ITFA Week Day 1: Financial Crime Compliance initiative (FCCi) in-person seminar, London

We are excited to kick off ITFA Week 2025 with insightful educational sessions!

Please join us for the upcoming ITFA Financial Crime Compliance initiative (FCCi) in-person half day Summer Seminar on Tuesday, 8 July 2025, from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM (BST). Kindly note that registration starts from 9:00 AM and light refreshments will be provided during the coffee break at 10:45 AM.

This seminar, hosted by the ITFA Fintech Committee at BPL, 52 Lime St, London EC3M 7AF, will focus on how advanced data and technology-driven approaches are transforming financial crime compliance in trade finance. It also offers an opportunity for participants to contribute insights that will help shape the future direction of the ITFA FCC Initiative.

Objectives:

• To debate industry trends and challenges regarding financial crime compliance
• To educate the ITFA membership on advanced data and technology-driven practices enhancing financial crime compliance practices.
• To enrich the FCC Initiative roadmap with input from the audience

Hosts:

• Ben Arber, CEO, Complidata and co-chair FCC Initiative
• Graham Baldock, Director, Trade and Working Capital Solutions Financial Crime Risk, Citibank and co-chair FCC Initiative
• André Casterman, Board Member and Chair Fintech Committee, ITFA

AGENDA

09:30    Welcome and Introduction

• • Ben Arber and Graham Baldock, Co-chairs of FCC Initiative

09:45     The value of digital asset technologies to compliance officers and their applications in MLETR and stablecoins

• • André Casterman, Board Member and Chair Fintech Committee, ITFA

10:05     “The Conquest of Military Dual-Use Goods Detection in Trade Finance”

• • Ed Stoltenberg, member of ITFA FCC Initiative, and author of the white paper.
  • Byron McKinney, S&P Global

10:45      Coffee Break

11:15     The Q1 2025 FCC Initiative survey

• • Ben Arber and Graham Baldock, Co-chairs of FCC Initiative

11:30     Banks and solution providers debating FCC-focused technology solutions across working groups: sanctions filtering, false positive reductions, AML analytics, data provision, electronic instruments in banking and logistics.

• • Shalabh Singhal, Founder & CEO, Trademo
  • Alex Waites, Executive Director, Enigio

Moderated by Ben Arber and Graham Baldock, Co-chair FCC Initiative

12:00     Wrap-up and next steps

• • Ben Arber and Graham Baldock, Co-chairs of FCC Initiative

👉 REGISTER HERE

Attendance is free of charge, but capacity is limited. Priority will be given to ITFA members; non-members will be placed on a waiting list.

We look forward to seeing you there!