Fraud Insight: Clear Strategies for 2024’s Unclear Hazards

Seun Oshinusi is the Lead, Financial Crime Operations Unit, Mettle. With expertise working as a fraud and financial crime professional previously working at Curve, Wonga and Jaja, Seun is highly skilled in Analytics, Financial Crime, Dispute Resolution and Anti Money Laundering. Seun has a Bachelor’s Degree focused in Criminology from University of Roehampton, before moving into financial services.

Robert Brooker is Partnerships Director at Altia the leading global provider of Investigations and intelligence software having moved here at the start of 2024. He had previously been Head of Forensics and Fraud at accountancy firm PKF GM for 5 years. He is an Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist (“ACFS”) and is trained in Financial Investigations.

Robert has led disciplinary and criminal investigations, concerning Fraud, Bribery and Corruption, security breaches, cybercrime, intellectual property and procurement allegations, having worked in the private, public and not for profit sector within fraud, bribery and corruption, in addition to Fraud Risk Management for near on 25 years.

Robert is also Chair of the United Kingdom Fraud Forum (UKFF), the strategic arm of the 9 regional fraud forums,bringing all together, to prevent, detect and deter fraud, bribery and corruption. As well as being a founding member of United Kingdom Identity Fraud Advisory (UKIFA) a social enterprise, assisting business & individual victims of identity fraud, to repair their identity.

Artjoms Lemtjugovs - Chief Compliance Officer and MLRO at Damex.io & a founder of the compliance consultancy agency MrAML.com.
Artjoms is a crypto regulation adoption pioneer and compliance operations innovator, operating within the regulated virtual asset service provider space since 2018.

Olohirere serves as the Associate Counsel at Shift Markets, a proprietary crypto-as-a-service solutions provider established in 2009 that allows businesses of any size to commercialise digital assets. Olohirere’s specialisation lies in regulatory and compliance matters, assisting in navigating intricate regulatory and licensing landscapes, including those in the USA, UK, and Singapore. Olohirere’s role also involves crafting and executing regulatory compliant programs in line with standards set by organisations like FinCEN, the FCA, and the MAS. Her experience includes working closely with regulators to secure approvals and developing strategies that meet regulatory mandates. This also involves utilising appropriate compliance tools to help Shift and its clients achieve their anti-money laundering compliance objectives.

Natalia Fritzen is the AI Policy and Compliance Specialist at Sumsub, where she supports the company in navigating the world of AI regulation. Prior to her current role, Natalia served as a tech policy analyst at Nubank. She holds a Master's degree from the Central European University, where she specialized in Ethics and wrote her final thesis on AI nudges and regulation.

Wojtek is an AI consultant specialising in ethics, regulations and use cases of AI in financial services. Most recently, he led the AI Practice within the Wealth and Asset Management Technology Consulting team at EY. In parallel with his full-time professional employment Wojtek is a PhD student researching AI in financial services at the University of Cambridge. Wojtek’s professional experience includes emerging technologies governance, investment and regulatory compliance advisory, product management, FinTech and financial analytics. His past employers include KPMG, Fidelity International, Northern Trust and Bloomberg.

Pavel is the Head of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Sumsub, a global full-cycle verification platform. With an extensive background in software engineering, Pavel has worked in AI and ML for over 10 years. At Sumsub, he oversees the development of digital fraud prevention technologies. Prior to joining Sumsub in 2022, Pavel was the director of AI at one of the largest digital banks in Europe. He also led research at a social media company with a user base of 100M+ users, where he founded a scientific lab focused on natural language processing (NLP) research. Leading the AI/ML team at Sumsub, Pavel is in charge of AI-generated fraud prevention and automation in Sumsub’s products. Thanks to Pavel, Sumsub’s Liveness solution was upgraded to 99.98% deepfake detection accuracy in 2023. Pavel also supervised the launch of For Fake’s Sake, a publicly available set of models developed by the Sumsub AI/ML Lab, enabling the detection of deepfakes and synthetic fraud in visual assets.