2nd Annual Economic Crime & Compliance Symposium

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Helen Hatton (Chair)

Director & Expert-trainer at the Schools 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.

David Lewis (Keynote Speaker)

Managing Director and Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Advisory at Kroll & Former Executive Secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)

David Lewis is a managing director and the global head of anti-money laundering (AML) advisory in the Forensic Investigations and Intelligence practice. David leverages extensive global experience helping governments, supervisors and regulated firms effectively combat money laundering.

Prior to joining Kroll, David served as Executive Secretary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), where he led the FATF Secretariat in bringing to bear the combined expertise of governments to fight money laundering, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This included understanding risks, trends and methods; developing global standards and guidance; and assessing the effectiveness of action taken by governments. David established the first FATF training institute and global training program for government officials.

Sir Rob Wainwright (Keynote Speaker)

Partner at Deloitte Risk Advisory B.V.

Sir Rob Wainwright is a senior partner at Deloitte, advising the boards and executive teams of global companies on cyber security, financial crime and other areas of risk.

He previously served as Executive Director of Europol, the European Union law enforcement agency, for almost a decade. Here he helped established the European Counter Terrorism Centre and the European Cybercrime Centre, and led the transformation of Europol into a world-class security institution.

Sir Rob has had a 28-year career in intelligence, policing, government, EU and international affairs, including at the Serious Organised Crime Agency, National Criminal Intelligence Service and the British Security Service. In June 2018 he was awarded a Knighthood by HM The Queen for his services to security and policing.

He has worked across a range of pioneering security solutions in technology, data and intelligence operations, including driving new public-private initiatives on cyber security and financial crime in banking and other sectors through the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Institute of International Finance. Sir Rob is a Board Member of the Global Cyber Alliance, the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery, and the Wilton Park Advisory Council. He is the Chair of a Global Experts Group with the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Information Security.

Sir Rob currently hosts the podcast series, Insights on Responsible Business.

Andrew Le Brun (Keynote Speaker)

Deputy Executive Secretary, MONEYVAL at Council of Europe

Andrew joined the MONEYVAL Secretariat (part of the Council of Europe) in October 2019 and became Deputy Executive Secretary in December 2020. His responsibilities include coordination of MONEYVAL’s mutual evaluations of member countries’ implementation of the FATF Standards. Before joining the Secretariat, Andrew was MONEYVAL’s scientific expert on financial matters. He has been involved in the mutual evaluations of a number of countries under MONEYVAL’s fourth and fifth rounds.

Andrew was responsible for the development of financial crime policy at the Jersey Financial Services Commission from May 2000 to September 2019. As part of this role, he was responsible for coordinating three external reviews of Jersey’s compliance with the FATF Standards. His last two years were spent leading the preparation of Jersey’s national ML/TF risk assessment, which was published in October 2020.

Before joining the Jersey Financial Services Commission, Andrew was an audit partner at KPMG in Jersey. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

William Grace

Partner at Carey Olsen

William advises Jersey finance industry clients and international clients on financial services related disputes whether civil, criminal, contentious regulatory or a combination. This includes advisory work and advocacy.

His specific expertise is in advising on money laundering matters (including corruption), regulatory and compliance investigations, disputes in the banking, trusts and funds sectors, sanctions, production orders including TIEA work, insider dealing, reporting duties, asset recovery, reciprocal enforcement, cyber related risk and international mutual assistance generally. He places particular emphasis on working alongside clients and their in-house lawyers/compliance staff and other external advisers to implement risk management based solutions to disputes in the regulated sector.

He is experienced in politically sensitive and complex matters involving multiple legal issues and jurisdictions. He often advises on higher risk business in the financial services regulated sector, whether that is in client take on, transactional support or M&A support. In addition to acting for Jersey regulated financial services businesses, he also acts for PLCs, individuals and foreign states.

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.

Sir David Green CB KC

Partner at Cohen & Gresser

Sir David Green CB KC is a partner in Cohen & Gresser’s London office.

Sir David served for six years as the Director of the UK Serious Fraud Office. His extended term as Director was notable for the first Deferred Prosecution Agreements, Bribery Act prosecutions, numerous high profile cross border criminal investigations working with Law Enforcement in the US, Europe and Asia, and his leadership of the SFO in a challenging political climate.

Prior to that, he served as the Director of the Revenue & Customs Prosecutions Office and worked in private practice for 25 years as a barrister specializing in criminal law. Sir David was called to the Bar in 1979, and was appointed a Recorder of the Crown Court and Queen’s Counsel in 2000. Before becoming a lawyer, he spent three years with the Defense Intelligence Staff, Whitehall.

Sir David has broad experience advising on issues relating to financial crime, including fraud, corruption, money laundering and the UK Bribery Act. He also advises on self-reporting, independent assessments, and deferred prosecution agreements.

In 2018 Sir David was knighted for services to the criminal justice system.

Lord Ken Macdonald KC

Barrister at Matrix Chambers

Former Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald is one of the country’s leading criminal, regulatory and international lawyers, with a first rank advisory, trial, appellate and arbitration practice. He has conducted and overseen inquiries and investigations for the UK government, the European Commission and many overseas governments and State authorities and he sits as an Arbitrator in the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Described in Chambers & Partners 2018 as a ‘Senior Statesman’ of the Bar, in 2007 he was knighted for services to the law and in 2010 appointed to the House of Lords.

Particularly well known for his ability to confront complex issues of detail with concision and clarity, his specialisms include business and corporate crime and associated extraditions, money laundering, sanctions and export control violations, market offences, financial regulation, licensing and international commercial and other arbitrations. Aside from governments and State authorities, his recent clients have included Heads of State and senior political figures, banks and financial institutions, international media organisations, major corporations in all sectors, gaming organisations, private family offices, and many individuals both at home and abroad.

As a former Director of Public Prosecutions (and the first prominent defence lawyer to have been appointed to that post), he has unrivalled insight into sensitive issues of criminal risk and associated prosecutorial responses. He is very familiar with the workings of prosecution and regulatory agencies at home and abroad, and uniquely placed to intercede where necessary with prosecutors, regulators and other state officials and to advise on robust responses to allegations of crime, regulatory failings or other misconduct, however and wherever they occur. He has met regularly with Heads of Government, Ministers of Justice and the Heads of leading enforcement and regulatory agencies worldwide.

James Thoburn

Associate Managing Director, EMEA Head of Digital Forensics & Incident Response, Cyber Risk at Kroll

James Thoburn is a head of digital forensics and incident response in our cyber risk practice, based in London. He has more than 11 years of experience in digital forensics and incident response (DFIR), covering both the public and private sectors, including UK government and law enforcement. This experience includes an array of incident response engagements with clients across the Fortune Global 500 from all major verticals.

George Pearmain

Director of Financial Crime Strategy at the Government of Jersey

George is a leading strategic adviser on financial crime policy, having worked across the public, private and international organisation sectors for over 12 years. As Director of Financial Crime Strategy for the Government of Jersey, George leads the jurisdictional approach to financial crime prevention and acts as Head of Delegation to MONEYVAL for Jersey. George trained as a lawyer (English Barrister/Jersey Advocate) and returned to Jersey to take on this role in March 2020 after working for the Secretariat to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – the international standard setter on financial crime based in Paris, France. George regularly evaluates and advises other jurisdictions around the world on financial crime strategy and represents the Government of Jersey both on-island to the financial services industry and off-island to officials in foreign governments, regulators and in a variety of international forums.

Kotryna Filipaviciute

Programme Manager, MONEYVAL at the Council of Europe

Kotryna works as a Programme Manager at the Council of Europe, MONEYVAL Secretariat. She is responsible for conducting mutual evaluations of MONEYVAL member countries, monitoring of countries’ developments through follow up analysis process, delivering trainings for countries and coordinating other horizontal projects linked to mutual evaluations.  

Prior to joining MONEYVAL, Kotryna worked at the Financial Transparency Advisors – AML/CFT consultancy firm - where she coordinated risk and supervision-related advisory projects, AML/CFT workshops and trainings. 

Kotryna had extensive supervisory experience at the Central Bank of Lithuania, where she carried out various supervisory roles in the fields of AML/CFT, operational risk, governance and internal control. Kotryna worked on the 4th EU AML Directive during Lithuanian Presidency of the European Council. She was also a member of the EU Commission’s Expert Group on Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing (EGMLTF) and European Supervisory Authorities’ (ESAs) Sub-committee on Anti-Money Laundering (AMLC) and hence worked on various AML/CFT-related projects at the European Banking Authority (EBA). Kotryna is also a certified internal auditor.

Malin Nilsson

Managing Director of Financial Services Compliance and Regulation at Kroll

Malin Nilsson is a managing director in the Kroll (Duff & Phelps rebranded as Kroll in 2021) Financial Services Compliance and Regulation team and is based in Jersey, delivering services to clients across the Channel Islands and internationally.

Malin leads regulatory due diligence assignments for both buyers and vendors and regularly conducts enforcement and supervisory engagements, concentrating on governance, systems and controls and risk management.

Heading a team of professionals who perform compliance consulting engagements involving regulatory investigations, compliance secondments, and development of policies and procedures, risk and governance frameworks, Malin has a wide range of experience across fiduciary, fund administration, investment management and banking institutions in the Crown Dependencies, Europe, Caribbean and Far East where the team is routinely deployed to assist multinational organizations.

Stephen Platt

Founder & CEO of RiskScreen

Stephen is RiskScreen's founder and CEO, and regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in financial crime prevention. Prior to establishing RiskScreen, he spent 25 years conducting large scale regulatory enquiries into AML compliance failings by businesses ranging from Tier 1 banks downwards. He is a barrister, the original founder of the International Compliance Association, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC and the author of the #1 best-selling book ‘Criminal Capital’.

Matthew Palmer

Director at Jersey' Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT)

Matt Palmer has more than 20 years' experience in cyber and information security risk. He worked in London and New York as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) then Senior Director, Risk and Software as a Service (SaaS), at global insurance broker Willis Towers Watson, and has lived in Jersey for a decade.

In 2021, Matt was appointed as director for the newly established Jersey Cyber Emergency Response Team (CERT), responsible for promoting and improving the cyber resilience across the Island’s critical national infrastructure, business communities and citizens to reduce the risk and impact of major cyber incidents in Jersey.

Jersey’s CERT forms part of an international cyber emergency response network and represents the interests of Jersey internationally, helping to maintain and strengthen the Island’s international reputation as a safe place to live and to do business online.

The CERT can also provide expert assistance in the case of a cyber security incident. The CERT is an independent voice for cyber security and designed to operate at arm’s length from Government.

Vanessa Kruger

Manager at Deloitte LLP 

Vanessa is a Manager within the Risk and Regulatory proposition based in the Deloitte Islands and Gibraltar Advisory team.​ 

She has 19 years of experience in Financial Services, which has spanned middle management to senior management roles in customer relations, operational risk, regulatory enablement and compliance.​Vanessa has consulted on financial crime engagements in the UK and was involved in South Africa with implementing new Financial Crime regulations.

Kroll

Platinum sponsor

Kroll’s global team of recognized experts provides financial services clients with end-to-end compliance and regulatory services, working alongside you to minimize risks, drive efficiencies, and ensure compliance.

Kroll provides proprietary data, technology and insights to help our clients stay ahead of complex demands related to risk, governance and growth. Our solutions deliver a powerful competitive advantage, enabling faster, smarter and more sustainable decisions. With 5,000 experts around the world, we create value and impact for our clients and communities.

To learn more, visit: www.kroll.com

RiskScreen

Gold sponsor

RiskScreen is dedicated to improving the effectiveness of compliance departments through intelligent process automation of risk-based customer onboarding, screening and in-life monitoring. 

To learn more, visit: www.riskscreen.com

Deloitte LLP

Gold sponsor

Deloitte in Jersey delivers risk advisory, business consulting and transformation services to many leading businesses in the jurisdiction and beyond. Deloitte spans more than 150 countries and territories.

Our advisory services span across the entire lifecycle of AML/CFT compliance, drawing on the breadth and depth of our AML/CFT capability to provide a comprehensive, tailored service.

Our services include: Risk Assessment | Compliance Reviews | Policy & Procedures | Financial Crime Managed Service | Quality Control & Assurance | KYC/CDD remediation | Digital Transformation.

To learn more, visit: Jersey | Deloitte UK

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

Central Associates 

Bronze sponsor

Central Associates is a London-based investigation business covering a diverse range of worldwide assignments. We have an outstanding team of investigation and intelligence experts who can provide a bespoke solution to our clients’ concerns. 

To learn more, visit: www.centralassociates.com

Ardent Chambers

Bronze 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

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.

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

www.jcoa.co.uk