Portfolio

David Leppan has been invited to speak at numerous industry conferences and is a recognised expert in the area of Open Source Intelligence, KYC and PEPs.

Here are just a few of the events where Mr. Leppan has featured as a guest speaker:

  • Principal speaker at Mashreq First International Compliance Forum held in Dubai, 11/2007
  • Principal Speaker on Counter Terrorism Financing at The International Conference on Countering Terrorism, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 10/2007 
  • World-Check 3rd Annual Compliance Leadership Forum, England, 09/2007
  • "Harnessing Open Source Intelligence in the Fight against Terrorist Financing, Corruption and Crime",  Cambridge Syposium, UK 09/2007
  • "Harnessing Open Source Intelligence – A Case Study" , Identification and Borders, City Forum, London, 06/2007
  • "AML/CTF Implementation: The UK perspective -What lessons can be learnt from the implementation experiences in the UK" , AFMA AML, Fortress Intellingece, Sydney 06/2007
  • "Harnessing Open Source Intellegence in the Fight against Terrorist Financing, Corruption and Crime" , Asia Security Summit, Deutsche Bank, Hong Kong 04/2007
  • "Managing Intelligence on Companies and People", Windsor, 04/2007.
  • "Risky Business" Corner Banca, Banking, Lugano 11/2006
  • "Reducing Risk through Intelligence - Know your Customer and PEP : Enhanced Customer Due Diligence" First Kuwait & Middle East Conference for Combating Money Laundering, Al-Karafi Group, Kuwait 11/2006
  • "World-Check" World-Check 2nd Annual Forum, World-Check, Stapleford Park 10/2006
  • "Reduce Risk Through Intelligence" IBA - IBS Executive Briefing - IBS Publishing , Bangalore 09/2006
  • "Implementing Issues in Anti-Money Laundering & KYC" FICCO - IBA , Bombay 09/2006
  • "How to choose a PEP list - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" 2nd Annual Anti-Money Laundering Forum, Australian Bankers' Association, Australia 03/2006
  • 'Managing Intelligence on Individuals and Firms' Money Laundering Course Windsor, Central Banking Publications, Windsor 03/2006
  • "KYC & PEPS" IIR Portugal, Institute for International Reaserch, Lisbon 03/2006
  • "How to Minimise the Danger of your Organisations exposure to Politically Exposed Persons" The Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers, United Kingdom, 2005
  • "Fighting Terrorism And International Crime Through Intelligence" Smart Borders, Implementing Intelligent Border Security and Control Technologies And Processes, Australia, 2005
  • "What's Next in AML?" Banking Technology, Sydney, Australia, 2005
  • "Open Source Intelligence" International Terrorism and Finance 2005, United Kingdom
  • "Cómo reconciliar, el cada vez mayor, número de regulaciones con procedimientos de conocimiento de su cliente (el dilema de la confidencialidad del cliente)" Institute for Internatioanl Research, Spain, 2005
  • "Harnessing Open Source Intelligence to Protect our Borders" Global Border Control Technology Summit, United Kingdom, 2005
  • "Corruption Exposed" UNO Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Thailand, 2005
  • "PEPs: A Case Study" Fraud Management, India, 2005
  • "Sharing Information" (Panelist) Tackling Organised Crime in Partnership, United Kingdom, 2005
  • "Identify, Disrupt and Dismantle" International Terrorism and Intelligence 2004, United Kingdom
  • "Terrorist Financing: Identify, Disrupt and Dismantle" Institute for International Research, Austria, 2004
  • "Cuáles son las claves para interpretar estrategias de identificación de clientes para asegurar el control de las transacciones: los conceptos 'KYC' y 'PEPs'" Institute for International Research, Spain, 2004
  • "AML: Trying to Make Sense of it all" Monitoring and Surveillance, Asia Pacific Financial Crime Conference, Singapore, 2004
  • "PEPs Exposed" Anti-Money Laundering and Operational Risk Management Conference, Luxembourg, 2004
  • "Doing Business with the Wrong People" Combating Money Laundering on the Front Line, The Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers, United Kingdom, 2004
  • "Managing Intelligence on Individuals and Firms' How to Combat Money Laundering, Financial Crime and the Abuse of Electronic Payments, United Kingdom, 2003 and 2004
  • "KYC and PEP's: Understanding the Concept' South African Compliance Institute, South Africa, 2003
  • "Politically Exposed Persons... Exposed' Money Laundering 2003 - The New Global Regime, Switzerland, 2003
  • "Global Terrorism and its Financing' Asian Development Bank, Indonesia, 2003
  • "PEP's & KYC' E&Y - A Proactive Approach to Anti-Money Laundering, Bahamas, 2001
  • "Sharing Info including OSINT(open source intelligence)" Tackling Organised Crime, United Kingdom, 2005
  • "Terrorism, The Global Challenge" European Public Private Security forum, Belgium, 2005

David Leppan has also written numerous articles and has been interviewed by many of the worlds leading publications. Click here to find out more.