PIMFA
The PIMFA Financial Crime Conference is returning in 2025, ready to update attendees on everything they need to know on the evolving financial crime landscape.
Firms and their clients remain at significant risk, and the event will aim to give PIMFA members the know how to protect themselves. Attendees will get access to expert sessions from professionals across industry, including governmental, regulatory and law enforcement experts, as they discuss what the current threat landscape looks like emerging from new techniques and technologies, and what can be done to operate in a safer and more resilient environment.
As in previous years, this event is named not just at financial crime professionals and MLROs, but at anyone in a senior management or compliance function, working to ensure firm’s work is safe for clients, and one step ahead of the various threat actors acting against the financial services sector in 2025.
As you will see from our agenda, this year’s event will include contributions from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Home Office, and the National Crime Agency (NCA), among many others – book now to reserve your seat (press are not eligible for this event, and spaces are limited on a first come, first served basis).
Event Details:
Date: 26 February 2025
Times: 10:00 – 17:00
Venue: Shoosmiths, 1 Bow Churchyard, London – EC4M 9DQ
If you would like to discuss speaking or sponsorship opportunities please email events@pimfa.co.uk
If you are a PIMFA Member – Please ensure you are logged in to your account first before adding a ticket to your basket to access the member discounts.
Additional speaking opportunities are available, but are severely limited with the agenda filling up first – if bringing financial crime related content to the PIMFA audience is of interest, please reach out to events@pimfa.co.uk with details of your proposed topic and speakers – additionally, we are always happy to hear about ideas and themes you would like to hear about at this event, or any others we put on – please do no hesitate to reach out with your suggestions.
Additional sponsorship opportunities are available, but are restricted and going fast – if partnering with PIMFA on Financial Crime Conference 2025 is of interest, please reach out to events@pimfa.co.uk.
This year’s agenda will be an intensive day of cutting-edge content from the frontline of combatting financial crime, and cover both a range of viewpoints (including governmental, regulatory, law enforcement, wealth management, and technology firms) as well as thematics (everything from AML to sanctions, fraud controls to cyber threats, and much more).
Headline updates from the industry will include:
– A confirmed keynote speech from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on regulatory priorities for 2025 in the FinCrime space
– A confirmed keynote address from the Homeland Security Group at the Home Office, on the latest updates to the ongoing Economic Crime Plan 2
– A special session from the National Economic Crime Command (NECC) at the National Crime Agency (NCA) on SARS
– A confirmed legal update on what firms need to know within fraud and regulatory for 2025, featuring hosts Shoosmiths LLP
We will also be providing a range of in-depth overview sessions on the latest threat vectors, including the below:
– Sanctions Controls – practical issues and applications
– A view from the coalface on the latest Cyber Threats facing member firms
– A deep dive session on how technology can enhance AML Controls
– The latest on Crypto Investment Fraud and how it is impacting our industry
– A focus on risk assessments and Fraud Controls in our sector
– A view from the MLRO perspective – what are the most prescient issues for them in 2025?
If you work within a wealth management firm, either in a financial crime, compliance, or senior management position, this event will equip you with the most relevant knowledge of how to protect your clients and your firms from harm in 2025 – book now to avoid disappointment.
Additional speaking opportunities are available, but are severely limited with the agenda filling up first – if bringing financial crime related content to the PIMFA audience is of interest, please reach out to events@pimfa.co.uk with details of your proposed topic and speakers – additionally, we are always happy to hear about ideas and themes you would like to hear about at this event, or any others we put on – please do no hesitate to reach out with your suggestions!
Arrival & Registration
08:30 - 09:30
Arrival & Registration
08:30 - 09:30
Welcome and PIMFA introduction
09:30 - 09:45
Welcome and PIMFA introduction
09:30 - 09:45
Alex joined PIMFA in June 2017 as a Policy Adviser, where she works on a wide range of regulatory matters, engaging with policy makers and the regulator to promote members’ interests.
She previously worked for the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) in the same capacity. APFA merged with the Wealth Management Association (WMA) to form PIMFA.
Alex has a legal background, having studied law at Cambridge University and was called to the Bar in 1997. She was a tenant at Lamb Chambers, Temple where she specialised in personal injury claims, contractual disputes and professional negligence. Alex has experience of advisory, drafting and court work including appearances in the Court of Appeal, the High Court and county courts.
Opening Keynote 1- Regulatory Update
09:45 - 10:15
Opening Keynote 1- Regulatory Update
09:45 - 10:15
Prior to joining the FCA in 2010 Kate worked as a lawyer specialising in financial services litigation in private practice. She has spent the majority of her career at the FCA working in Retail Enforcement leading the relationship management and strategy team overseeing referrals to Enforcement from Supervision.
She is an experienced Head of Department having set up an Enforcement Department with a specific focus on Interventions and Threshold Conditions before leading an Investigation Department running some of the FCA’s most high profile, complex investigations. She also developed the FCA’s Financial Promotions strategy.
In 2022 she moved to Supervision and since then has headed up the Department responsible for Investment Platforms, SIPP Operators, P2P and Crowdfunders as well as proactive teams that lead thematic projects, multi-firm work and with a specific focus on Financial Crime and Consumer Duty.
Opening Keynote 2- SARS Update
1015 - 10:45
Opening Keynote 2- SARS Update
1015 - 10:45
Comfort Break
10:45 - 11:00
Comfort Break
10:45 - 11:00
Presentation- Risk Assessments & Fraud Controls
11:00 - 11:30
Presentation- Risk Assessments & Fraud Controls
11:00 - 11:30
Panel- Key issues for MLROs
11:30 - 12:15
Panel- Key issues for MLROs
11:30 - 12:15
Katarina Helde Cook, Head of Financial Crime Compliance and MLRO for Handelsbanken Wealth and Asset Management, passionate about the role of financial services in the fight against financial crime –to protect our society, victims, businesses, and the wider economy.
Marieke Kernet is Evelyn Partners’ Head of Financial Crime and Group MLRO/SMF17, having started as Head of Financial Crime in what was then Smith & Williamson seven years ago.
She previously worked in HSBC’s Financial Crime function covering Global Banking and Markets line of business for Europe and then the UK.
She started her career as an “Avocat à la Cour” (barrister/solicitor) for an international law firm in Luxembourg as an investment fund and banking lawyer for the best part of a decade before a stint in consultancy at EY.
Presentation- Sanctions Controls & Practical Appications
12:15 - 12:45
Presentation- Sanctions Controls & Practical Appications
12:15 - 12:45
Lunch & Networking
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch & Networking
12:45 - 13:45
Presentation- Firm Impersonation - how they are doing it
13:45 - 14:15
Presentation- Firm Impersonation - how they are doing it
13:45 - 14:15
Presentation- How Technology Can Enhance AML Controls
14:15 - 14:45
Presentation- How Technology Can Enhance AML Controls
14:15 - 14:45
Presentation- A View from the Coalface - Cyber Threats
14:45 - 15:15
Presentation- A View from the Coalface - Cyber Threats
14:45 - 15:15
Comfort Break
15:15 - 15:30
Comfort Break
15:15 - 15:30
Closing Keynote 1- Legal Update - Fraud & Regulatory
15:30 - 16:00
Closing Keynote 1- Legal Update - Fraud & Regulatory
15:30 - 16:00
Closing Keynote 2- Economic Crime Plan 2 Update
16:00 - 16:30
Closing Keynote 2- Economic Crime Plan 2 Update
16:00 - 16:30
Summary & Closing Remarks
16:30 - 16:45
Summary & Closing Remarks
16:30 - 16:45
Alex joined PIMFA in June 2017 as a Policy Adviser, where she works on a wide range of regulatory matters, engaging with policy makers and the regulator to promote members’ interests.
She previously worked for the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) in the same capacity. APFA merged with the Wealth Management Association (WMA) to form PIMFA.
Alex has a legal background, having studied law at Cambridge University and was called to the Bar in 1997. She was a tenant at Lamb Chambers, Temple where she specialised in personal injury claims, contractual disputes and professional negligence. Alex has experience of advisory, drafting and court work including appearances in the Court of Appeal, the High Court and county courts.
Networking Drinks
16:45 - 18:00
Networking Drinks
16:45 - 18:00
