RegTech Summit

8.00
Registration and Networking over Coffee

8.50
Chair’s Opening Address: Andrew Delaney, Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group

9.00
Opening Keynote: Will market players and RegTech collaboration solve regulation implementation challenges?
The relationship between regtech and the regulatory landscape
Does the industry need to collaborate to create real impact within RegTech?
Do we need more practical examples of RegTech delivering value within institutions – How can we best demonstrate value?
Examples of how to collaborate better with RegTech companies across regulatory ecosystems
Stephane Malrait, MD, Global Head of Market Structure and Innovation in Financial Markets, ING

9.30
RegTech Industry Leaders Panel: Overcoming the barriers and enabling RegTech
Exploring the barriers to Regtech adoption
How to evaluate the marketplace and conduct vendor due diligence to minimise risk on solutions that aren’t fully proven
Partnerships and collaborations: key success factors
The evolving role of the compliance officer
Moderated by: Andrew Delaney, Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group
Kevin Taylor, Managing Director, Head of Compliance for Europe and Asia Pacific, TD Bank
Nicole Sandler, Vice President (VP), Fintech and Regtech - EMEA Legal Lead, Barclays
Jean-Marc Guiteau, Global Head of Regtech Innovation & Development, BNP Paribas Securities Services
Beju Shah, Head of Data Collection & Publication, The Bank of England

10.10
Keynote: The future of fighting financial crime
Money laundering is a truly global phenomenon. Amount of illicit proceeds from criminal activity is estimated to account for 2-5 % of global GDP, yet less than 1% is seized of frozen by law enforcement in the financial system. Data protections rules impede information sharing between the public and private sector. In this keynote you will hear:
What is the true cost of financial crime and how can government, society and business help to drive change?
What are the best practices for public and private information sharing to fight financial crime?
How to manage complex and sometimes conflicting regulatory regimes (GDPR vs AMLD
Che Sidanius, Global Head of Financial Regulatory & Industry Affairs, Thomson Reuters

10.40
Networking and Refreshment Break

11.10
Panel: The potential and promise of AI and Machine Learning in RegTech
Where are we seeing the most progress with AI solutions helping to solve regulatory compliance? Has the application of AI and DNN (Deep Neural Networks) lived up to the claims of greater accuracy for speech to text?
Barriers and obstacles to using AI
Trustability and transparency of AI - having the right governance and controls in place when working with third parties to manage data privacy and data protection
AI systems: How to make strong AI without bias and bring fairness to predictive models
AI and cyber security risks in an evolving threat landscape: how to keep up
Moderated by: Sophia Bantanidis, EMEA Head of Regulatory & Market Strategy and Citi Accelerator Mentor, Citi
Giles Spungin, Managing Director, Global Head of Regulatory Compliance and Operational Risk Analytics, HSBC
Nigel Guy, Programme Delivery Director - Data Warehouse and Analytics, Quilter Plc
Ariane Nabeth Halber, Director, Speech Solutions Strategic Line, Bertin IT
Rahul Pal, Technology Consultant, Bank of England

11.50
RegTech Innovation Showcase
5 minute pitch from a RegTech Solution provider
Moderated by: Sarah Underwood, Editor, A-Team Group
Pitch 1: Shield Financial Compliance
Shiran Weizman, Co-Founder and CEO, Shield Financial Compliance
Pitch 2: Exactpro
Iosif Itkin, CEO and Co-Founder, Exactpro

12.05
Panel: Best practices for regulatory reporting efficiency
Getting ready for SFTR & EMIR REFIT: Ensuring your reporting infrastructure is ready
Improving the quality, consistency and standardisation of data: The latest on identifiers and messaging standards – ISO 20022, LEIs, ISINs, CFI codes
Laying the foundations for granular data reporting: how are firms addressing the challenges of data collection, ensuring infrastructures are fit for purpose?
The potential for distributed ledger technologies to faciliate the efficient exchange of data between all reporting stakeholders
How are firms using analytics to slice and dice to gain insights beyond regulatory compliance for added business value?
Moderated by: James Phillips, Global Head of Regulatory Strategy, Lombard Risk
David Masters, Chief Data Officer - SGIL (UK) & Global Prime Services, Societe Generale
Suriya Subramanian, Consultant, BNY Mellon
Daniel Percy-Hughes, Principal Consultant, Synechron
Tom Morris, Head of Sales - Europe, RegTek Solutions

12.45
Networking Lunch in the Exhibition Area

13.45
Keynote: Systematic Internalisation Under MiFID II: What's Needed Now
The MiFID II SI regime
Why firms decide to become SIs
The regulatory reporting challenges they face
How trading firms fit into the regime
SI solutions from the Smart Stream RDU
Peter Moss, CEO, SmartStream RDU

14.15
Panel: Towards sustainable MiFID II compliance
SI regime: is there a role for regtech in helping firms meet SI obligations?
Meeting pre and post trade transparency requirements:
reviewing ongoing reference data challenges
how can regtech help firms analyse data and report?
Meeting the data management requirements for Best Execution reporting
Data optimization: How are firms exploiting data sources created by MiFID II to generate value for the business?
Has your approach to regulation changed post MiFID II?
Moderated by: Gouri P Khatua, Regulatory Consultant, Grant Thornton
Nicholas Philpott, Head of Market Structure, Standard Chartered Bank
Martijn Groot, VP Product Management, Asset Control
Peter Moss, CEO, SmartStream RDU
Malavika Solanki, Member of the Management Team, Derivatives Service Bureau

14.55
RegTech Innovation Showcase
5 minute pitch from a RegTech Solution provider
Moderated by: Michael Dooijes, Managing Director, Startupbootcamp FinTech & Cybersecurity

Pitch 1: FinCom.co
Gideon Driori, CEO & President, FinCom.co
Pitch 2: Insiderlog
Mazdak Shiasi, Chief Operating Officer, Insiderlog

15.10
Panel: Fighting financial crime, Improving AML and KYC
Role of RegTech in helping improve inefficiences in AML processes
How can RegTech act as a bridge to GDPR?
What are some of the different public-private partnership and information sharing models being seen in this space?
How are firms leveraging digital identities for faster onboarding, improved user experience and to meet KYC compliance?
Challenges around onboarding clients and mitigating risk when dealing with crypto currencies and distributed ledger technologies (inc.Blockchain)?
Moderated by: Denisse Rudich, Strategic Advisor in Financial Crime, Firedrake Limited
Anu Ratan, Senior Global AML Policy and Advisory Manager, Tier 1 Banks
Targ Patience, Group Chief Compliance Officer, Gibraltar Stock Exchange
Aoife Harney, Regulatory Consultant, Fenergo
Che Sidanius, Global Head of Financial Regulatory & Industry Affairs, Thomson Reuters

15.50
Networking and refreshment break

16.20
Panel: The evolution of trade surveillance
What are the drivers behind the adoption of trade surveillance systems
Managing the challenges of tracking and storing multi-channel communications (whatsapp, text, social); internal policies of tracking
Effective voice communications surveillance for regulatory compliance
Developing in-house surveillance techniques vs. using third parties
Managing the challenges of ‘false positives’ - high number of inaccurate alerts being generated
The role of AI & ML in helping deliver better solutions?
Moderated by: Mike O’Hara, Partner, The Realization Group
Justin Nathan, Chief Technical Surveillance Officer, Credit Suisse
Nuno Hortensio, Independent Voice Communications Specialist
Helen Bevis, EMEA Head of Compliance Solutions, NICE Actimize
Andy Mather, EMEA Financial Services Industry Specialist, Telstra

17.00
Panel: Creating a regulatory change management framework to manage risk and navigate change
How are firms developing capabilities to help anticipate risk, track and analyse regulatory updates
Reviewing progress towards standards-based semantic technologies and machine-readable texts for interpreting regulatory change from the regulators and market participants?
Ensuring a robust compliance framework by creating a common regulatory taxonomy
Key success factors for implementing regulatory change in a proactive way
Moderated by: Nicola Cowburn, Chief Marketing Officer, International RegTech Association (IRTA)
Colin Ware, Regulatory Product Manager, BNY Mellon
Rabya Anwar, Head of Regulatory Change and BREXIT, Investment Management Firm
Philip Fry, VP Product Strategy, Verint
Jamie March, Global Proposition Manager, Thomson Reuters

17.40
Networking and Drinks Reception