Advances in all the pieces from digital engagement to AI have revolutionized banking and monetary providers. Sadly, these similar applied sciences and improvements have spawned a brand new era of economic criminals whose malicious exercise may be launched from anyplace on the earth and affect hundreds, if not hundreds of thousands, of people.
What can the monetary providers trade do to raised educate their shoppers in regards to the problem of economic crime? What instruments and methods can be found to banks and different establishments to assist them higher shield themselves and their clients from fraudsters, cyberattacks, and different threats?
In our Energy Panel on monetary crime at FinovateEurope 2025 — How one can harness anti-financial crime know-how to fulfill the challenges of the digital period — we function three specialists on the subject of combating fraud and monetary crime in monetary providers. The panel will focus on present threats to banks and monetary providers corporations, in addition to the function of enabling applied sciences — together with digital id, biometric authentication, and AI — in serving to companies keep one step forward of the fraudsters.
Our Energy Panelists are:
Tom Littlechild, EMEA Senior Counsel for AML, Sanctions, and ABC (Monetary Crime), Wells Fargo

Beforehand Santander UK’s devoted monetary crime lawyer advising on AML sanctions, ABC, and legal fraud issues, Littlechild is Wells Fargo’s EMEA Senior Counsel for AML, Sanctions, and ABC (Monetary Crime).
Earlier than becoming a member of the monetary providers trade, Littlechild was a specialist in white collar crime, investigations, and compliance at Ropes and Grey. LinkedIn.
Monica Carlesso, Enterprise Platform Lead, ID & Authentication Platform, CIO Enabling Companies, Lloyds Financial institution

A disruptor within the monetary providers trade with greater than 15 years expertise in digital product growth in funds and banking, Carlesso is Enterprise Platform Lead, ID & Authetication Platform, CIO Enabling Companies, at Lloyds Financial institution.
Beforehand, Carlesso led cellular methods and propositions in European monetary providers corporations together with Barclaycard and PosteMobile/PostePay. LinkedIn.
Chantelle Lamb, Fraud and Monetary Crimes Methods Director, OakNorth

Lamb is the Fraud and Monetary Crime Methods Director at OakNorth, which payments itself because the digital financial institution for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. She is a fraud prevention specialist with expertise main a number of fraud and monetary crime groups throughout each retail and industrial monetary providers merchandise.
Earlier than becoming a member of OakNorth, Lamb was Head of Fraud at Vanquis Financial institution the place she led the establishment’s anti-money laundering and transaction monitoring efforts. LinkedIn.
Richard Neve, Managing Director & Associate, Cognito Media

Moderating the panel is Richard Neve. Managing Director & Associate at Cognito Media, Neve started his profession as a each day newspaper journalist, and transitioned into monetary providers as a contributor to Financieel-Economisch Journal (FEM) and a contributing editor to Banking Overview.
Right now, Neve manages advanced and huge worldwide communications initiatives for fintechs and monetary providers corporations. He works from the Amsterdam and Düsseldorf workplaces of Cognito. LinkedIn.
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