Financial Crime Prevention and AML: Key Considerations for Directors in Jersey
This webinar forms part of the 2025 Directors Series.
Description
Directors play a pivotal role in safeguarding firms against financial crime. This webinar explores the types of crimes directors must guard against, while distinguishing between enterprise and client director responsibilities. It covers the importance of effective leadership, oversight, and robust reporting—balancing detail with forward-looking analysis. We’ll also examine how client directors can apply risk assessments, leverage their strengths, and inspire teams to deliver strong, compliant outcomes.
This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker.
Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.
Content
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Understanding the financial crimes are you seeking to prevent?
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A look at the specific role of a director including the differences between the enterprise director role and the client director role
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Getting it right: leadership, reporting, specifics vs oversight and backwards vs forwards looking reporting
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Client directors risk assessments playing to your strengths and getting the best out of your teams
Presenters
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Fiona Wilson Of Counsel at Collas Crill |
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Fiona is Of Counsel in the Financial Services and Regulatory team. She specialises in providing advice to businesses on regulatory compliance including money laundering and terrorist financing issues, and competition law and data protection matters, as well as Jersey financial services regulation and regulatory investigations and enforcement matters. Fiona also provides advice on general corporate and commercial matters and mergers and acquisitions. Fiona has collaborated with our Private Clients and Trusts team to help clients put into place managed trust company arrangements, and private trust company structures, outsourcing arrangements and processes for transferring books of business. She has also advised on making notifications and obtaining consents in relation to suspicious activity reports, sanctions licences and advice as well as assisting with internal investigations in relation to fraud, suspicious transactions and anti-bribery and corruption. Fiona's previous experience as in-house counsel, as a director of a financial services business and as a company secretary of a listed company helps her give advice that is practically focused. |
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Jack Deveney Associate at Collas Crill |
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Jack advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters, with a focus on financial services. He has particular expertise in regulatory matters, having extensive experience relating to the registration and ongoing supervision of relegated entities, as well as enforcement action. Jack also advises on commercial litigation and trust dispute matters. Prior to joining Collas Crill in 2025, Jack worked for the Jersey Financial Services Commission as a legal adviser, advising on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious conduct, prudential, and AML matters. Jack read Law at the University of London, completed his LPC at the University of Law Chester, and was admitted as an England and Wales Solicitor in March 2023. |