17th Annual Conference 27 June 2024

 

Midlands Fraud Forum would like to thank all our speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and of course delegates for attending and making it such a great event.    

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Delegates scored the conference overall 4.72 out of 5 comments included:

"A thoroughly enjoyable event. The venue was wonderful, the auditorium was a perfect pace to view the speakers. Food and drink was excellent and plentiful. All of the speakers were very interesting and the topics engaging." "All the speakers were excellent. The topics were on trend and relevant. The presentations were clear and well structured and, as always with fraud, absolutely shocking!"  "This has been the best MFF line up for years....stellar presenters about topics that matter, fantastic venue and facilities and great MFF staff on hand." "An excellent line up of speakers and topics this year - best yet!  Really relevant to issues in today's world and very interesting." "My first introduction to MFF and it was excellent!" "Definitely the best fraud focused conference I've ever attended."

CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME 

Andrew Herring – Chairman of Midlands Fraud Forum

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OPENING OF CONFERENCE

Simon Foster -  Police and Crime Commissioner for West Midlands

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UPDATE ON NATIONAL FRAUD POLICING

Ollie Shaw, T/Commander, City of London Police

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USING A DATA-LED APPROACH IN THE FIGHT AGAINST APP FRAUD

Ruth Ray, Director Of Data Strategy, at CIFAS

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PREPARING FOR AI SCAMS

Racheal Muldoon, Barrister at Maitland Chambers

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MEET OUR PLATINUM SPONSORS

Steve Roberts, Altia

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CONNECTING THE DOTS- HOW FREE TO ACCESS ONLINE DATABASES CAN HELP TO IDENTIFY FRAUDULENT THIRD-PARTY TRADERS

Graham Barrow, Director At The Dark Money Files Ltd

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"WHY I CAN STEAL YOUR HOUSE AND YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BACK"

Shari Vahl, Investigative Journalist for BBC Radio 4

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MEET OUR PLATINUM SPONSORS: SYNALOGIK

Alex Heylin, No. 5  Barristers' Chambers

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"FIGHTING FRAUD - WHAT DID WE LEARN? WHAT SHOULD WE DO?"

Lord Sandhurst, Guy Mansfield KC

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MANAGING INTERNAL INVESTIGSTIONS IN THE BANKING SECTOR. 'THE ACI WORKSTREAM MODEL' 

Steve Young, CEO of Association of Corporate Investigators (ACi) and Head of Fraud & Investigations at Bank Lombard Odier

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CYBER INCIDENT WAR ROOM SIMULATION

Gary Kinsley, Chief Revenue Officer, CyberQ Group

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