Supporters - CCTA

Square 4

Headline Sponsor

Square 4 was founded with the vision to support people and businesses to grow and thrive across the evolving spectrum of governance, conduct, financial crime, and operational risk. Our mission is to deliver unparalleled levels of engagement, service, and expertise, assisting organisations across a diverse and dynamic regulatory environment. We differentiate ourselves from traditional outsourced service providers by fostering partnerships with our clients to propel essential regulatory transformations across our primary service areas.

Square 4 harnesses technology and proficiency to craft tailor-made solutions across our four key service lines: Advisory, Resourcing, Recruitment and Learning & Development. Our team boasts extensive expertise drawn from prestigious backgrounds, encompassing experience from leading professional service firms, regulatory bodies, executive positions within financial institutions, and various consultancy providers.

We’re also dedicated to making a positive impact on our people, clients, and communities. Therefore, it was an easy decision for us, bearing a name like Square 4, to allocate 4% of our annual earnings to charitable causes.

Visit www.square4.com for more information.

Walker Morris

Headline Sponsor

Walker Morris is an award-winning law firm providing practical and commercially focussed solutions for consumer, motor, asset, and mortgage finance firms. We work with major names in the industry including well-known players, fintechs and start-ups. We also work across our industry: advising lenders, brokers and dealers, and debt buyers.

We provide a true end-to-end service. We advise on: permissions and authorisations, financial promotions and marketing, policies and procedures, regulatory processes, documentation (both customer facing documents and wider commercial documents), contentious issues (including dealing with technical complaints to the Ombudsman, complex issues before the Court or discussions with a regulator), and remediation projects.

Our team is a unique blend of industry experts and former regulators. All of our lawyers have both advisory and contentious expertise. We’re instructed to deal with test cases including: advising firms on lead cases before the Ombudsman, acting for a lender defending a customer’s motor commission appeal in the Court of Appeal, and successfully defending a test case in the High Court on claims brought by members of the so-called ‘Freeman on the land’ movement.

We draft innovative products and are the forefront of product launches and industry developments. We author many industry practitioner materials including Goode: Consumer Credit Law and Practice and Butterworths Financial Regulation Service. We train the industry, and speak at conferences, through our long-standing relationships with trade associations. We’re embedded in your industry and understand what you do.

Visit www.walkermorris.co.uk for more information.

Evlo

Headline Sponsor

Evlo is a business committed to financial inclusion. It helps customers build a stronger financial future by empowering them with a personal, human approach and responsible borrowing options. Evlo understands that life has ups and downs and appreciates that this can sometimes impact customers’ finances. Evlo has been helping customers with their finances since 2006 and has extensive experience providing tailored support. Evlo is committed to professional, responsible lending. It offers personal loans from £1,000 to £15,000 over terms of up to five years.

Visit www.evlo.co.uk for more information.

Equifax

Dinner Sponsor

At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics, and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping financial institutions, companies, employers, and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. Our unique blend of differentiated data, analytics, and cloud technology drives insights to power decisions to move people forward. Headquartered in Atlanta and supported by nearly 15,000 employees worldwide, Equifax operates or has investments in 24 countries in North America, Central and South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.

Equifax Ltd is one of the Equifax group companies based in the UK. Equifax Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Visit www.equifax.co.uk for more information.

Product Partnerships

Exhibitor

Product Partnerships is a compliance company solely focused on consumer credit. We ensure our clients correctly implement new procedures when regulations change, sales and complaints processes are robust and deliver excellent customer outcomes.

Our approach is bespoke to the needs of each client and whilst we have excellent online compliance systems enabling remote checking of sales and complaints, we can deliver anything from a remote support function through to acting as an in-house compliance function.

Clients can also become a Product Partnerships Appointed Representative giving added protection in maintaining an effective compliance framework.

Visit www.productpartnerships.com for more information.

DGM Agility

Exhibitor

Make big savings on time when assessing affordability and vulnerability checks for your customers.

Our Payments Data platform surfaces Open Banking Account Information, aggregating the data in Realtime with feature rich insights via a common portal that can be accessed on the move. We also making use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) to further enrich this information, providing the detail and trends with predicted better outcomes for you and your customers.

When looking beyond inadequate affordability assessments and outdated Credit Scoring, our Payments Data Platform will collect, store, and make available the information as a service.

Visit www.dgmagility.com for more information.