I'm an experienced financial crime and investigations expert. I support clients with anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, bribery, corruption, and fraud issues. I have 25 years of professional experience both in consulting and in-house with a global bank, including five years based in the Middle East and a 12-month secondment to the UK financial services regulator.
I work closely with clients and legal counsel to assess and remediate compliance frameworks or to perform investigations or lookback reviews in response to identified issues. My recent experience includes:
- leading the review of a sanctions, PEP, and adverse media name screening system, considering implementation and configuration of the system and the process for investigating potential matches, and reporting identified issues
- drafting financial crime policies and procedures for a newly regulated entity
- supporting a skilled person (s166) review for a UK bank and an equivalent review for an offshore regulator
- performing financial crime risk assessments
- assisting a global bank investigating potential non-compliance with US sanctions regulations, in cooperation with multiple US agencies
- investigating global financial crime schemes, such as the Russian Laundromat, 1MDB, and the Panama Papers, to identify and mitigate risk in the customer base of a global bank
- reviewing the customer due diligence framework for a global bank subject to a US monitorship
- proactive leverage of financial crime typologies and themes to identify and mitigate risk in the customer base of a global bank
- reviewing and assessing the anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) compliance framework for a UK company that was under a deferred prosecution agreement with the Serious Fraud Office.
Outside of work, I love to travel, with the Angkor Temples in Cambodia and safari on the Serengeti in Tanzania ranking as my favourite locations to date. In London, I'm an avid theatregoer.
