Payment Security & Compliance Conference 2025

Payment Security & Compliance Conference 2025

17th - 18th June 2025

Manchester

Hilton Deansgate Hotel

(with optional pre-event dinner on 16th June)

Join us for the leading payment security and compliance event for the higher education sector. In its 14th year, this will be a jam-packed event full of insights from industry experts and peers in the education sector. Focusing on payment security and building on previous events we will look at the latest insights from the PCI Security Standards Council, learn from institutions implementing payment security programmes and identify best practices. Based on feedback, this year’s conference has evolved to include compliance covering topics such as AML, fraud and risk management. The event will consist of panel discussions, workshops, presentations, and fantastic opportunities to network with your peers and industry experts.

Who should attend

Payment Acceptance, Payment Security and Compliance are critical to institutional business practices. To be implemented successfully, Payment Security needs leadership support, buy-in and commitment from teams across institutions and at all levels, including those in Compliance, Finance, IT, Information Governance.

Agenda

Optional Pre Event Dinner: Monday 16th June

Time

Session

18:30 - 22:30

Informal Networking Dinner

Day 1 - Tuesday 17th June

Time

Session

07:00 - 08:00

Exercise

08:30 - 13:00

Registration

09:30 - 10:30

Optional: Payment Security Workshop

Third Party Service Provider Assurance, Hosted by Mike Vale and Dave Neild, Flywire

Optional: AML and Fraud Workshop

Flywire AML and Fraud Toolkit, Hosted by Jo Brewin and Bridget Walker, Flywire

10:30 - 11:00

Networking Break

11:00 - 12:00

Optional: Payment Security Workshop

E-commerce and impact on scope
(Benefits of Merchant of Record)

Optional: Fraud workshop

Flywire and We Fight Fraud
International Students and Payment Fraud

12:00 - 13:00

Networking Lunch Break


13:00

Conference Commence

13:00 - 13:15

Welcome & Introduction:
Simon Read, SVP Education, EMEA, Flywire

13:15 - 14:00

Latest Insights from the PCI Security Standards Council

14:00 - 14:30

Payment Security Keynote:
Dave Neild, Lead Security Consultant, Flywire

14:30 - 15:00

Networking Break

Track 1 - Payment Security

Track 2 - Governance Risk and Compliance

15:00 - 15:30

Self Assessment Questionnaires - Expected Testing and Evidence
Christopher Blackadder, Queen's University Belfast

Flywire Fraud Monitoring

15:30 - 16:00

Payment Security Implementation Programme - Using Office 365 to simplify compliance

Student Sanctions

16:00 - 16:30

Payment Security Workshop

Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023

16:30 - 17:00

Acronym Bingo returns for a second year

18:30 - 22:30

Informal Evening Reception

Day 2 - Wednesday 18th June

Time

Session

09:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 09:35

Welcome to Day 2:
Simon Read, SVP Education, EMEA, Flywire

09:35 - 10:35

Keynote Speaker:
Ben Owen:
Former British Intelligence Officer and Boss of BAFTA winning Hunted on C4

10:35 - 11:05

Industry Speaker:
Simon Turner, Head of Security, Governance & Compliance, British Telecom

11:05 - 11:35

Break

11:35 - 12:05

Case Study: University of Leeds
Neil Favager, IT Risk and Assurance Manager; Filipe Baldin, InfoSec Risk & Compliance Analyst, University of Leeds

12:05 - 12:50

Payment Security and Compliance Panel

12:50 - 13:35

Lunch

13:35 - 14:15

Industry Speaker

14:15 - 15:00

Industry Speaker

15:00

Conference Close

  • Really great speakers with ‘wow factor’ information

  • Always a great opportunity to network, keep up to date with future changes and best practice and pick up little nuggets of information that can help with what we are trying to achieve

  • It was really valuable to network, discuss issues with colleagues and hear some of the latest news within the industry sector

  • The conference was fantastic. Highly valuable information to take back and use as part of a wider review on our own processes

    Feedback from the 2024 conference

    (0-low / 10-high)

    How valuable did you find the conference overall?

    9.4

    How likely is it that you would recommend the conference to a colleague?

    9.6

    How valuable did you find the networking opportunities?

    9.6