Mark Brotherton is the Director, Fraud & Financial Crime for the c£5bn Commercial Banking Division and the CB Money Laundering Reporting Officer, and also provides a first line shared service for Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets. He leads a team of 110 specialists across Fraud, Financial Crime, (including PEPs & Correspondent Banks), Sanctions and Anti-Bribery & Corruption and is also responsible for a number of large related Transformation Programmes with  an emphasis on automation, on-boarding and transaction monitoring.

He has been the Group’s Accountable Executive for the SWIFT KYC Registry for the past c.4 years and is a member of the SWIFT KYC Working Group with 15 other Global Bank senior representatives. Mark has supported and hosted a number of related external events to reinforce the value of the Registry.

Mark, who has spent all his career at Lloyds, was previously the COO for Financial Institutions (FIG). As a member of the FI Executive Committee, reporting directly to the Managing Director, Mark had a diverse range of accountabilities across the following disciplines; client service, risk, change, cost management, HR and data. He also had Executive Management responsibility, including Profit and Loss oversight,  for the FIG business in Asia and Europe

Previously, he was COO for the Group’s North American business based in New York and also spent time supporting the Group Finance Director during the financial crisis. Before this, Mark spent fifteen years as a Relationship Director leading to the role of Area Director,  leading a team of 27 Relationship Managers across several offices.

He is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Marketing and has a passion for developing Talent via his mentoring activities.

Sam is a financial crime prevention professional with over 15 years of practical experience in compliance. Sam holds a number of qualifications and is recognised as a subject matter expert in the field of financial crime.

Sam’s previous work experience includes working as MLRO, Data Protection Officer and CCO and Group Head of AML for various financial institutions, both offshore and in Europe. Sam also worked offshore for several years as the first legal counsel to the financial regulator in Guernsey and subsequently set up the financial crime division, overseeing the examination of a variety of financial institutions. She continues to maintain ongoing engagement with other regulators on financial crime matters.

Sam has extensive training experience in the field of financial crime prevention and corporate governance matters. She has most recently been involved in projects related to FenTech businesses, the use of RegTech to mitigate financial crime and list management relating to the screening of customers and third parties. Sam most recently worked with ACAMS Europe as its AML Director. Sam is recognised by ACAMS as a subject matter expert in sanctions and has co-authored a number of online certificate courses, facilitated working groups on 4/5AMLD in Europe and assistance in the development of white papers. Originally from Montreal, Quebec Canada, Sam holds a Bachelors of Public Administration, Law Degree, qualified as a barrister and solicitor and holds her Masters in Business, specialising in risk management.

Thomas is the AFC Group Officer for the N26 Bank GmbH and has been building up the AFC Structure at the challenger bank, N26. On a day-to-day he is managing the growth of the overall team and establishing processes to combat financial crime effectively and efficiently.

From a strategic perspective this has been led by the basic premise of doing things better than traditional banks and using the endless possibilities of combating money laundering and fraud, by continuously using advanced data points and finding innovative new measures.

Matt is the current Head of Financial Crime at Tide Platform Limited. Tide provides banking services for SMEs and has a current member base of 140,000 users.

Prior to Tide, Matt was the programme manager for Santander’s Financial Crime Apprenticeship programme, focusing on developing future leaders within the world of Financial Crime. Matt has also held roles at multiple other international organisations such as Barclays and Amazon.

Matt has a passion for building Financial Crime teams in a new and innovative way by taking on new graduates and training them in way that allows them to engage both the technical and creative parts of their brains.

The world is ever changing and if we continue to only use traditional methods to prevent financial crime, how can we ever think we are going to get ahead?

Joanna Jenkins is one of the leading authorities on compliance and money laundering in the payments industry. As well as being Global Compliance Director at Railsbank, Joanna is Co-Chair for the Board of Directors of the ACAMS® UK Chapter. She is also a member of the UK RegTech council and a volunteer for Stop the Traffik, an association combating human trafficking and modern day slavery.

Joanna is a member of the founding team which created Railsbank, one of the world’s most innovative FinTech companies. Railsbank is an API banking and compliance technology platform that connects a global network of partner banks with companies. As Global Compliance Director, Joanna heads an executive team which handles all new country licensing and liaising with the central banks, and focuses on the company’s growth and expansion.

Sally McCarthy is the Head of FinCrime and MLRO at Curve, the banking platform that combines multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and app. Sally leads the fincrime team based in Curve’s London headquarters.

Before joining Curve, she worked at Wonga, a disrupter in the short term lending space operating in 5 markets, including in the UK.

Sally spent most of her earlier career at Visa, firstly in their London offices and later in California, where she worked in operating regulations, ecomm, and risk, culminating in helping in the design of their global AML/CTF programme and managing its implementation in the US region.

In her spare time Sally enjoys sailing and hanging out with her two Siamese cats, Charlie and Echo, though not at the same time!

Over 15 years of client relationship management experience across international financial services. Extensive proven experience in Client Lifecycle Management, regulatory classification roll out of several major programmes including Dodd-Frank, EMIR, FATCA/CRS and Variation Margin implementation and remediation.

Served 15 years in JPMorgan, BNP Paribas, Standard Bank & Investec Bank, spanning across major systems improvement, offshoring, migration and change initiatives including driving efficiency and cost reduction.

Renitha Singh is the Group Financial Crime Compliance Officer for a leading insurance company in South Africa. Liberty Holdings Limited has been in existence for over 60 years, with Renitha joining the company in 2016. Renitha has a demonstrated history of working in several industries, having gained extensive experience of over 20 years while working at the major banks, as well as the telecommunications industry and the Financial Intelligence Centre in SA. She holds a postgraduate qualification in Law. Renitha is a highly regarded professional amongst her peers and rates listening to old music as her favourite pastime. 

James currents leads the Anti-Money Laundering team at TD Securities covering Europe and Asia Pacific. In this position James leads the Europe and Asia-Pacific Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime function across the region. He is responsible for the strategic direction of the team, interacting with the global TDS Anti-Money Laundering unit, as well as day-to-day management of AML operations. Prior to this appointment, James was European Head of Compliance for TD Securities. James joined TD in 2015, prior to this he had led several Wholesale compliance teams at firms such as State Street and Investec. James commenced his career at Price Waterhouse Coopers as a Regulatory Consultant. James obtained a Masters of Science from London Metropolitan Business School in Financial Regulatory Management and a Masters in Politics from Edinburgh University. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist as well as a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. 

Arianna Rovetto. Since September 2020 Arianna is Head of AML at BANCOBPM Group. Previously, as a Police Officer of the Guardia di Finanza, the Italian Financial Police, Arianna was Head of several operational units responsible for investigating tax and financial crimes. From 2012 to 2019 Arianna worked as a Police Officer at the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office. As member of a Joint Investigation Team for EUROJUST, Arianna has developed extensive experience in cross-border investigations by collaborating with various judicial authorities and police departments.  

She’s licensed to practice as a lawyer and constantly attends webinars and events as a speaker on AML issues and regulatory changes and ongoing challenges against money laundering.