Besides responding to a terror or other catastrophe in the Square Mile, banks would have the task of keeping business as usual – the business of a global financial market that never sleeps.
The Financial Services Authority is seeking to bring out ‘resilience benchmarking’, for good business continuity practices in the financial services sector, a British Bankers’ Association half-day seminar in October on the lessons of 7-7 heard. Among invited speakers included Kevin Brear, Contingency Planning Officer, City of London Police; Dermot McCarthy, Contingency Planning Advisor, Corporation of London; Ben Peet, UK and Europe Business Continuity Manager, Standard Chartered Bank; Jayne Howatson, Executive Director, EMEA Regional Head of Business Continuity Management, UBS Investment Bank; and Bruce Mann, Head of Civil Contingencies Secretariat, Cabinet Office.
The BBA meanwhile is running its third annual financial crime conference on December 6, covering fraud, counterfeiting and money laundering.
Speakers invited include Philip Robinson, Director of Financial Crime, Financial Services Authority; Paul Wood, Global Chief Security Officer, UBS; John Mair, Group Financial Crime Director, Lloyds TSB; Richard Davies, Fraud Risk Manager, AXA Insurance; Debbie Price, Head of Financial Crime, HBOS and chair of a joint APACS and BBA group on employee fraud; Steve Lock, Director of Financial Crime Prevention, Prudential UK; City of London Police Commissioner James Hart; and Leigh Lewis, Permanent Secretary Crime, Policing, Counter Terrorism and Delivery, at the Home Office. David Lennox, Director, CIFAS, will speak on identity fraud. Speakers covering organised crime include a Europol representative and Sir Stephen Lander, chairman of the new Serious Organised Crime Agency. Cardiff University criminologist Michael Levi will give an academic’s view on who does fraud – who with (or if alone); and why.
