Cifas Member Forum 2025
This is a member only event.
Join us on Thursday 16 October for the Cifas Member Forum 2025. Hear from industry experts, regulators and policy makers as well as our own in-house experts on the key issues facing the fraud prevention community. Be part of the discussion as we ask what we can do to combat the threat posed by fraud and scams.
- Date: Thursday 16 October
- Time: 9 am - 6.30 pm
- Place: Royal College of Physicians, London, NW1 4LE
You can find more information below on what will happen on the day.
Agenda
(timings subject to change)
Arrival, coffee and networking: 9 am - 9.30 am
Session 1: 9.30 am - 11.15 am
Welcome and introduction - Mike Haley, Cifas CEO
Keynote address - Lord Hanson, UK Government Fraud Minister
Scams without borders - Tracy Hall, author and advocate against scams and intimate fraud
The Future of Policing - Deputy Commissioner Nick Adams, City of London Police
Quantifying the international threat: Panel Session - Panellists include:
- Craig Rice - CEO, Cyber Defence Alliance
- Nick Sharp - Deputy Director, National Economic Crime Centre
- Tom Stocks - Senior Investigative Journalist, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Coffee and networking break: 11.15 am - 11.40 am
Session 2: 11.40 am - 1 pm
Mandatory Reimbursement and the APP challenge, one year on: Panel Session - Panellists include:
- Janine Hirt, CEO at Innovate Finance
- Nick Perkins, Director of Fraud Prevention at NatWest Group
- Liz Ziegler, Fraud Prevention Director at Lloyds Banking Group
Building Solutions that work: Panel Session - Panellists include:
- Georgios Kolovos - Head of Payments, EMEA, NVIDIA
- Tony Craddock - Director General, The Payments Association
- Ben Donaldson - Managing Director for Economic Crime, UK Finance
- Rocio Concha - Director of Policy and Advocacy, and Chief Economist, Which?
Lunch: 1 pm - 2pm
Session 3: 2 pm - 5 pm
In the afternoon, you will be able to choose between two afternoon streams, taking a deeper dive into different fraud types, featuring Cifas colleagues and guest speakers, taking part in presentations and panel sessions.
Afternoon speakers will include:
- Luke Charters MP
- Nick Stapleton, co-presenter of BBC's Scam Interceptors
- Kitboga, the internet's most prominent scambaiter and cybersecurity advocate
Further details of the afternoon sessions will be released in due course.
Networking drinks: 5 pm
Close: 6.30 pm
Many thanks to our event sponsors
