Banking and payments industry strategies to address risk and prevent fraud: Foresight from hindsight – radical vision for 2024

Theme: “Innovation in payments fraud and risk management”

 

Wednesday 6th March 2024

8:30 Registrations – Tea and Coffee
9:00 Welcome and introduction – Conference Chairman – Jon Williams, Payments Systems Specialist – Payments Systems Regulator.

9:15 Speaker 1. Introduction and Welcome – Paul Lucraft – Conference organiser – Innovation in payments fraud and risk management – current industry challenges and responses

9:45 Speaker 2. Strategic review of the payments market, key trends – global perspectives on the fight against card and payment fraud. Keith Groves – Mastercard

10:30 Speaker 3. Latest consumer and business survey insights – public perceptions on fraud and risk issues and priorities – policies for card businesses Brian Kinch – CIFAS

11:10 Tea / coffee break

11:30 Speaker 4. Fraud management strategies – innovative techniques in payment acquiring and processing – AI and how to manage the implications for fraud prevention. Jonathan Hancock – AI Corporation

12:30 – 13.40 LUNCH

Speaker 5. Evolving standards in phone networks and cyber security and the implications for ecommerce and payments. The impact of EU and UK regulatory expectations. Charles Brookson OBE – Azenby, Zeata Security

14:30 Speaker 6. Innovation in payments, managing fraud prevention programmes – Data Sharing – Trevor Bedeman – London Risk

15:15 Coffee / tea break

15:45 Speaker 7. Jonathan Williams and Francesca Morphakis – Payment Systems Regulator will be talking about PSR work on Authorised Push Payment fraud. Jonathan will also be discussing other Initiatives internationally.

16:40 Conclusions from day 1 – Chairman

18:00 – 20:00 Networking Evening – drinks event – Sponsored Networking event for conference attendees: delegates, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors.

Thursday 7th March 2024

8:30 Registrations – Tea and Coffee
9:00 Welcome – Conference Chairman – Jon Williams

9:15 Speaker 9. Strategies to manage payments, secure acceptance at POS and online, optimising payments, dealing with exceptions. Growing business profitably. Christian Towner – Planet Payments

10:00 Speaker 10. Open banking – experience of APP Fraud – Frank Heikens – payments consultant

10:40 Speaker 11 Update on regulation in AML & KYC – The changing landscape of AML & KYC – the problem and the challenges of getting it right in financial services compliance.

11:20 Tea / Coffee Break

11:40 Speaker 12. CourtsDesk are exploring how up-to-the-minute Court’s Data can help prevent fraud across the financial and payments sectors. CourtsDesk began digitising Courts Data from multi-jurisdictions in 2019 to enhance transparency in the legal system. Enda Leahy – CourtsDesk

12:25 – 13:30 LUNCH

Speaker 13. Risk Reduction and Fraud Management for Remote Payments – Converting telephone payments to secure electronic payments by link – managing the move to open banking Adam Ball – Prommt

14:20 Speaker 14. Technical update on new products and services and the impact on fraud and risk management. What should you worry about? Andrew Churchill – Technology Strategy

15:10 Speaker 15. Future perspectives for payments and banking – preparing for the next decade in payments – what should we expect? Conclusions from the Conference Paul Lucraft – Expense Reduction Analysts

15:55 Tea / Coffee Break

16:15 Conclusions and prize draw – Chairman Conference Closes