TISA Financial Crime Conference 2026

Beth Davies is a Deputy Director in HM Treasury's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), leading on strategy, enforcement, engagement, and policy. Beth worked across trade, devolution, and constitutional affairs, for the UK Government, the Devolved Administrations and Jersey before joining OFSI in 2024. Based in the Darlington Economic Campus, Beth is a champion for HM Treasury’s regional presence in the Northeast.

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 Stephen is a financial services lawyer based in London. Katie has over 30 years' experience of advising financial institutions during which she has acted on a wide range of contentious regulatory matters. She regularly advises on investigations and enforcement proceedings involving the FCA, PRA, Ofgem, FRC, AIM, ICE, SRA, NCA and HMRC, as well as overseas regulators. Her clients include regulated firms, listed corporates and senior management and areas she covers include financial crime, such as market abuse, money laundering and fraud; consumer-related matters such as retail mis-selling and consumer credit; governance concerns such as conflicts of interest, ESG and reporting; individual accountability for senior managers and others; non-financial misconduct and notifications. Katie has extensive experience of supporting clients with skilled person (s.166) reviews and on the conduct of internal investigations including in relation to lessons learned reviews and the design and implementation of redress and remediation programmes. She has also advised the regulator on investigation and enforcement matters and twice been seconded to the FCA as legal adviser to its Regulatory Decisions Committee. She also has extensive litigation experience having recently successfully defended a financial institution against group litigation and represented a number of clients in tax-related disputes.

Alexandra has over seven years of experience in banking and financial services, advising firms on regulatory and financial crime matters. Her work spans financial crime remediation, governance uplift and the implementation of technology enabled controls, including AI driven detection and monitoring solutions. She regularly advises firms on balancing innovation with regulatory accountability and brings a practical, risk focused perspective to discussions on the use of AI in financial crime.

Nicky is an Advisory Director within the Square 4 leadership team, helping to drive the strategic direction, growth and management of the business. Nicky leads the Client Assets Team and is responsible for overseeing all work in the areas of client assets and financial crime compliance, outsourcing and third party management as well as regulatory transactions including authorisations, variation of permission applications and changes in control. She leads on reviews and health checks, provides subject matter expertise to in-house teams and designs processes and controls for firms. She has worked with firms to prepare for and provide support throughout CASS audits, supported remediation and change projects and has led skilled person review teams. Nicky has 25 years financial services compliance experience with 18 of those years spent providing regulatory consultancy. She has worked with all types of firm, from start-ups to multinational corporations. She has broad experience of general compliance matters, outsourcing and governance and extensive financial crime compliance experience. For the last 12 years, Nicky has focussed heavily on client assets compliance and has deep technical knowledge and wide-ranging experience on the topic.

Brian serves as the Strategic Accounts Director for Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service. The role entails strategic engagement with Cifas member organisations and other senior stakeholders across multiple industry sectors, ensuring that their needs are optimally met and that Cifas consolidates and enhances its position at the forefront of taking the fight to economic crime. Brian is an internationally recognised and award-winning risk professional. He has almost 40 years of experience, predominately discharging roles in domestic and international financial services businesses, including senior roles with HSBC, Citibank, Visa International and Lloyds Banking Group. He has additional consulting expertise in areas such as insurance, telecommunications, the public sector and across industries in a risk, authentication, data protection, cyber, continuity and resilience context. Furthermore, he has held senior positions with the decision management and analytic giant FICO (Fair Isaac) where he was a leading practitioner, and both led their global fraud consulting and was a leading contributor to their enterprise risk roadmap. And more recently Brian served as the Managing Director (MD) for the analytics and risk company GDS Link, looking after their Fraudscreen business; a role where he was recognised by SME News as Best Global Credit Risk Management Software MD 2022. Brian is an innovator and thought leader and has co-authored potential patents in the first party fraud and payment tokenisation space. He is a leading figure for both the Business Continuity Institute where he founded two of the UK Chapters, and where he remains on the management committee as Leader of the East of England Chapter; and the Institute of Strategic Risk Management where he is a member on the Global Advisory Council. Brian is also the founder of the fledgling Institute of Corporate Resilience. Brian has established and run his own firms in areas of business servicing, business development, risk and regulatory compliance activity. His independent endeavours have previously won him the accolade of Financial Services CEO of the Year for two consecutive years (2022 and 2023) from CEO Monthly magazine.

Scott is a focussed and dedicated financial crime professional with 25 years’ experience in the financial services and fintech industry, currently working for FNZ UK Ltd as Head of Financial Crime/MLRO and worked previously with RBS and TSB. In his career to date he has undertaken a number of roles (within both 1LOD and 2LOD) with responsibilities for AML, terrorism financing, sanctions, fraud, market abuse/insider dealing, tax evasion and bribery/corruption. This has allowed him to understand, develop and deliver effective strategies, implement risk/threat management and assurance frameworks and to enhance compliance monitoring activities to mitigate financial crime risks and improve deficiencies. Scott also has extensive regulatory/industry knowledge on financial crime matters as well as experience in implementing financial crime policy and governance frameworks to deliver effective business outcomes and objectives. Scott is also a practicing member of the International Compliance Association (MICA) and currently holds Diplomas in both Financial Crime and Anti-Money Laundering (AML), He also holds a qualification with the Association of Chartered Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

Claire has extensive experience advising financial services firms on complex regulatory change and prudential risk, including governance, capital and liquidity frameworks, internal controls, risk management and regulatory remediation. She has worked across global financial centres with a broad range of organisations, from early stage and retail firms to multinational investment banks and has led large scale regulatory reviews commissioned by regulators including the FCA, SEC, DoJ and SFC. Her work regularly involves supporting boards and senior management through regulatory interventions and transformation programmes aligned to global regulatory standards.

With 19 years of experience in financial services, Frazer leads the Customer Journey at Margetts, bringing deep expertise in client onboarding, regulatory compliance, and operational governance. As Acting Deputy MLRO, Frazer supports the firm’s financial crime framework and oversees KYC onboarding and ongoing monitoring for both private and corporate clients. As Complaint Lead, Frazer also manages complaints governance and escalation processes, ensuring strong client outcomes while maintaining high regulatory standards.

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.