Finance Community Showcase 2025
Our next face-to-face Finance Community Event will showcase some of the top topics affecting our retailers right now. With discussions on tackling first party fraud, account to account transfer, online payment resilience, card fees and an update on national payments vision.
This event will give our Finance Community the opportunity to find out more about these areas, have productive discussions, highlight opportunities and challenges and network with those at the forefront of these issues as well as like-minded retailers.
We will invite policymakers, regulators, and industry experts to present and discuss these topics, allowing our retail members to hear first-hand the progress of each policy area and what this means for retailers. There will also be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and engage in the conversation. The event held at our Covent Garden offices and will end with networking drinks.
This event is exclusive to BRC Retail Members and by invitation only.
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Meet the Speakers
Chris Owen
Policy Adviser - Finance | BRC
Chris manages the BRC’s Finance Community and has recently joined the organisation after working in public policy roles for a range of companies and organisations, including TikTok, Which? and Ofcom. He has extensive knowledge of current digital policy matters and online advertising regulations and has extensive experience in engaging with government and regulators, advocating for better consumer outcomes in markets and in shaping legislation.
Jack Wilson
VP Policy & Research | TrueLayer
Jack is VP Policy & Research at TrueLayer where he leads engagement with UK and EU regulators and authorities and sits on a number of committees as a fintech and regulatory expert. He is a former policy adviser at the UK banking regulator the FCA. There he led work to create the FCA’s approach to regulating firms under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) and new open banking rules.
Roisin Edwards
Senior Policy Advisor | HM Treasury's Payments and Fintech team
Roisin is a Senior Policy Advisor in HM Treasury's Payments and Fintech team. She leads on the National Payment's Vision, including the newly-established Vision Delivery Committee and Engagement Group.
Previous roles include being the Private Secretary to Joe Garner during his independent review on the Future of Payments and leading the Future Regulatory Framework Review, which involved developing and introducing new objectives and accountability requirements for the financial services regulators through the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023.
Anthony Pygram
Senior Regulatory Manager | Payment Systems Regulator
Anthony is a Senior Manager at the Payment Systems Regulator, where he leads the market reviews into Cross-Border Interchange Fees and Scheme and Processing Fees. Anthony joined the PSR in April 2022 to head up these reviews. He has worked in economic regulators for over 15 years; prior to working at the PSR, he was Director of Conduct and Enforcement at Ofgem.
Fiennes Davey
Group Head of Payments | Kingfisher
Fiennes is Group Head of Payments at Kingfisher plc, one of Europe's largest DIY and homeware retail groups with B&Q, Tradepoint, Screwfix, Castorama, and Brico Depot serving businesses and consumers online and from over 2,000 stores.
Dan Moore
Head of Strategy and Intelligence, | Payment System Regulator
Dan joined the PSR in January 2024 as its Head of Strategy and Intelligence.
Prior to this, he was the Director of Rail Strategy and Analysis at the Department for Transport (DfT), having previously worked at the Competition and Markets Authority - where, amongst other things, he led projects into various aspects of financial services.
At the DfT, Dan led a broad range of strategy, analysis, and innovation projects across rail – delivering positive outcomes at a time of massive change and challenge - particularly as rail responded to Brexit and the Covid pandemic. This ranged from leading delivery of major rail funding decisions, through to rail regulatory strategy and supporting international rail.
Agenda
11.45 - 12.30 Lunch and Networking
12.30 - 12.35 BRC Welcome
- Chris Owen, Finance Policy Advisor, British Retail Consortium
12.35 - 13.05 Card Fees: Latest Insights from Market Reviews
- Anthony Pygram, Senior Manager, PSR
- Fiennes Davey, Group Head of Payments, Kingfisher
The PSR will present updates on the status of the card scheme market reviews, including their plans on potential remedies and interventions to drive down costs for retailers, and a discussion on other payment areas that impact retailers, including commercial cards. This will be your opportunity to directly pose questions to the PSR and share your experience as a retailer, to further help influence their work.
13.05 - 13.40 Open Banking Update: Progress and Key Changes Over the Past Year
Panel Discussion:
- Chris Owen , Finance Policy Advisor, BRC
- Dan Moore, Head of Strategy and Intelligence, PSR
- Jack Wilson, VP Policy & Research, Truelayer
The panel will feature industry and regulatory experts discussing the future of open banking as a driver of competition in the payments market, the opportunities, and challenges for retailers, and how it needs to be developed to ensure consumer uptake and retailer engagement.
13.40 - 13.55 Comfort Break
13.55 - 14.25 First-Party Fraud: Understanding the Issue and Exploring Solutions
Panel Discussion:
- Grant Shipway, Senior Operational Risk Manager, River Island
- Lara Xenoudakis, Detective Chief Inspector, City of London Police
- Jamie Mills, Detective Inspector- NFIB, City of London Police
- Susan Nazaniny, Fraud and Strategy Policy Advisor, Home Office
This panel discussion will focus on the BRCs work to tackle the rise in first party fraud, including updates on the current state of play, potential industry routes to mitigate the financial losses, and the Governments approach to tackling this.
14.25 - 14.55 Shaping the Future: A Vision for National Payments
- Roisin Edwards, Senior Policy Advisor – National Payments Vision, HM Treasury
This presentation will explore the objectives of the recently published National Payments Vision, which sets out aims for the UK to be a world leader in payments and plans for retailers to have greater choice in how they make and receive payments by developing a trusted, innovative, and world-leading payments ecosystem. This will include a discussion on how a roadmap will be developed to deliver on the Vision's aims and how retailers and others can help shape and inform that.
14.55 - 15.00 Closing Comments
15.00 - 16.00 Networking Drinks
Reasons to attend
In-Depth Understanding
Hear from BRC and other experts on the issues that matter to you
Insightful Discussion
Engage with your industry peers, sharing experiences and tackling challenges.
Guidance and Expertise
Harness the knowledge of those in the know
Honest and Balanced
Chatham House Rules, so a safe space for candid conversation
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