Built around practitioner-led discussions and real-world case studies, FinTech Compliance Leaders explores how financial services firms are modernising compliance and financial crime operations, combining technology, people and operational transformation.
The March 2027 programme will examine key challenges across AML and financial crime prevention, KYC/KYB, compliance automation, AI adoption, regulatory change and the evolving role of compliance leadership. The full agenda will be developed in consultation with senior industry practitioners and announced closer to the event.
Explore the programme from our September 2026 edition, held under our previous name, RegTech Exchange London.
The March 2027 agenda is currently being developed in consultation with senior industry practitioners and will be announced in due course.
Speaker
Oscar Cunningham, Co-Founder & Director of Events, Shape Finance
Compliance functions are under increasing pressure to deliver greater oversight, assurance and regulatory responsiveness, often without a corresponding increase in resources. This panel explores how firms are modernising compliance operations in practice, from workflow automation and intelligent monitoring to process redesign and operating model transformation.
Speakers
Shannon Krishna, Head of Financial Crime & MLRO, YouLend [Moderator]
Anil Idnani, Chief Compliance Officer & MLRO, BLME Bank
Laura Hanna, Chief of Compliance and MLRO, Cremello Currency Management
Bertrand Mbanya, Deputy Head of Compliance & DMLRO, Bank of Africa
Ian Burch, Financial Crime Lead, Payments Innovation and Fintech, Bank of England
Following the acquisition of Monese, Pockit faced the challenge of bringing together two compliance programmes, operating models and technology environments while maintaining effective oversight and meeting regulatory expectations. In this session, Azy shares the practical realities of compliance harmonisation, exploring the governance decisions, technology considerations and implementation lessons involved in creating a more unified compliance function.
Speaker
Azy Shojaeian, Group Chief Compliance & Risk Officer & MLRO, Pockit & Monese
RegTech can identify risks, automate workflows and accelerate decisions. But the final control still depends on a person understanding what has changed and acting correctly.
Drawing on lessons from 100+ customer deployments, this session explores the friction that can emerge in the human last mile – when guidance lacks local context, arrives too late, does not reach the right people or is difficult to evidence.
Saurav will show how AI-powered, bite-sized training can turn approved policies into timely, role-specific guidance, help teams rehearse critical judgement calls and create audit-ready evidence that the right people are ready to act.
Speaker
Saurav Chopra, Founder & CEO, 5Mins AI
Smaller financial firms can face significant regulatory expectations, but without the same depth of resource, infrastructure or specialist support available to larger institutions. Drawing on practical experience of regulatory scrutiny and remediation, this session will explore the realities of building and evidencing effective compliance in a scaling firm, and where technology can genuinely help, where it can add complexity, and where strong governance and oversight remain essential.
Speaker
Kabir Khan, Deputy MLRO, ONERWAY
In this case study, one of Monzo’s Heads of Financial Crime Risk for Customer Decisioning walks through Monzo’s journey integrating identity verification technology. He’ll explore the compliance and technical challenges of working with a vendor, how Monzo transitioned from external APIs to deeper integration, and how this strengthened onboarding compliance, improved screening accuracy and supported better customer decisioning.
Speaker
Alex Clayden, Head of Financial Crime – Customer Decisioning, Monzo
As financial crime risks evolve and technology advances, firms are under increasing pressure to modernise their AML operations. Yet transformation rarely follows a straightforward path. This panel brings together financial crime leaders to share practical experiences from the front line, exploring what’s working, what isn’t, and where organisations are choosing to invest their time and resources. From automation and AI to investigator workflows and operational decision-making, the discussion will focus on honest lessons, real-world challenges and practical insights for firms at every stage of their AML transformation journey.
Speakers
Nafisa Feeney, General Manager & Head of Legal UK, Paynt [Moderator]
Filipina Weclewska, UK MLRO, TransferGo
Sahaar Al Ouan, Global Head of Compliance & MLRO, Runa
Paul Munson, UK – Chief Compliance Officer & MLRO, Wallester
As AI adoption accelerates across financial services, compliance teams are increasingly responsible for ensuring its use is safe, transparent and appropriately governed. In this session, our speaker shares their organisation’s experience developing an AI governance framework, exploring how AI use cases are assessed, approved and monitored, the challenges encountered, and the practical lessons learned along the way.
Speaker
Viviane Giglio, Global VP of Compliance, Rapyd
As AI changes how firms access, interpret and apply regulatory information, the role of compliance will need to evolve with it. This session will explore the key questions compliance leaders should be asking now about skills, judgment, operating models and where their teams can add the most value over the next five years. Attendees will leave with a practical framework they can use to assess what their own compliance function needs to look like for 2031.
Speaker
Bernie McEvilly, Group Head of Conduct & Compliance, The Co-Operative Bank & Coventry Building Society
Attendance is complimentary for qualifying senior compliance, financial crime and risk leaders from fintechs, payments firms, digital banks, lenders and wider financial services.
Request an invitation and our team will review your eligibility and be in touch with further details.
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