Past events

Watch our team of research specialists and experts debate the RegTech highlights of the year just gone and speculate about what is to come in 2023. We’ll be talking about our biggest news stories of last year, what’s likely to be big in regulation in the months ahead and what RegTech vendors are seeing in their future.

Implementing a threat-led approach to financial crime risk management gives organisations the opportunities to recalibrate their financial crime framework.

This webinar explained how focusing on threats first, and risk second, allows you to meaningfully reduce the volume and value of financial crime affecting your organisation..

The FCA’s new Consumer Duty represents a significant challenge for many firms with the regulations driving a step change towards a customer first approach to financial services firms in the UK. 

In this webinar we explored the context, challenges and role of technology involved in this ground-breaking piece of regulation.

This webinar explored the role of data convergence in achieving a holistic view of financial crime risk, outlining how organisations can leverage emerging technology to overcome siloed financial crime operations. Our panellists focused on the launch of Napier’s Continuum and discuss how leveraging technology can support firms’ FCRM frameworks and exposure.

This webinar saw us joined by Emma Parry from the RegTech Associates Expert Network. We focused In this webinar on funding, regulatory change taking place throughout H2 2022 and general RegTech and RiskTech market activities

This webinar saw us joined by experts from law enforcement and technology vendors to discuss the digital asset ecosystem as it pertains to financial crime. We focused on the following topic areas:

• The role of digital assets as a mechanism for laundering illicit capital.
• The challenges facing law enforcement in identifying and prosecuting blockchain criminal activity.
• Jurisdictional differences in the financial crime regulation of digital assets.
• How you can leverage blockchain analytics to identify suspicious transactions.
• Practical solutions to identifying and preventing financial crime on the blockchain

Throughout the year we produce Quarterly pulse reports in which we cover market insights, news and fundraising from the RegTech and RiskTech markets! 

In this webinar we cast our analytical eye over funding to understand how the investment landscape has been impacted by the current economic climate. We throw the spotlight onto the Tax and Web3 markets to explore the evolving regulatory environment and highlight how technology vendors are innovating to support forthcoming regulations in the Web3 ecosystem.

KYC transformation, like any large scale change program, is not about data and technology, though those are obviously central to its success. KYC transformation will also involve changes to policies, processes and the way that people work and therefore it is vital that those leading the program consider how to take people on a journey. 

In partnership with Encompass, have a look at our agenda and highlights from the webinar.

Fraud and anti-money laundering are inextricably linked – not least because fraud is a predicate crime for money laundering. Recent research has also shown that fraud and terrorist financing are also becoming more aligned. Bringing the management of fraud and anti-money laundering / counter-terrorist financing together may seem to make logical sense but do the culture and incentives of those involved differ too much to make this workable?  

Have a look at our, in partnership with Feedzai, on demand now

What’s stopping your firm from adopting new technology to help manage risk and regulatory compliance? Is it a lack of education about products on the market? Lack of budget? Is it too difficult to integrate with your existing tech stack? Or are there other internal factors influencing the decision making process. 

You can watch highlights by following the link below. 

We teamed up with Napier to host a webinar about identifying typologies of various predicate crimes for money-laundering, how AI solutions can help to solve some of these issues and why it is important to collaborate on sharing financial crime typology information and intelligence.

Have a look at the agenda and highlights from this webinar.

This virtual roundtable, in collaboration with the City of London Corporation and in partnership with Evalueserve, Know Your Customer and kompany focussed on the importance of corporate ownership transparency in the fight against financial crime and corruption, whilst acknowledging the challenges this presents for regulated firms.

Have a look at the agenda and highlights from this virtual roundtable

As anyone who works in a compliance or regulatory role knows, regulation is not static. Every highly regulated industry operates in a dynamic environment, where the regulatory framework is constantly evolving. We discussed what regulatory change is on the horizon, the challenges of implementing change and how technology can help.

Have a look at the agenda and highlights from this webinar.

A huge amount is known about predicate crimes and how criminals use the financial system to legitimise their ill-gotten funds, though there are still unsatisfactory recovery rates of these gains with as little as 1% of illicit transactions in Europe being recovered. How can financial institutions improve risk identification and investigation activities?

Have a look at the agenda and highlights from this webinar.

Small and medium-sized enterprises make up 99% of the UK and Ireland business population, and yet the remain to be underserved by traditional banks. How are financial firms staying up to date with changes to their SME customers? 

You can watch our webinar, in partnership with DueDil, on demand now.

Financial criminals are smart and sophisticated enough to get past the onboarding KYC checks to pass as a low-risk customer, meaning years could go by before a review is conducted. This gives them ample time to perform their illicit activities right under the banks nose.

Watch this webinar, in partnership with Napier, on demand now.

With the leak of the FinCEN files in leak September, we explored what they taught us about company registry information, the limitations of them in accessing UBO information and how technology can help.

Have a look at the agenda and highlights from the webinar.

From our research report “The UK and Ireland RegTech Market” we held a webinar to explain the opportunities to RegTechs expanding their business to the UK or Australian market. This webinar was in partnership with the New South Wales Government and the Australian Trade and Investment Commission.

Have a look at the agenda and highlights from the webinar.

The final webinar in our Digital Regulation Series looked at the theme ‘AML – a new era’. During this session, we looked at why there is a need for a more holistic approach to AML, how we achieve that and what technology can and can’t do to help.

Have a look at the full agenda and the highlights from the session.

We hosted our second webinar as part of the Digital Regulation Series on Wednesday 3rd June where we explored fraud in a crisis, effective fraud strategies, and the importance of explainability, AI and machine learning.

Have a look at the full agenda and the highlights from the session.

As part of our Digital Regulation Series, in collaboration with the FCA, we explored KYC and how financial institutions should be evolving from data to risk management.

Read about the topics we talked about and watch the highlights from the session.

We hosted a roundtable in September 2019 to explore common pain points in the industry and to compare rules-based and AI-driven claims, single-use cases vs multiple-use case products, and off the shelf products vs tailor-made IT solutions.

Our invitation-only roundtable focused on the challenges for regulated financial firms, semantic technology, data modelling and developing the business case for digital regulatory reporting.

In collaboration with the FCA, we hosted a meaningful industry discussion on actionable regulatory solutions through collaborations with financial institutions and regulators.

We discussed data governance, common data models, regulatory reporting and a roadmap to DRR.

In collaboration with the FCA we held a meaningful industry discussion on ‘actionable’ regulatory solutions through collaborations with financial institutions & regulators.

At this session, we talked about how RegTech innovative approaches are accelerating transformation efforts and thereby shaping the future of digital regulation.

In collaboration with the FCA we held a meaningful industry discussion on ‘actionable’ regulatory solutions through collaborations with financial institutions & regulators.

At this session, we talked about how RegTech innovative approaches are accelerating transformation efforts, shaping the future of digital regulation.

Our “in partnership” series continued in New York as we discussed why your ongoing need to manage challenges such as Regulatory Change, Monitoring & Surveillance, GDPR, Risk Intelligence, new reporting obligations and more cannot be solved through buying a set of solutions designed to cater for single regulatory requirements.

During this session, we looked at how RegTech can solve your end-to-end regulatory compliance needs but not by buying a set of solutions designed for just one regulatory problem.

This event hosted a range of senior attendees from financial institutions, regulators, and service providers within the RegTech industry. Hosted at BNP Paribas in Paris, we welcomed a range of speakers to look at a new approach of regulatory technology.