Financial Crime Conference 2025

Luke Charters is the Labour MP for York Outer, and has been an MP continually since 4 July 2024. Luke started his career at the Bank of England where he worked on a project to launch the new polymer banknotes. He then became a regulator at the Financial Conduct Authority where he worked on projects to protect vulnerable customers and reduce fraud. Luke is the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on FinTech and co-Chair of the APPG on Fair Banking. Before being elected as Member of Parliament, Luke worked in the private sector on compliance and fraud prevention.

David focuses on transnational regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings. He advises clients on a broad range of contentious regulatory and financial crime issues, including anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and fraud. He is a leading member of NRF’s International Trade and Sanctions practice in London, advising clients on regulatory compliance, investigations and enforcement arising out of economic sanctions and export controls.

Haney has extensive experience in the delivery of highly technical programs of work in broad areas of risk, including in connection with financial crime and including regulatory, governance and operational, conduct and reputational risk along with specific advice on more general regulatory advisory topics and interventions. He has worked in and across all the key global financial hubs with a variety of financial services providers, from capital markets firms and asset managers through to a range of commercial banks, payments firms and technology suppliers, along with regulators and governments.

Katie acts on a wide range of financial crime matters in the context of financial services and professional regulation, including investigations and enquiries by regulators such as the FCA, PRA and Ofgem. She also advises on responding to enforcement and disciplinary proceedings involving regulated firms and individuals and listed companies in connection with a broad range of financial crime issues such as market abuse, money laundering and mis-selling. Katie has twice been seconded to the FCA as a legal advisor to its Regulatory Decisions Committee.

Kevin has 17 years in Policing – in a multitude of roles. He now leads a fantastic team of Fraud Intelligence Professionals, whom are at the forefront of intelligence gathering across the main “high harm” areas of Fraud. As a team, they produce high quality intelligence packages, which are disseminated to investigative teams across the country and beyond. They work closely with many partner agencies throughout the world, with the common aim of disrupting and prosecuting those who commit the highest harm frauds.

Marisa has worked within financial crime compliance for 17 years. Her experience spans Private Banking, Asset Management/Third Party Administration and Wealth Management, covering a wide range of financial crime related topics. Marisa is a member of various industry working groups and Committees, including the TISA Financial Crime working group.

Laura spent 20 years in retail banking at NatWest, with the last 12 of those in the Financial Crime space undertaking a variety of roles across both the first and second lines including Financial Crime Operations, Controls, Transaction Monitoring systems and Financial Crime Oversight of both the Business and Commercial area and the Back Office Operations. Recently moving into the Investment Platform industry, she joined AJ Bell in June 2024 as Head of Financial Crime and MLRO.

Nick is Chief Executive Officer of Select ID, a new inclusive Digital ID scheme and marketplace. Select ID allows consumers to choose their preferred Digital ID provider while making it easy for companies to benefit from digital identity services that meet relevant regulatory requirements such as KYC and AML. Nick has expert knowledge of Identity and Fraud techniques, solutions, and standards across a wide variety of sectors and jurisdictions. Previously, Nick was Chief Identity Strategist at the Open Identity Exchange, providing thought leadership, guides, presentations and stakeholder influencing to drive forward the definition and adoption of Digital ID and Digital Wallets around the globe. Prior to that, Nick was Director of ID and Fraud at Experian, where led Experian’s development, launch and operation of a full “Identity as a Service” solution which was the first live example of a Digital ID being seamlessly interoperable across public and private sector.

Mark has over 20 years’ experience in the industry, in particular across wealth management, banking and financial crime. Before joining Bovill Newgate, he worked in multiple compliance roles including as a Money Laundering Reporting Officer in several large international investment banks, including UBS and Kleinwort Benson. Mark is a hands-on practitioner who specialises in the practical interpretation of the rules in a commercial environment. He also has significant experience in handling regulatory intervention including thematic reviews and potential enforcement action.

Katarina is a subject matter expert in financial crime compliance. In her role Katarina is responsible for working with strategic customers and partners, industry analysts, press and regulators representing LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the market. She regularly assists on various strategic initiatives across UK and Ireland. She joined LexisNexis Risk Solutions from PwC Croatia, where she worked as a Risk & Compliance Manager in the Financial Crime Compliance / Risk Management areas. Katarina is CAMS-certified and has more than ten years of experience in corporate risk management and financial crime compliance. She started her AML career as KYC analyst, later becoming Compliance Manager and then moving to AML consultancy role. She assisted clients in the banking, retail, hospitality, virtual currency and telecom sectors with compliance consulting, internal AML audits, seminars and generally in their efforts to identify and mitigate financial crime threats. In addition to designing and implementing AML programs and incorporating a broad range of vendor solutions, she also has experience with GDPR, PSD2, FATCA and CRS."

Anna is a single mum and primary school teacher. She has helped victims of all types of romance fraud and catfishing for 6 years. With a commitment to lifelong learning, Anna researched and educated herself about the criminals who destroy people’s lives. Now recognised as an expert in this area, Anna raises awareness around victim blaming and support, and conducts training sessions for law enforcement and other parties involved in romance fraud.

Rachel is a governance, risk and compliance consultant. She was formerly a Partner and the Head of the UK Ashurst Risk Advisory practice and a Partner at EY. She specialises in investigations and compliance related to fraud and financial crime. She has over 30 years & experience working with clients across a range of sectors. She has used the knowledge gained on investigations to work with her clients to remediate issues identified during investigations and strengthen compliance programmes and control frameworks. She is a US-qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA). She has a BSc. (Hons.) in Business Administration and post-graduate Diplomas in Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Prevention from the International Compliance Association.

With 18 years’ in the Financial Services industry, Frazer is responsible for the Customer Journey at Margetts. Primarily, Frazer ensures that the £10B+ in AUM for both the Fund Management and Authorised Corporate Director divisions of Margetts is managed smoothly, keeping the Consumer at the forefront of everything we do. Roles and experience includes Vulnerable Customer, Complaints, ISA regulations, Operational Risk, Deputy MLRO and Customer Expectation within the Customer Journey for Margetts.

Brian has spent over 31 years in asset management working at M&G, Cofunds, IFDS (now SS&C), Allfunds, Northern Trust and at Fidelity for 7 years. Brian has performed many different roles in that time, with the Last 17 years working primarily on Financial Crime prevention, initially in the 1st line of defence, before becoming Deputy MLRO at Fidelity in 2020. Brian has participated in a wide range of initiatives in the FC space, including refresh programmes, control enhancements and implementation of new technologies, and is a passionate advocate of working collaboratively across the industry, being an active participant in Financial Crime discussion groups, including as Chair of TISA’s Financial Crime Working Group.

Sophie joined TISA in January 2024 and has already got stuck into our work on the Advice/Guidance Boundary Review, TISA’s Inclusive Investing initiative, and leads our Financial Crime and Taxation committees. Before joining us, Sophie worked in Wholesale Markets Policy at the FCA, gaining experience in Primary and Secondary legislation, as well as FCA consultations. She has worked on Brexit and the LIBOR transition, and recently returned from a secondment to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.