Financial Crime Programme

9.00 Registration and coffee

10.00 Chairman’s introduction
Chris Leatherland, Head of Financial Crime and MLRO, NewDay

10.15 National crime as seen through the City of London Police
• What the City of London Economic Crime Unit is seeing
• Policing response
• Where do we go from here?
Commander Karen Baxter, National Coordinator for Economic Crime, City of London Police

10.45 Current fraud trends
• Overview
• FLA Market trends
Sandra Peaston, Director of Strategy, Policy and Insight, CIFAS

11.15 Coffee break

11.45 The evolution of financial crime: only when the tide goes out do you discover who has been
swimming naked

• Overview of the evolution of fraud
• How technology and a multi-layered approach can
help in the fight
Richard Wood, Business Development Director, Synectics Solutions

12.15 Using digital identities

• What is a digital identity?
• UK digital ID ecosystem evolution
• Leveraging digital Identities for AML KYC and document validation
• Benefits to the lender and to the consumer
• Challenges to overcome
Nick Mothershaw, Director of ID and Fraud Solutions, Experian

12.45 Asset recovery case studies

• Update on recent fraud trends
• Case studies of motor, asset and consumer frauds
Roger Potgieter, Partner, Shoosmiths LLP
Mel Chell, Partner, Shoosmiths LLP

13.15 Lunch

13.45 Hacking your payment systems - from blockchain to smart kettles
• The latest hacking techniques
• The evolution of hacking, from databases to 3rd party plugins, to IoT and blockchain
• Could IoT blockchain technology be introducing more vulnerabilities?
• Live demonstrations of techniques attackers use
Tony Gee, Associate Partner, Pen Test Partners

14.45 Privacy/GDPR
• AML and GDPR – finding the balance
• GDPR – FAQs
Paul Maynard, Associate, Hogan Lovells LLP

15.15 How the Criminal Finances Act 2017 affects regulated firms and what you need to do

• An overview of the Criminal Finances Act
• Where the Act is currently
• Audit issues/disclosure issues/SARs
• The new criminal offences: how the government is tackling tax evasion in the UK
• Third Parties
Jason Cropper, Partner, TLT LLP

15.45 Chairman’s final comments

16.00 Conference closes