Sarah Wrigley

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.