International Conference on Financial Technology (Thursday, 15th December 2022)

Overview

Technology has been rapidly transforming the financial services industry and we are seeing numerous innovations in areas including insuretech, digital banking, wealth management, artificial intelligence, and digital payment. The recent Covid pandemic has taught us how digital technologies can help to accelerate the growth in the financial services sector.

As part of this conference we will have leading UK banking, technology and fintech companies join us to showcase and discuss their product offerings and highlight the technology and regulatory challenges faced by the sector.

This conference will discuss the latest technological trends and challenges to the financial services industry.

Topics

The topics of the conference will include:

• Cyber security
• RegTech solutions for automating compliance
• Improving data privacy and security
• Fraud detection and prevention
• Machine learning and AI
• Digital Currencies
• Next generation payment system
• Secure data shating
• Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies
• AML
• Open Banking
• Digital identity management

The two day event will consist of short courses and roundtable discussions to identify themes that are important for the academia and industry collaboration. The forums will also provide a platform for the financial sector organisations to interact with the technology providers, regulators and academic experts working across finance and technology areas to identity areas for future collaboration and capacity building.

Keynote speaker

Alex van Someren (appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security in July 2021)

Alex was previously a venture capital investor and entrepreneur, focusing on investing in early stage ‘deep technology’ startups. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, an Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, and a current member of the Royal Society’s Science, Industry and Translation Committee. During 2019 he was the Visiting Clore Innovation Professor at the Royal College of Art. Alex participated in the development of the BBC Microcomputer & Acorn Electron at Acorn Computer in the 1980s. He subsequently co-founded several technology companies, including ANT Software plc and nCipher plc which achieved listings on AIM and the London Stock Exchange, respectively. His scientific work is in the broad area of software engineering and computer science.