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.

Hennie Verbeek-Kusters (Keynote Speaker)

Head of FIU at FIU – the Netherlands and former Head of The Egmont Group of FIUs

Hennie Verbeek-Kusters has been the head of FIU – the Netherlands since 2008.

Under her leadership, the focus of FIU - the Netherlands has shifted to greater cooperation with public and private partners in the fight against money laundering, predicate offences and the financing of terrorism, both nationally and internationally. 

At the national level, Ms. Verbeek-Kusters is committed to producing high-quality financial intelligence and to putting the possibilities of the financial intelligence system and FIU's unique buffer function on the map. Under Ms. Verbeek-Kusters' leadership, FIU – the Netherlands established the Fintell Alliance, the public-private partnership between FIU-Netherlands and six major banks. In addition, FIU-Netherlands makes a significant contribution to various other collaborations, such as the Financial Expertise Centre (FEC), the Terrorism Financing Taskforce, and the Serious Crime Taskforce. The FIU-Netherlands has received very positive feedback in the 4thround MER of the Netherlands that was concluded in 2022.

In recent years, Ms. Verbeek-Kusters has led the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units as Chair, from July 2020 to July 2022 and from July 2017 to July 2019. It was the first time a Dutch head of FIU held this position and the first time since its 25th anniversary the Egmont Group had a female chair. As of July 2022, she has stepped down as Chair, but still serves on the Egmont Group as Board Member of the Egmont Group Secure Web (ESW) Board and as strategic advisor for several Egmont Group projects.

Within the Egmont Group, Ms. Verbeek-Kusters was one of the driving forces behind the establishment of the Egmont Center of FIU Excellence and Leadership (ECOFEL), the strategic further development of the Egmont Group and the renewal of the IT platform with which FIUs worldwide exchange information. 

Achieving concrete results in the fight against money laundering, terrorism financing and predicate offences and increasing the professionalism of FIUs are her main drivers in her everyday work.

Rachel Copper-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.

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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. For more information, please visit: www.jcoa.co.uk

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