Welcome to the website for Financial Crime and Security (FCS) events organised by the European Association for Secure Transactions (EAST). EAST FCS events have a global remit and are aimed at professionals involved with identifying, preventing and detecting security risks and crime relating to terminal and payment security from a wide range of organisations, including banks and police forces. EAST FCS events are open events and the first EAST FCS Forum was held in 2013. EAST also holds closed events which are by invitation only and are restricted to designated EAST member representatives.
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EAST FCS 2026
The EAST Financial Crime and Security (FCS) Forum 2026 will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland on 14th – 15th October 2026.
This forum brings together professionals from across the EAST network and beyond who are involved in tackling financial crime and security risks. Our programme covers the full spectrum of today’s threats, from payment terminal and ATM fraud to payment fraud, scams, social engineering, authorised push payment (APP) fraud and relay attacks. It is a key opportunity to hear the latest developments, share experiences with peers, and discuss the threats, trends and countermeasures shaping the sector.
Open to EAST members and other fraud prevention and security professionals, the forum will provide two half days of relevant discussion, practical insight and valuable industry exchange, bringing together expertise from across the financial services, payments, and law enforcement communities.
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| DAY 1 opens the Forum by bringing the threat picture into focus. | |
| Across the afternoon, attendees will explore the power of public-private partnership, hear operational perspectives from major law-enforcement agencies and examine relay fraud—from its technical foundations to misconfiguration challenges and practical responses. The programme is built to support questions and peer exchange—not simply a sequence of presentations. |
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| Partnership in action | Welcome, EAST’s role and expert groups, and the value of cooperation across industry, law enforcement and payments. |
| Operational Perspectives | Updates from the DCPCU / City of London Police and the US Secret Service. |
| The European Threat Picture | Europol’s state-of-play update brings a cross-border view of the changing landscape. |
| Relay Fraud Examined | A technical overview, followed by a panel discussion, moderated by EAST EPTF, with contributions from the British Transport Police, Diebold Nixdorf and a card scheme (TBC). |
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| DAY 2 carries the discussion forward—moving from the changing threat picture to the decisions, defences and partnerships it demands. | |
| The morning broadens the lens to the global scam landscape and operational case studies, before looking ahead to agentic commerce, secure agent payments, PCI security developments, AI guidance and ACS attacks. Attendees will be able to test these developments against their own fraud strategy, security operations and resilience planning. |
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| The Global Scam Landscape | A wider view of the threats moving across markets, channels and borders. |
| Security That Keeps Pace | PCI security developments, AI guidance and the evolving risk from ACS attacks. |
| Threats Seen In Practice | Law-enforcement case studies examining SMS blaster and SIM cartel activity. |
| The Next Payment Frontier | Agentic commerce and the challenge of securing payments made by autonomous agents. |
Spaces are limited. Register your interest and save the date to receive key topics, speaker highlights and the event pricing, and be first to hear when we reveal our speakers and full agenda.