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Iain Armstrong
Executive Director, FCC Strategy
ComplyAdvantage
View LinkedIn profileIain Armstrong is the Global Regulatory Affairs Lead at ComplyAdvantage. Iain began his career with a decade working on regulatory enforcement investigations (both criminal and civil) at the UK financial services regulator. Following that, Iain held a number of senior Risk and Compliance roles in major UK financial institutions, including Barclays, HSBC, and NatWest.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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2:10–2:40pmFri 20 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Technology Rewiring
The Future of Trust: Deepfakes, Synthetic Identity and Proof in the Age of Generative AI
About this session
In a world of synthetic everything, proof is becoming the scarcest commodity in finance. As AI-generated identities, deepfakes, and convincing digital deception become routine, institutions can no longer assume authenticity; they have to verify it. This session frames the problem and then works through the answer.
It opens with the shift underneath the shift: once trust can no longer be assumed, the burden moves from catching fakes after the fact to proving authenticity before a transaction happens at all. That reframes what needs to be provable rather than assumed, and who is positioned to build the systems that prove it. The discussion then gets specific about the different bets being placed on how to solve this: catching synthetic fraud at the point of verification, proving identity cryptographically without exposing the underlying data at all, and building the credential infrastructure that ties it together.
Attendees hear where each approach actually holds up against a motivated forger, and where the gaps between them still leave room for one to slip through.
