Park Plaza Waterloo
Workshops: 10 & 12 June 2025
Informa 240 Blackfriars
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!
What's in store for 2025?
Gain a solid understanding of your requirements for the next 12 months from the regulators, auditors and your industry counterparts.
Focusing on the basics of CASS and continuous improvement to your processes, as well as another workshop to be confirmed that will focus on the current 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
Identify solutions to your common challenges
Hear 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 latest CASS priorities:
- Effective CASS rule mapping & audit
- Managing company outsourcing risk
- IT & change management
- The impact PSPs and E-money firms
- CASS from a Consumer Duty perspective
- Reviewing control frameworks in the CASS space
Two separate practical workshops
- Basics of CASS compliance
- CASS & Third-Party Outsourcing
Learn to improve your processes around the auditors' biggest areas of focus
We'll hear the major auditors' focus points in our auditor expectations panel - hear 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
Benefit from the experience of our 2025 speaker line up, including:
Immerse yourself in our safeguarding and CASS evolution workshops
Compliance with the FCA’s client assets (CASS) rules presents many challenges to those firms who are subject to them. These workshops will outline how these challenges will impact an even wider range of firms, including payments and e-money firms.
Safeguarding workshop highlights
Effectively meeting the challenges of client asset and safeguarding compliance
- Understanding the regulatory framework
- Creating an appropriate governance and oversight framework
- Managing effective CASS audits
- CASS hot topics
Evolution of CASS workshop highlights
Understanding 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
- Implementing the correct controls for outsourcing
Attending these workshops will increase your knowledge in:
- A comprehensive 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 2025 partner
The 16th Annual Client Assets Protection Forum 2025 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.
