Financial Crime Conference 2024 (Virtual Access)

Beth Davies is a Deputy Director in HM Treasury's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), leading on strategy, engagement and policy. Beth has extensive civil service experience having worked in trade, devolution and constitutional affairs, across the UK Government, Devolved Administrations and Jersey before joining OFSI. Based in the Darlington Economic Campus, Beth is a champion for HM Treasury’s regional presence in the Northeast.

Chris Ainsley has worked in the fraud and economic crime industry for over 20 years, and is currently Head of Fraud Risk Management at Santander. He has extensive experience of fraud prevention and detection solutions across retail and transactional banking.

With over 20 years' experience in financial, economic, and cybercrime prevention, Nick is a respected advisor sought by financial organisations for his expertise in transforming compliance and financial crime strategies. As a transformation expert, Nick has supported the modernisation of financial crime programmes, procedures, processes, and technology for financial institutions both internally and in a consultancy capacity, and his passion and expertise centres in working with key business stakeholders to help detect and prevent financial crime.

Jonathan is a partner and financial services specialist, focusing on investigating and managing systemic challenges. Jonathan devises strategies and solutions which reflect commercial drivers, operational preferences and stakeholder objectives – and which reduce regulatory scrutiny. Jonathan’s team consist of barristers, ex-regulators and ombudsmen.

Katarina is Head of Financial Crime (MLRO) at Brewin Dolphin. Previous roles include Head of Compliance for Europe Arab Bank, Dep MLRO for Bank ABC and Head of Conduct & Regulatory Affairs for RBS Netherlands in Amsterdam. Katarina was a board member for ACAMS Netherlands Chapter whilst working in Amsterdam (2016/17). Now holding the role of Chair for the UK Chapter and Chair for TISA Financial Crime Working Group, excited to support ACAMS, TISA and industry practitioners to stay informed of regulatory change, trends and best practices.

Sébastien is an Associate in the Pinsent Masons’ Financial Services Regulatory team, where he provides support on a range of contentious and non-contentious financial services regulatory matters. He has advised on a range of regulatory matters, including in connection with systems and controls and risk management expectations under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017. Sébastien also previously worked in the FCA’s Enforcement and Market Oversight conducting multiple cross-border regulatory and criminal investigations relating to anti-money laundering, market abuse, insider dealing, and wider wholesale markets governance and systems and controls failings.

Myron Jobson is interactive investor's Senior Personal Finance Analyst, responsible for providing insights and analysis of personal finance topics including savings, investments, borrowing and the housing market. Myron also leads on campaigns to champion investors and help their understanding of key financial issues. An award-winning financial journalist specialising in investments and personal finance, Myron joined ii following a six-year career at FT Adviser and Mail Online's This Is Money.

Annabel is Head of Fraud and Financial Crime at Evelyn Partners. She has over 20 years’ experience as a forensic accountant and investigator. She acts for both claimants and defendants in civil, criminal and regulatory matters involving allegations of fraud, bribery and corruption. During her career Annabel has helped clients across multiple sectors (including Financial Services, Retail, Healthcare and Technology & Media) navigate high-stakes investigations into complex multi-million cross-border fraud, bribery and corruption cases. These investigations have involved asset misappropriation, employee misconduct, financial misstatement, sanctions breaches, market abuse and misleading statements in civil, regulatory and criminal contexts and in multiple jurisdictions. In addition, Annabel has extensive experience of private prosecutions, including acting as an expert witness in the Criminal Court, and is currently Chair of the Private Prosecutors’ Association. She also has extensive experience in DPA Monitorships having led the Compliance and Anti-Financial Crime workstreams for the Department of Justice / SEC-appointed Monitor to a global bank subject to a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. Annabel regularly publishes thought leadership and speaks at conferences, to law firms and regulators, on fraud investigation, asset-tracing and whistleblowing.

Tammuz is responsible for the Columbia Threadneedle Investments financial crime program, including anti-money laundering, sanctions fraud and anti bribery and corruption across EMEA and Asia and acts as the SMF17. She has over 15 years’ experience in financial crime compliance and risk management in the financial services industry. Tammuz joined Columbia Threadneedle Investments following an acquisition of BMO Global Asset Management in 2021 where she has acted as the Global Head of AML. Prior to BMO Global Asset Management, Tammuz had a number of roles in Deloitte and Barclays Wealth. Her experience includes strategic financial crime risk management, remediation and improvement initiatives, designing target operating models and transformation programs. Tammuz holds an LLB Law and LLM in Commercial Law from Cardiff University and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Mark Spiers is a Partner and member of Bovill’s Executive Committee based in the UK. Mark has over 20 years’ experience in the industry, across wealth management, banking and financial crime. Before joining Bovill, he worked in multiple compliance roles including as a Money Laundering Reporting Officer in several large international banks, including UBS Wealth Management and Kleinwort Benson. Mark was also Head of Compliance at Emirates NBD and Kleinwort Benson with responsibility for CASS and prudential matters.

Brian has extensive experience in financial services having spent 30 years working at M&G, Cofunds, IFDS (now SS&C), Allfunds, Northern Trust and currently at Fidelity. His responsibilities have been increasingly focussed on financial crime prevention for the last 15 years, culminating in the current Deputy MLRO position. Brian is an active participant in Financial Crime working groups for both TISA and the TA Forum.

Currently Technical Policy Director for TISA, Jeffrey’s responsibilities are focused on the implementation of regulatory and technical changes, the development of industry good practice guidance for firms and technical solutions to financial services issues. Previously Jeffrey was a member of M&G’s Executive Committee and a main Board Director, setting the strategic direction of what was a public company with a high profile in the retail investment market. Career History. Jeffrey has run his own investment company and also worked for a number of investment banks.