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Last September’s Regulatory Roadmap webinar series featured 13 episodes and over 50 speakers including Katharine Braddick, Sam Woods and Chris Woolard. With over 7,000 delegates from across UK Finance member firms, it was one of our best-attended events in 2020.
To continue to support our members across the banking and finance industry with their restart agendas, we are running a second structured programme of focused technical briefings to help firms adapt to the rapid change of a constantly evolving regulatory landscape.
Booking is now open, click on a link below to book via our webinar platform:
All sessions are free for UK Finance Members, Associate Members and other industry stakeholders.
Please note sessions will be streamed live and will only be available on-demand for a limited time.
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This academy enables delegates to develop frameworks, practices, and behaviours that instil operational resilience disciplines across their firm.
Learn moreBDO’s global organisation extends across 167 countries and territories, with 90,000 people working towards one goal: to provide our clients with exceptional service. In the UK, our Financial Services group consists of over 450 specialists and is part of a global Financial Services practice with operations in all major financial centres. Our range of clients varies from large international financial institutions to AIM listed companies, new entrants and innovative challenger brands.
We provide full audit, tax and specialist risk and regulation advisory services across Asset Management, Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance, andTechnology.
The fee income of all BDO firms, including the members of their exclusive alliances, was US$10.3 billion as of 30 September 2020. Our firms across the organisation cooperate closely and comply with consistent operating principles and quality standards. That means local resources who understand your business, your local and international markets and the specifics of your industry: all backed by a truly global organisation.
EY is a leader in shaping the financial services industry
Over 30,000 of our people are dedicated to financial services, serving the banking and capital markets, insurance, and wealth and asset management sectors. At EY Financial Services, we share a single focus — to build a better financial services industry, not just for now, but for the future.
EY recently set targets to become carbon negative in 2021 and achieve net zero status by 2025, and we’re helping our clients on their sustainable journeys. We believe this is part of building a better working world and will help to create long-term value across industry – for further information click here: Sustainability in Financial Services | EY UK
Grant Thornton’s global footprint spans 135 countries and over 50,000 people meaning we’re able to work with firms to understand not only their UK requirements but assist them with broader global regulatory obligations.
In the UK, our Financial Services Group is a market leading practice with over 430 industry experts spanning advisory, assurance and tax services. We partner with firms across the banking, insurance, capital markets and investment management sectors to help achieve strategic goals, meet regulatory demands, and ensure that people and customers reach their potential.
Our financial services practice in the UK covers a range of specialisms including audit, tax, regulatory and compliance, financial crime, business consulting and business risk services and corporate finance.
Drawing on a global multi-disciplinary team of experts, we are pro-active and pragmatic, and deliver differentiated and innovative solutions to a portfolio of dynamic clients to build long-term value for financial services.
At PA, we believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.
As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 3,200 specialists in consumer, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, manufacturing, and transport.
Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists. We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Europe, and the Nordics.
TLT is a leading national law firm and provider of specialist advice to the financial services sector for over 20 years. We act for banks, building societies, FinTech companies, peer to peer lenders, alternative lenders and asset finance companies. We support our clients across a wide range of areas including compliance, business support, litigation, recoveries and lending; working in partnership to identify emerging opportunities and risks. Our team is comprised of leaders in their fields operating from offices in Northern Ireland, Scotland and England & Wales. In 2018 and 2019 we won 'Best Law Firm' (Mortgage Finance Gazette).
Director, Digital Technology and Cyber
Ian is a member of the Digital, Technology and Cyber (DTC) team leading the delivery of UK Finance’s operational and policy work in the areas of cybersecurity, third party risk management and outsourcing. He has been instrumental in operationalising the Financial Sector Cyber Collaboration Centre (FSCCC), an industry utility that promotes cyber intelligence sharing amongst financial institutions.
Before joining UK Finance Ian worked within the Technology Risk leadership team at BNY Mellon and prior to that served for 8 years as a British Army Officer.
Director, Sustainability
Paul has responsibility for strategic reporting, company law and corporate governance at UK Finance. He is currently engaged on initiatives on sustainability, including climate change, ethics and international competitiveness. He also leads on post-Brexit immigration policy. In recent years he has worked on a variety of financial stability and conduct-related measures, including the ring-fencing of the UK’s largest banks.
Director, LIBOR Transition, Commercial Finance
Daniel leads UK Finance’s LIBOR transition team supporting firms across our membership on the transition away from LIBOR. He also leads on a range of corporate and commercial finance engagement on behalf of UK Finance members. His focus is on improving customer relationships, access to finance and enhancing competition. His role covers stakeholder engagement, including with business groups and regulatory change.
Daniel started his career in Deloitte’s Banking and Capital Markets group, where he qualified as a chartered accountant and served a range of financial services clients in assurance and advisory engagements.
Director, Payments, UK Finance
Becky is currently Director of Payments for UK Finance leading a strong team with deep domain knowledge delivering thought leadership on policy working closely with the regulators in the UK and Europe for the good of the membership. She is also a member of SWIFT UK Board as an observer and represents the UK on the European Payments Council Board.
Becky has close involvement with the UK Payment System Regulator (PSR) and has sat on the Advisory Panel and the Payment Strategy Forum and chaired the Working Group for Implementation Planning for the New Payments Architecture which was part of the Payment Strategy Forum set up by the PSR. She was also chosen to be part of the Delivery group commissioned by the Bank of England and the PSR for the consolidation of the three Retail Payment schemes representing small and mid-sized financial organisations. Becky was a member of the Bank of England Advisory Board for the replacement of RTGS and has held non-executive Directorship positions for Pay.UK, Faster Payments Scheme, Payments UK and the setup of UK Finance.
At Metro Bank she was Head of Industry Engagement, responsible for payments and card change activity, as well as leading industry and third party engagement. Becky has extensive experience of working with the payments industry and delivering long-term, sustainable value to both customers and business.
Director of Government & Regulatory Affairs, UK Finance
Matthew is responsible for developing and delivering the political and regulatory engagement strategy for UK Finance, the collective voice for the banking and finance industry. He was previously Head of Group Regulatory Policy at Lloyds Banking Group and, before that, a regulator at the Financial Conduct Authority and Ofcom, having started his career as a civil servant in a range of UK government departments.
Director, Prudential Policy, UK Finance
Simon leads the Prudential Capital and Risk team at UK Finance, which focuses on influencing the implementation reforms to capital and liquidity requirements in the UK. He leads UK Finance’s work on the senior managers’ and certification regime (SMCR), which seeks to improve bank-wide governance and culture, and has extensive knowledge of prudential regulatory architecture.
He is also interested in operational resilience and different types of bank capital and funding instruments such as bail-inable and covered bonds and securitisation structures. His banking background is in fixed income sales, trading and origination as well as energy and aerospace project finance. He is liveryman of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers and is a former member of the European Banking Authority’s Banking Stakeholder Group.
Director, Capital Markets and Wholesale, UK Finance
Conor leads the Capital Markets and Wholesale team as well as the delivery of Brexit related work-streams for UK Finance and its members.
Prior to joining UK Finance Conor worked in a range of UK government departments including HM Treasury where he worked on financial crisis intervention schemes and was a member of the Government Economic Service. Most recently, Conor spent a number of years at UK Financial Investments, the arm’s-length government body responsible for managing the UK government’s shareholdings and loans in financial assets, where he was responsible for work on Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley.
Principal, Digital and Technology Policy, UK Finance
Jonathan joined UK Finance in 2018 and oversees work on a range of topics including innovation, fintech, disruption, regtech and AI.
Prior to joining UK Finance, Jonathan was Head of Technology Policy at the Government Digital Service in the UK Cabinet Office. He was primarily responsible for managing cross-government policy and technology standards for how departments bought, built and managed their technology estate. He also led work on emerging and disruptive technologies including distributed ledger, AR/VR, internet of things, and AI/machine learning.
Jonathan is a graduate of Oxford University and the University of London. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Principal, Payment Policy, UK Finance
Phillip is currently employed as Principal Adviser to UK Finance, the trade body for the financial services industry, with a portfolio including payments policy and open banking.
Before that, Phillip worked at the Local Government Association leading on local government finance and public service reform. And at HM Treasury in a variety of policy roles, including leading policy reviews (the Independent Commission on Local Government Finance and Russell Commission on Youth Volunteering) and as the Budget Project Manager.
On secondment from the Treasury, he was CEO of the Giving Campaign, a national partnership between government and the voluntary sector to encourage charitable giving.
Phillip has a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree from Loughborough University.
Principal, EU Personal Finance Policy UK Finance
David is a leading policy professional in financial services, leading UK Finance’s engagement overseas from a strategic perspective. His focus spans across domestic, European and international engagement and policy development in payments, retail banking and FinTech.
David engages externally with a wide network of stakeholders liaising closely with industry, government and regulators on a range of issues and represents the UK on a number of European and international level bodies.
Prior to joining UK Finance, David worked in the research sector on international and global security and governance. David studied at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Westminster.
Principal, Financial & Risk Policy