Opening and Welcome
Andrew Delaney, President and Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group

Opening keynote: AI, operational resilience and the future of financial stability

• What are the implications of AI and interconnected digital infrastructure for financial stability?
• Why is operational resilience increasingly a system-wide responsibility?
• How is supervision evolving in increasingly real-time financial ecosystems?
• How can AI enhance resilience while also creating new systemic vulnerabilities?
• What role do collaboration, intelligence-sharing and collective action play in strengthening resilience across the sector?
• How should firms prepare for the next generation of operational, cyber and technology-driven risks?

Liz Oakes, External Member, Financial Policy Committee, Bank of England

Panel: The evolution of AI in regulatory compliance

• How are firms moving AI from pilot projects into scaled, production-grade compliance workflows?
• What does the rise of agentic AI mean for autonomy, decision-making and human oversight in regulatory compliance?
• How are organisations transitioning from periodic reporting to real-time, always-on compliance models?
• What governance, model risk and explainability frameworks are required as AI systems take on greater responsibility?
• How are regulatory expectations evolving in response to increased AI adoption within compliance functions?
• How will AI-driven, real-time compliance reshape operating models, skillsets and accountability across the enterprise?

Moderator: Mike O’Hara, Editor, TradingTech Insight, A-Team Group
Sarah-Rose Perry, Head of Compliance and MLRO, BTIG
Chrissy Hill, Founder & Principal, Dreadnought Solutions & Risky Women Representative
Michael Talbert, Head of Professional Services, Behavox

Keynote: Ensuring accurate, complete and timely reporting in the era of data-driven supervision

• How are regulators using increasingly sophisticated data analytics to identify reporting anomalies, data quality issues and control weaknesses?
• How can firms reduce the cost and risk of their regulatory reporting through stronger data governance, automation and controls?
• How are firms tangibly using AI and intelligent automation to improve reporting quality while maintaining transparency?
• What should leaders in regulatory reporting do to upskill themselves and their teams in a world of AI-driven change?
• What practical steps should firms take today to prepare for the future of near real-time, data-driven regulatory supervision?

Andrew Pinnington, Chief Customer Officer, Novatus

A-Team Group Research Report Update

Andrew Delaney, President and Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group
Mark Davies, Partner, Element22

Panel: Unifying data, standards and AI for data consistency

• How are firms responding to increasing regulatory scrutiny around data quality, controls and reporting accuracy?
• How can AI-driven data quality (AIDQ) solutions move beyond simple rule validation to improve consistency across disparate systems?
• What are the architectural trade-offs between a centralised data repository and a virtualised single source of truth?
• How can firms leverage standards such as the Common Domain Model (CDM), UPI and LEI to improve data consistency and reduce compliance costs?
• What are the most effective approaches for aligning fragmented legacy data with global standards and reporting requirements?
• How does strong data governance, including a consistent Client Master record, help reduce reporting errors across mandates such as MiFID II and SFTR?

Moderator: Dawd Haque, Market Initiatives, Regulatory Transformation & Strategy, Deutsche Bank
Alpesh Doshi, Managing Partner, Redcliffe Capital
Tom Soden, Head of Regulatory Strategy & Insights, Novatus
Dan Mathews, Reporting Services Senior Product Manager, MarketAxess

Panel: Building the agile architecture for real time reporting

• What is the modern calculus for choosing cloud-based managed services over maintaining in-house reporting engines?
• How can firms use APIs to ensure resilient data submission and manage external connections effectively?
• How do low code platforms empower operations teams to implement rule changes without lengthy IT development?
• What are the primary security and resilience considerations when migrating reporting infrastructure to the public cloud?
• How should firms conduct vendor due diligence to manage concentration risk and ensure operational resilience?
• Which architectural components are necessary to support high volume reporting for near real time mandates?

Moderator: Nilesh Khatri, Former Director, Macquarie Bank
Adam Turnbull, Global Head Regulatory Technology, Goldman Sachs
Michelle Yogarajah, Global Market Controls, ICBC Standard Bank
Kathryn Cenac, MD, Head of Operations UK & Europe, Global Head of Regulatory Solutions Group, BMO Capital Markets
Miki Cheung, Director Regulatory Program Manager, Societe Generale

Keynote: The convergence nobody has budgeted for

• As agentic AI moves compliance from periodic to continuous, who is ultimately accountable when an AI agent makes a decision or takes action?
• With quantum threats making harvest now, decrypt later a reality, are firms treating their long-retention records as a critical security vulnerability, not just a cryptography challenge?
• As digital assets enable real-time settlement, how can compliance controls keep pace when there is no longer an overnight window to detect and intervene?

Chrissy Hill, Founder & Principal, Dreadnought Solutions & Risky Women Representative

RegTech Summit London Innovation Spotlight

Discover the next generation of RegTech innovation as emerging technology providers each take to the stage for a 5 minute showcase. From AI and regulatory reporting to surveillance, financial crime and data management, each company will demonstrate how they’re solving real-world compliance challenges.

Innovation Showcase Host: Duncan Cooper, Fractional CDO

1: From data chaos to regulatory confidence: Intelligent reporting infrastructure of the future
Farrukh Mukhitdinov, Founder & CEO, Datox

2: Building good risk & compliance culture with modern tooling
Elliot Poublan, Founder, Initia Risk

3: AML investigations on autopilot
Vladimirs Kovalovs, Co-Founder & CTO, Recomply

4: How much AI is in your third-party register?
Ankur Arora, Co-Founder, Montro.io

5: Regulators are using AI to check your financial promotions. Are you?
Pedro Sousa, Co-Founder, Karavel

Panel: Managing unstructured data in compliance: From regulatory noise to actionable Intelligence

• How are firms extracting value from unstructured data such as regulations, policies, communications and reports?
• How can AI and NLP help identify, interpret and prioritise regulatory change?
• How are organisations reducing noise and focusing on the regulatory updates that matter most?
• What are the biggest challenges in managing unstructured data across multiple jurisdictions and business functions?
• How can firms turn regulatory intelligence into automated workflows, controls and reporting processes?
• What governance and oversight frameworks are needed as AI takes on a greater role in compliance decision-making?
• How are the roles of compliance, risk and data teams evolving in an AI-enabled operating model?

Moderator Katsuko Ishizeki-Chaudhari, Independent Regulatory Consultant & Former Managing Director, Bank of Montreal London Branch and BMO Capital Markets Ltd.
Niresh Rajah, Expert Chief Data & AI Officer, Board Advisor/NED
Mark Davies, Partner, Element 22
Bamidele Aly, Former Automation and Innovation SME & UK AI Ambassador Co-Lead, Tier 1 Bank

Panel: The Surveillance arms race: AI-driven trade and market abuse detection

• Beyond Rule-Based Alerts: How do machine learning models identify subtle layering or spoofing patterns that traditional static thresholds consistently miss?
• Contextual Trade Surveillance: How can firms integrate market news and social media sentiment e.g., StockPulse to provide the intent behind a suspicious trade?
• Cross-Asset & Cross-Border Monitoring: What are the technical challenges of unifying surveillance across fragmented asset classes to detect sophisticated, multi-leg market abuse?
• Explainable AI (XAI) for Regulators: How can compliance teams show the working of a complex ML model when a regulator asks why a specific trade was or was not flagged?
• Reducing Alert Fatigue: What strategies are most effective for using AI to triage alerts, allowing human investigators to focus on high-risk, high-probability cases?
• TBML & Trade Finance: How is AI being used to detect Trade-Based Money Laundering by identifying cargo anomalies and vessel behaviour deviations?

Moderator: Yasmine Li, Head of Surveillance EMEA, Millennium
Jason Shiu, Compliance Manager, Surveillance, Vanguard Asset Management Ltd
James Peters, Former Managing Director, Goldman Sachs and MUFG
Rav Kohli, Independent Market Surveillance Consultant, formerly Global Head of Surveillance Technology, TP ICAP

Champagne Roundtables

Join a roundtable discussion for a deep-dive, interactive discussion with your peers on some of the day’s most important themes. Address common problems, benchmark your progress and come away with practical solutions and takeaways!

1. The future of regulatory reporting: Can firms achieve a golden source of data?

• Is a true golden source of regulatory data achievable, or should firms focus on federated models?
• How can firms improve lineage, traceability and reconciliation across reporting frameworks?
• Where can AI add the most value in identifying reporting anomalies and data quality issues?
• What lessons have firms learned from large-scale regulatory reporting transformation programmes?

Host: Wen Jie Lee, Former Global Head of Regulatory Change and Solutions, UBS

2. Perpetual KYC and the evolution of digital identity

• How are firms transitioning from periodic reviews toward continuous, risk-based KYC models?
• What tools are proving most effective in detecting synthetic identities and deepfake-enabled fraud?
• How can firms improve entity resolution and UBO transparency across complex global structures?
• How do organisations reduce onboarding friction without weakening AML and identity controls?

Risky Women host:  Heather Richards, Director of Remediation & Managed Services, Plenitude Consulting

3: Breaking the silos between AML, Fraud and Cyber

• How are firms breaking down traditional silos between AML, fraud, cyber and sanctions teams to create a more holistic view of financial crime risk?
• What organisational, data and technology challenges continue to hinder effective information sharing and coordinated investigations?
• How can firms improve the speed, quality and consistency of financial crime investigations while maintaining robust governance and regulatory compliance?
• What should the future financial crime intelligence function look like, and where should organisations focus investment to strengthen resilience against increasingly sophisticated threats?

Host: Pallavi Kapale, Senior FinCrime Officer, Financial Intelligence Unit, Bank of China

4. The evolving role of the risk and compliance professional in the AI era

• How are AI and automation reshaping the responsibilities of risk and compliance teams?
• What new skills and capabilities will compliance professionals need to remain effective in AI-enabled environments?
• How can firms balance human judgement with increasingly automated decision-making and controls?
• How should organisations connect client outcomes to operating models, team structures and collaboration between compliance, HR, technology and data functions?

Host: Rob Knight, President, UK Chapter, Global Council for Responsible AI

5. Governing AI in Financial Services: From Policy to Practice

• How are firms translating AI governance principles into practical policies, controls and day-to-day decision-making?
• What governance frameworks are proving most effective for managing AI risk, accountability and regulatory expectations?
• How can firms embed explainability, transparency and human oversight without slowing innovation?
• What lessons have organisations learned from implementing AI governance across compliance, risk and business functions?

Host: Jovita Tam, Business-focused Data / AI Advisor & Attorney

6: AI-Enabled Surveillance & Financial Crime: Reducing alert fatigue without losing human judgement

• How are firms using AI and advanced analytics to improve the detection and prioritisation of suspicious activity across AML, fraud and surveillance?
• How can AI reduce false positives and investigator alert fatigue without creating new blind spots?
• What governance, explainability and human-oversight frameworks are needed when AI influences financial crime decisions?
• How will GenAI and agentic AI change the future role of the financial crime investigator, and where should human judgement remain essential?

Risky Women host: Kelly Letsiou, Financial Crime & Technology Consultant, Baringa

Event ends