The 11th Annual Conference Built By Practitioners, For Practitioners – Critical New Insights From The Independent Conference For Risk, Compliance & Financial Crime Professionals Across Banking & Financial Services
When AI & Cyber Risks, Geopolitical Shocks & Regulatory Complexity Demand Fresh Thinking, New Approaches & Agile Frameworks
Build Genuine Resilience With Actionable, Practitioner-Led Strategies For Rigorous Risk & Compliance In Financial Services
Hilton Canary Wharf, London
Send your team: For more information, please call +44 (0) 203 479 2299 or email info@thefinancialservicesconference.com
Thank You To Our 2026 Speakers...
Chief Risk, Compliance & Financial Crime Leaders Unite To Tackle AI Governance, Geopolitical Risk, Regulatory Complexity & Cyber Resilience – All In Just 1 Insight-Laden Day In Central London
AI Governance & Guardrails ■ Practical AI Use Cases ■ Geopolitical Volatility & Shocks ■ Cyber Risk & Resilience ■ Regulatory Changes & Complexity ■ Fraud & Financial Crime ■ Evidence Consumer Duty Outcomes ■ Embed Risk Culture & Transformational Change ■ Mature Data Analytics Adoption ■ Value-Add Business Advisor ■ Next-Generation Risk & Compliance In FS
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Implement AI Governance, Guardrails & Accountability:
Ensure sophisticated guardrails to govern AI before it outpaces your controls and keep oversight, accountability and trust intact
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Practical AI Use Cases & Humans In The Loop:
Enlock practical AI use cases in risk and compliance and the opportunities they offer while keeping humans in the loop and at the helm
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Adapting To Geopolitical Volatility, Uncertainty & Shocks:
Stress test geopolitical shock scenarios to protect capital, liquidity and strategic decision making
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Cyber Risk & Resilience:
Close the human gap in cyber defence, prepare for AI-powered attacks and stay ahead of emerging threats
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Regulatory Changes, Updates & Complex, Interconnected Landscapes:
avigate fragmented global rulebooks and turn compliance complexity into competitive edge
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Fraud & Financial Crime Updates:
Outpace rising FCA and PRA enforcement with sharper financial crime detection and response for future-fit protection
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Evidence Consumer Duty Outcomes:
Evidence genuine Consumer Duty outcomes to move past the compliance checklist, demonstrate value and evaluate adherence
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Break Down Silos, Embed Risk Cultures & Keep Pace With Transformational Change:
Overcome silo working, make tone from the top actually land and embed a genuine risk culture
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Advanced Data Analytics Adoption:
Mature your data function from reporting to decision driving analytics which impact the organisation
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Value-Add Business Advisor & Enabler?
Reposition risk and compliance as a value-add business advisor and turn from a gatekeeper to a business partner
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Next-Generation Risk & Compliance In Financial Services:
Hear what will break risk and compliance next and stay ahead of what leaders need to get right before 2028
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Peer-To-Peer Hot Topic Discussions:
Tailor your day and trade notes with peers facing the same questions around Sustainability, Credit Risk, Quantum Computing, Operational Resilience and Skills Building
A Quote From Our Chair:
Risk and compliance leaders in financial services are working through the most disruptive stretch this profession has seen in decades. Agentic AI has moved from pilot projects into daily decisions faster than most governance frameworks can keep pace, geopolitical shocks are reshaping capital and liquidity planning overnight, and a fragmented global rulebook is leaving multinational firms to reconcile rules which simply do not agree. Built entirely from direct conversations with the people actually managing these risks day to day, this conference cuts through the noise and gets straight to the questions practitioners are genuinely asking right now.
This is not a conference built around theory or vendor pitches. It brings together the senior risk, compliance and financial crime leaders shaping the industry response to AI governance, cyber resilience, regulatory fragmentation and consumer duty, in one focused day so we can compare notes, stress test our own thinking and leave with practical plans. Whether the challenge is proving AI oversight to the board, keeping
Brand New For 2027...
- Ask The Floor: Submit Your Toughest Question At Registration & Have It Put To The Room Throughout The Day
- Peer-To-Peer Hot Topic Roundtables: Tailor Your Afternoon Across 5 Live Issues For Peer-To-Peer Insights
- 4 Interactive Panel Discussions, Including A Closing Thought Leaders Debate
- New Case Studies, New Thinking
- 2.5+ Hours Of Dedicated Networking Throughout The Day
Respected, Must-Attend Peer-Led Conference & Networking Industry Gathering: 10 Reasons To Discuss With Your Boss Why Your Team Must Join Their Financial Services Risk & Compliance Peers & Competitors
- Senior-Only Format: built for chief risk officers, chief compliance officers, MLROs and other senior risk, compliance and financial crime leaders, not a junior-heavy trade show
- Peer-Designed – Agenda Built From Peers Only: every session is shaped by direct research calls with practitioners across banking, investment and financial services, not a generic template rolled out sector to sector
- Practical AI Governance, Not AI Hype: sessions go straight to the accountability, oversight and model risk questions boards are already asking, rather than a broad AI explainer
- Real Case Studies From Frontline Practitioners: hear how other institutions are actually applying these ideas, not just the theory behind them
- Ask The Floor Peer Insights: submit a question at registration and have it put to the room throughout the day, so the agenda works for what you actually want answered
- Peer-To-Peer Roundtables: tailor the afternoon across live hot topics and trade notes with people facing the exact same pressures
- Four Interactive Panel Discussions: including a closing thought leaders debate on what will break risk and compliance next
- The Full Risk Landscape In One Day: from AI and cyber to geopolitical shocks, regulatory fragmentation, financial crime and consumer duty
- Practical, Not Theoretical: every session is built to leave you with a framework, benchmark or checklist
- The Most Valuable One Day Out Of The Office In 2027: leaving with an actionable plan to take back to your team
Who Attends This Market-Leading Financial Services Risk & Compliance Event?
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Financial Services Risk & Compliance Advisory Board 2027: Written With Thanks In Collaboration With The Industry
The programme has been curated in collaboration with senior industry experts from across the UK and Europe.
We are so appreciative to those who took the time to help build the agenda for this industry-leading conference. Without these inspirational insights, the event would not be possible. This is just a selection of the generous brands who have contributed feedback, insights and topic ideas for the agenda:
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