Compliance forum has selected experts to represent the world's leading authorities on AML/CTF and Sanctions best practises, to share practical information, proven techniques and critical guidance within an intimate, interactive setting that ensures you receive direct answers to your most pressing compliance questions. Expert speakers confirmed to date include
Senior Consultant at John Howell & Co. Ltd
David Artingstall is a Senior Consultant at John Howell & Co. Ltd, specialising in risk, regulation and financial crime. In this role he has recently worked on projects for UK and overseas regulators, and as an AML/CFT expert for the European Commission and International Monetary Fund. Prior to joining John Howell & Co. Ltd. in 2007, David was a Technical Specialist in the FSA's Financial Crime and Intelligence Division, and previously worked at both the National Criminal Intelligence Service and Special Branch at New Scotland Yard, specialising in financial crime, money laundering and terrorist finance. David studied Mathematics at Oxford University and holds a Certificate in Legal Studies from the Open University.
President of IFSC Ireland, former Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister), former Ambassador, Delegation of the European Commission to the US
John Bruton is a former Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach) from 1994-1997. Prior to his election as Prime Minister, he was a senior Irish politician who served in cabinet as Minister for Finance, Minister for Industry and Energy and Minister for Trade, Commerce and Tourism. While Prime Minister, John Bruton presided over a successful Irish EU Presidency in 1996 and helped finalise the Stability and Growth Pact, which governs the management of the single European currency, the Euro. From 1999 until his appointment as Ambassador, he was one of ten Vice Presidents of the European People's Party. Before being appointed Ambassador to the United States, John Bruton served as a leading member of the Convention that drafted the proposed European Constitution, signed in Rome in October, 2004. He graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and politics in 1968 before studying to become a barrister.
Director, Liechtenstein FIU, Chairman, Operational Working Group, Egmont
Rene completed a law Degree at the University of Fribourg (CH) in 1998 and went on to study a Master of Laws in European Business Law at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (NL) in 1999. He worked for an International Law firm in Brussels in 1999 and then an International Law firm in Zurich between 1999 and 2001. Between 2001 and 2004 Rene was the Deputy Director Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Liechtenstein before becoming the Director of the FIU for Liechtenstein in 2004.
Further assignments include the Vice Chair of the Egmont Group (since 2010), the Head of the Liechtenstein Delegation to the Counsel of Europe's Select Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures - MONEYVAL (formerly PC-R-EV) and the Coordinator of the Liechtenstein Task Force on Countering the Financing of Terrorism.
Bryant & Associates, United States (US)
Mr. Bryant has more than twenty years senior management experience both in the United States and Overseas as a money laundering investigator, compliance officer/money laundering reporting officer, enforcement regulator and a counter terrorism and counter narcotics consultant. He has been awarded a Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice, summa cum laude, and holds or has held eight board certifications covering the areas of risk management, financial due diligence, financial operations, regulatory compliance, and anti-money laundering.
For the past several years, Mr. Bryant has served as a consultant and senior Subject Matter Expert (SME) on large bank (both foreign and domestic) remediations, usually where there is regulatory enforcement action. He advises governments, international bodies, regulatory agencies, financial institutions, consulting firms, and AML vendors on a global basis.
Director, Irish funds Industry Association
Declan Casey is the Legal & Technical Director of the Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA), the representative body for the international investment funds Industry in Ireland. Declan is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and is also a Legal Executive. Declan has been involved in financial services for the past 20 years and is a member of the Governments IFSC Funds Group and Anti Money Laundering Steering Committee.
Administrator for Sanctions and Kimberley process, EU Commission
After university (legal and political studies in Strasbourg, Rome and Paris) and military service, Stéphane Chardon served in the Secretariat for European Affairs in Paris. He joined the European Commission in Brussels in 1996 as a lawyer. He entered the Commission's external relations department in 1999 and was posted in EU Delegations to Asmara (Eritrea) and Moscow (Russia), in charge of economic and political affairs.
Since 2006, he has been responsible for EU sanctions/restrictive measures under the EU's foreign and security policy and for the Kimberley Process in the Commission's External Relations Directorate-General (DG RELEX), and since 2011 in the Commission's Service for Foreign Policy Instruments.
Senior Manager Sanctions at PayPal and former Enforcement Section Chief - U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
Alison joined PayPal Inc. in February 2011 as its senior manager for sanctions compliance. For nearly 14 years before joining PayPal, Alison worked at the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), first as a compliance officer, then as a senior compliance officer, and finally as an Enforcement Section Chief from 2005 until 2011. As an OFAC officer, she spoke before many audiences across the United States on OFAC sanctions (and especially how to avoid violating them). She issued thousands of administrative subpoenas and managed hundreds of investigations into possible violations of U.S. sanctions, often concluding the cases with recommendations for civil monetary penalties.
Between 1985 and 1997 Allison was a researcher with the Investor Responsibility Research Centre and the Gallup Organization.
Alison graduated from Smith College with an AB in Government in 1985, and from The George Washington University in 1991 with an MA in Public Policy.
Deputy Head of Unit F-2, Company Law, Corporate Governance and Financial Crime, European Commission
Eric joined the European Commission in 1992 after having worked several years for an international consultancy and a law firm. He has held various positions in DG Internal Market and Services, mainly in the financial services area. He was for five years Deputy Head of the Unit dealing with Payments Systems, Consumer Policy and Retail Financial Services, in charge of developing the Commission's retail financial services policy and the single euro payments area (SEPA). In April 2010 he joined, as Deputy Head, the Unit of DG Internal Market and Services which is in charge of Company Law, Corporate Governance and Financial crime, where he has particular responsibility for managing and coordinating the European Commission's policy against money laundering. He is, in that context, the European Commission's head of delegation at the FATF. Eric graduated in European law at the University of Lille (France).
Head of Financial Crime, Lloyds Bank
Graham Hooper is the Director of Financial Crime at Lloyds Banking Group. He is responsible for the maintaining the Group's anti-financial crime strategy, policy and governance frameworks and oversees the Group's compliance monitoring regimes in respect of the risks associated with Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing, Fraud, Sanctions and Bribery & Corruption.
Graham was previously the Head of Group AML Compliance at Lloyds TSB and before this was the Deputy Group MLRO at both Barclays Bank and Alliance and Leicester. Prior to this he held various security-related and fraud prevention positions in both the private and public sectors.
Graham represents Lloyds Banking Group on various UK financial industry groups and joint industry, regulatory and law enforcement forums. He is the current Chair of the BBA's Money Laundering Advisory Panel and is the UK Retail Banks' representative on the Government's Money Laundering Advisory Committee.
John Howell and Company Ltd
John Howell founded his own consultancy in 1992, after a successful career in investment banking. He has advised both public and private sector clients in Europe and Central Asia on financial markets and regulation. John's principal interest is in economic crime, including money laundering, threat finance and corruption. He has undertaken independent reviews of regulatory institutions and AML/CFTF arrangements in a number of countries and is author of the ICC guide to the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing legislation. John is a member of the UK National Audit Office's Regulatory Experts Panel. He is currently coordinating one of the largest global asset recovery operations ever mounted, in connection with a major bank fraud. John graduated in Modern History from Oxford University and was awarded a Robert Schuman Scholarship to the European Parliament.
Dillon Eustace
Paula Kelleher is a partner in the Financial Services Department of Dillon Eustace specialising in the areas of regulation and compliance for a broad range of financial services and investment firms. She was a founding partner of the firm in 1992 and during the period 1994-1997 was Managing Director of Citigroup's Trustee and Custodial Services operation in Dublin. Paula re-joined Dillon Eustace in 1997 as a partner in the regulatory and compliance unit of the Financial Services Department which provides solutions to a wide-range of financial services clients. Paula is an associate of the Irish Taxation Institute and her tax knowledge complements her other areas of expertise. Paula is also a director of the Association of Compliance Officers in Ireland and is the Chairperson of the Technical Committee of the ACOI.
Enterprise Head of AML/CTF and Sanctions, AIB Group
Geraldine joined AIB in 1986 and has worked in a number of areas across the Group including the Retail Network, IT Operations, Group Internal Audit and Compliance. In 2003 she was appointed Senior Manager and Head of Anti-Money Laundering, Data Protection and Competition Law for AIB Capital Markets Division and in 2008 moved into the Financial Crime function as the Enterprise Head of Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions.
Geraldine represents the bank and the industry on a number of working groups in Ireland, the UK and Europe and chairs the Money Laundering Committee at the Irish Banking Federation and up to recently the Financial Crime Advisory Panel at the British Bankers Association.
Geraldine holds the Banking Certificate, the foundation in A.C.C.A., a degree in Marketing, an MBA and a Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering.
Detective Inspector, Head of the Money Laundering Investigation Unit (MLIU) of the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation. (Ireland’s FIU)
Harmonisation project, Consultant to the UN 1267 Committee
Victoria spent 10 years working as a forensic accountant, initially with KPMG in London before moving on to run PwC's European Forensic Technology practice in Switzerland. She is an expert in linguistic identity matching and worked on the pre-cursor to the current UK National Fraud Initiative as well as identity matching for FCPA investigations, the search for dormant WW2 assets and UN aid-related investigations. She joined UBS 5 years ago to design their client screening systems and continues to work in their Global AML department while also running her own consulting business. Since the end of 2010 she has been employed by the UN 1267 Committee to re-design their sanctions data, with a view to promoting the standardisation of major sanctions lists.
Regulatory Training and Consultancy
Robert Moynihan is an independent specialist in Compliance, Regulation & risk management generally, providing consultancy & training to banks, securities firms, hedge funds, credit unions and other financial service providers in Ireland & the UK since returning to his native Ireland in 2002 after 18 years in Sydney & London. He has an in-depth knowledge of domestic & international financial services & regulation, including money laundering, terrorist-financing & sanct d, UK, US & Switzerland.
He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1984 and holds MSc in Financial Regulation and Compliance Management from London Guildhall University, as well as several other financial services qualifications.
He was a member of the Financial Services Industry Consultative Panel from 2004 to 2008. In June 2011 he appointed by the Minist dit Union Commission set up to review the future of Ireland's credit union sector.
Senior Associate and Professional Support Lawyer, SNR Denton
Emma Radmore is a senior associate and professional support lawyer in SNR Denton's London financial services and markets practice. She specialises in all aspects of financial regulation with particular emphasis on retail business. She advises banks, insurers, investment funds and distributors and insurance and investment intermediaries on financial regulatory licensing and compliance. She advises on the need for authorisation under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FMSA) and has assisted many firms needing authorisation in their applications to the Financial Services Authority (FSA). She also advises on anti-financial crime legislation, in particular anti-money laundering (AML), financial sanctions and anti-bribery laws.
Manager, AML Communication and Group-wide Learning, Royal Bank of Scotland NV
With 10 years experience, Tappeiner brings a wealth of knowledge in various aspects of AML compliance in a global context. At RBS and ABN AMRO before, he led subject matter expert groups in developing standards for global transaction monitoring system deployments. He also worked with business lines to identify products and AML risks in order to appropriately monitor them. Prior to his transaction monitoring work, he advised ABN AMRO on complex cross border AML issues. He also managed the Financial Intelligence Unit at the New York Branch, conducting in-depth investigations of correspondent banking clients.
Partner - Regulatory, For and on behalf of Pannone LLP
Zia is a Partner in the Regulatory team and Head of Compliance Advisory at Pannone LLP. He is a specialist in anti-money laundering (AML), anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABC) and international Sanctions.
Zia became a partner in 2008 but left shortly thereafter to work for Barclays as Group Head of Sanctions and Policy, where he was responsible for the global Sanctions function for the Barclays Group, in addition to being responsible for the Sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABC) policies.
Zia re-joined Pannone in 2010 and now advises clients on legal and regulatory compliance issues, internal and external investigations, enforcement and licensing with particular reference to, international Sanctions, the Bribery Act 2010, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and the Money Laundering Regulations 2007.
Zia writes articles on regulatory compliance for a variety of publications including the Journal for International Banking Law and Regulation, Money Laundering Bulletin and Complinet.
Zia was a member of the BBA's working group that drafted the Part III JMLSG guidance on Sanctions and is also currently a member of the BBA's Bribery Act working group. Zia also runs LinkedIn groups for compliance professionals on ABC and Sanctions.
LL.M., Attorney - Head of the Global Sanctions Offices of Commerzbank
With 10 years experience, Tappeiner brings a wealth of knowledge in various aspects of AML compliance in a global context. At RBS and ABN AMRO before, he led subject matter expert groups in developing standards for global transaction monitoring system deployments. He also worked with business lines to identify products and AML risks in order to appropriately monitor them. Prior to his transaction monitoring work, he advised ABN AMRO on complex cross border AML issues. He also managed the Financial Intelligence Unit at the New York Branch, conducting in-depth investigations of correspondent banking clients.
