OffshoreAlert London 2026: back at St Paul's, 30 November to 1 December
November 11, 2026
OffshoreAlert Conference London returns to the City on 30 November and 1 December 2026, for its 13th year, at the Leonardo Royal Hotel London St Paul's. The organisers describe it as two days of practitioner-level discussion on high-value cross-border finance, with more than 250 people from more than 25 countries expected in the room.
I will be there on a press pass. It will be my ninth London conference, a run that began in 2017. I have already written a short thank-you to David Marchant, who founded OffshoreAlert and curates the agenda. In 2018, at the Grange St Paul's Hotel, I heard John D Fort of IRS Criminal Investigation, Simon York of HMRC, Marc Hurner on Liechtenstein and Simon Bowers.
The agenda, which OffshoreAlert says is subject to change, now lists 16 sessions on two stages, with 30 speakers and more names still to come.
Monday 30 November opens with remarks from David Marchant, then a session on the reported $6.3 billion theft from Binance on 29 October 2026. The FBI has attributed that attack to North Korean cyber activity it calls TraderTraitor. North Korea denies involvement. Former MI6 officer Christopher Steele of Orbis Business Intelligence is joined by Denisse Rudich, Ilya Umanskiy and Jacob Silverman. Later, Andrew Wordsworth, Eduardo Reyes, Robin Rathmell and Tamara Oppenheimer KC examine a July 2026 Court of Appeal judgment that discharged worldwide freezing orders after a private intelligence operation was found to have crossed into "privilege hunting". Holly Watson of TRM Labs then looks at documented cases of AI used in hacking, fraud and blackmail.
The afternoon splits across two rooms. In the Nelson Suite, Charles Bott KC, Dan Greenberg, Edward H. Davis, Jr., Helene Miller and Roman Bieda take "The Hunt": how to find and freeze hidden wealth, a theme I have been writing about in The Quiet Desk and Moneyland. In the Dickens Suite, Charles Finfrock of Vigilance and Dominic Blackburn of DeepDive discuss an experiment in which invented online biographies were treated as fact by AI tools. That is followed by "The Payoff", on turning judgments into money, with Andrew Emery, Dan Wise, Farooq Mann, John Farley and José Carrizo, running in parallel with Simon Lermen on how AI can unmask hidden identities. The day ends with a cocktail party at Leo's Restaurant.
Tuesday 1 December starts with sport. Nick De Marco KC, Matt Lawton of The Times and Christian Smith of The Lawyer discuss money and misconduct in elite sport. Two sessions then run at once: Francine McKenna on what KPMG's audit of Tether actually verified, and Simon Lock and Tom Stocks on the Deloitte Cyprus files and the London High Court, a paper trail I have already written about on this site.
The late morning stays with enforcement and tools. Anthony Rodgers, Gary Forbes and Thomas Allnutt of HMRC appear with Erick Martinez, Anna Hirji and Jennifer Neese of the IRS on what makes a whistleblower report actionable and worth a reward. That sits close to questions I have been asking here about how tax figures are produced and what happens when HMRC asks for the records. In the other room, Dominic Blackburn, Elisabetta Goi and Tim Thornton offer a practical guide to AI tools for investigations. After that, Dan Rottenstreich and David Short look at a US Supreme Court decision on global asset recovery, while Dhruv Mehrotra of WIRED examines the trade in personal data and what it means when a warrant is no longer the only way to obtain it.
The afternoon is given to two headline sessions. Axel Gordh Humlesjö of Sweden's public broadcaster SVT presents, as a world premiere, a decade-long investigation into al-Qaeda's financial networks and the evidence at the centre of the 9/11 families' case against Saudi Arabia. George Cottrell then speaks, unscripted, in an interview with L. Burke Files. David Marchant closes the conference, followed by a happy hour at Leo's Bar.
The official venue and hotel is the Leonardo Royal Hotel London St Paul's, a short walk from the cathedral at 10 Godliman Street. The published ticket price is £995. That covers both conference days, two evening receptions, lunches and refreshment breaks, and access to the event app. Invoices are available and substitutions are permitted.
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The conversation does not stop in December. OffshoreAlert Bangkok is on 17 and 18 March 2027 at the Siam Kempinski, and I have already set out why I am going, including a session on capital leaving China, a subject I have also written about here. Miami follows from 25 to 27 April 2027 at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach. Earlier London conferences were held on 1 and 2 December 2025 and 2 and 3 December 2024, and there was a June 2024 gathering in Marbella.
Dates, venue and sessions are as published by OffshoreAlert at the time of writing, and the agenda can change. If you will be in the room too, do come and say hello.
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