5th Annual Economic Crime & Compliance Symposium

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Helen Hatton (Chair)

Executive Director at the School of International Financial Services

Helen is a well-known figure in the offshore world and is widely recognised as the prime architect of the Jersey regulatory regime. She was Director of Enforcement for the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission; Deputy Director General, Jersey Financial Services Commission and founder of Sator Regulatory Consulting Limited and KYC Worldwide. Helen merged Sator with BDO in 2016 and became BDO Sator MD and BDO Group Chairman from 2016-2021. She has undertaken a wide range of major, international fact finding mandates including those for the World Bank, IMF, FATF, Commonwealth Secretariat, the UK Foreign Office and a fistful of Central Banks, regulatory authorities and governments. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Royal Society of Arts, and sits on the Editorial Board of the International Banker.

Helen holds non-executive appointments at Santander International, Jersey Post International Limited, Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner, and is shareholder and director of KnowYourCountry.Com and the School of International Financial Services. Helen is Executive Chairman of Central Associates Limited, a London based, family owned and relationships driven, investigations, intelligence and surveillance company.

His Honour Judge Tony Baumgartner (Keynote Speaker)

Senior Circuit Judge and Resident Judge at Southwark Crown Court

His Honour Judge Tony Baumgartner is an English Circuit Judge sitting in both the Crown Court and the High Court, with extensive experience in complex financial crime cases.

He has presided over several high-profile fraud and insider trading cases, including the English restraint proceedings involved in the prosecution of Gianluigi Torzi, a London-based financier accused of defrauding the Vatican in a multi-million-pound property deal in Chelsea (Torzi v Director of Public Prosecutions [2021] 3 WLUK 678; [2021] 3 WLUK 680). He has delivered judgments at first instance in several leading recent cases involving the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (UK), including Wieromiejczyk v Director of Public Prosecutions [2024] EWCA Crim 148 and Financial Conduct Authority v Wealthtek LLP (In Special Administration) [2024] EWHC 424.

In February 2024, Judge Baumgartner presided over the Goldman Sachs insider trading case involving former analyst Mohammed Zina. Zina was convicted of six counts of insider dealing and three counts of fraud, having misused confidential information from Goldman Sachs’ Conflicts Resolution Group to trade shares in six companies between 2016 and 2017, generating £140,000 in illegal profits. He also fraudulently obtained £95,000 in personal loans.  He was sentenced to 22 months imprisonment (Zina[2024] All ER (D) 111 (Feb)).

He is a contributing author to Montgomery and Ormerod on Fraud:  Criminal Law and Procedure (forthcoming, 2025).

Before his judicial appointment, Judge Baumgartner was a partner at Clyde & Co LLP, specialising in fine art and cultural property law.  His practice included advising insurers, auction houses, galleries, dealers, and collectors.

He is Deputy Chairman of the UK Spoliation Advisory Panel, a Trustee of the Royal Academy of Arts, and has lectured on Nazi-era spoliation at the Institute of Art and Law and Queen Mary University of London.

Craig Jones (Keynote Speaker)

Director at CyPol & Immediate Past Director of Cybercrime at INTERPOL

With over four decades in public service Craig has held key roles in UK and international law enforcement, coordinating national, regional, and international responses to cybercrime. From 2019 to 2024, he led INTERPOL Global Cybercrime Programme, under his leadership it delivered a step-change in the credibility and confidence between the organization's 196 member countries and partners. He used strategic insights and innovative approaches, managing successful operations, projects, and initiatives which disrupted cybercriminals and their infrastructure utilizing both the public and private sector. Craig now holds several senior advisory and board roles in prominent regional and global organizations, where he strives to foster international confidence and build trust in the cyber ecosystem.

Oonagh van den Berg

Founder of RAW Compliance & Virtual Risk Solutions

Oonagh van den Berg, founder of RAW Compliance and Virtual Risk Solutions, is a globally recognized Compliance Officer with 20+ years of experience. She specializes in regulatory compliance, financial crime risk, and GRC, working with top firms like HSBC and Citi Bank.

A keynote speaker and thought leader, Oonagh drives compliance training and AI-powered e-learning, empowering professionals worldwide. She champions ethical compliance through innovation and automation.

Kerry Petulla

Executive Director of Enforcement at the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC)

Kerry Petulla first joined the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) in June 2007 and is the Executive Director of Enforcement.

During her time at the JFSC, Kerry has been involved in a number of serious and complex enforcement investigations.

From 2016 to 2017, Kerry left the JFSC for 13 months to join a large global independent advisor, where she was a regulatory and compliance consultant. During that time, she held the role of Director of Risk and Compliance for a local trust business with offices across the globe, she led a large AML remediation project for a European bank operating out of London and managed a number of global compliance projects. Kerry returned to the JFSC in June 2017.

Kerry has a law degree and, prior to joining the JFSC, she spent eight years serving as a police detective, specialising in financial crime investigation with the States of Jersey Police’s Joint Financial Crimes Unit. 

Rachel Cropper-Mawer

Group Partner at Ogier

Rachel is a highly experienced lawyer, specialising in advice on contentious and non-contentious regulatory and compliance matters as well as fraud and asset recovery matters for both domestic and cross-border cases. She has extensive experience of High Court litigation and arbitration. She regularly conducts internal investigations, co-ordinating international investigations, defence and management of external investigations by regulatory authorities and litigation. She advises c-suite executives and boards. She managed risk and compliance for the Middle East and Africa region and developed the non-operated joint venture anti-bribery and corruption risk management programme at BP plc, and also worked for Willis Insurance Brokers (International), where she took on the role of chief compliance and risk officer, sitting on the executive team and risk committee, and advising the audit committee.

Rachel has worked across across sectors - primarily financial services, manufacturing, extractives and construction / engineering. Rachel's risk management and programme development expertise extends across the gambit of financial crime risk, ESG and financial regulations.

In her career Rachel had a year-long secondment to the Financial Conduct Authority in London, working on insider dealing and other complex wholesale financial services investigations in the Enforcement team at the Financial Conduct Authority. She also spent six months seconded to insurance company Hannover Re in Germany. She was also formerly co-chair of the Global Regulatory and Investigations team at one of the largest international litigation firms.

Caroline Dutot

Advocate & Non-Executive Director at Ardent Chambers

Caroline Dutot is a Lawyer and Non-Executive Director with over 20 years’ experience at the intersection of law, governance, and business. She brings a distinctive blend of regulatory insight, legal precision and commercial pragmatism to the boardroom and to the organisations she advises.

A specialist in regulatory and risk matters, Caroline advises individuals, businesses and boards on complex issues including governance, regulation, employment law and data protection. She brings unique perspective and expertise from her previous roles with both the Attorney General’s Office and the Jersey Financial Services Commission.

Caroline is a recognised thought leader and trainer on topics such as sanctions, directors’ duties and board dynamics. She believes that strong governance can be a catalyst for sustainable growth.

Ches Trower

Founder of Comply & Leon 

Ches Trower is a trusted and approachable consultant who makes regulatory obligations easier to understand and manage. She provides practical compliance support and reassurance, helping clients meet requirements with confidence. Known for her engaging training style, Ches empowers teams by explaining not only what to do, but why it matters. A respected thought leader and active JCOA volunteer, she demystifies complexity, shares valuable insights, and champions the value of the compliance profession.

Trevor Horwitz

Managing Director, Cyber & Data Resilience at Kroll

Trevor leverages more than 25 years of experience supporting clients to address data and strategic risks associated with pre-emptive and reactive litigation, disputes and regulatory review. Trevor is a s data risk and compliance management specialist focused on information risk management, forensic analytics, data privacy and litigation advisory. His extensive expertise and understanding around unstructured and structured data analytic technologies convergence reduces risk and provides efficient, effective and meaningful insight for Kroll’s clients.

Prior to joining Kroll, Trevor served as a partner and UK Discovery lead within EY’s UK Forensic & Integrity Services practice, of which he was a member of for 20 years. Additionally, Trevor held roles at various global consulting firms, focusing on helping his clients navigate forensic data risk challenges and on building and developing solutions and services to meet their current and future strategic challenges and opportunities.

Trevor has extensive global experience across all areas of complex litigation that relate to the extracting and interpreting actionable insights from structured and unstructured data. He supports and advises clients dealing with matters across a wide range of issues including compliance, remediation, regulatory, financial crime and cross border investigative data challenges.

Trevor has worked with businesses to develop sound strategic information management policies and practices, taking into consideration the growing impact of digital transformation and disruption on business activities.

Robert Mitchell

Strategic Business Director at Xapien 

Robert Mitchell, the Strategic Development Director at Xapien, is a distinguished business growth executive in the governance, risk and compliance (GRC) industry. Over the last 30 years, he has committed himself to growing early-stage businesses into some of the most well-known GRC brands, including World-Check and Exiger. Robert has helped the world’s most valuable brands, protecting their reputation, by undertaking innovative, technology enabled, robust, due diligence programs. He has worked on some of the most well-known bribery and deferred prosecution cases, globally. Robert has been interviewed and quoted in over 20 mainstream media outlets, including the BBC, Kommersant and International and National media, on an array of subjects, including the Abuse of Human Rights, Sanctions, Bribery, Corruption, Political Exposure, Enhanced Due Diligence, Shipping, Risk Based Reviews and Supply Chain Due Diligence. Robert has undertaken Radio and Television Interviews and has frequently spoken at international conferences, having presented alongside senior Politicians and Presidents. Robert is currently leading Xapien’s charge into financial services.

Bennie Burger

Senior Director – Risk & Compliance at JTC Group 

Bennie Burger is Senior Director, Risk & Compliance at JTC plc, where he serves as MLRO and Head of Client Compliance for JTC Jersey and its affiliates. A qualified solicitor in England & Wales, and admitted as a Solicitor of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and an Attorney with Higher Rights of Appearance in South Africa, Bennie has extensive cross-border legal and regulatory expertise. Since joining JTC in 2021, he has led the development and supervision of the firm’s Jersey regulated funds compliance framework, acting as Key Person for regulated funds businesses and Jersey Private Funds. Bennie specialises in financial crime risk management, anti-money laundering frameworks, and regulatory compliance, with a career spanning senior MLRO and compliance roles across trust, fiduciary, and financial services sectors.

Barry Faudemer

Chief Executive of Baker Regulatory

Barry Faudemer is the Chief Executive of Baker Regulatory Services.

Barry has a unique insight into the AML/CFT threats and current challenges facing businesses, together with the most common regulatory failings leading to public sanction by the Jersey Financial Services Commission. He has unrivalled experience in the regulatory field.

After thirteen years in the role as the JFSC’s Director of Enforcement and MLRO Barry Faudemer stood down in June 2020. Prior to joining the JFSC Barry was the Head of the Police and Customs Joint Financial Crimes Unit and has extensive experience of investigating financial crime, conducting regulatory investigations and managing financial intelligence.

Barry is a graduate of the prestigious FBI National Academy having studied how terrorist organisations fund their activities and has over forty years of enforcement experience. As a member of the National Risk Assessment Working Group identifying current AML/CFT threats to Jersey’s finance industry Barry contributed to the National Risk Assessment.

Jeremy Swetenham

Business Development Manager at KYC360

As Director, Sales and Channel Partnerships, Jeremy manages enterprise and partner relationships for RiskScreen.

Jeremy obtained a BEng Hons in Electronic Engineering from Edinburgh, served in the British Army (becoming Chief Technical Training Officer for the Royal Armoured Corps) and has specialised in enterprise services for scale-up telecommunications and technology service providers. 

Jeremy has deep technical expertise and a thorough understanding of risk management through the application of people, processes, and technology. He has a wide array of experience in both commercial and cultural enterprises. He works with organisations to efficiently and effectively demonstrate that they have carried out the appropriate checks and helps them to achieve optimal financial crime compliance performance with maximum efficiency.

Xapien 

Platinum Sponsor

Xapien is designed for due diligence. They provide a fully automated, online platform for performing background research on companies and individuals for risk, regulatory and reputational purposes.

To learn more, visit: www.xapien.com

KYC360

Gold Plus Sponsor

30 years advising businesses on compliance processes, 15 years running large-scale Sec 166-style investigations and a legal career that led to the founding of the International Compliance Association. These are the foundations that KYC360 is built upon, and how it came to be an award-winning SaaS business.

KYC360 has evolved from RiskScreen to convey the platform’s all-encompassing nature, from on-boarding to off-boarding, and directly address the end-to-end nature of customer lifecycle management.

Our subject-matter expertise, dedication to rapid deployment of solutions, superior level of customer support and ambitious product roadmap has made KYC360 a recognised and trusted name globally – and we aim to continuously improve on this award-winning position.

To learn more, visit: www.kyc360.com

Kroll

Gold Sponsor

As the leading independent provider of risk and financial advisory solutions, Kroll leverages our unique insights, data and technology to help clients stay ahead of complex demands.

To learn more, visit: www.kroll.com

Ogier

Silver Sponsor

Ogier in Jersey has top-tier legal teams and first-class corporate and fiduciary services professionals providing a full range of services across our core specialisms. 

To learn more, visit: www.ogier.com

EY

Silver Sponsor

EY is a global leader in combating financial crime and supporting clients with compliance and governance requirements. With a network of 3,600 professionals dedicated to financial crime, EY connects jurisdictions worldwide and provides valuable insights to numerous financial institutions and regulators. EY can assist you in effectively managing complex risks related to financial crime, sanctions, bribery and corruption, fraud, and market abuse. Locally, EY’s CI Extended Assurance team offers a wide range of assurance services across the financial services industry. They deliver insights, problem-solving skills, and innovative thinking to support clients in improving their overall governance environment and meeting regulatory responsibilities. EY’s skilled team, empowered by innovative technology and flexible global delivery service centres, can help you manage financial crime risk.

To learn more, visit: www.ey.com/ci

VAIIE

Silver Sponsor

Vaiie provides innovative SaaS onboarding solutions to regulated offshore private client, funds, legal and pension businesses as well as providing identify verification solutions to Government and retail firms.  Formerly part of the Jersey Post Group, Vaiie has a strong institutional background, married with intuitive, AI powered technology to improve the link between companies and their customers within fully compliant, auditable solutions.

To learn more, visit: www.vaiie.com

Ardent Chambers

Silver Sponsor

Ardent Chambers is a specialist, barrister-style chambers based in Jersey We are experts in dispute resolution and litigation delivering first-class legal advice and litigation services to our clients. 

To learn more, visit: www.ardentchambers.com

Walkers

Bronze Sponsor

Walkers is an international law firm, expert in multiple offshore jurisdictions and great at knowing which is right for each client and each matter. They have the largest and longest-established global group of dedicated financial regulatory lawyers of all the offshore firms, and the only one to have dedicated financial regulatory lawyers located on the ground in each of their 10 offices. They bring decades of specialist financial industry experience, having worked within financial regulators, global financial institutions and leading law firms.

To learn more, visit: www.walkersglobal.com

Binderr

Bronze Sponsor

We’re building the infrastructure to connect businesses with the world.

Binderr is rethinking how businesses access financial and professional services by combining a global marketplace with industry-leading compliance technology.

Binderr is scaled across 8 countries, built compliance tech for 3 years, and ran regulated firms. Now Binderr are changing how businesses access financial, legal, and corporate services.

To learn more, visit: www.binderr.com

Educational Partner  

JCOA & ICA members qualify for a 20% discount when registering to attend this event.

Jersey Compliance Officers Association (JCOA)

The Jersey Compliance Officers Association is a professional body which provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. The JCOA actively encourages, and provides the environment for those 'experienced' or 'new to' compliance and risk professionals, both from within and outside financial services and the other regulated industries in Jersey, to support others for the benefit of the compliance and risk profession and the Jersey.

To learn more, visit: www.jcoa.co.uk 

International Compliance Association (ICA)

The International Compliance Association (ICA) is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime compliance community. 

To learn more, visit: www.jcoa.co.uk