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
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
The price of trust: lessons from a con man's last victim - Tracy Hall, author and advocate against scams and intimate fraud
Role of policing in the global to local response - Deputy Commissioner Nick Adams, City of London Police
Quantifying the international threat: Panel Session - Panellists include:
- Fran Dowling - Deputy Director, Head of Fraud Policy Unit, UK Home Office
- 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
- Chair: Helena Wood - Director of Public Policy and Engagement Strategy, Cifas
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, Innovate Finance
- Nick Perkins - Director of Fraud Prevention, NatWest Group
- Liz Ziegler - Fraud Prevention Director, Lloyds Banking Group
- Chair: Mike Haley - CEO, Cfias
Building Solutions that work: Panel Session - Panellists include:
- Tony Craddock - Director General, The Payments Association
- Rocio Concha - Director of Policy and Advocacy, and Chief Economist, Which?
- Ben Donaldson - Managing Director for Economic Crime, UK Finance
- Georgios Kolovos - Head of Payments, EMEA, NVIDIA
- Chair: Cifas
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:
Workshop stream 1:The next phase of identity fraud prevention: Empowering consumers through industry collaboration
Sponsored by TrendMicro
Opening remarks - Luke Charters MP & Fraud Prevention Advocate
Case Study -James Bentley, Senior Manager - Fraud Threat Lead at the National Economic Crime Centre
Flipping the script on identity fraud -Mike Haley, Cifas CEO
Introducing JustMe - Lloyd Emmerson, Director of Strategic Solutions, Cifas
Protecting consumers from the escalating threat of ID fraud - Panel Session
Panellists:
- Chris Ainsley - Head of Fraud Risk Management, Santander
- Chloe Coleman - CEO, Vouchsafe;
- Neil Postins - Fraud Victim Crime Centre
- Matt Niblet - Senior Policy Advisory, Which?
- David Sancho - TrendMicro
Immersive Zones: The JustMe story
Workshop stream 2: The Fraud Kill Chain: Meeting the challenge
Sponsored by Resistant AI
The ally and the enemy – the role of AI in fraud and financial crime
Fireside chat:
- Mark Courtney, Cifas CPO
- Jan Syrinek - Head of Product, Resistant AI
Deeper dive into the fraud kill chain: How do we disrupt, protect and recover?
- Sophie Lennox, Cifas Director of Product
- Leigh Shout, Cifas Product Owner NFD & Peer to Peer
- Luke Geoghegan, Cifas Product Owner, ITD & Data Services
- As well as guest speakers from Meta, the Global Signal Exchange, and thinkmoney
The Scams Problem - Kitboga - Seraph Secure, the internet's most prominent scambaiter and cybersecurity advocate will join us virtually
Networking drinks: 5 pm
Close: 6.30 pm
Many thanks to our event sponsors
Unfortunately, the Member Forum is now fully booked. If you would like to join the waiting list, please follow this link and complete the form. You will then be contacted should any additional places become available.
