4th Annual Economic Crime & Compliance Symposium

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Helen Hatton (Chair)

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.

Nick Lewis OBE (Keynote Speaker)

MD, High Risk Client Unit at Standard Chartered Bank

Nick Lewis is Managing Director, High Risk Client Unit, at Standard Chartered Bank. He worked in UK law enforcement for over 30 years and led several significant operations with partner agencies around the world into organised crime threats against the UK. He has significant experience in leading complex multi-national investigations and working with public and private bodies to develop effective strategies to reduce and tackle the harm caused by organised crime activity - in particular building effective public-private partnerships and taskforce models in the UK and overseas.

Nick served as Counsellor, Transnational Organised Crime at the British Embassy, Washington DC between 2008 and 2013. As well as leading the UK’s strategic engagement on organised crime with the US government, he led a team of embedded UK liaison officers across the US and the Caribbean, tackling organised crime groups operating at a global level.

In March 2013, he was awarded the National Intelligence Medallion by the US Government, and in 2014 was awarded an OBE for “services to international law and order” by Her Majesty The Queen.

Nick joined Standard Chartered in 2016, where he oversees complex multi-jurisdictional financial crime investigations, intelligence assessments and the management of high-risk clients. He is a member of the UK Finance Information and Intelligence Committee, represents industry on a number of UK Economic Crime reform programmes and sits on the Board of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime.

Michael Halepas (Keynote Speaker)

Independent Consultant to the Council of Europe's Economic Crime and Cooperation Division (ECCD) and former Legal Adviser to the Jersey Economic Crime and Confiscation Unit & Barrister at BlockAML

Michael was Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2007 and has extensive experience in criminal law. He specialises in financial crime, anti-money laundering, and digital assets. Michael serves as an independent consultant to both the Government of the British Virgin Islands and the Council of Europe’s Economic Crime and Cooperation Division.

Michael is also the founder of BlockAML, a consultancy operating at the intersection of digital assets, financial crime, and anti-money laundering. Through BlockAML, he offers comprehensive advice, training programs, and delivers keynote speaking engagements.

Previously, as the lead digital assets lawyer for the Law Officers’ Department of Jersey, Michael spearheaded educational initiatives on crypto, provided legal guidance concerning digital assets, and advised on the jurisdiction’s crypto law enforcement approach. He drafted Jersey’s parallel virtual assets investigations strategy, advised in cases involving suspected illicit use of digital assets, represented the Law Officers at international crypto conferences, and supported the States of Jersey Police in their public outreach efforts to educate islanders about the risks associated with crypto scams.

During his tenure in Jersey, Michael also provided legal support to the Island’s Financial Intelligence Unit, working closely with intelligence officers in reviewing suspicious activity reports and handling sensitive material. He regularly shared his knowledge and insights on virtual assets with other on-Island agencies, including the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC). Michael established effective communication lines with the JFSC, liaised regarding the latest crypto technology and global trends, and collaborated on issues related to sanctions evasion, money laundering, and terrorist financing risks associated with crypto.

Additionally, he proactively engaged with local policymakers, regulators, and government agencies in preparation for Jersey’s Moneyval assessment and served as the Law Officers’ representative in Jersey’s VA and VASP National Risk Assessment working group.

Jane Lasonder

Vice Chair ISTAC ODIHR/OSCE Speaker, Author and Survivor of HT

Jane Lasonder Survivor of Child Sexual Exploitation and trafficking. Vice Chair of ISTAC (International Survivors of Trafficking Advisory Council) ODIHR/OSCE and member of ITHT Interparliamentary Task Force on Human Trafficking. Advisory Panel Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence centre MSPEC /Oxford University. International Speaker and author, latest book published by Springer called Health and Slavery. Consultant for UN and WHO and works on projects with a Romanian Anti trafficking org eLiberare and the British Embassy writing training material and gives training to Medical health workers in Romania, Working on a project with Manchester UNI and Manchester Greater Council on better partnerships in Anti trafficking work. Setting up a NSTAC (national Survivors of trafficking Advisory Council) together with IASC Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner Eleanor Lyons with the UK government and Home office.

Jane wants to be a voice for those without a voice and work on solutions going forward on better identification and protection of victims and prosecution of traffickers.

James Pirie

Director, Recovery & Reorganisation at Grant Thornton 

James is a Director in the Recovery & Reorganisation team, based in Jersey. He is a Chartered Accountant, qualified Insolvency Practitioner and Certified Fraud Examiner and joined the Recovery & Reorganisation team in 2015.

James manages a diverse portfolio of cases including contentious insolvent liquidations, solvent restructurings, complex fund winding ups and forensic accounting investigations, regularly working with other Grant Thornton’s offices on cross border engagements. 

George Pearmain

Director of Financial Crime Strategy at the Government of Jersey

George is the Government’s lead adviser on AML/CFT/CPF policy and Head of Delegation to MONEYVAL. George is a leading strategic adviser on financial crime policy, having worked across the public, private and international organisation sectors for over 15 years. George initially trained and qualified as a lawyer (Jersey Advocate and English Barrister) and moved to focusing on financial services and financial crime risk, compliance, policy and legislation. George returned to Jersey to take this role in March 2020 after a period at the Secretariat to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – the international standard setter on financial crime. George has represented the FATF in international meetings around the world both providing input on country evaluations and presenting on FATF initiatives. George has represented the Government of Jersey both on-island to the financial services industry and off-island to officials in foreign governments, regulators and by representing the Government in a variety of international forums such as MONEYVAL, the FATF and the OECD Global Forum. Since 2022, George has jointly led a series of policy work in the FATF (representing Jersey) around corporate transparency and beneficial ownership reform. George has also evaluated countries in the current mutual evaluation round for both the FATF and MONEYVAL. George also has previous experience in private law practice advising clients on regulatory law, trusts law and general civil and criminal litigation.

Jill Britton

Director General at the Jersey Financial Services Commission

Jill Britton is the Director General at the Jersey financial Services Commission (JFSC). In her role, Jill is responsible for leading the JFSC in its day-to-day operations as both regulator and registry, and ensuring the organisations delivers its strategic priorities.

Jill was the Executive Director of Supervision between May 2016 and September 2021. In this role, she was responsible for overseeing the regulation of Jersey’s financial services industry and the supervision of other sectors for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing. She initially worked in our Supervision team from 2002 to 2004.

Jill has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry in the UK, Jersey and Asia, having specialised in compliance and operational risk management for global banking organisations. She was the Chief Risk Officer for Coutts Asia between 2009 and 2011 and the Head of Operational Risk for South East Asia at Standard Chartered between 2011 and 2013. At the end of 2013 she became the Head of Risk and then Head of Compliance for UBS AG in Jersey.

Jill is passionate about learning and development and mentors a number of talented women to supporting them in fulfilling their potential. Jill holds a BA (Hons) in Financial Services.

Alexandra Reip

Associate Director at KPMG in the Crown Dependencies

Alexandra has been with KPMG for 20 years, with over 16 years of Financial Services experience. She joined KPMG in the Crown Dependencies from the KPMG International Quality and Risk Management group in November 2013. 

Alexandra’s current role includes providing regulatory advice to a variety of clients within the financial services industry. This includes identifying gaps with regard to impending, new or existing regulations, and sharing best practice for operating robust control frameworks and enterprise-wide risk assessments. To a number of clients she has provided outputs including remediation plans to address weaknesses identified, and recommendations with a detailed road map and key milestones.

She provides oversight to KPMG’s Islands Group and leads the Forensic AML/CFT service line for Bermuda, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Crown Dependencies and BVI. 

Zoe Dixon-Smith

Managing Director at Baker Regulatory

Zoe Dixon-Smith is a Managing Director at Baker Regulatory Services.

Zoe is a senior Risk & Compliance practitioner with over 30 years’ experience in Offshore finance.  Experienced both locally and globally in risk, compliance and AML roles at international banks, privately owned trust and fund companies as well as listed PLCs and joined Baker Regulatory Services in February 2024. 

Zoe spent three years at the JFSC as a regulatory supervisor and is an experienced executive director at regulated financial institutions, as well as acting as MLRO, MLCO and Compliance Officer for Service Providers, Funds and Managed Entities.

She is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association holding diplomas in Anti Money Laundering and Financial Crime Prevention and the Jersey Certificate in Offshore Administration.

Christopher Griffin

Partner at Carey Olsen

Chris has broad experience of both general international corporate and funds work with particular expertise in private equity, hedge and digital asset funds having spent ten years as a corporate and funds lawyer in London.

Chris advises on all aspects of fund and corporate transactions, including the legal and regulatory aspects of fund launches, and joint ventures. He also has considerable experience in dealing with the Jersey Financial Services Commission in navigating investment vehicles through the Jersey regulatory approval process as part of the Jersey funds team. He also spearheads Carey Olsen's digital asset practice, having advised on a series of token issuances, digital asset funds and exchanges.

Trevor Horwitz

Managing Director, Data Insights and Forensics 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.

Tom Devlin

Chief Commercial Officer at KYC360

Tom is responsible for oversight of all Sales and Commercial Partnerships whilst ensuring that the marketing, sales and support of the firm's award-winning AML software solutions align. Educated at Oxford, Tom worked in corporate finance at Rothschild before qualifying as an English barrister. For almost ten years he managed systemically important enquiries for regulators into compliance failures within regulated businesses both on and offshore.

An industry expert representative from Jersey Finance

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Jersey’s finance industry is focussed on developing a better, more certain future. By working with the right people and creating a safe and secure environment for investors, we can help to grow both local and international economies. As the voice of the international finance centre, we are proud to promote Jersey and help set it apart as a  first-class jurisdiction.

Grant Thornton

Platinum sponsor

Grant Thornton Limited is a leading Channel Island practice with offices in Guernsey and Jersey with combined staffing strength of over 200 people. We are the Channel Island member of Grant Thornton International, one of the world's leading international organisations of independently owned and managed accounting and consulting firms.

Grant Thornton International is not a worldwide partnership. Services are delivered independently by the member firms and as a member firm within Grant Thornton International we have access to member and correspondent firms in over 140 countries, offering clients specialist local knowledge supported by international expertise and methodologies.

To learn more, visit: www.grantthorntonci.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

KPMG

Gold sponsor

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. KPMG in the Isle of Man and KPMG in the Channels Islands merged in 2020 to form the KPMG in the Crown Dependencies. This creates a professional services business of 460 people, locally owned and dedicated to serving the key industry sectors across the three islands.

To learn more, visit: www.kpmg.com

VAIIE

Silver sponsor

Vaiie is part of the Jersey Post Group, a global and independent business that has been fully owned by Government of Jersey since 1969. We work with the biggest names in the financial, insurance, telecommunications and energy sectors making us one of the largest offshore data handlers.

To learn more, visit: www.vaiie.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

Ernst & Young

Silver sponsor

EY are a global leader in assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions services. Our integrated global network comprises over 30,000 people dedicated to financial services, serving the banking and capital markets, insurance, and wealth and asset management sectors. We bring this industry experience across all our services lines to our Jersey clients.

To learn more, visit: www.ey.com

First Derivative

Silver sponsor

Driven by people, data and technology, First Derivative unlocks the value of insight, hindsight, and foresight to drive organisations forward. Counting many of the world’s leading investment banks as clients, First Derivative helps its clients navigate the data-driven, digital revolution that is both disrupting and transforming the financial services sector. The Group operates from 16 offices across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific and employs approximately 2,000 people worldwide.

To learn more, visit: www.firstderivative.com

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