Advances in every thing from digital engagement to AI have revolutionized banking and monetary companies. Sadly, these identical applied sciences and improvements have spawned a brand new technology of economic criminals whose malicious exercise will be launched from anyplace on the earth and influence 1000’s, if not thousands and thousands, of people.
What can the monetary companies trade do to raised educate their purchasers in regards to the problem of economic crime? What instruments and methods can be found to banks and different establishments to assist them higher defend themselves and their prospects from fraudsters, cyberattacks, and different threats?
In our Energy Panel on monetary crime at FinovateEurope 2025 — The right way to 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 companies. The panel will focus on present threats to banks and monetary companies 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 legal professional 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 companies 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 Providers, Lloyds Financial institution

A disruptor within the monetary companies trade with greater than 15 years expertise in digital product improvement in funds and banking, Carlesso is Enterprise Platform Lead, ID & Authetication Platform, CIO Enabling Providers, at Lloyds Financial institution.
Beforehand, Carlesso led cellular methods and propositions in European monetary companies 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 business monetary companies 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 every day newspaper journalist, and transitioned into monetary companies as a contributor to Financieel-Economisch Journal (FEM) and a contributing editor to Banking Evaluation.
At present, Neve manages advanced and enormous worldwide communications initiatives for fintechs and monetary companies corporations. He works from the Amsterdam and Düsseldorf workplaces of Cognito. LinkedIn.
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