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Financial crime is no longer confined to a single institution. Organised, transnational networks move seamlessly across banks, telcos and digital platforms, while most organisations still only see the activity within their own systems.

That fragmented view is exactly what criminals exploit. This keynote explores why fighting financial crime now requires a coordinated, cross-industry approach built on intelligence sharing, collaboration and collective disruption.

Key takeaways

• How organised criminal networks exploit gaps between institutions and sectors.
• Why institution-only monitoring leaves critical blind spots.
• What effective cross-industry collaboration looks like, from intelligence sharing to coordinated disruption.

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How organisations are using AI to detect fraud while criminals use the same technology to evade controls.

• Where AI is improving fraud detection
• How criminals are using AI
• Managing AI risk and governance

Criminal networks move money across borders precisely because the systems built to stop them don't. Fragmented regulation, incompatible data regimes, and slow institutional cooperation create gaps faster than they can be closed, and by the time a transaction is flagged in one country, the money has already moved through three others.

This panel brings together financial crime, technology, and compliance leaders working to close the gaps between jurisdictions, institutions, and regulators.

We'll cover:

• The blind spots criminals exploit when money crosses borders
• Why information sharing breaks down, from privacy and data-sovereignty laws to inconsistent AML standards
• What effective public-private and cross-border cooperation actually requires
• How real-time payments and AI are changing both the threat and the response

A practical case study on disrupting scams and preventing losses before funds leave the system.

• Effective intervention points
• Balancing protection and customer experience
• Lessons from fund recovery

In this innovative session, attendees will be faced with a series of scenarios that they may face in their roles. Attendees will discuss the possible courses of action with their peers to consider the ramifications of each option before logging their own course of action.

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Results will be tallied and analysed by our session facilitator and results will impact the way the group moves through the activity.

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Will we collectively choose the right course of action?

How technology can break down data silos and enable real-time intelligence sharing across organisations.

• Designing systems for information sharing
• Turning shared data into action
• Managing privacy and compliance challenges

Stopping a scam depends on catching it in the seconds before the money moves  which puts enormous pressure on the systems doing the detecting.

This session goes inside one organisation's build: the technical decisions, trade-offs and dead ends behind standing up real-time detection and intervention that actually holds up in production.

• Designing detection that flags genuine scams without drowning teams in false positives
• Engineering for real-time intervention — the latency, data and integration challenges
• What worked, what didn't, and what they'd build differently next time

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The Scams Prevention Framework shifts responsibility beyond individual organisations, requiring banks, telcos and digital platforms to work together to prevent, detect, disrupt and respond to scams.

As the framework takes effect, organisations are working out what compliance looks like in practice and where collaboration still falls short.

This panel brings together fraud, payments and compliance leaders to discuss how the framework is being implemented across the ecosystem.

We'll cover:

• What the Scams Prevention Framework obligations mean in practice, and how organisations are embedding them into day-to-day operations.
• How banks, telcos and digital platforms can work together to disrupt scams, tackle mule accounts, and close gaps across the ecosystem.
• Preparing for what's next, including reimbursement obligations, AFCA's expanded role, and demonstrating "reasonable steps" for compliance.

Select a topic of discussion and engage in an interactive roundtable discussion with a group of your like-minded peers.

Put your knowledge to the test in this fast-paced quiz covering real-world trivia, key concepts, and emerging trends. Compete for bragging rights - and a travel voucher - as the top scorer takes the crown.

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Fraud controls are built by people who've studied fraud, rarely by people who've committed it. In this keynote, Kerry Tucker draws on lived experience to take the audience inside the mind of someone who exploited those controls, and shows how the safeguards organisations trust look from the other side.

Kerry walks through how she read the environment around her: where the reconciliation gaps sat, how segregation of duties broke down in practice, and which everyday signals were there to be seen but went unquestioned. It's an honest, uncomfortable and ultimately practical account of the distance between how controls are designed to work and how they actually hold up under someone determined to get around them.

Attendees will leave with:

• A clear-eyed view of where fraud controls create a false sense of security
• The behavioural and process signals that surface a problem earlier than the numbers do
• Why culture and "the questions no one asks" matter as much as the framework itself

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Financial crime is evolving faster than many organisations can respond. AI is changing both how attacks happen and how they're stopped, regulation continues to expand, and the industry is still debating where responsibility should sit.
Join your peers for an interactive discussion on the trends, trade-offs and priorities shaping the future of financial crime prevention.

• Will AI ultimately give the advantage to defenders or criminals?
• What's the biggest financial crime challenge organisations face today?
• Is the industry ready for the next wave of regulation?
• Who should be responsible for scam losses?
• If you could invest in just one area over the next three years, where would it be?

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Unwind with your peers for a couple of drinks on us!