rewrite this title FinovateEurope 2025: Fighting Financial Crime in the Digital Era – Finovate

Advances in everything from digital engagement to AI have revolutionized banking and financial services. Unfortunately, these same technologies and innovations have spawned a new generation of financial criminals whose malicious activity can be launched from anywhere in the world and impact thousands, if not millions, of individuals.

What can the financial services industry do to better educate their clients about the challenge of financial crime? What tools and strategies are available to banks and other institutions to help them better protect themselves and their customers from fraudsters, cyberattacks, and other threats?

In our Power Panel on financial crime at FinovateEurope 2025 — How to harness anti-financial crime technology to meet the challenges of the digital era — we feature three experts on the topic of fighting fraud and financial crime in financial services. The panel will discuss current threats to banks and financial services companies, as well as the role of enabling technologies — including digital identity, biometric authentication, and AI — in helping businesses stay one step ahead of the fraudsters.

Our Power Panelists are:

Tom Littlechild, EMEA Senior Counsel for AML, Sanctions, and ABC (Financial Crime), Wells Fargo

Previously Santander UK’s dedicated financial crime attorney advising on AML sanctions, ABC, and criminal fraud matters, Littlechild is Wells Fargo’s EMEA Senior Counsel for AML, Sanctions, and ABC (Financial Crime).

Before joining the financial services industry, Littlechild was a specialist in white collar crime, investigations, and compliance at Ropes and Gray. LinkedIn.

Monica Carlesso, Business Platform Lead, ID & Authentication Platform, CIO Enabling Services, Lloyds Bank

A disruptor in the financial services industry with more than 15 years experience in digital product development in payments and banking, Carlesso is Business Platform Lead, ID & Authetication Platform, CIO Enabling Services, at Lloyds Bank.

Previously, Carlesso led mobile strategies and propositions in European financial services firms including Barclaycard and PosteMobile/PostePay. LinkedIn.

Chantelle Lamb, Fraud and Financial Crimes Systems Director, OakNorth

Lamb is the Fraud and Financial Crime Systems Director at OakNorth, which bills itself as the digital bank for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. She is a fraud prevention specialist with experience leading multiple fraud and financial crime teams across both retail and commercial financial services products.

Before joining OakNorth, Lamb was Head of Fraud at Vanquis Bank where she led the institution’s anti-money laundering and transaction monitoring efforts. LinkedIn.

Richard Neve, Managing Director & Partner, Cognito Media

Moderating the panel is Richard Neve. Managing Director & Partner at Cognito Media, Neve began his career as a daily newspaper journalist, and transitioned into financial services as a contributor to Financieel-Economisch Magazine (FEM) and a contributing editor to Banking Review.

Today, Neve manages complex and large international communications projects for fintechs and financial services companies. He works from the Amsterdam and Düsseldorf offices of Cognito. LinkedIn.

FinovateEurope 2025 comes to London 25 and 26 February at the Intercontinenal O2. Pick up your ticket today and take advantage of early-bird savings!

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