data Fusion and System Prioritisation – working closely with industry, government, and law enforcement on initiatives that strengthen information sharing and support the UK Economic Crime Plan objectives to reduce money laundering and fraud.

Prior to joining NatWest, Struan has held senior roles across a number of financial institutions, specialising in fraud, financial crime, threat intelligence, and operational risk.

Struan is an active member of the UK Finance Information & Intelligence Committee and is leading for the industry on the System Prioritisation Money Mules Action Plan.

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 (1^st 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.

Dr Thomas Bell is the UK Country Lead within the Customer Trust and External Relations Team at Amazon. His portfolio includes scam prevention, product safety and brand protection. Prior to taking up this role in January 2025, he led on Regulatory Engagement at Amazon for UK and EU on product safety. Tom has a degree and Ph.D in Chemistry and has performed previous roles at both the UK product safety regulator, Office for Product Safety and Standards, and consumer group, Which?. 

Tony works for UK Finance, seconded to the DCPCU as Head of Stakeholder Relations. Prior to this appointment he worked on the DCPCU with UK Finance members to change their customers behaviour in respect of fraud and cyber enabled crime and to educate their colleagues around the methods used by the criminal gangs. He also represents both DCPCU and UK Finance as a spokesperson in the media discussing fraud related matters.

Tony is a retired metropolitan police officer having served for just over 30 years. He was a career detective, working in various roles including serious and organised crime, murder, witness protection & economic crime, ending his career as an operational Detective Sergeant on the DCPCU.

Will is the programme director for Ofcom’s work to combat scam mobile messages and telephone calls. This year, it has published consultations on proposals for new rules to combat mobile messaging scams and scam calls from abroad that spoof UK mobile numbers, addressing key gaps in protections for telecoms users. 

Zia Ullah is Co-Global Head of Corporate Crime and Investigations at Eversheds Sutherland and a Board Member of Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP. Zia is a globally recognised specialist in International Sanctions and has led multiple cross-border sanctions investigations. He advises on all aspects of corporate/financial crime and was previously the Global Head of Sanctions at Barclays. Zia is a current FCA ‘Skilled Person’ for Financial Crime.

Zia and his team have provided strategic advice to over 100 global institutions with respect to the legal, regulatory and commercial issues arising from the expansion of UK, EU and US sanctions against Russia following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. His team has also advised on the impact on sanctions compliance frameworks, divestment activity in Russia, the application of exemptions and licences, and the reporting requirements in light of potential breaches of sanctions.

Zia and Victoria Turner co-authored a chapter for Global Investigations Review’s first ever book on sanctions compliance - “The Guide to Sanctions” – Zia’s team also publishes the only global guide on international sanctions setting out details on over 70 jurisdictions sanctions compliance requirements. Zia’s team also created the Global Sanctions Tool which won Best Client Innovation at the British Legal Awards 2024 and nominated in the same category at The Lawyer Awards 2024.

Zia is co-chair of the UK Finance Associate Members’ Sanctions Committee and is also a member of HM Treasury’s Senior Implementation Group, a body comprised of all government departments with responsibility for the UK’s sanctions regime. Zia is also a committee member at the Fraud Lawyers’ Association.

Zia is ranked in Band 1 of Chambers for Financial Sanctions, is ranked in the Global Elite in Who’s Who Legal for sanctions and recommended for business crime and asset recovery. Zia was included in the Lawyer’s Hot 100 for 2023.