Jeremy Asher speaks at inaugural ECED Conference

Author: Jeremy Asher, Senior Consultant Regulatory Solicitor   | Last updated: 27th May 2026

Senior Consultant Solicitor Jeremy Asher is among the speakers at the University of the West of England’s first Economic Crime Experts Directory (ECED) Conference on 28 May 2026. The conference will bring together economic crime academics with senior figures from the Home Office, the National Economic Crime Centre, the Fraud Advisory Panel and the wider counter-fraud community, structured around the Economic Crime Areas of Research Interest published last year.

Jeremy’s address focused on two areas he argues warrant closer attention in the next National Risk Assessment of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: the displacement of consumers from the regulated gambling sector into unregulated markets, and the longer-term risks created when individuals lose access to mainstream banking after being recorded on fraud databases. Both, he argues, share a common feature — people pushed outside regulated systems become harder, not easier, for law enforcement and the financial sector to see.

The debanking strand draws directly on Jeremy’s legal practice at Setfords, where he advises individuals and businesses challenging fraud markers loaded by Cifas, Synectics Solutions and National Hunter, and on the research underpinning his book Fraud Markers, De-banking and Financial Crime: A Legal Analysis of Counter-fraud Practices in the UK and Beyond, which has been shortlisted for Best Book 2025 at the International Society of Economic Criminology Awards.

The full text of the speech, together with related work from Jeremy and the Financial Fraud Awareness Campaign, is available on the FFAC website: https://www.ffac.co.uk/