South West Fraud Forum 2025 Annual Conference
The South West Fraud Forum 2025 Annual Conference
Join us for the South West Fraud Forum’s Annual Conference, a must-attend event for organisations, practitioners and anyone else responsible for fraud prevention and response.
The event will take place at Enterprise Park 1 – UWE Bristol, Long Down Avenue Stoke Gifford BS34 8QZ on Tuesday, 25 March 2025, starting at 9:00 AM.
From the latest trends in insider fraud, policy developments and best practice in risk management, we aim to cover it all.
Please note, a current annual membership to the SWFF provides free access to the Conference. If you need a discount code please email [email protected].
Agenda:
From 08:30 – Coffee & Networking
9:30 – 9:40 – Welcome and Introduction – James Gliddon – Chair of the South West Fraud Forum and Partner at Foot Anstey LLP.
James is the Head of Banking and Financial Services Disputes at Foot Anstey and advises on the prevention, investigation and recovery following fraud incidents.
9:40 – 10:10 – Speaker 1 – Jane Walters Companies House – Specialist Intelligence Unit
10:10 – 10:40 – Speaker 2 – Kerenza Hurr – Senior Policy Advisor, International Fraud, Home Office
10:40 – 11:05 – Speaker 3 – Matt Horne – Clue Software Director of Intelligence and Investigations, and former National Crime Agency Deputy Director
11:05 – 11:25 – Coffee break
11:25 – 11:55 – Speaker 4 – Lara Xenoudakis – Detective Chief Inspector at City of London Police
11:55 – 12:20 – Speaker 5 – Pete Woodward – CEO and co-founder of Securious
12:20 – 12:45 – Speaker 6 – Dr Jonathan Gilbert – Lecturer in Law – University of West of England
12:45 – 13:10 – Speaker 7 – Brett Eeles – Associate Director at Manolete Partners Plc
13:10 – 14:30 – Closing remarks into Lunch & Networking
Speakers:
Kerenza Hurr is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Home Office Fraud Policy Unit, where she specialises in international engagement and strategy. Career highlights include designing and delivering the inaugural Global Fraud Summit, which was held at London’s Lancaster House in March 2024 and brought together international leaders from government, industry, law enforcement and civil society to agree collective action against the growing transnational threat. Current focuses include work on the government’s new Fraud Strategy and deepening engagement with priority jurisdictions.
Kerenza also has a strong professional and academic background in wider national security issues, including MA-level studies at King’s College London following her undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford. Outside of work, Kerenza is a keen musician and loves returning to her home county of Cornwall.
Lara Xenoudakis
Detective Chief Inspector, NFIB, Ambassador for the Next Generation, Fraud and Cyber Crime Reporting & Analytics Service (FCCRAS).
Brett joined Manolete Partners PLC, the UK’s leading insolvency litigation financing company, in February 2022 and is based in the South West. Previously Brett trained and qualified at the international city firm Norton Rose Fulbright LLP where he worked in the dispute resolution team for six years on insolvency litigation, before moving to Foot Anstey LLP.
Brett has a degree in Mandarin and Law and held a secondment in Beijing and also worked in-house at two major banks. Brett specialises in insolvency litigation, fraud and asset tracing and traditionally acts for insolvency practitioners and creditors. He has acted for clients on trials in the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.
CEO and Co-founder of Securious, Pete has 25 years of cyber and data security experience and has advised hundreds of organisations in the UK and internationally.
Pete has a military background and has worked on security projects in the public and private sectors. His experience is backed-up with leading security and auditing accreditations, such as PCI QSA, 3DSA, CISSP, MCIIS, MBCS, ECSA(P) and BSi ISO Lead Auditor.
Pete’s mission is to guide and challenge senior tech professionals to protect their business’s data and assets by optimising their cyber security. He firmly believes that to create a ‘Centre for Cyber Excellence’ in the South West we need to embrace a collaborative approach to protect ourselves from the evolving cyber threat landscape.
Director of Intelligence and Investigations at Clue Software, and former Deputy Director of Investigations at the National Crime Agency, including Gold Commander of Operation Venetic, the largest, most complex, and most successful UK wide operation against organised crime in British law enforcement history.
Matt served for 30 years in UK policing and government law enforcement roles at Avon and Somerset Police, the National Crime Squad, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the National Crime Agency. He is an expert in the strategic, tactical, and operational response to Serious Organised Crime at national and international levels.
“Trusted to the ends of the earth”, or not. Lawyers that go rogue. An insight into the facilitating role of key professional agents in property related financial crime.
Jonathan is a former solicitor who was struck off the solicitor’s roll in 2010 and subsequently served six years of a twelve-year prison sentence for his facilitating role in a multi-million-pound mortgage and bank fraud. He was released from prison in June 2020. Whilst resident at HMP Parc, Bridgend, Jonathan completed an MSc (Distinction) in Counter Fraud and Counter Corruption Studies with Portsmouth University before commencing and completing in June 2023 a PhD in financial fraud and regulation at Cardiff University where he was supervised by globally recognized white collar crime academic, Mike Levi.
Jonathan is a published academic and has presented widely, both at home and internationally, at numerous academic, counter fraud conferences, masterclasses and seminars on fraud reduction strategies, financial crime, failure to prevent, ethical slippage, governance, regulation and compliance and the facilitating role of professional enablers in financial crime. Audiences, stakeholders, and partners have included the Home Office, the Cabinet Office Counter Fraud Profession, the Serious Fraud Office, the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the ICA, the Dutch Ministry for Justice and Security, UNODC and multiple UK banks and building societies. Jonathan is founder of IN8consulting.com, a financial crime advisory business and is a Lecturer in Law at UWE, Bristol where he teaches Financial Crime and Regulation.
…and others to be announced.
Mark your calendars and secure your spot at the South West Fraud Forum Annual Conference 2025. We look forward to welcoming you to Bristol for a day filled with knowledge and networking!
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There is plenty of parking at Enterprise Park. Please note that Enterprise Park 1 cannot be accessed from the main
UWE campus by car, it has its own entrance so please follow the directions below. If using Google Maps enter the
words ‘Parking lot BS34 8RB’ and not just the postcode. Using only the postcode and not the words ‘parking lot’ will
take you to the wrong side of the building where there are barriers and you will have a long walk to the building
entrance.
for the conference on the main campus.
to Enterprise Park 1 Building.
