Sara Abbasi, Principal Consultant, FINTRAIL

Sara combines her industry experience in global payments and private and investment banking focusing on transaction monitoring, SAR reporting and anti-money laundering investigations with expertise in agile project delivery. Sara has worked with a range of financial institutions supporting them with technology transformation programmes, designing anti-financial crime frameworks for emerging products and testing, and implementation of third party anti-financial crime solutions to ensure operational readiness.

Ciara Aitchison, Director, FINTRAIL

At FINTRAIL Ciara leads client engagements including audit and thematic assurance, regulatory remediation and complex technical advisory. She has extensive experience in banking and financial crime prevention across CDD, AML policy and supporting capabilities. She led the financial crime team for Santander UK’s wealth division, and led policy implementation for the Retail and Corporate Bank. At Barclays she implemented the financial crime target operating model for correspondent banking and managed the global enhanced due diligence function for the Corporate Bank.

Amer Baroudi, Co-founder & CEO, nsave

Amer is an entrepreneur with a track record of award-winning companies; the last of which hires 300+ conflict affected people today. He is the founder of nsave, a fintech providing safe accounts abroad in EUR, USD and GBP, backed by prominent investors like Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, and Y Combinator. He built properties in Europe, served as founding president of Oxford Syria Society, & advised clients ranging from government authorities to a Premier League FC. He is a governance and policy expert, holding two degrees from University of Oxford where he studied as Rhodes Scholar.

James Baston-Pitt, Head of UK and EMEA, Alloy

James Baston-Pitt is the General Manager of EMEA for Alloy, the identity risk management platform used by over 600 of the world’s top financial institutions and fintechs. With a decade of experience in the fintech and regtech industry, James has been at the forefront of digital finance's boom, navigating the challenges and opportunities that come with rapidly scaling startups. Before joining Alloy, James held positions at Onfido and Sequence and has collaborated with leading financial institutions and disruptors like Revolut, Wise, HSBC, and Aviva throughout his career. At Alloy, James leverages his expertise to help businesses streamline their identity verification to safely grow their businesses.

Hannah Becher, Sr. Decision Intelligence Lead, Pleo

Hannah Sophie Becher is a Senior Decision Intelligence Lead at Pleo, a $4.7B fintech unicorn, where she leads the design and implementation of AI-based fraud detection and transaction surveillance systems. Combining expertise in economics, international management, and machine learning, she specializes in building intelligent solutions that effectively address financial crime risks. Her work has driven significant improvements in fraud detection and operational efficiency, including implementing supervised ML models and achieving a 40% reduction in due diligence time through automated risk rating systems. Recognized as a Role Model in Tech by Nordic Women in Tech Awards, Hannah holds an M.Sc. from the University of Economics Prague (CEMS) and can often be found kitesurfing and hoping around the globe when she's not fighting financial crime.

Alison Boden, Executive Director, Free Speech Coalition

Alison Boden is a veteran adult entertainment industry executive who served on the Free Speech Coalition’s board of directors for over three years – including as its President – before taking on the role of Executive Director in 2022.

Since starting her adult industry career in 2003, Boden has held a wide variety of marketing, technology, and leadership positions at companies like Adult Empire, Gamelink, Videobox, and Kink.com. She also serves Pineapple Support as its board president.

Anna Bradshaw, Partner, Peters & Peters

Anna Bradshaw is a Partner at Peters & Peters in London. Anna advises individuals and corporates on all aspects of financial crime and economic sanctions risk, compliance and enforcement.

Chambers recognises Anna’s reputation in the POCA space, anti-money laundering and economic sanctions. Anna is also ranked by Who’s Who Legal for her work on international sanctions, trade & customs, business crime defence and investigations. Legal 500 recommends Anna for economic sanctions and export controls, regulatory investigations and general crime. Anna is an Associate Fellow of RUSI, assisting the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies with research on US, EU and UK sanctions. She co-edits The Guide to Sanctions, published by Global Investigations Review.

Anna represents designated persons in sanctions challenges in the UK, EU, Australia and Canada, and has successfully represented a UK-sanctioned individual in a ministerial review resulting in the individual being removed from the UK sanctions list. Anna also advises and assists multinational corporations with the submission of financial sanctions and trade sanctions licence applications, and represents entities in connection with suspected financial and trade sanctions breaches.

Isabella Chase, Senior Policy Advisor, TRM Labs

Isabella Chase is a Senior Policy Advisor at TRM Labs where she leads EMEA regulatory affairs and policy engagement. Throughout her career, Isabella has focused on building effective policy responses to combating illicit finance and ensuring financial integrity through the innovative use of new technology. At present, she leverages the insights generated by TRM's industry leading blockchain intelligence to inform proportionate policy responses across the digital asset ecosystem.

Emil Dall, Sanctions Lead & Senior Consultant, FINTRAIL

Emil is a Senior Consultant and Sanctions Lead at FINTRAIL. His experience spans roles in influential think tanks to key positions within leading FinTechs, including the Centre for Finance and Security at RUSI and Stripe. At RUSI, he chaired a private sector Brexit sanctions taskforce, gave evidence to parliamentary enquiries and worked with governments on sanctions design and implementation. In the private sector, he’s helped FinTechs navigate the rapid and complex imposition of sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Robert Evans, CEO, FINTRAIL

As co-founder of FINTRAIL, Robert is a leading authority on innovative financial crime compliance, and is responsible for the execution of financial crime compliance projects for clients in Europe, US and Asia. He exploits his knowledge of and experiences within developing and high risk economies, institutional banking and financial services to help FINTRAIL’s clients design, execute and assure financial crime compliance objectives from a business and customer-centric perspective. He is the co-author of the ACAMS "AML for FinTech” courses and co-established the FinTech FinCrime Exchange (FFE), a global network of compliance professionals in the FinTech sector.

Aamir Hanif, Regional Vice President, Western Union

Aamir is the Regional Vice President, AML Compliance for EU / CIS / Africa for Western Union. He has held multiple positions in the anti-financial crime space in the public and private sectors including as the Head of Financial Crimes for EMEA / UK MLRO for Stripe, the Regional Head for the US Law Compliance Program for ASEAN and South Asia for Standard Chartered Bank, and the Head of Financial Crimes for the Middle East and North Africa (excluding the UAE) for Standard Chartered Bank. Aamir has also led financial management teams for Expedia and Boeing; and spent nine years working in the U.S. government focusing on geopolitical, intelligence and global financial crime issues. Aamir has an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Johns Hopkins University and a Masters in International Policy and Practice from George Washington University.

Bucky Hare, Senior Investigator, Coinbase

Charlie "Bucky" Hare is a Senior Investigator on the Global Intelligence team at Coinbase, where he works closely with international law enforcement agencies to suppress threat actors abusing Coinbase services.

Bucky is a former Detective Sergeant who served across multiple UK police forces and the UK Home Office, with a background in leading complex cases into matters of corruption, human trafficking, firearm importation and cybercrime.

His most recent duty before joining Coinbase was constructing one of the UK's first darknet investigation teams, where he was responsible for several high-profile criminal convictions and large-scale seizures of cryptocurrency.

James Nurse, Managing Director, FINTRAIL

James has spent the last 10 years working in the regulated financial sector. Having held first and second line roles in the gambling, prepaid card and money transfer industries, James brings a wealth of experience from the fast moving Fintech space. James blends his knowledge of financial crime prevention with an understanding of how technology can support exciting growth in the financial services sector while managing the risks posed by the ever-more innovative criminal schemes we see today.

Kevin Penter, Head of Financial Crime Compliance, International Corporate Bank, Barclays

Kevin is Head of Financial Crime Compliance for the International Corporate Bank at Barclays which includes responsibility for Correspondent Banking and Fintech clients. Kevin manages a global team split across UK, Europe and US overseeing all aspects of the financial crime programme including ML, Sanctions and ABC. Kevin has more than 15 years experience in global risk and compliance roles across banks HQ’d in US (Silicon Valley Bank / HSBC Innovation), Japan (MUFG), Germany (DZ / DVB) and Australia (Macquarie) and in the last 5 years Kevin’s focus has been the Fintech/payments space where he has built market leading teams to support the sector across payments solutions and debt/equity for a broad range of clients from new-to-market entrants all the way through to established global investment funds.

Marta Lia Requeijo, Interim UK Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, ClearBank

Marta Lia Requeijo is a C-level risk and compliance executive with nearly 20 years' experience in anti-money laundering, financial crime prevention, compliance, assurance, governance and organisational change. 

Marta has spent her career building and enhancing compliance and anti-financial crime frameworks in both fintech companies and top-tier global organisations, successfully building teams from the ground up and leading large, cross-jurisdictional teams. She has held senior leadership positions in Portugal and in the UK at Citigroup, HSBC, Worldpay, ClearBank, GoCardless, Novo Banco Bank, Caixa Geral de Depositos Bank, and the Portuguese Securities Market Commission. 

Marta is a former regulator, a passionate mentor, and tutor for the International Compliance Association (ICA). 

She is a regular speaker at industry events, including the ‘FinTech FinCrime Exchange’, ‘Dark Money Files Conference’, ACAMS, ICA and AML Forum conferences and webinars.

Prior to joining ClearBank as Interim Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, in 2024, Marta was Chief Compliance Officer and Group MLRO for BVNK. 

Ross Longmore, Director of Ongoing Monitoring (Fraud, AML & Sanctions), Tide

Kathryn Sharpe, AML Senior Product Manager, Zepz

Stanley Skoglund, UK CEO, Segpay

Stanley Skoglund is an experienced leader in the payments industry. 

Stanley joined Visa International in London in 2001 and held several senior roles at Visa in Europe, Middle East and Africa before leaving Visa in 2013. In his roles at Visa Stanley was involved and led several strategic global initiatives in the payment system risk domains, as well as promoting better transparency and accountability in the payments eco-system for all participants. At the time Stanley left Visa in 2013, he was senior vice president of Payment System & Enterprise Risk, overseeing Visa’s European risk and compliance activities in the markets and Visa’s corporate enterprise risk framework. 

After leaving Visa, Stanley co-founded the Minerva Partnership Consultancy Ltd in 2016. Minerva provided a wide range of services to start-ups and blue-chip companies in the payment and Fintech industries in Europe and the USA.  Before joining Segpay in 2022 as its UK CEO, Stanley was the global head of risk and compliance at Worldline Merchant Services. When not consulting in payments, Stanley runs a successful leadership development and executive coaching practice, serving clients in various industries.    

Stanley trained as a sociologist at the University of Oslo and received his post-graduate research degree in 1999 and also holds an MSc degree in organisational change & consulting from Ashridge Business School (2015) and PGCert in executive coaching from UWE Bristol (2016). 

Greg Wlodarczyk, Managing Director, FINTRAIL

Greg represents a new breed of compliance and anti-financial crime professional, combining an IT background with a deep understanding of international anti-financial crime regulation and - more importantly - how you turn it into effective customer-centric operations. Throughout his career he has managed teams as well as designed and overseen processes in first and second lines of defence working in variety of sectors including money service businesses, international money transfers and electronic money institutions.

Joe Woolmer, Supervision Principal, Online Safety Group, Ofcom

Joe Woolmer is a Supervision Principal in Ofcom’s Online Safety Group. His work involves building relationships with pornography services regulated under the new Online Safety Act, which aims to improve the systems and processes that keep UK internet users safe from harm. You can find out more about what online pornography services need to do to comply with the Online Safety Act at www.ofcom.org.uk/adultsonly

Mark Wright, National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit (NTFIU), Training and Engagement Team, Drug Expert Witness, Counter Terrorism Policing – SO15, Metropolitan Police

30 years policing service, 24 years dedicated to investigating serious crime and drug trafficking Pan London prior to joining the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit, Counter Terrorism Command, conducting terrorist financial investigations in the UK and overseas. Part of investigation teams during the London terrorist attacks in 2017. Retired as Detective late 2017 and joined Police Staff as Dedicated Drug Expert Witness. Re-joined NTFIU as Counter Terrorism Financial Investigator trainer in 2019.

Mark is a qualified trainer responsible for training and accrediting Counter Terrorist Financial Investigators (CTFI) UK network wide to support the Metropolitan Police Service statutory requirements of Section 63f Terrorism Act 2000.

Mark also provides tactical CTF training for UK and overseas law enforcement and key partners.  Forms part of the team providing bespoke CTF outreach training and support to all aspects of the financial sector.

A Drug Expert Witness for Drug Importation, Drug Trafficking and Street Drug Supply.  As well as providing expert witness evidence in drug trafficking trials he also supports wider initiatives to identify Counter Terrorism / Serious Organised Crime links involving drug trafficking (Narco Terrorism) in the UK and overseas.

Dr. Mei Ling Young, Senior Manager, Financial Intelligence Unit, Monzo

Over the past 7 years, Dr. Mei Ling Young has built Monzo's financial crime investigations function from the ground up. She's currently Head of the Financial Intelligence Unit, leading a team which develops intelligence across the full spectrum of money laundering, terrorist financing, and sanctions evasion risks, and also oversees law enforcement engagement. She holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford.