The 8th Annual European Compliance and Legal Conference is meticulously curated to attract a diverse audience, including Heads of Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Government Affairs, Risk professionals, General Counsel, law firms, and financial press. This event provides a unique opportunity for attendees to gather valuable insights, accumulate CPD hours, and establish connections with global experts. Renowned speakers, representing banks, policymakers, and regulators, will share their perspectives on the evolving regulatory landscape.Set against a backdrop of the complex and dynamic regulatory environment, the conference serves as a pivotal hub for over 200 professionals annually. The program includes keynote presentations, expert panels, and interactive sessions, delving into topics such as Markets Regulation, Compliance, Risk, AML, Financial Crime, Culture, Governance and Accountability, Diversity and Inclusion, Technology, and more. The aim is to provide a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted aspects shaping the compliance and legal landscape in Europe.We invite you to join us for the 8th Annual European Compliance and Legal Conference—an immersive experience where industry leaders converge, insights flow freely, and meaningful connections take root. Be a part of this dynamic event, where thought leaders and professionals come together to navigate the intricate terrain of regulatory challenges and emerging trends.The conference is a great opportunity for attendees to gain valuable insights, hear from industry experts, earn CPD hours and make connections with fellow colleagues.Regular Registration fees: • AFME member: £849 + VAT• Non member: £1119 + VATMulti-booking discount: • 10% off when booking 3 or more delegates at the same time• 20% off when booking 5 or more delegates at the same timeComplimentary subject to verification: • Regulator: promo code REGULATOR• Press: promo code PRESSTo discuss sponsorship opportunities, please contact Cheryl Chickowski at [email protected] or on +44 (0)7824 874 391.
How do you respond to the growing challenges of a fast-moving financial landscape? KPMG helps financial services firms transform their operating models and strategies to be fully ready for whatever lies ahead. With unparalleled experience in audit, tax, consulting and deal advisory services, and deep strategic insights and breadth of solutions, we allow our clients to maximise their technology and provide innovative services that truly put the customer first. We start by ensuring that we understand our clients’ issues inside out: from regulatory-driven business change and front-to-back-office transformation, to Brexit transition planning and technology enablement.
Linklaters is a leading global law firm, supporting and investing in the future of our clients wherever they do business. We combine legal expertise with a collaborative and innovative approach to help clients navigate constantly evolving markets and regulatory environments, pursuing opportunities and managing risk worldwide. Our marketing-leading global financial regulation group advises on all aspects of regulatory compliance, risk management, enforcement and regulatory transactions. We have longstanding relationships in the UK and around the world with institutions offering financial services, including investment, commercial and retail banks, asset managers, private equity houses, insurers, exchanges, trading platforms, clearing houses and other financial services firms. Our financial regulation lawyers work closely with our risk advisory and consulting team to support clients in proactively identifying and managing risk exposure holistically. We act as trusted advisers to our clients, delivering strategic, technical and commercial advice to help them navigate and implement complex regulatory change, advise them on compliance and risk management, and support them in relation to sensitive and reputation-threatening regulatory issues.
Corlytics provides a risk based approach to regulatory compliance. To be able to action and provide assurance on never-ending regulatory change requires firms to know what’s relevant, where to focus and what’s emerging. That’s where Corlytics is helping compliance, risk, legal and audit teams globally. We monitor, assess, map and align regulatory changes in order to alert relevant areas of the business. Corlytics enriches the information with regulatory risk intelligence and analytics enabling firms to plan and prioritise compliance and monitoring activities and determine exposure to regulatory risk. The complex regulatory information is visualised within practical, powerful interactive dashboards.
CUBE provides a highly comprehensive and robust source of classified, and meaningful AI-driven regulatory data to power its Automated Regulatory Intelligence (ARI) and Regulatory Change Management (RCM) solutions. CUBE’s purpose-built regulatory technology including its AI engine (RegBrain) and software platform (RegPlatform) tracks, analyses, and monitors laws, rules, and regulations in every country and in every published language to create an always up-to-date regulatory footprint that transforms visibility and compliance capability for customers across the globe. With operations across Europe, North America, Canada, Asia, and Australia, CUBE serves a diverse and global base of customers and partners including the largest financial institutions in the world who leverage CUBE’s platform to streamline their complex regulatory intelligence and change management processes. Following the strategic partnership with Hg in March 2024, CUBE announced the two acquisitions of US-based Reg-Room and the Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and Oden products and businesses in May 2024.
Latham & Watkins delivers innovative solutions to complex legal and business challenges around the world. From a global platform, our lawyers advise clients on market-shaping transactions, high-stakes litigation and trials, and sophisticated regulatory matters. Latham is one of the world’s largest providers of pro bono services, steadfastly supports initiatives designed to advance diversity within the firm and the legal profession, and is committed to exploring and promoting environmental sustainability.
The smartest business solutions come when we work together – international but operating as one integrated team. Collaborative, agile and partner-led: that’s Simmons & Simmons. A law firm that challenges, creates new possibilities, and offers opinion not just option. A law firm that acts as your business partner and works with you, not for you. Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm with fully integrated teams working through offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, bringing experienced professionals to some of the most active growth markets today. Our client base includes a significant number of the current FTSE 100 and Fortune Global 500 companies and we advise the top 10 investment banks, many of the world's largest financial conglomerates and more than half of the top 50 European hedge fund managers. We focus on four highly regulated sectors (asset management and investment funds, financial institutions, healthcare and life sciences and technology, media and telecommunications) – using our specialist skills to understand your business, and the forces at play around it. All grounded in exceptional knowledge of the legal detail. This is how we consistently deliver smarter, more efficient ways to tackle our clients’ most complex challenges.
The proliferation of communication platforms and electronic records has made identifying and mitigating compliance violations a challenge for modern businesses.. Without the right technology, businesses are opening themselves up to the risk of non-compliance. For over two decades, Smarsh has enabled organisations of all sizes to quickly and easily meet their record retention and oversight obligations with industry-leading technology that allows them to manage the risk and see the value in their communications data. These include mandates from FINRA, SEC, FFIEC, CFTC, NFA, EU (MiFID II), FCA, IIROC and other industry-specific governing bodies around the world. Our capture, archiving, surveillance supervision and e-discovery solutions enable our customers to focus on innovation and growth, while seamlessly dealing with communications compliance. And our advanced capabilities (available on a per channel basis) ensure our customers can carry out proactive compliance measures for specific channels with real-time monitoring, blocking and alerting. When the leading banks in North America, Europe and Asia, along with leading brokerage firms, insurers, and registered investment advisors want a unified communication warehouse solution offering that has the ability to capture all forms of digital communications, both text and voice, store them and then analyse them through advanced NLP models to gain valuable business intelligence, they talk to Smarsh.
StarCompliance is the world’s leading provider of employee compliance technology solutions. Trusted globally for 25 years by over a million users in 114 countries, Star’s next-generation platform and user-friendly interface delivers the data, technology, and actionable insights needed to proactively mitigate risk, monitor conflicts, and support today’s complex whistleblowing regulations. Visit www.starcompliance.com to discover the comprehensive security and unparalleled assurance you need to build a culture of compliance today.
At Acin, our mission is to make the financial services industry safer. We simplify complexity though our independent, data-driven and digitised approach. Partnering with clients, we accelerate their path to maturity and bring objective assurance to demonstrate that they are ‘in control’. Excellence in Operational Risk is undermined by fragmented, low-quality and missing data coupled with no clear line-of-sight of what ‘good’ looks like. Moreover, the regulatory demand on institutions continues to increase. We created Acin to remove these barriers and bring simplicity, quality and transparency to the industry and our clients. We transform your Operational Risk into a digitised and dynamic environment, enhanced with industry mark-to-market and regulatory traceability. AI alone isn’t the solution A human army isn’t the solution Going it alone isn’t the solution Acin’s unique solution uses a foundation of networked industry data, proprietary AI and subject matter expertise. We simplify complexity at speed. We bring objective assurance and put you ‘in control’.
Arthur Cox is one of Ireland’s leading law firms. We are an “all-island” firm with offices in Dublin and Belfast. We also have offices in London, New York, and San Francisco. Our practice encompasses all aspects of corporate and business law. With 600 legal staff and a total headcount of 830, we provide a comprehensive service to an international client base ranging from multinational organisations, banks, and financial institutions and established global leaders to government agencies and new players in emerging industry sectors. Our story has been defined by our progressive outlook. For over 100 years, we have led the way in the legal field in Ireland. For our clients, we work to deliver the best service and support. With an independent, entrepreneurial spirit of innovation leading the way.
Legal solutions for business issues. Business solutions for legal issues. Today's general counsel faces a long and growing list of imperatives: enable growth, manage risk, ensure compliance, reduce costs, enhance business performance—all the while keeping pace with a constantly evolving technological, geopolitical, regulatory and business landscape. Your business needs a legal ally with an eye on the long view, who considers all angles of every decision: legal, business, technology, cyber, operations, human capital, and more. Our people have worked in law firms, regulators and financial institutions, giving us first-hand experience of the challenges faced by your organisation today. With our global reach, Deloitte’s legal team is with you every step of the way, ensuring the best business outcomes for every legal decision—and the best legal outcomes for every business decision. We don’t see events—or aspects of your business—as siloed or standalone. Instead, we focus on long-term benefits, bringing our unique, business-oriented mindset to every legal challenge. Together we’ll help you manage business and regulatory relationships, protect your assets, support your workforce, manage contracting processes and implement complex change projects.
J.S. Held is a global consulting firm that combines technical, scientific, financial, and strategic expertise to advise clients seeking to realise value and mitigate risk. Our professionals serve as trusted advisors to organisations facing high stakes matters demanding urgent attention, staunch integrity, proven experience, clear-cut analysis, and an understanding of both tangible and intangible assets. The firm provides a comprehensive suite of services, products, and data that enable clients to navigate complex, contentious, and often catastrophic situations.
MyComplianceOffice (MCO) provides compliance management software that enables companies around the world to reduce their risk of misconduct and effectively oversee regulatory obligations. Our powerful platform lets compliance professionals demonstrate they are proactively managing the regulated activities of the company, employees and third-party vendors and provide evidence of regulatory compliance. Available as a unified suite or à la carte, our easy-to-use and extensible SaaS-based solutions get firms up and running quickly and cost-efficiently. Our “Know Your” solution suites are built on the dynamic MyComplianceOffice platform. Its capabilities enable comprehensive monitoring and reporting, workflow-directed task management, real-time exception alerts and integrated data sets, including global company and security master of public and private companies. Our comprehensive approach ensures that firms have a clear view of potential risk and can remedy conflict before it becomes a problem. With 1300+ clients in over 105 countries and employees around the world, MCO delivers affordable, easy-to-use compliance technology.
NICE Actimize, Financial Markets Compliance, can provide firms with the complete compliance coverage required by today’s financial markets regulations – an environment which requires a view across assets, instruments, communications, markets, and regulatory jurisdictions. We offer both Holistic Surveillance and Communication Compliance solutions.
TradingHub is a cutting-edge finance-focused big data firm. We pride ourselves on building the best-in-class tooling for trade surveillance, financial markets anti-money laundering, best execution, and financial markets reporting and analytics. Our customer base includes some of the world's leading investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, commodity houses, and brokerage firms, representing over $20 trillion in assets under management. With headquarters in London and additional offices in Toronto and Singapore, we are well-positioned to serve our customers’ needs across the globe. For more information about TradingHub and our innovative solutions
Vault Platform is the Active Integrity leader, modernizing and globalizing Speak Up programs with a digital, AI-enabled platform for Speak Up, investigations, and data reporting.
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) is the global representative of the alternative investment industry, with around 2,100 corporate members in over 60 countries. AIMA’s fund manager members collectively manage more than US$2.5 trillion in hedge fund and private credit assets. AIMA draws upon the expertise and diversity of its membership to provide leadership in industry initiatives such as advocacy, policy and regulatory engagement, educational programmes and sound practice guides. AIMA works to raise media and public awareness of the value of the industry. AIMA set up the Alternative Credit Council (ACC) to help firms focused in the private credit and direct lending space. The ACC currently represents over 250 members that manage US$800 billion of private credit assets globally. AIMA is committed to developing skills and education standards and is a co-founder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA) – the first and only specialised educational standard for alternative investment specialists. AIMA is governed by its Council (Board of Directors).
AMF Italia – Associazione Intermediari Mercati Finanziari represents the interests of the intermediaries active on the Italian financial markets, namely Italian investment firms, investment banks and subsidiaries of foreign investment services providers. AMF Italia performs advocacy, advisory activities and training and organises conferences and seminars. Its members account for nearly the entire amount of the transactions carried out on the Italian stock markets from Italy. Since 2007, the membership has been extended to law firms, consulting and IT solutions development companies, as well as entities providing services to financial intermediaries.
Financial News is the agenda-setting publication read by smart and ambitious professionals in the City of London and across Europe's financial markets. Our award-winning journalists deliver the latest news and analysis, from in-depth interviews with influential business and political leaders, to insight into career advancement, bonus trends and other hot topics in the world of work.
CIO Applications (https://www.cioapplications.com) magazine stands out with its unique approach to learning from industry leaders offering professionals the most comprehensive collection of technology trends. CIO Applications is enabling businesses to move a step ahead and guiding them towards adopting the best in technology that can assist them in providing seamless and convenient solutions for enhanced customer experience.
CIOReview is a leading technology magazine that is at the forefront of guiding enterprises through the continuously varying business environment with information about the solutions and services. The magazine serves as a trustworthy knowledge source as well as a platform for the C-suite executives, industry experts, technology buyers, and other decision-makers to share their valuable insights about new technology trends in the market. Kindly let me know once our logo is updated on the event website. https://www.ciorevieweurope.com/
Talking about bonds starts at the DESK The DESK provides buy-side traders and their counterparts with precise detail on the macro-drivers, events and plans that are shaping liquidity and price discovery in fixed income markets. The DESK’s quarterly magazine, daily news, weekly newsletters and social media feeds give us a constant flow of information to the market, blending a mix of exclusive stories, in-depth trader profiles and technical analysis of trading across the cash and derivatives’ fixed income markets. The DESK is trusted by bond traders to be the best information on market structure, data and trade execution. Using a unique model of feedback via monthly off-the-record briefings and quarterly quantitative research, we help buy-side traders to navigate the evolving fixed income markets and sell-side traders to better support their clients. Our readers predominantly come from the developed financial market centres of Europe and North America, but our combination of print and digital gives The DESK a global reach. www.fi-desk.com
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Deputy Governor Consumer & Investor Protection, Central Bank of Ireland
Secretary General, AMF
Joint Executive Director of Enforcement & Market Oversight, Financial Conduct Authority
Chair, European Securities and Markets Authority
Head of Central Compliance and SMCR, Nomura
Global Head of Program Oversight, AML KYC, Citi
CEO, AFME
Head of Financial Services Regulation SEGL/JUR, Société Générale
EMEA Team Leader, Legal Regulatory, BNP Paribas
Director of Product Management, StarCompliance
Director of Governance and Executive Board Member, WiBF
Head of FCC, Wholesale Netherlands, ING
UK Head of Compliance, BNP Paribas
Head of Group Legal, Rothschild & Co
Managing Director, Head of Compliance UK, Continental Europe & Middle East BBVA
Director, Head of Market Abuse Investigation Unit, CONSOB
Director, Banking & Markets Regulatory Reform Legal, Bank of America
Chief Compliance Officer, Europe, HSBC
Manager, Wholesale Banks Sector Team, Financial Conduct Authority
Partner, Deloitte Legal
Managing Director & General Counsel for EMEA and Asia, Jefferies
Director, TD Securities
Team manager, FIU-the Netherlands
Policy Expert, European Banking Authority
Director, Co-Head of UK GA Compliance Advisory, Rothschild & Co
Managing Director, Global FX, Technology and Operations and Policy Divisions, GFMA and AFME
EMEA Solution Director, Financial Market Compliance, NICE Actimize
Deputy Director Head of the Unit Financial Stability, AML Supervision and Banking Prudential Policy, National Bank of Belgium
Director, Regulatory Risk & Control Oversight, Commerzbank
Managing Director, SCIB Global Regulatory Compliance, Santander
Director, UK Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR), Citi
Head of Compliance UK & Middle East, ING Bank
Managing Director, Compliance, AFME
Partner, KPMG
European Head of Compliance, Scotiabank
Dep Director General, Federal Ministry of Finance Germany
Head of Central Surveillance, StoneX
Head of Division, BaFin
Partner, Co-Founder, Ibex
Head of UK Wholesale Banking Compliance, Société Générale
Partner, Latham & Watkins
CEO and Founder, Vault
Partner, A&O Shearman
Head of Governance Technology Solutions, StoneX
Head of Division, PRA Authorisations, Bank of England
Head of the Financial Services Regulatory practice, Simmons & Simmons
Managing Director, EMEA Head of Regulatory Strategy, J.P. Morgan
Head of Capital Markets Compliance, Europe, RBC Capital Markets
Co Chair of the Future Leaders Network, WiBF
Manager, Sustainable Finance, AFME
Managing Director, AFME Frankfurt
Partner, Arthur Cox
EMEA Principal Regulatory Advisor, Smarsh
Regulatory Lead, Acin
Head Governmental Affairs EMEA, UBS
Managing Director, J.S. Held
Head of Legal and Regulatory Analysis, Corlytics
Senior Technical Specialist, Financial Markets Standards Board
Partner, Financial Services, KPMG