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?
| Time | Subject | Speakers |
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| 12.00 - 12.20 hours | Welcome from Congress Chairman Michel Klompmaker. Introduction of speakers and programme by the Day-Chair Evert-Jan Lammers.
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| 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. |  |
| 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 |  |
| 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 | |
The modern building of the headquarters of Euroclear is conveniently located near the heart of Brussels, the capital of Europe. It also serves as a real national and international hub for business affairs. The building is the world's largest provider of settlement and related securities services for cross-border transactions involving domestic and international bonds, equities, derivatives and investment funds. Euroclear is also a proven, resilient capital market infrastructure committed to delivering risk-mitigation, automation, and efficiency at scale for its global client franchise.
The headquarters of Euroclear is located near Gare du Nord (Noord Station) in Brussels, which is near the Place Roger metro station, both of which are within walking distance. The nearest public car park is Parking Place Roger (Rogierplein).
We look forward to welcoming you at the Euroclear Headquarters in Brussels on Friday 29th of April 2022 at 11.30 am.