Paris, 2 July 2026 - More than 1600 participants from around the world joined the first event under the UK Presidency of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which brought together members of the FATF Global Network, FATF observers, and other stakeholders and partners to shape the FATF’s response to the global fraud epidemic.

The new FATF President, Giles Thomson, set out the scale of the threat from fraud and highlighted the impact for victims, financial stability, financial inclusion and national security.

With panellists from every continent of the world, the event heard from leading operational and private sector experts through sessions on financial intelligence, private sector information sharing, asset recovery and international cooperation as well as victim perspectives.

FATF President, Giles Thomson, set out how the FATF will continue working with stakeholders to understand the threat, what is working and what more can be done to mobilise the FATF toolkit to fight fraud, including by engaging with financial institutions and technology, telco and social media companies.   

Opening Remarks - Setting the Urgency and Ambition

• Giles Thomson, FATF President 2026-2028

Scene-setter by the FATF Secretariat - What Exists and Where We Are Going

• Violaine Clerc, FATF Executive Secretary
• Shana Krishnan, FATF Secretariat

Panel 1: Rethinking Financial Intelligence - Are We Keeping Pace with the Speed and Scale of Fraud?

Moderator: Giles Thomson, FATF President 2026-2028

Speakers:

• Brendan Thomas, Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), Australia
• Oramone Chantapant, Senior Director, Financial Consumer Protection Policy Department, Thailand
• Bello Hayatudeen, Director of Nigeria's Computer Emergency Response Team (ngCERT), Nigeria
• Marc Brown, Head of Fraud Threat Leadership, National Economic Crime Centre (NECC), UK

Panel 2: Rethinking Private Sector Information Sharing - An Urgent Need for Cross-sector Collaboration

Moderator: Ned Conway, Executive Secretary, Wolfsberg Group

Speakers:

• Jean-Jacques Sahel, Global scams policy lead, Public Policy team, Google
• Rima Amin, Security Policy Manager, Community Defense, META
• Jessica Renier, Managing Director, Digital Finance, International Institute of Finance (IIF)
• Justine Walker, Executive Vice President, ACAMs
• Nick J. Maxwell, Head of the Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing (FFIS) research programme, RUSI Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies

Victim perspectives

• Mina Chiang, Founder and Director, Humanity Research Consultancy

Panel 3: Rethinking Asset Recovery and International Cooperation - Getting Money Back for Victims

Moderator: Peggy Pao-Keerthi Pei Yu, Director of Commercial Affairs Department (CAD), Singapore Police Force (SPF)

Speakers:

• Lo Chung Wong (Bert), Operations Coordinator, Interpol
• Paul Ketter, Deputy Director, FIU Luxembourg
• Bruno Requiao da Cunha, Manager of Global Investigations, TRM Labs

Panel 4: The Global Response to Fraud

Moderator: Violaine Clerc, FATF Executive Secretary

Speakers:

• Melissa Sevil, Director, APG
• Esteban Sergio Fullin, GAFILAT Executive Secretary
• Suliman Aljabrin, MENAFATF Executive Secretary
• Ben Aldersey, International Monetary Fund
• Lara Douglas, Director of implementation, Financial Stability Board
• Lori Baker, Vice-President Data Protection and Regulatory Compliance, Dubai International Financial Centre Authority and Co-chair of Global Privacy Assembly Sub-Working Group on Privacy and Integrity in Partnership: Data Protection and AML/CFT for the Public Good

Closing - From discussions to action

• Giles Thomson, FATF President 2026-2028