Join the FinCrime & Surveillance Summit
on 9 April 2025

Anna Urbanska, CEO, Standard Chartered Poland,
David Howes, Group Head, Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct Risk, Standard Chartered

Esme Hudson, Chief Compliance Officer, SC Ventures

As memecoins move from being crypto-community humour to mainstream offerings, their hype and increased use by consumers with no previous digital asset experience adds additional focus to the growth of digital assets. We will discuss memecoins’ place within the established digital asset ecosystem and the sentiment and mechanics behind these coins that can contribute to heightened FCC risks.

David Lewis, Managing Director and Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Advisory, Kroll

Focusing on coordinated global efforts by governments to fight financial crime, including but not limited to regulation, you will be given a brief recap on how it started and how it’s going, before setting how the FATF will focus on assessing technical compliance and more importantly, effectiveness, in it’s next round of mutual evaluations of countries, and what this might mean for Standard Chartered.

Alex Fischer, Director, FCC, Strategic Intelligence, Group i3, Standard Chartered,
Aysara Yusupova, Europe & Americas Regional Deployment Head, Standard Chartered

Arunava Dutta, Head, Fraud Risk Management, Staff Fraud, SC Ventures
Abhishek Patwari, Director – Staff Fraud, Standard Chartered

Does Staff Fraud occur in silo? A multi-pronged approach to combat the risks, including increasing regulatory/legislative interest associated with “Insiders”.

Peter Engering, Compliance Champs
Leon Kort, Compliance Champs

Trade Based Money Laundering is still a relatively unknown territory for banks and in particular the business, 1st line AML/KYC analysts and Compliance professionals. Speakers will provide insights in recent developments and trends in this field and the challenges and opportunities this brings. Combined with practical examples, it will offer you a deeper understanding on how to tackle the topic of TBML within your organisation.

Jackson Quaker, Policy Specialist, Group AML Policy & Standards, Standard Chartered

Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, represents the most serious threat to global security and challenges the entire international community. This session will talk about the challenges in tackling Proliferation Financing (PF), the regulatory requirements, emerging trends, and effective compliance controls for risk mitigation.

Georgios Kormaris, Director, Fintech Client Advisory, Standard Chartered

Audiences will go through the key risks and compliance challenges in the digital/crypto-asset industry, the latest trends observed, and a brief regulatory horizon scanning.

Topic to be announced

Graham Barrow, Director, The Dark Money Files Ltd.

Graham will demonstrate how, starting from the UK company which owned the ammonium nitrate which blew up in Beirut in August 2020, led to a significant and complex network of similar, possibly associated UK companies, and how they sought to disguise the fact that the owners had been sanctioned by OFAC.

Andrzej Agria, Red Team Expert, Standard Chartered

AI Safety and Security are a crucial aspect of an ethical approach to using AI and are both under rapid development to match the pace of capability developments as well as under hot contention among experts. In this talk, Andrzej will illustrate the difference between Safety and Security in the AI context, show the state-of-the-art approaches used by various AI labs around the world and contextualize this knowledge by showing the exponential nature of current AI capabilities development and the challenges that stem from that.

J. Edward ‘Ned’ Conway, Executive Secretary, Wolfsberg Group

Regulatory reform continues in key jurisdictions across the world. How can we ensure that the new frameworks put in place guarantee the outcomes we have all been seeking for years? The executive secretary for the Wolfsberg Group will detail the Group’s vision on how the financial crime prevention community can collectively move from a space of “strategic alignment” on effectiveness to tangible, “operational gains” on the battlefield. Speaker will discuss three separate but related areas of opportunity for massive reform: the enterprise-wide risk assessment, monitoring for suspicious activity, and the application of the risk-based approach in addressing financial inclusion.

Vijay Gopaladesikan, MD, Global Head TM CB, Regional Head of FCSO, E&A, Standard Chartered

This session will focus on the increasing threat from financial crime, recent fines by the regulators. Are banks really keeping up with the pace of the bad actors with innovation, what are some of the challenges banks face in this fight against financial crime, what is the need of the hour?