For Fintechs and financial crime fighters, 2022 has been full of unprecedented twists and turns. From sanctions developments to technological advancements — how do FinTechs keep up-to-date with emerging and actual threats?

FFECON22 combines power-packed expertise, strategy and curated community to help FinTechs tackle their most pressing challenges.
With a hand-selected panel of experts, industry leaders lead impactful discussions to help solve new and prevailing problems. 

Join us this May, in-person along with 250+ FinCrime experts, or online with more, as we continue our efforts to support FinTechs from the threat of financial crime.

Speakers

Andrew Feinstein is the author of the critically-acclaimed “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade” which reveals the corruption and malfeasance at the heart of the global arms business, both formal and illicit. The tenth edition of the book across a number of languages is currently being prepared for publication. “The Shadow World” was short-listed for the Alan Paton Prize for Non-fiction.

The book was the first account of the global arms trade written since the late 1970s due to the difficulties of investigating this notoriously secretive business. The Washington Post described the book as “the most complete account of the trade ever written”, while the Independent praised its combination of “amazing storytelling … with a level of detail that may well be unique.” 

A documentary feature film of the book premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in April 2016, and was awarded Best Documentary Feature at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Valladolid International Film Festival and the Belgian Ensor Award.

Andrew was an ANC Member of Parliament in South Africa for over seven years where he served under Nelson Mandela. He served on the Finance and Public Accounts Committees and as Deputy Chair of the country’s Audit Commission. He also served as Economic Advisor to Gauteng Premier, Tokyo Sexwale.

Agenda

8:00 – 8:55 Registration & Networking Breakfast

8:55 – 9:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks

John-Paul Eaton, Global Community Director, FINTRAIL

9:00 - 9:35 Special Presentation: The Business of War: Inside the Global Arms Trade
Corruption and human rights abuses run rampant in the lucrative global arms trade, carrying severe and negative impacts on democracy. This session deep-dives into the business of war, the state of the international arms trade in 2022 and the types of policy changes needed to combat arms trafficking.

Andrew Feinstein, Executive Director of Shadow World Investigations, and Investigative Writer, Broadcaster, Researcher and Campaigner.

9:35 – 10:25 Panel Discussion: Friend or Foe: The Impact of Anti-Financial Crime on Human Rights
The societal consequences of financial crime compliance can be far-reaching and unexpected. This session explores the surprising ways anti-financial crime and anti-corruption measures impact human rights. Expert panelists will discuss the correlation of corruption and erosion of human rights, the impact of suppressing freedom and expression in the name of counter-terrorist financing measures, and reviewing oppression of NGOs by authoritarian governments in the name of ‘de-risking.’

(Moderator) Maya Braine, Managing Director, Head of Insights, FINTRAIL
Stephen Reimer, Research Fellow, Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies (CFCS), Royal United Services Institute
Duncan Hames, Director of Policy and Programmes, Transparency International UK
Thalia Malmberg, Programme Manager, Human Security Collective 
Ben Hayes, Strategy Director, AWO Agency

10:25 – 10:40 Refreshment Break

10:40 – 11:30 Panel Discussion: Professional Evasion: The Impact of SWIFT Exclusion
In the wake of Russia’s exclusion from SWIFT, many questions about the viability of other payment systems and their potential success have opened up. We assess and discuss opportunities for the Chinese domestic payment system, how sanctions can be evaded through legitimate routes, and potential impacts on US Dollar payments.

(Moderator) Robert Evans, CEO, FINTRAIL
Justine Walker, Global Head, Sanctions, Compliance and Risk, ACAMS
Emil Dall, Associate Fellow, Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI
Laura Jones, Senior Manager, Financial Crime Strategic Policy & External Engagement, Santander UK

11:30 – 11:55 Fireside Chat: ‘The Tinder Swindler’: A Victims Story
Join us for an exciting and revealing conversation with one of the victims of a con man accused of coercing more than $10 million from women worldwide using the dating app Tinder. Cecilie Fjellhøy, manipulated – who was both emotionally and financially – shares her story and lessons that may be learnt from her own experience of a scam. The discussion will also explore what financial institutions can do to identify these vulnerable customers and how to treat them fairly, what controls can be put in place to prevent and mitigate this fraud, and what support can be provided to the victims.

(Moderator) John-Paul Eaton, Global Community Director, FINTRAIL 
Cecilie Fjellhøy, Fraud Victim of ‘The Tinder Swindler’ and Founder of action:reaction foundation

11:55 – 12:10 Refreshment Break

12:10 – 13:00 Panel Discussion: The Crypto Conundrum: The Use of Privacy-Enhancing Tools
Privacy-enhancing tools are an essential part of the crypto ecosystem. At the same time, their use by illicit actors frequently raises calls for banning them. This power-packed presentation discusses how crypto firms can navigate the challenges of allowing their customers to use privacy tools, effective risk management strategies, and how privacy tools and regulation can work together.

(Moderator) Greg Wlodarczyk, Managing Director, Virtual Assets and New Payment Methods, FINTRAIL
Iggy Azad, Director, Global Intelligence, Coinbase
Mark Aruliah, Senior Policy Adviser, EMEA, Elliptic
Erica Stanford, Author of ‘Crypto Wars’, and Founder of the Crypto Curry Club 
Craig Gleeson, Senior Officer Cryptoassets, Money Laundering, Bribery & Corruption Threat Team, National Economic Crime Centre, NCA

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

13:30 - 13:50 As FinTech Comes of Age, ACAMS’ CAFCA Sets the Stage
FinTech is hitting its stride, reinventing how financial services are designed, developed and delivered. But accompanying the exciting innovations are regulatory obligations to fight financial crimes such as money laundering and fraud. Which makes ACAMS’ Certified AML FinTech Compliance Associate, or CAFCA, certificate an invaluable resource. Specifically targeting FinTech’s unique compliance challenges, CAFCA training offers authoritative insights on managing financial crime risks and meeting regulatory requirements. Join ACAMS over lunch, to learn CAFCA’s value in fulfilling FinTech’s compliance demands.


14:00 – 14:50 Panel Discussion: Does Identity Matter?
State sponsored hacks and the tense geo-political climate have once again shone the light on the abundance of sensitive personal information being shared with each and every fintech and bank that consumers want to try out. But does identity matter? Beyond the current regulatory requirements, do fintechs and banks really need to hold this information? And can we use zero knowledge identity verification, powered by the blockchain, to enable consumers to control their own information? In this wide ranging discussion, we’ll touch on how zero knowledge IDV is possible, its advantages, and its limitations.

(Moderator) Natasha Vernier, Co-founder and CEO, Cable
Duncan Steblyna, Vice President of Product, Veriff
David Pope, Marketing Director, Hooyu
Emily Harris, Head of Compliance, Fiat Republic

14:50 – 15:05 Refreshment Break

15:05 - 15:40 Fireside Chat: Live FinCrime Book Club
Join for an insightful discussion with Patrick Alley, author of recent FinCrime book ‘Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption’, describing the founding of Global Witness, documenting some of its most dramatic investigations and uncovering corruption by following the money through the 'shadow -world' that enables it. Audience members will have a chance to ask questions and share comments.

(Moderator) Ciara Aitchison, Director, Insights and Research, FINTRAIL
Patrick Alley, Director of Global Witness, and Author of ‘Very Bad People’

15:40 – 16:30 Panel Discussion: With Great AI Power Comes Great FinCrime Responsibility!
AI is clearly the solution but how do we prevent it being the problem? With unintended consequences and financial inclusion all featuring heavily in industry discussion in the last 12 months, what does this mean for AI’s role in financial crime prevention? In this panel discussion, we tackle some of the less-discussed issues of AI including its potential harmful impact and best practices to eliminate bias.

(Moderator) James Nurse, Managing Director, FINTRAIL 
Dr Janet Bastiman, Chief Data Scientist, Napier 
Natasha Qayyum, Risk Intelligence Analyst, GoCardless
Gemma Zafarani, Data and Analytics Lead - Financial Crime, Natwest Group

16:30 – 16:35 Closing Remarks

Robert Evans, CEO, FINTRAIL

16:35 – 18:00 Networking Reception Sponsored by Lucinity.
Lucinity is excited to sponsor the Networking Reception, look out for Frozen Margaritas and participate in the Cash Grab Machine challenge, where you can grab money and donate to a charity of choice! However, the fun does not stop there. After the conference, we will be heading over to a location within walking distance of the venue where we will continue to network with all our FinCrime experts.

Our Sponsors:

FFECONPro

Introducing FFECONPro sponsors, Cable. Cable is the leader in automated financial crime assurance. Anything less than full, continual monitoring of financial crime controls leaves room for errors with massive potential losses of money, time, and reputation. Why should you be satisfied with manually testing 100 accounts when you can automatically monitor 100%? With Cable, you can rest easy with 100% assurance that your financial crime controls are working effectively and that any regulatory breaches, control failures or financial crime risks are being surfaced in real time. Automated assurance is the next evolution in financial crime and fundamentally upgrades the standard for assurance processes.

Introducing FFECONPro sponsors, Elliptic. Elliptic, is the global leader in cryptoasset risk management for crypto businesses and financial institutions worldwide.

Recognized as a WEF Technology Pioneer and backed by investors including Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, SBI Group, and Santander Innoventures, Elliptic has assessed risk on transactions worth several trillion dollars, uncovering activities related to money laundering, terrorist fundraising, fraud, and other financial crimes.

Elliptic is headquartered in London with offices in New York, Singapore, and Tokyo. To learn more, visit www.elliptic.co and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Introducing FFECONPro sponsors, HooYu, is a global customer onboarding and KYC specialist. The award-winning HooYu platform is engineered not only to increase the integrity of KYC processes but to maximise the percentage of customers that can be successfully onboarded. 

HooYu is the first identity platform to blend ID document validation, online profile analysis, geo-location, open banking and facial biometrics with traditional database checks and PEPS & sanctions screening. HooYu combines this with smart UI & UX features such as dynamic customer prompts, device language detection, logic steps to reduce friction, reminder messages and white label customisation to maximise the success of customer account opening.  

Their market-leading approach and the integrity of their KYC processes mean HooYu is trusted by banks such as NatWest, Virgin Money and Ulster Bank, credit providers such as Vanquis, investment platforms such as Hargreaves Lansdown and leading financial service providers and FinTechs such as Suits Me and Trussle.

Introducing FFECONPro sponsors, Veriff is the comprehensive identity verification and KYC platform for fintechs and financial services. Covering over 10,000 government-issued identity documents in over 190 countries, Veriff helps financial organizations validate their customers anywhere in the world.

Veriff’s AI-powered platform processes successful verifications within 6 seconds, and offers a seamless UX without compromising compliance and identity fraud prevention. Brands like Uphold, Blockchain and Wise utilize Veriff to enhance their operations.

FFECONNet

Introducing FFECONNet sponsors, Lucinity. Lucinity, is a RegTech SaaS anti-money laundering (AML) company helping combat money laundering with tools that combine next-generation AI with human insight and beautiful design. They operate globally, with customers ranging from Fintechs to well-known Tier-1 banks. The company holds patents on unique technologies and has received several awards recognising its mission and innovations.

Make Money Good™ - we invite you to join us in making a positive and sustainable impact in society. Money laundering is a crime that fuels crime, and we believe that technology is the key to transforming AML. Our ‘Human AI’ approach is based on the belief that AI and data science complement and empower humans. Our fresh and intuitive UI has been designed to be flexible, with an API-first product design.

Transform your compliance workflows and increase efficiency through behaviour detection and continuous, risk-based evaluation. A free demo environment is available on https://lucinity.com/play

FFECONPlus

Introducing FFECONPlus sponsors Ground Truth Intelligence. Ground Truth Intelligence, is the comprehensive platform for global due diligence, investigations and data. Gathering global investigative data doesn't have to be complicated, time-consuming or expensive. They designed the first one-stop platform that simplifies the sourcing and management of due diligence, intelligence and global data. With a vetted global community and streamlined workflows, finally there is a tech-enabled solution that supports the full spectrum of investigative research, even at scale.

Introducing FFECONPlus sponsors Refinitiv, serving more than 40,000 institutions in approximately 190 countries. Refinitiv, provides advanced data and compliance technology including World-Check and Qual-ID to help clients clarify and mitigate risks. Refinitiv, heritage of integrity enables customers to make critical decisions with confidence.

Introducing FFECONPlus sponsors Resistant AI. Resistant AI, have been using machine learning to hunt cybercriminals for over 15 years, and they have followed them into the field of financial crime. They have developed state of the art machine-learning techniques they call Identity Forensics to make the AI and automation systems you rely upon resilient to manipulation and attack. By analyzing everything from submitted documents to ongoing customer behaviors, they uncover and prevent document forgery, serial fraud, synthetic identities, account takeovers, money laundering, and as yet unknown financial threats operating at scale. For more information, please visit www.resistant.ai or LinkedIn and follow on Twitter.

Introducing FFECONPlus sponsors, TruNarrative. TruNarrative, was founded with a single mission: to make safe commerce simple.

The TruNarrative Platform facilitates multi jurisdiction customer onboarding, financial crime detection, risk & regulatory compliance. Providing unified decisioning across; Identity Verification, Fraud, eKYC, AML & Account Monitoring via a single API.

The TruNarrative platform brings these checks into a single easy-to-configure environment and then uses modern techniques including machine learning and process automation.

Combining your own data with 50+ third party providers into the no-code interface, means you can adapt rules and decisioning on the fly without IT resources, keeping total cost of ownership low, and make adoption and integration easy.

Media Partners

Introducing our Media Partner, The Laundry. The Laundry is a money laundering and financial crime news and media aggregator. It is free, with no log-in or subscription required. Using a combination of expertise in anti-money laundering with news and media aggregation, The Laundry rounds up the latest and most relevant content and provides it to users from the moment they land on the website homepage. There is no limit to the news and media sources The Laundry uses, so they can bring users the latest and most relevant content, faster.

Introducing our Media Partner, The Paypers. The Paypers covers the latest global news and analyses on payments, ecommerce, fintech, and the digital economy.

The Paypers report on global payments news and innovation in an increasingly digital economy. We’re on top of all payments and fintech news: payments infrastructure, payments systems, payments behaviours, ecommerce payments, Open Banking and Open Finance, Banking-as-a-Service, B2B payments, cryptocurrencies, fraud and financial crime prevention, along with breaking news on the digital economy. Follow us for the latest regulation updates, along with relevant company news on payments investments, product launches, partnerships, and mergers and acquisitions.

Event Covid-19 Measures

The safety of our guests is important to us so we have sufficient measures in place to make attending the event as safe and as comfortable as possible, whilst complying to the current government guidelines. The event venue will be cleaned and sanitised prior to the event and there will be sterilising stations on arrival at the venue. Wearing masks is optional yet encouraged.

Attendees who do not feel 100% or have any minor symptoms of colds or flu on the day of the event are asked to not attend or advised to receive a negative Covid-19 test result prior to attending. If you have tested positive for Covid-19, we ask you to please stay at home and transfer your ticket to a colleague to attend in your place without any additional fees.