Webinar: ABC in Practice: Sector Voices on the UK Anti‑Corruption Strategy by LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

ABC in Practice: Sector Voices on the UK Anti‑Corruption Strategy

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The UK government has published its Anti‑Corruption Strategy 2025–2030, building on the Economic Crime Plan and the upcoming expanded Fraud Strategy. The strategy signals increased focus on sectors beyond traditional financial services, including charities, cultural institutions, local government and football. It encourages organisations in these areas to strengthen their resilience to corruption and illicit finance risks.

In this webinar, we’ll provide an overview of the strategy’s key points, why these sectors have been highlighted and what this shift means in practice. You’ll hear from people across the newly spotlighted sectors on how they are interpreting the strategy, what challenges it is surfacing and where organisations are starting from if anti‑bribery and corruption controls have not historically been a priority. We’ll close with practical guidance on what organisations should realistically be planning for now, including what proportionate readiness looks like, how expectations typically evolve from strategy to regulation and how to respond with confidence as scrutiny increases.

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Presenters

Katarina Pranjic

Director Market Planning, Investigations and Regulatory Policy at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

Katarina leads investigations and regulatory policy strategy in economic crime prevention as Market Planning Director at LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, focusing on anti-money laundering, fraud, identity, payments, credit risk decisioning and investigations. With over 15 years of experience in economic crime and risk management, Katarina previously worked as a practitioner and consultant at PwC before joining LexisNexis® Risk Solutions.

As part of the strategic planning function, Katarina analyses regulatory dynamics and changes that impact the market, helping to build regulation-driven strategies across the UK and Ireland whilst considering global trends that influence domestic markets. In her role, she leads strategy development for investigations-related customer challenges, acting as a subject matter expert supporting broader company strategy and operations. She collaborates across the business to proactively shape strategy in line with customer needs and emerging regulatory requirements, whilst representing LexisNexis® Risk Solutions externally before regulators, trade bodies and media. She creates thought leadership content and speaks at conferences and trade shows, sharing her expertise and insights on economic crime and regulatory matters.

In 2024, Katarina served as Board Chair of Open Identity Exchange (OIX) until its closure, where she advocated for technology supporting accessible and effective compliance. In 2025, she was recognised on the Innovate Finance Women in FinTech Powerlist in the Policymakers and Regulatory Experts category, reflecting her influence across the industry. That same year, she began pursuing a Master's degree in Economic Crime at the University of Portsmouth's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, furthering her academic knowledge in the field. A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) since 2016, Katarina is based in London. Originally from Croatia, she takes pleasure in engaging with industry practitioners across a wide array of markets and territories.

Rory Donaldson

Senior Product Manager, Business Integrity at Transparency International UK

Rory leads project teams working on quantitative benchmarking, thought leadership and policy development. He engages with companies on their anti-corruption priorities and regularly chairs industry workshops. He is currently leading a programme of research into how a proactive approach to anti-corruption drives successful impact investing outcomes, and on the links between corruption and other ESG factors such as environmental and labour standards.

Dr. Branislav Hock

Associate Professor in Economic Crime and Compliance at University of Portsmouth

Dr. Branislav Hock works at the intersection of criminology, socio-legal studies and social policy, examining how corruption, fraud and money laundering are enabled through cross-border markets, secrecy and organisational practices and how regulation and enforcement can better prevent harm. He is the author of Extraterritoriality and International Bribery (Routledge, 2020) and co-author of Economic Crime: From Conception to Response (Routledge, 2022) and Trade-Based Money Laundering: Compliance and the Law (Routledge, 2026). He is founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Criminology and Executive Secretary of the International Society of Economic Criminology (ISEC). He has served as a UN consultant and drafter of a legislative guide on combating fraud. At Portsmouth, Branislav leads an internationally oriented economic crime portfolio, convenes the Winter Economic Crime Symposium, and serves as UoA20 Co-Coordinator for Research Quality and Outputs.

Frans van Proosdij

Former CEO at FIFA Clearing House

Frans van Proosdij is a senior Financial Crime Compliance and risk professional with extensive experience across banking, financial intelligence, regulation and international financial services. He has held senior executive and board-level positions with responsibility for AML, KYC, financial crime risk, regulatory compliance and integrity.

Frans is a former Deputy Head of the Dutch Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and Senior Supervisor at De Nederlandsche Bank, giving him extensive insight into financial crime from both the regulatory and law-enforcement perspective. He subsequently held executive roles at Citco Bank, where he was responsible for Financial Crime Compliance, Risk and Regulatory Compliance across multiple jurisdictions, including leading the strengthening of AML and KYC frameworks and regulatory remediation.

He was also CEO of FIFA Clearing House in Paris, a regulated payment institution supervised by the French ACPR, where he established the organisation and its control framework. Frans remains active in financial crime and compliance, advising on complex risk and KYC initiatives and regularly contributing to international discussions on economic crime. He has been a regular speaker at the International Symposium on Economic Crime at Jesus College, Cambridge since 2002.

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