16th Annual Client Assets Protection Forum
The largest independent CASS conference.
The most renowned and longest-running event for updates on CASS audits, outsourcing, safeguarding, change management, FCA updates, and much more!
Thank you to everyone who attended in 2025!
To be kept up to date with future conferences, you can register your interest by downloading the 2025 agenda here.
What happened in 2025?
Attendees gained a solid understanding of their requirements for the next 12 months from the regulators, auditors, and industry counterparts.
Focused on the basics of CASS and continuous improvement to processes, as well as workshops that focused on the 2025 top CASS priorities!
The largest independent CASS conference
Just a sample of the companies that have attended over the last 15 years:
- FCA
- Close Brothers Asset Management
- Deloitte
- State Street
- PwC
- Northern Trust
- KPMG
- Aviva
- EY
Outlined how to identify solutions to common challenges
In 2025, attendees heard from those in charge of CASS at some of the biggest firms on how they are tackling the most pressing challenges, including: prudent segregation, use of PSPs, TTCAs and access to bank accounts.
Conference highlights
Understand how to implement the 2025 CASS priorities:
- Effective CASS rule mapping & audit
- Manage company outsourcing risk
- IT & change management
- The impact PSPs and E-money firms
- CASS from a Consumer Duty perspective
- Review control frameworks in the CASS space
Two separate practical workshops
- Basics of CASS compliance
- CASS & Third-Party Outsourcing
Learned to improve processes around the auditors' biggest areas of focus
Attendees heard the major auditors' focus points in the auditor expectations panel - they heard directly from the auditors themselves which areas you should be focusing on.
20+ speakers from a variety of financial backgrounds
- Regulators
- Auditors
- Banks
- Asset Managers
- Insurers
What was covered in the 2025 safeguarding and CASS evolution workshops?
Compliance with the FCA’s client assets (CASS) rules presents many challenges to those firms that are subject to them. These workshops outlined how these challenges impacted an even wider range of firms, including payments and e-money firms.
Safeguarding workshop highlights:
How to meet the challenges of client asset and safeguarding compliance
- Understand the regulatory framework
- Create an appropriate governance and oversight framework
- Manage effective CASS audits
- CASS hot topics
Evolution of CASS workshop highlights:
The development of CASS from the 2008 financial crisis
- The evolution of CASS
- Remediation processes: Meeting the FCA's expectations
- Equipping your organisation with the CASS training essentials
- Implement the correct controls for outsourcing
These workshops increased knowledge in:
- Understanding of the CASS requirements as relevant to your firm
- Adopting a risk-based approach to oversight and monitoring
- Lessons learned from FCA enforcement actions
Become a 2026 partner
The 17th Annual Client Assets Protection Forum 2026 offers a variety of commercial opportunities to raise your profile to our focused audience of CASS professionals.
As a conference partner you can publicly position yourself within the sector to maintain high visibility, start conversations and generate leads.
To learn more about all the opportunities available, get in touch with Tom Haslam to discuss speaking and exhibition opportunities.
