Friday 29 April 2022 - Euroclear, BRUSSELS

Program 2022

Criminal organisations are increasingly present in the upper world, undermining governance in both the public sector and the private sector. Systemic fraud and infiltration pose a real threat to the systems designed to protect us against corruption, money laundering, cybercrime, trafficking and occupational fraud and abuse. Some sectors of society are more exposed than others, and thus have an urgent need to further strengthen their fraud risk governance. The public sector is evidently one of these vulnerable sectors. Are they sufficiently focusing on the serious crimes that destabilise public functions, rather than on petty crime? Furthermore, privatisation of public functions implies a huge responsibility for protecting these functions. In the private sector, several industries are becoming increasingly aware that financial economic crime can pose a serious risk to the objectives of a company. But are all of the players sufficiently aware of this? Are they adequately funded and empowered to respond to this risk, and are they responding in a coordinated manner?

TimeSubjectSpeakers
12.00 - 12.20 hours

Welcome from Congress Chairman Michel Klompmaker. Introduction of speakers and programme by the Day-Chair Evert-Jan Lammers.

 

12.30 - 13.30 hours

Lunchworkshop presented by Egbert Krop CFO of Icoinic Capital. His lunchworkshop is called “Crypto and Compliance : Friend or Foe ?

This interactive session, led by Egbert Krop, will help you map out the opportunities of technology to enhance your compliance tasks in the world of crypto.

13.30 - 13.40 Welcome at Euroclear

Welcome by Group Chief Business, ex-CEO Euroclear Bank, Valérie Urbain.

13.40 - 14.45 hours

Introduction film by fraudstorytelling.com

13.45 - 14.15 hours

Jean-Paul Servais, Chairman of FSMA, about combating Financial Economic Crime from a European perspective. As Chairman of the Belgian financial regulator and as IOSCO vice chair, Mr. Servais will discuss national and international actions to prevent and saction fraud regarding financial services and markets.

14.15 - 14.45 hours

Of the importance of the ISSA Financial Crime Compliance Principles in the securities industry

Olivier Goffard, co-chair of the International Securities Settlement Association Financial Crime Working Group, will explain the genesis behind the ISSA Financial Crime Compliance Principles (“FCCP”) which have entered into force in 2020 with the objective to increase the robustness of financial crime controls across the whole securities custody chain. The FCCP have become mainstream in the meantime and their relevance has been made even more important with the current Russia/Belarus sanctions regimes that directly target, amongst other things, the securities sector and for the first time, central securities depositories (“CSDs”).

14.45 - 15.15 hours

Targeting professional financial crime enablers is key to curb cyber fraud

Over the last decades, the world has witnessed increasingly massive cyber crimes attacks being perpetrated across borders.
These crimes are often facilitated by lawyers, accountants, financial institutions and other professionals who help engineer the legal and financial structures seen in the financial crimes.
These professionals that create opportunities to facilitate the commission and / or concealment of such crimes undermine not only the rule of law, but their own profession, public confidence in the legal and financial system. Therefore, targeting professional enablers and disrupting their activities is a key avenue for addressing criminal activity at the source.

15.15 - 15.45 hours

Networking break

15.45 - 16.15 hours

The experienced Offshore Expert Jan van Koningsveld will talk about the Misuse of Offshore Companies.The time that you only had to deal with national entities are far behind us. More and more offshore companies play a key role in the international structures of financial crimes like: tax evasion, corruption and money laundering. A good risk analyze with understanding of the offshore companioes is necessary.

The recent publications of the Pandora Papers are again a wake up call that we must pay more attention to the offshore world. This aspect should give a place in a standard KYC approach. Only then we can effectively combat financial economic crime. In his presentation Jan will give you some examples of the importance of the offshore world and also give you some tools what you can do yourself to recognize the signals and to reduce the risks.

16.15 - 16.45 hours

Keynote introduction to ‘The Big AML Debate: Crossing the chasm from regulatory compliance to effective action on dirty money’ by David Lewis, about
– policy development and implementation in a rapidly changing world, the challenge of the cryptosphere
– scaling the application of the latest technology to combat money laundering
– leveraging empirical approaches and applied policy research
– from serious crime to national and international security: AML and sanctions. 

16.45 - 17.30 hours

The Big AML Debate about international regulations, sanctions, legal and illegal financial structures, the role of the banking industry, lawyers, etc… We wil have a direct intervention from Kiev, with Oleksandr Pomoshnikov about the actual situation regarding sanctions against Russia.

17.30 - 17.35 hours

Wrap-up and closing remarks by Day Chair Evert-Jan Lammers.

17.35 - 18.15 hours

Networking cocktail

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