Events, Courses & Seminars

2023 KYC & CDD Forum

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Location: Live online

Know your Customer (KYC) & Client Due Diligence (CDD) are at the heart of financial crime risk management in the financial services sector.

Regulators are increasingly focused on the quality of KYC & CDD carried out both at client onboarding and review stage. Following increased legislative pressure, financial services businesses are still getting to grips with the challenges presented by complex business relationships.

This half-day forum will explore the impact of the changing geopolitical landscape on KYC requirements as well as delving into practical issues such as demonstrating the effectiveness of your KYC screening technology to your regulator and evidencing complex source of wealth.

Suitable for
This forum is suitable for all financial services compliance professionals and Directors with oversight of KYC/CDD.

Agenda

13:00-13:10

Registration and welcome from the Forum Chair
Helen Hatton, Director at the School of International Financial Services

13:10-13:40

KYC chaos: understanding the impact of the changing geopolitical landscape on KYC operations
Speaker TBC

13:40-14:10

No-one looks good in an orange jumpsuit: Extraterritoriality and the ramifications of ineffective KYC
Speaker TBC

14:10-14:40

How low do you go; understanding how far to go in KYC
Speaker TBC

14:40-14:50

Refreshment break

14:50-15:20

Panel Discussion: Do you know your tech partner well enough? Demonstrating the effectiveness of your KYC screening technology to your regulator
Helen Hatton, Dermot Corrigan, Richard Gaudin & Rob Mitchell

15:20-15:50

KYC on complex wealth; From Crypto to listing, how to evidence complex source of wealth
Speaker TBC

15:50-16:00

A quick-fire roundup of practical take-aways
Helen Hatton, Director at the School of International Financial Services

Speakers
Helen Hatton: Director at the School of International Financial Services

Helen is a well-known figure in the offshore world and is widely recognised as the prime architect of the Jersey regulatory regime. She was Director of Enforcement for the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission; Deputy Director General, Jersey Financial Services Commission and founder of Sator Regulatory Consulting Limited and KYC Worldwide. Helen merged Sator with BDO in 2016 and became BDO Sator MD and BDO Group Chairman from 2016-2021. She has undertaken a wide range of major, international fact finding mandates including those for the World Bank, IMF, FATF, Commonwealth Secretariat, the UK Foreign Office and a fistful of Central Banks, regulatory authorities and governments. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Royal Society of Arts, and sits on the Editorial Board of the International Banker.

Helen holds non-executive appointments at Santander International, Jersey Post International Limited, Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner, and is shareholder and director of KnowYourCountry.Com and the School of International Financial Services. Helen is Executive Chairman of Central Associates Limited, a London based, family owned and relationships driven, investigations, intelligence and surveillance company.

Richard Gaudin
Commercial Director at VAIIE

Richard Gaudin

Richard has responsibility for all commercial aspects of the Vaiie business.

In particular, he has strategic responsibility for the growth and go-to-market strategies as well as core client and partner engagement. Richard has more than 20 years' experience in senior commercial roles across the digital industry where he has been responsible for driving growth strategy, both organically through aligning people to a common goal as well as through mergers and acquisitions. Richard also worked as a consultant running multiple projects and change programmes with a particular focus towards delivering strategic outcomes for clients.

Dermot Corrigan: Chief Executive Officer of SmartKYC

Dermot Corrigan is CEO of smartKYC, a specialist intelligence technology business that applies AI to screen and monitor third party relationships for financial crime risks.

He draws upon his background in geopolitical and violent risk intelligence, reputational risk monitoring and deep web and media search technology to offer a unique perspective on how organisations can adopt an intelligence-led approach to identifying and responding to relationship risk.

Having served in senior leadership roles with market analysis firm Frost & Sullivan and corporate news distributor PR Newswire, he went on to launch the world's first adverse media search engine for KYC screening while leading the news and business information arm of LexisNexis (RELX PLC).

He has also held board positions with a visual search software subsidiary of the Independent News & Media Group, political risk intelligence and forecasting specialists Exclusive Analysis (acquired by Standard & Poor's) and Gorkana, a leading social and mainstream media monitoring businesses (acquired by Cision).

Robert Mitchell: Senior Vice President at RiskScreen

Robert Mitchell is the Senior Vice President of business development and manages the global sales team. Based in RiskScreen's London office, Rob has vast experience in the governance, risk, and compliance market, and is responsible for growing the firm's corporate client base in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Rob joined from a seven-year tenure at Exiger, where he helped grow Exiger from a start-up to a recognised and world leading name in Third-Party Risk Management due diligence software. Previously, Rob was a Director within the Forensic Services Practice at PwC.

Prior to PwC, Rob worked for World-Check for ten years, helping take the business from a start-up to the global industry standard Due Diligence database, leading to its highly successful sale to Thomson Reuters in 2011.

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