Due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic, MLROs.com Conference Two 2020 is now an online event splitting the full day conference into 4 half days, in line with government guidelines for everyone's safety. Please note the new dates are from Monday 23rd to Thursday 26th November 2020.

A lot of effort has gone into providing members with everything you have come to expect from MLROs.com in a format that is easily digestible in the new normal!

We have split our normal eight-speaker sessions down into Two sessions per day so that you can attend easily and still get a full day’s work done

If you chose to attend all four days, you will get the same content you would have had from our physical full-day conferences (actually slightly (1/3) more as sessions have an extra Q&A time slot added to the end)

But you also have the option to simply book single days to give you more flexibility and let you pick the content that is the most relevant and important to you

You Still Get

An event that still has a fantastic agenda packed with major topical issues

Great Subject Matter Expert Speakers

Content that both informs and gives you real actionable take-home knowledge

Opportunities to directly question world-class subject Matter experts and Government speakers

CPD points at one point per session – just like our physical events

A networking opportunity at the end of each day’s sessions

An event slide deck in pdf format by email for the days you attend

Post-event materials and opportunities exclusively for attending delegates

Agenda & Speakers

• Monday – 23rd November 2020

Speaker: Lee Robins - Head of Enforcement - Intelligence, Enforcement and Integrity Unit - Companies House

Update on 5MLD & Persons of Significant Control Discrepancy Reporting

Lee will discuss - Background statistics, give a PSC register update, explain the latest position on 5MLD & PSC discrepancy reporting and a look forward to corporate transparency and register reform.

Speaker: Denis O’Connor - Financial Crime Expert

A Banker's Duty of (Quince) Care

Denis will analyse the recent Supreme Court judgment on a bank’s liability following an authorised signatory improperly diverting $204 million from a corporate account. He will also consider a related Court judgment where $875 million was also similarly diverted after a bank received Consent (DAML) from the UK FIU. Denis will conclude by suggesting some lessons that banks and financial crime staff may learn from these cases.

End of Day Q&A session - There will be an opportunity to ask questions and get a greater understanding of the topics in today’s presentations.

• Tuesday – 24th November 2020

Speaker: Stephen Webster - Head of Corporate Transparency and Register Reform BEIS

The Government’s vision for transparency and register reform: what it is trying to do and why

What is needed to implement the reforms and the timetable for the new regime. Stephen will note the economic benefits but focus on economic crime benefits | The impact of the planned reforms – new actions Companies House will take to improve the accuracy of data it holds: checking identities, new powers to query and seek corroboration on information | The enhanced role government intends for Companies House – being more proactive, working more closely with other agencies and with the private sector. And what information Companies House will need from other parties to be most effective in this role.

Speakers: Andrew Jacobs & James Kelly – Partners DWF

The True Cost of Financial Crime

This presentation is based on a recent piece of research conducted by DWF across the financial services sector to quantify how much suspected or perpetrated financial crime costs firms operating across a range of sectors. We look to extrapolate the true cost of financial crime prevention to different firms.

End of Day Q&A session - There will be an opportunity to ask questions and get a greater understanding of the topics in today’s presentations.

• Wednesday – 25th November 2020

-Sam Sheen - MLRO, Stripe Technologies Europe Limited (STEL), Head of Financial Crime, EMEA Stripe

Resistance is Futile: Embracing the link between Money Laundering and Sanctions

For years, financial crime professionals have divided their teams between different types of financial crime, leading some individuals to become specialists in a single subject matter – money laundering, bribery and corruption, tax evasion and sanctions. A common observable “moat” exists between some MLROs knowledge about ML/TF versus sanctions evasion tactics. In this session, Sam Sheen will look at a recent case illustrating the importance of MLROs to keep up to date on the latest sanctions typologies and how money laundering and forms of financial crime intersect.

Speaker: Sian Jones - Partner, XReg LLP – Former Gibraltar Financial Services Commission Senior Adviser on DLT

A review of the regulatory landscape for DLT, Crypto/Virtual Assets & MiCA

As probably the leading expert globally in our opinion on DLT and Crypto and Virtual assets regulation, Sian will cover a range of topics including FATF’s twelve-month Virtual Assets review, Virtual Assets red flag indicators, and main areas of focus for Virtual Assets at the moment; and Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCA), the new EU crypto-asset legislation.

• Thursday – 26th November 2020

Speaker: Dylan Kennedy – Director, Intelpool Limited - accredited intelligence analyst, PIP II level accredited investigator, Online Undercover Investigator and advanced OSINT practitioner

OSINT - Internet Intelligence & Investigation Techniques – how to produce high quality SAR’s

Dylan will use his 20 years in Law Enforcement, Conducting Proactive Financial Investigations and his experience training FCA, HMRC, NCA and police force staff in i3 techniques to demonstrate how to use Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) collection techniques to enhance proactive investigative capabilities with a view to producing high quality, timely Suspicious Activity Reports.

Speakers: Imogen Makin and Richard Burger Partners - DWF

Money Laundering and Financial Crime: How to stay on the right side of the regulator

This session will consider the lessons that can be learned from recent cases and publications by the FCA.