Credit Risk & Fraud Summit
27 - 29 May 2026, Napier, NZ
speakers
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Paul Spoonley
Honorary Research Associate at Massey University
Keynote
How demography will change our communities – and how we do business
Terisa Roberts
Global Director & Global Lead for Risk Modelling, Decisioning & Governance at SAS
Innovation
Are we ready to forge ahead with automation and AI in credit risk management?
Pip Best
Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Partner, New Zealand at Ernst & Young
Climate Risk
From risk to opportunity: Financing a low-emissions and resilient future
Luke Kelly
Head of Agentic AI at Simplyai
Fraud
Application scam interceptor: Stopping "urgent boss" fraud without killing customer experience
Ronnie Tan
Founder, CreditWorks
SME
The trust equation - building resilient credit ecosystems through transparency
Cameron Bagrie
Lead Economist at Bagrie Economics
Keynote
Economic gymnastics with lots of twists and turns
Charles Whiting
Executive Director, DebtManagers
Collections
Optimising capital management through strategic debt sale
Josh Daniell
Co-founder, Akahu
Open Banking
Open banking: How to use the new regulated system for loan applications, monitoring, and repayments
Lisa Jennings
Executive, Business Development at Cotality
Climate Risk
Harnessing the data revolution: AI and the strategic fight against climate change
Heiko Jonkers
Senior Product Manager – Social and Affordable Housing, Westpac
Innovation
Affordable housing ecosystem
Neill Borg
Country Manager – AU, Credisense
Innovation
Automation or AI: Practical lessons in origination
Call for abstracts
REAL TALKS, REAL EXPERIENCES
Are you working on innovative projects in credit risk or fraud? We want to showcase New Zealand’s talent and insights. Step up as a speaker and share your expertise with the community.
We are now inviting the submission of abstracts for the Summit. Presentations will be accepted on the basis of a 200-400 word abstract. We welcome submissions on any topic related to credit risk analytics, credit control, collections, fraud analytics, and other applications of risk modelling techniques. So, if you have cutting-edge research or practical insights that could benefit the NZ credit risk and fraud community, we'd love to hear from you!
Abstracts can be submitted via the Submission portal below. Please also include a bio and have your submission completed by 30 November 2025.
Timeline for review process
1
Call for Abstracts
1 August 2025
2
Submission Deadline
30 November 2025
3
Notification of Acceptance
15 December 2025
4
Final Presentations Received
31 January 2026