Financial Innovation Forum London 2026
17 September 2026
Montcalm Hotel - Mayfair, London, United Kingdom
The 6th Financial Innovation Forum – Payments & RegTech is a one-day gathering in London for senior decision-makers from banks, payment institutions, fintechs, merchants, RegTech providers, consultancies and regulators. The programme of keynotes, panel discussions and case studies covers instant and account-to-account payments, open banking, digital assets and stablecoins, agentic AI, cross-border payments, compliance and financial crime.
17 sessions · 37 speakers
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Axia Search · UMCA.tech · ARKK · ReComply · Innovify · BPC · Mastercard · Damex · Finovox · RiskSmart · PCI Booking · Infocredit Group Ltd · Vivox AI · Amaranth Advisory
Supporting Partner (1)
Speakers (37)
- Rich Wagner Advisor to the Chair of the Board, Zempler Bank
- Nick Kerigan Managing Director, Head of Innovation, SWIFT
- Suresh Vaghjiani CEO & Founder, CLOWD9
- Sulabh Agarwal Accenture
- Julian Farley Sales Director, UK & Europe, BPC
- Tim Khamzin CEO & Founder, Vivox AI
- Briony Krikorian-slade Governance & Strategy, UK Payments Initiative Ltd
- Willem Wellinghoff ECOMMPAY
- Peter Left Head of Digital and Markets Innovation, Lloyds Bank plc
- Ryan Swann Founder, RiskSmart
- Kene Ezeji-Okoye Chief Business Officer, Ubyx Inc.
- Manish Kumar Head of Payment Acceptance Products, Starling Bank
- Kamran Hedjri PXP Financial
- Srijeet Dash Global Cross-Border Payments Product Strategy & Commercialisation Lead, Citi
- Linda Weston Head of Make & Take Payments (Commercial Cards & Payments), Lloyds Banking Group
- Vladimirs Kovalovs Founder & CTO, Recomply
- Natasha Powell Chief Compliance Officer (UK), Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
- Cyrille Salle De Chou Chief Risk Officer/SMF4 With 10+ Years Experience in Regulated Roles Across Large Banks and Fintechs. Track Record of Delivering Successful Risk Transformation and Enabling Growth. Now Moving to a Board Portfolio Career., Starling Bank
- Fabian Meyer Amaranth
- Jack Williams Financial Crime Compliance Lead, Teya
- Tom Rhodes Chief Legal Officer, Agant
- Clare Pearson Founder, Pearson Booth Consulting
- Zainab Shode Deputy Director of Financial Crime, Bank of London
- Andrew Clifford Global Head Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Standard Chartered Bank
- Anne Markey Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal
- Anthony Corner Chief Regulatory Officer, Cardaq
- Anton Globus Group Director: Finance and Innovation, Paysend
- Charlotte Baker CCO and MLRO Bitstamp UK, Robinhood
- Chris Redmond Director, IBM Promontory
- Florent Odai Senior Manager Payments & Daily Banking, Raiffeisen Bank International AG
- Gaurav Sharma Head of Payments, UK & US – Payments Hub, Getnet Platforms, Getnet Platforms
- George Kellogg Head of Risk & Compliance, Institutional Capital Services, JTC Group
- Kunwar Matharu Director of Omnichannel, PingPong Payments
- Michael Nelhams Global Head of Payments and Open Banking, EPAM Systems
- Michael Venn Strategic Advisor - Risk & Compliance, Modulr
- Priyanshi Mathur Vice President, Product Management, Mastercard
- Sisieta Owen Interim Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Cooper Wallet, Cooper Finance Ltd (Stealth Mode)
Agenda
- Welcome Address 17 September 2026
- Chairmen Opening Address 17 September 2026
- Founders Feature: Suresh Vaghjiani, CLOWD9 17 September 2026
- UK Payments Outlook 17 September 2026
- Digital Assets & Payments - Stablecoins, Tokenised Money and UK Market Readiness 17 September 2026
- AI Innovation - Efficiency Gains vs. Compliance Challenges 17 September 2026
- AI Agents in FinCrime - Real-Time Scams Defence, Investigations and Governance 17 September 2026
- Innovations in Cross-Border Payments - UK-EU Corridor, Transparency and Compliance 17 September 2026
- What They Don’t Tell You About Tokenised Money 17 September 2026
- Merchant Acceptance in the UK - Higher Approval Rates, Lower Cost-to-Serve 17 September 2026
- UK Payments Initiative: Powering Next-Gen Open Banking 17 September 2026
- Agentic Payments & Commerce 17 September 2026
- The Compliance Landscape for UK Fintechs - Scaling Without Surprises 17 September 2026
- Agentic Payments - The Companion to Agentic Commerce 17 September 2026
- Uplifting Cross-Border Payments: Building the Future of Global Finance 17 September 2026
- The Intelligence-Native Financial Institution 17 September 2026
- Chairmen Closing Comments 17 September 2026