PFS CPD Event - Fraud and Cyber Crime in financial services

Date: 24.04.2019. 8-10am

Venue: Cornish Mutual offices

Speaker: Christine Newell

Learning Objectives

- To understand the key areas where fraud is most apparent within an application for a mortgage or investment proposal.

- To be able to identify potential fraud cases and apply financial crime controls to prevent further risk to the firm and the lender/provider.

- To understand where cybercrime is affecting financial services and how simple steps can mitigate some of these risks.

Christine has been in Financial Services since 1990. She started her career at Halifax Building Society in a traditional branch set up. She moved through different roles within the Building Society eventually ending up in external sales as a BDM covering London City and West End. In 2006 She joined the National Account team for BM Solutions and was responsible for looking after a couple of networks and club distributions but her major role was to help BM develop their sub-prime proposition for Packagers. In November 2007 She made the move to join the Paradigm Group and was the 4th member to join the Paradigm Mortgage Team. Since joining Paradigm She has been responsible for developing the business, including increasing the membership and looking for opportunities to bring different lenders and products to the Club. She was also responsible for running the criteria helpdesk. In 2015 She became the Mortgage Technical Director at Paradigm and her role involves looking after the Club’s top 50 members on a consultancy basis. She is also responsible for interpreting and helping the membership implement the myriad of regulatory changes that the industry has seen over the past 11yrs.