Time: 5:00 - 7:00pm Venue: Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
AI and big data may help both to make anti-money laundering (AML) processes more effective, and at the same time minimise financial exclusion, to the benefit of business, regulators, and people who are otherwise unnecessarily denied access to the financial system. But rather than promote financial inclusion, some worry that the opposite could result if regulators fall behind or if regulated persons, institutions and providers fail to realise the potential of new, technology-driven approaches.
Bringing together experts from across the legal, banking and technology disciplines, this seminar will address the following issues:
The event will take place at 5.15 pm on 15 May 2018 at the Graduate Centre at Queen Mary University of London.
This seminar also marks the publication of the 2nd edition of Banks and Financial Crime: The International Law of Tainted Money edited by Sir William Blair, Richard Brent QC, and Dr Tom Grant, with a distinguished team of authors, published by the Oxford University Press.
The seminar is hosted by the Criminal Justice Centre (CJC) at Queen Mary University of London with the support of the Centre’s Co-Director and Head of the Department of Law, Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas. The CJC provides a platform for discussion of all aspects of criminal justice with a particular focus on facilitating the exchange of views between academics, practitioners, and policy-makers. The list of past events organised by the CJC is available at http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/research/centres/cjc/events/. The organisers also thank McKool Smith LLP for its generous support.
Featured Speakers Include:
The panels will be chaired by Sir William Blair, Professor of Financial Law and Ethics, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, and 3 Verulam Buildings, and Dr Tom Grant, Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge.
It will be followed by a reception at which Sir Ross Cranston FBA, Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, and 3 Verulam Buildings, will kindly make remarks. The 3rd edition of Principles of Banking Law, by Sir Ross Cranston, Emilios Avgouleas, Kristin van Zwieten, Christopher Hare, and Theodor van Sante, was published by the Oxford University Press in February 2018.
The organisers thank Anton Moiseienko, a recent PhD graduate of the Criminal Justice Centre, for his assistance in developing a concept of this seminar.
For directions to the venue, please refer to the map.
This event is free but prior booking is required. Register online via Eventbrite.
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