Charmian Simmons is a Financial Crime and Compliance Expert for Financial Services covering the EMEA region. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector across risk management, financial crime, internal controls and IT advisory. She is responsible for providing practitioner expertise, thought leadership and analyzing key policy/regulatory/cultural/technology drivers transforming the compliance market. Charmian is CAMS, CRMA, CDPSE and CISA certified.

Prior to joining SymphonyAI Sensa-NetReveal, formally BAE Systems, Charmian was a Regional Director of Strategy and Performance for the Risk business at Refinitiv, the Head of Audit in North America at Lloyds Banking Group USA, and a Vice President at Morgan Stanley covering Institutional Securities and Capital Markets.

Kathryn is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Financial Crime and Security at RUSI. She supports the strategic development of the Centre’s research with a particular focus on the UK’s response to global economic crime, including fraud and money laundering, the future of financial crime regulation and the role of technology.

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. She also has experience of leading large and complex investigations into allegations of fraud, money laundering and corruption both in the UK and overseas.

She has an MA (Hons) in Classics from the University of Cambridge and a PG (Dip) in Financial Services Law from the University of London. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

Aleksandra Jordanoska is a Senior Lecturer at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. She has research interests and expertise in financial crime and corporate crime, the regulation of financial markets and financial technologies (FinTech), and the use of technologies for regulatory supervision and regulatory compliance.  

Mario is a seasoned MLRO and Head of Compliance with nearly 20 years' experience in organisational change, regulatory compliance, anti-money laundering and financial crime prevention. Having worked on various remediation and transformation projects (e.g., s.166 Skilled Person Reviews) in private, commercial and investment banking as well as the insurance industry, he understands what regulators expect and how this can be done in practice.

Dianne is a Remote Payment Channels threat lead UK Finance working closely with financial institutions and other sectors to close vulnerabilities beyond the perimeter of the banks. Dianne primarily engages with companies outside the 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.