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QEII Conference Centre Broad Sanctuary Westminster, London SW1P 3EE United Kingdom
The financial sector flagship event for economic crime, the Economic Crime Congress 2026, returns on Thursday 3 December 2026 at the iconic Queen Elizabeth II Centre in London.
Building on last year’s theme of collaboration in action, this year’s Economic Crime Congress will look at how the UK’s collective effort can be translated into global action. As the UK steps into a defining period, from the UK Presidency of FATF to the forthcoming hosting of the G20 in 2027 and a renewed focus on domestic economic crime reform, the Congress will explore how the UK can help shape the international response to illicit finance, fraud, sanctions evasion and wider economic crime.
Bringing together government, law enforcement, regulators and industry, it will consider how the UK financial sector can demonstrate best practice, strengthen cross-border collaboration and turn shared ambition into practical action against one of the most complex threats facing society and the economy.
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.
Our 2025 event brought together over 550 senior leaders. Tackling economic crime requires a united approach, with collaboration across government, regulators, law enforcement, financial services, technology and telecommunications firms and consumer groups.
ECC 2026 will feature even more high-profile speakers, interactive discussions, and practical solutions for tackling economic crime across financial crime, corruption, sanctions, fraud and intelligence.
To explore the key insights, debates and standout moments from the Economic Crime Congress 2025, see our wrap-up.
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 concessionary rate. Contact us for further information.
We are very proud to receive industry recognition and be nominated for the Best Development of an Existing Association Event by the Association Excellence Awards 2026 after our successful Congress in 2025.
The Economic Crime Congress delivers unparalleled, high-quality conversations that shape the industry’s response to financial crime and fraud. At PA, we're excited to continue partnering with UK Finance and look forward to seeing what 2026 holds. The Congress was an excellent event and a valuable opportunity. The quality of attendees and conversations made exhibiting genuinely impactful, helping us build strong connections and showcase our expertise to the right audience. It was a well-run event that delivered real commercial and brand value for us.It was one of the best conferences I have attended. I met people I have worked with in the past and some new faces. Learned a lot, particularly in the sanctions space.
The Economic Crime Congress delivers unparalleled, high-quality conversations that shape the industry’s response to financial crime and fraud. At PA, we're excited to continue partnering with UK Finance and look forward to seeing what 2026 holds.
The Congress was an excellent event and a valuable opportunity. The quality of attendees and conversations made exhibiting genuinely impactful, helping us build strong connections and showcase our expertise to the right audience. It was a well-run event that delivered real commercial and brand value for us.
It was one of the best conferences I have attended. I met people I have worked with in the past and some new faces. Learned a lot, particularly in the sanctions space.
Sponsoring the Economic Crime Congress 2026 puts your organisation in front of 550+ senior leaders from financial services, government, law enforcement, technology, and regulation. Engage with key decision-makers, showcase your expertise, and strengthen your industry influence.
Recent Congresses have been proudly supported by leading organisations, including LexisNexis Risk Solutions, BioCatch, Cifas, Feedzai, Comply Advantage, PA, Chorus, Plenitude, Sayari, Threat Fabric, Blackdot Solutions, Dentons, and many more.
Contact Sponsorship@ukfinance.org.uk to discuss sponsorship opportunities.
Registration open with networking coffee in the exhibition
Opening remarks from UK Finance
Headline Partner LexisNexis® Risk Solutions welcome
Opening keynote speech
Fireside chat Economic Crime in reflection: UK and international trends
Global panel session: Inside the global fraud machine: how criminal networks are scaling, and how we fight back
Coffee break, exhibition and networking
Digital and tech
Digital identity and economic crime prevention
Information and intelligence sharing
ECCTA in practice: private-private data sharing that works
System effectiveness
System Prioritisation: from design to delivery
Rules of engagement
Mutual Evaluation Report (MER) ready: practical implications, onsite preparation and lessons from other jurisdictions
Agentic AI in financial crime: operational use cases
Bribery and corruption: enhancing our collective understanding of threats
UK info sharing architecture: Online Crime Centre and wider system coordination
Navigating through an increasingly complex global regulatory architecture
Digital assets and economic crime: emerging risks, controls and collaboration
International data sharing and cross-border enforcement
Jurisdictions of risk and sanctions: threat prioritisation
Dirty money, football and financial crime: the AML regulatory regime and corruption risks
Afternoon refreshments, exhibition and networking
UK Finance welcome back
Fireside chat
Spotlight session: The Big Shor: How the A7 Network exploited the global banking system, and what banks can do to detect and mitigate exposure
Closing keynote address
Closing remarks
Drinks reception
Director and Global Head of Counter-Fraud, Meta
Nathaniel Gleicher is Meta’s global head of security policy and counter-fraud. He is an engineer and a lawyer, and leads strategy at Meta to track and...
Nathaniel Gleicher is Meta’s global head of security policy and counter-fraud. He is an engineer and a lawyer, and leads strategy at Meta to track and counter determined adversaries that seek to cause serious harms across the internet, including election manipulation, government surveillance, cybercrime, and fraud and scams.
Director of Economic Crime & Sanctions, HM Treasury
Giles Thomson is the Director of Economic Crime and Sanctions at HM Treasury. He is responsible for the UK’s a...
Giles Thomson is the Director of Economic Crime and Sanctions at HM Treasury. He is responsible for the UK’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing policy and leads OFSI – the UK’s competent authority for the implementation and enforcement of financial sanctions. He has over twenty years' experience in a range of roles across government, working extensively on economic crime policy before joining OFSI in November 2020.
Giles is also the Vice-President of the Financial Action Taskforce (FATF) after having served as UK's Head of Delegation to FATF and co-chair of FATF's Global Network and Coordination Group for several years.
Director General, The ABI
Hannah Gurga is Director General of the ABI, where she leads the insurance and long-term savings sector’s engagement with government, regulators, parl...
Hannah Gurga is Director General of the ABI, where she leads the insurance and long-term savings sector’s engagement with government, regulators, parliamentarians, and stakeholders. She is responsible for overseeing the ABI’s strategic direction and driving its member priorities, focusing on customer outcomes, investing in people and the planet and supporting an effective market.
Hannah also serves on the Board of TheCityUK. She is a member of the Executive Committee of Insurance Europe, as well as the UK government’s Financial Inclusion Committee and Joint Fraud Taskforce.
With nearly 20 years of experience in financial services across public and private sectors, Hannah has previously held senior roles at the London Stock Exchange Group, LCH, and ICAP. She began her career in the civil service, serving in a number of government departments including HM Treasury and the Cabinet Office.
Director General (Threats), National Crime Agency
Steve Rodhouse has over 30 years’ service in policing and law enforcement. He is currently Director General (Threats) at the National Crime Agency (NC...
Steve Rodhouse has over 30 years’ service in policing and law enforcement. He is currently Director General (Threats) at the National Crime Agency (NCA). He joined the NCA in June 2018 and for 5 years was the Director General (Operations), responsible for leading the NCA’s operational work. More recently he held the DG (Strategic Planning) role, overseeing critical functions which included finalising the NCA’s move to Endeavour Square, Business Planning, launching the NCA Academy and leading the NCA’s response to Police Reform, which he retains responsibility for.
As DG (Threats) at the NCA, Steve is also responsible for leading the whole-of-system operational response to serious and organised crime (SOC), with NCA coordinating contributions from policing and other national agencies. The focus is on reducing crime and harms, through investigative disruption and also collaboration with the finance and tech industry to design out crime. His current responsibilities include leadership of the National Cyber Crime Unit and the National Economic Crime Centre.
Manager, Payments, Innovation and Resilience, UK Finance
Marius Bischoff is a Manager in the Payments and Innovation team at UK Finance, covering digital identity, supporting the UK Finance Central Bank Digi...
Marius Bischoff is a Manager in the Payments and Innovation team at UK Finance, covering digital identity, supporting the UK Finance Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) working group, the Regulated Liabilities Network (RLN) project, and UK Finance’s work on industry standards. His role involves close collaboration with senior stakeholders across the banking sector to enhance customer outcomes.
With a background in stakeholder engagement, policy formulation, and external relations, Marius has previously worked in consulting, where he advised on strategic engagements and business transformation within the financial and public sectors. He also has significant experience working for NGOs in both Brussels and London, helping to shape regulatory strategies and stakeholder engagement efforts.
Managing Director, Economic Crime, UK Finance
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry-specific content with advanced techno...
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry-specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency.
We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. Our innovative solutions enable organisations to manage risks like identity theft, fraud, money laundering and terrorism, and prevent financial crimes.
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions brings together physical identity attributes, including name, address, date of birth, with behavioural biometrics, and a powerful contributory database of digital identity intelligence: electronic devices and associated digital personas. Combined in AI powered models with transactional data, this enables organisations to make more reliable fraud and risk decisions.
XConnect is a global provider of network and numbering intelligence services that help financial institutions verify identities, prevent fraud, and bu...
XConnect is a global provider of network and numbering intelligence services that help financial institutions verify identities, prevent fraud, and build trusted digital interactions. Working directly with mobile network operators worldwide, XConnect delivers real-time signals from the network itself, including number verification, SIM swap detection, and number intelligence. These APIs allow banks, fintechs, and digital platforms to confirm that a mobile number is genuine and still controlled by its rightful user before critical actions such as onboarding, login, or payments. By translating complex telecom data into simple, secure APIs, XConnect helps organisations reduce fraud risk, improve customer experience, and strengthen trust across digital financial services.
BioCatch is the leader in behavioral intelligence which analyses an online user's physical and cognitive digital behavior to protect individuals and t...
BioCatch is the leader in behavioral intelligence 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.
Nasdaq Verafin provides cloud-based Financial Crime Management Technology solutions for Fraud Detection, AML/CFT Compliance, High-Risk Customer Manage...
Nasdaq Verafin provides cloud-based Financial Crime Management Technology solutions for Fraud Detection, AML/CFT Compliance, High-Risk Customer Management, Sanctions Screening and Management, and Information Sharing. More than 2,700 financial institutions globally, representing $11T in collective assets, use Nasdaq Verafin to prevent fraud and strengthen AML/CFT efforts. Leveraging our unique consortium data approach in targeted analytics with artificial intelligence and machine learning, Nasdaq Verafin significantly reduces false positive alerts and delivers context-rich insights to fight financial crime more efficiently and effectively.
Management Solutions is a leading provider of business consulting services for regulated industries. We operate in more than 50 countries (50 offices)...
Management Solutions is a leading provider of business consulting services for regulated industries. We operate in more than 50 countries (50 offices) with a multidisciplinary team of 4,000 professionals with functional, mathematical, technical and other profiles.
We conduct projects on strategy, organization, operational efficiency and processes, risk management and control, and related technology, mainly in the financial services, energy and telecommunications industries.
Within this structure, Management Solutions has a global Digital Transformation practice supporting Financial Institutions across all jurisdictions in delivering strategic transformation projects.
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.
JustMe is a groundbreaking identity fraud prevention solution that empowers consumers to proactively protect their identities. Developed by Cifas, the...
JustMe is a groundbreaking identity fraud prevention solution that empowers consumers to proactively protect their identities. Developed by Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service, JustMe enables individuals to use a mobile app to confirm whether applications made in their name are genuine - stopping identity fraud before it happens. JustMe adds a vital layer of real-time verification, helping businesses reduce fraud losses and build trust with their customer.
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions brings together physical identity attributes, including name, address, date of birth, with behavioural biometrics, and a powerful contributory database of digital identity intelligence: electronic devices and associated digital personas, enabling organisations to make more reliable fraud and risk decisions.
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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To explore the key insights, debates and standout moments from the Economic Crime Congress 2025, please read our wrap-up and watch the video highlights.
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