FTT Mutuals 2026 | Speakers

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Deepa Mardolkar

MD, Embedded Finance

Lloyds Banking Group

Jambu Palaniappan

CEO

Checktrade.com

Ari Cohen

Chief Data and AI Officer, EMEA and Americas

Macquarie Group

Bernadette Smith

Chief Customer And Banking Officer

Starling Bank

Kanishka Narayan

Member of Parliament

UK Parliament

Sailesh Panchal

Chief Technology Officer & Director of Payments

TSB Bank

Mitch Trehan

Chief Compliance Officer

Allica Bank

Pat O'Donnell

Director of Pay - Commercial

Phorest

Lea-Jane (Leah) Baird

Chief Product Officer, Retail Banking

Shawbrook

Anand Doshi

Managing Director

J.P. Morgan Private Bank

Edgars Kokins

Managing Director

Bolt

Kevin Cassar

Chief Data & AI Officer (CDAO)

TalkTalk

Thiago Gaiao

Managing Director / General Manager - UK & Ireland

SharkNinja

Richard Talbot

MD, Head of NWG Cash Capabilities, Payments Data & AI

NatWest

Andrea Reynolds

CEO

Swoop

George Toumbev

CCO

Natwest Boxed

Simon Belsham

COO

Hargreaves Lansdowne

Philipp von Lossau

CFO

Plum

Monica Carlesso

Vice President, Global Product Digital Identity

Mastercard

Dominic Wade

CEO

Zempler Bank

Joshua Fabian-Miller

MD Credit

Currys

Ravneet Shah

Chief Technology Officer

Allica Bank

Ingrid Sierra

Brand and Marketing Director

Zego

Chris Waring

Chief Executive Officer

thisbank

Karolina Maciulevičiūtė

MLRO Lithuania, Board of Directors UK

Overchain

Andy Patton

CEO

Lycamoney

Simon Taylor

CEO & Chair of BSA

Melton Building Society

Samantha Inger

Head of Payments

Asda

Nikolay Donets

Group Head of ML Engineering

Revolut

Colin Field

CEO

Saffron Building Society

Ilke Carkci Toptas

Regional Director, Northern EU

Meta

Owen Roberts

CEO

Unify Credit Union

Walid Hassouna

CEO

valU

Hayley Viner

Director of Payments

Zopa Bank

Simon Broadley

CEO

Furness Building Society

Vishala Sri-Pathma

Journalist & Presenter

BBC

Gareth Griffiths

CEO

Ecology Building Society

Andrew Morris

CEO

Cirencester Friendly Society

Dave Starling

Head of Future Products Technology

NatWest

Daniel Gold

CEO

Stratiphy

Ambar Sinha

Head of Fraud - Retail & FinCrime Support

Revolut

Natalie Brock

VP People

Plum

Himanshu Joshi

Managing Director, Head, Strategic Partnerships, Transaction Banking

Lloyds Banking Group

Ankit Sachdeva

Global Lead, Vendor Financing

Delivery Hero

Xiang Fan

Programme Director

NatWest

Ioannis Iliadis

Senior Product Manager Fintech

Efood

James Brown

CEO

Leeds Credit Union

Iain Kirkpatrick

CEO

Market Harborough Building Society

Maria Lorenzo

Group Director Data & AI

Barclays

Michael Conville

Chief Customer Officer

Darlington Building Society

Declan Halton-Woodward

Chief Transformation Officer

thisbank

Dominic Thomas

UK Sales Director

nLighten

Cristina Caffarra

Chairperson

EuroStack Initiative Foundation

Kate Pender

Chief Executive Officer

Fair4All Finance

Russ Thornton

Chief Technology Officer

The Nottingham Building Society

Greg Sachrajda

Head of Department - Retail Banking

Financial Conduct Authority

Gurminder Singh Bhagrath

CEO

London Capital Credit Union

Emma Norledge

Deputy CEO

Wave Community Bank

Lesley Vernon

Chief Engagement Officer

Market Harborough Building Society

Marc Baxter

Chief Product & Growth Officer

NOMO

Pedro Batista

Board Member

Independent

John Haslam

Chief Strategy Officer

Penny Post Credit Union

John McGucken

Managing Director

Fern Software

Lois Ireson

CMO

Brit Insurance

Ben Appleby

Product Owner / Business Design Lead - Cloud Onboarding

Nationwide Building Society

Matthew Bament

Head of Compliance and Data Protection Officer

Foresters Financial

Tina Hughes

Director of Savings & Digital Channels

Yorkshire Building Society

Ben West

Head of Business Development

London Mutual Credit Union

Chris Higham

Director, Payments Product Owner

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking

Kai Hunter

COO

Lovey

Stephanie Gilliess

Senior Marketing Director, UK

Trustpilot

Jason Sheehy

Head of Identity

Post Office UK

David Okoronkwo

Senior, Compliance & Risk

Taskrabbit

Aleksandar Todorovic

Managing Director, Generative AI Strategy

NatWest

Cicely Dudley

Senior Manager, Payments Industry and Regulation

Lloyds Banking Group

Aritra Chakravarty

Head of Agentic AI

Lloyds Banking Group

Will Bryant

Director of Wealth Strategy

Plum

Damian Glover

Co-chair of Trusted AI Agents Working Group

Decentralized Identity Foundation

Faiyaz Amin

Sector Innovation Lead

National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)

Max Hayden

Managing Director ‑ Intermediarie

Finova

Savita Nandan

Strategic Portfolio Manager Agentic AI & GenAI Domain Strategy

Rabobank

Astitva Karunesh

Data Science and AI Business Lead

Lloyds Banking Group

Claire Askham

Head of Mortgage Sales

Buckinghamshire Building Society

Aisling Twomey

Lead Business Banking & Financial Crime

Monzo Bank

Rob Oliver

Director of Distribution

Dudley Building Society

Roy Corneleus

Lead Zero-Trust & CIAM Architect

Vodafone

Lawrence Chan

Head of Savings

Nottingham Building Society

Ekaterina Polishchuk

Global Product Manager - AI

Nissan

Charlotte Grimshaw

Head of Intermediaries

Suffolk Building Society

Francesco Di Costanzo

CEO

Jaja Finance

Ashley Bostel

Financial Crime Analytics Strategy Lead

NatWest

Colin Whitmore

Financial Crime Strategy & Controls

Formerly NatWest

Lucas Germanos

VP Communications & External Affairs

Zopa Bank

Daria Odale

Senior Product Manager, Customer Platforms

Spotify

Luke Sanders

Head of Financial Operations

Foresters Financial

Dan Berner

Founder

Zentru Solutions

Rory Tanner

Head of UK Government Affairs

Revolut

Sridhar Somaraju

Head of Transformation for Business Banking

Nationwide Building Society

Caroline Cartellieri

Non-Executive Director

Saffron Building Society

Greg Went

Head of Mortgage Product and Proposition

The Nottingham Building Society

Alex Clayden

Head of Financial Crime Risk, Customer Decisioning

Monzo Bank

Grant Ongers

Principal Security Architect

DSIT

Harsh Daftary

VP, Cloud Security

Emirates NBD

Philip O'Shaunghnessy

Head of Architecture

Metro Bank

Laura de Bella

Engineering Manager, Customer Platforms

Spotify

Laura Sneddon

Head of Sales and Distribution

Hinckley and Rugby Building Society

Matt King

Senior Portfolio Manager

Monmouthshire Building Society

Claudia Yun Zheng

AI Transformation Lead

Checkout.com

Quendoline Jansen

Senior Product Designer, Customer Platforms

Spotify

Matt Bland

CEO

All Together Money

Azy Shojaeian

Group Chief Compliance & Risk Officer & MLRO

Pockit & Monese

Lian Ryan-Hume

Head of Trust & Safety Policy, EMEA

TikTok

Katrina Puggioni

Director of Regulatory Development

Barclays

Pallavi Kapale

Senior Financial Crime Officer (2LOD) - Financial Intelligence

Bank of China

Yair Samban

KYC, AML, Counter Terrorist Finance

Independent Expert

Nafisa Feeney

Head of Legal

Paynt

Gitika Rohilla

Online Payments & Chargebacks Manager

Transport for London

Richard Oliphant

Legal Expert

Independent

Chris Ticehurst

Head of Delivery - Group Protection

Legal & General

Joe Postle

Chief Product Officer

Jaja Finance

Cornel Dixon

Head of Growth

Plumery

Manos Mavrikos

SVP Business Development

FaceTec

Janine Hirt

CEO

Innovate Finance

Mario Husha

CTO

Lovey

Julia Puzyrova

Chief Platform Owner

Luminor Group

Alak Sharma

Director of Risk & Compliance

Cirencester Friendly

Adam Marshall

Senior Product Propositions and Governance Manager (Money)

Skipton Building Society

Peter Davey

Independent Expert

Independent

Dave O'Malley

Director of Operational Security

Monzo

Gavin Opperman

CEO

Teachers Building Society

Marina Markezic Markezic

Co-Founder & Executive Director

European Crypto Initiative

Alex Smith

Head of Wallets & Agentic, Everyday Banking

Lloyds Banking Group

James Hill

CEO

Flexys

Mark Inglis

Director, Financial Crime Compliance

Worldpay

Prajval Dsilva

VP Growth & Rev Ops

Allica Bank

Clive Bourke

President EMEA and APAC

Daon

Eric Gilmore

Head of Pre Sales EMEA & ASIA

Daon

Blerina Essen

CEO

Norac Foods Uk

Anjali Jain

Lecturer, University of Oxford & Architect - AI & Intelligent Decisioning

Metro Bank

Aswin Peter

Senior Product Lead - Customer Experience & Product Strategy | Payments & Open Banking Innovation

British Gas

Lewis Olcot

Head of Talent Acquisition

Cynergy Bank

Parvaiz Dalal

Global Head Payables Finance

Citi

Scott Wilson

Founder & CEO

Covecta

Stuart Cheetham

CEO

MQube

Grant Seaton

Head of Intermediary

Cumberland Building Society

Ben Thomas

Founder & CRO

Covecta

Tom Sharp

Digital Distribution Owner

Furness Building Society

Jordan Moore

Group Product Manager

OakNorth

Mayuri Pandya

Head of Public Policy

Bitpanda

Daniel Harrison

Senior Manager Digital Assets Policy & Regulation

Lloyds Banking Group

Rob Haslingden

Co-Head of Coalitions

CFIT

Hamza Behzad

Business Development Director

Finova

Daniel Lee

Head of Product

Stop Scams UK

Rachael Pettit

Consumer Marketing Director

Lloyds Banking Group

Cathie Jayakumar-Hazra

Cybersecurity & AI Policy Manager

Queen Mary University of London

Bruce McVicar

Head of Identity & Access

Wella Company

Lisa Cameron

Former member of UK Parliament and founder of UKUS crypto alliance

UKUS Crypto Alliance

Oriol Aguilar Anguera

CIAM Principal

Roche

Sneyha Vadgama

Financial Crime Risk Director

Citi

Pavle Avramovic

Director of Research & Policy

Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

Christin Burmeister

Head of Product B2B Payments

Otto payments

Stuart Bryce

Head of New Business

Beverley Building Society

Russell Pert

Group Director for Financial Services, Technology, Travel & Entertainment

Meta

Donal Traynor

Group CEO

Community Finance Ireland

Edgars Baranovskis

Vice President

Barclays

Tomas Stegura

Executive Director

ČSOB

John Gidla

Head of Global Regulatory Research & Analysis

Vixio Regulatory Intelligence

Steve Lockwood

Founder

FCR Compliance

Virag Filep

Head of Compliance Advisory Support

MBH Bank

John Erik Setsaas

Principal Advisor & Founde

Setsaas Trust Advisory

Ryan Caruana

Group Chief Anti-Financial Crime Officer & MLRO

Bank of Valletta

Max Elphick

Head of Digital Identity

TechUk

Julia McColl

General Manager

ClearScore Everywhere

Michael Berl

CEO & Founder

We-R

Toyosi Ariyo

Strategic Transformation Director

Bethany Consulting

Iain Corby

Executive Director

Age Verification Providers Association

Jan Indra

Head of Threat Intelligence

Resistant AI

Phil Cole

CEO

Derbyshire Community Bank

Tamsyn Weston

CTO

Johnston Carmichael

Jon Shamah

Co-Founder

Global Trust Foundation

Livia Bernardini

CEO

The Intuitive Advantage

Laura McCracken

CEO

Blackheath Advisors

Chip Mahan

Founder & CEO

Integrated Payments Solutions

Elias David

GTM Northern Europe

ElevenLabs

Garrett Cassidy

Managing Director

Abarta

Paul Loberman

Senior Consultant

May Business Consulting

Zil Bareisis

Head of Retail Banking and Payments

Celent

Sophia Furber

Fintech Research Analyst

S&P

Lucile Flamand

Partner

PerfectRebel

Jaz Saggu

NED

BHSF Group Ltd

Wasim Mushtaq

Founder

1CG

Oonagh van den Berg

Chief Evangelist, Tangos, RAW Compliance Founder & UNODC

Victor Tuson

Founder

Tuson Advisory

James Monaghan

Founder

MISSION

Richard Maton

Founder

Aperio Strategy

Aman Kohli

Founder / CTO

Evolv Technologies

Keith Grose

Regional Managing Director, UK & Europe

Coinbase

Debmalya Biswas

Executive Director, Distinguished Engineer & AM Tech AI CoE Head

UBS

Faith Reynolds

Non Executive Board Member

Nest pensions

Anurag Chitlangia

Senior Product Manager

Uber

Martin Wallraff

Strategy Director

Payments Consulting Network

Marvin Hurlston

Senior Director, Client Onboarding

OakNorth Bank

Kaushal Shukla

VP Payments

Moniepoint

Nimeesha Bhagavatula

Former Global Head of HR Change Adoption & Engagement

HSBC

Amanda Brock

CEO

OpenUK

Saira Khan

Head of Innovation and Partnerships

first direct

Danny Mclaughlin

Head of Digital Transformation

The Pensions Ombudsman

Shannon Krishna

Head of Financial Crime & MLRO

Incard

Darek Paleczny

Chief Risk & Compliance Officer

Worldline

Jamaria Kong

Managing Director

TowerBrook Capital

Krishna Koundinya

Co-Founder

Cyber Geek Podcast

Geraint Rogers

Market SME for Identity, Fraud and Financial Crime

Daon

Bryn Robinson-Morgan

Principal Consultant

Moresburg

Sarah Bray

Experienced MLRO and Board Adviser

Formerly StoneX Financial, Peel Hunt & FCA

Aurora Kapo

Senior AI Ambassador

HSBC

Annet Steenbergen

Independent advisor digital identity and wallets

WE BUILD Consortium

Shruti Kulkarni

Information Security Architect

Elexon

Peter Drake

Founder

Drake Consulting

Martin Sladecek

Associate Director of Customer & Digital Advisory

KPMG International

Dan Feaheny

Founder

Feeney FinTech

Helene Vigue

Identity & Data Director

GSMA

Francisco Martins

Head of Global Partnerships

Oz Forensics

Christophe Olenaed

COO, Head of Client & Business Activity

Edmond de Rothschild

Kay Chopard

Executive Director

Women in Identity

James Nurse

UK AML/FinCrime Strategic Advisor

Alloy

Mario Principato

Senior Information Security Engineer

Cantor Fitzgerald

Natalia Gburzynska

DMLRO, Senior Financial Crime Compliance Manager

Revolut

Enrico Marini

Head of Generosity Intelligence

Flutter Entertainment

Francisco Mainez

Global Head of Transaction Monitoring & Investigations

Klarna

Ryan Hayward

MD, Digital Assets

Barclays

Natalie Brock

VP People

Plum

Arnaud-Amaury Séverac

Co-Head of Fintech & Insurtech EMEA

BNP Paribas CIB

Callie Wang

Manager, Regulatory Sandbox & Innovation Pathways, Innovation Department

Financial Conduct Authority

Lisa Addison

Chief Revenue Officer

Independent

Lloyd Hutchinson

Chief Commercial Officer

Enfuce

Rujuta Singh

AI Transformation Delivery Lead

Scottish Power

Lucy Yang

Independent Identity Ecosystem Expert

Enis Sahin

CISO

Federated Hermes

Joelle Haddad

Head of Field Operations & GTM - Europe

Teciem

Asim Khwaja

Cyber, Risk, AI & Advanced Analytics

UK Government (own views)

Saurav Mukherjee

Head of Economic Crime Risk & Control, Corporate & Commercial Banking (CCB)

Santander UK

John Holton

Founder

Work Less Ordinary

Julia McColl

General Manager

Clearscore

Anton Kornilov

Founder, Payments & Growth Strategy Advisor

Kernel Acumen Ltd

Eric Gilmore

Head of Pre-Sales Consulting

Daon

Nicolas Decouttere

CEO & Co-Founder

Hexaven

Florent Tournois

Technical Director

France Identité

Barry Smith

Director

Smith & Guinan

Edgar Baranovskis

Vice President

Barclays

Kate Bohn

Industry Consultant - Financial Services Banking and Insurance

Tungsten Automation

Mike Coley

Product Director

Equifax

Faateh Dhillon

Dust UK Lead

Dust

Ryan Woods

Head of Strategy

Started PR

Brendan Gilmore

Managing Director

BPG Strategy

Sovon Chatterjee

Director Payments Products

HSBC

Lucyna Janas

Head of Partnerships

Google Wallet

Dhipa Lee

Global IAM Transformation Lead | Programme Director, Cachla Ltd

Independent

Kev Smith

EMEA Principal Sales Engineer - Strategic Accounts

Silverfort

Anthony Minshull

Senior Fraud Strategy and Change Manager

Starling Bank

Thomas Courtois

CEO

Nickel

Theofanis Mesolongitis

Managing Director - Banking

Profile Software

Jacek Wieclawski

Head of AI and Digital Assets

Rabobank

Dan Sinclair Taylor

Global Partnerships Country Head UK & ROI

YouLend

Chris Booth

Head of Payments Transformation

Yale Consulting

Lusine Kuchukyan

Senior Product Manager, Fintech

Glovo

Jonathan Churchward

Head of International Payments - Product Delivery

Natwest Group

Kirsty Rutter

Fintech Investment Director

Lloyds

Emma Sivakumaran

Associate Director

StartedPR

Katie White

Chief Operating Officer

C.Hoare & Co.

Liz Towler

Founder and CEO

Flowryd

Lucy Hasson

Chief Operating Officer

Kroo Bank

Mariya Brown

Head of EMEA Innovation

BNY Pershing

Rebekah Moody

VP Marketing

Darwinium

Eelko Lommers

Director Customer Experience, Design and Innovation

Zooplus

Jamie McDonnell

Compliance Director

Rippling

Miruna Mihailescu

MLRO & Head of Compliance

Blockchain.com

Murray Barbour

Director, Financial Crime Operations

Monzo Bank

Ravi Bhairi

Product Owner

Allica Bank

James Naughton

Former Head of Identity and Access Management

DB Schenker

Sahithya Vemana

Head of Banking

Teya

John Sudbury

Threat Intelligence Lead

Wise

Andres Burgoa

Principal Customer Success Manager, Sales

Aduna Global

Monica Velasquez

CTO

Afin Bank

Jacob Winocour

Project Manager, Payments

Wolt

Angela Johnson De Wet

Business Banking & Lending CIO

Barclays

Dickson Abegunde

Director of Strategic Partnerships

Zoopla

Amitabh Ghatak

Chief Product and Marketing Officer

Kroo

Jeff Parker

CEO

Paymentology

Dominic Thomas

UK Sales Director

nLighten

Kieran Hines

Director, EMEA & North America

RFI Global

Tsitsi Mutiti

Investment Manager

Charles Stanley

Nick Quin

Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

Linked Scheme Ltd

Evangelos Angelides

CEO

Profile Software

Ryan Hilton

Customer Director

The Nottingham Buildng Society

Francesco Mercuri

SEO Lead

Santander

Helen Doyle

Head of National Payments Vision

HSBC

Jen Haslam

Chief Revenue Officer

Network

Anne-Lise Amiot

Head of Product

Sanjeev Pottay

Commercial Director

Independent

Luis Caldeira

Head of Architecture

Cynergy Bank

Sameer Dubey

Head of Banking Products

Metro Bank

Dil-veer Kang

Senior Counsel - International Payments and Digital Assets

CIBC

Karan Setiya

Manager Fintech Venturing

ABN AMRO Bank

Colin Davies

Frasers Group Financial Services

Commercial Director

Vijay Vachani

Chief Operating & Revenue Officer

Pipe

Charles Aji

Head of Product - Payments

Collinson Group

Gergely Csanda

Head of Core Banking

Bunq

Phil O'Hagan

Senior Head of Product (Pay & Services)

Sainsbury's - Argos

Gautam Hazari

Chief Product & Innovation Office

XConnect

Alexander Kleist

Head of Instagram & Threads, Public Policy, Europe

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