Financial Crime & Cyber Resilience Conference 2021

Matthew Redhead is a researcher and writer on financial crime and national security topics, and an independent risk consultant to the FinTech and RegTech sectors. He is also a regular contributor to Jane’s Intelligence Review on serious organised crime, financial crime, terrorism and intelligence. He has extensive experience in financial services, having trained as a ‘front office’ banker for HSBC in the 1990s, and worked for seven years in various senior roles in that same bank’s financial crime risk function, leaving as Global Head of Strategic Intelligence in April 2018. He has also served as a government official at the MoD, and on secondment at the Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) at the Home Office. He has extensive experience working in several fields of management consultancy for PwC and Matrix Knowledge Group.

Detective Inspector Steve Jackson Intelligence Development Team (IDT), located within National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB). Steve has over 27 years’ service with City of London Police. A career detective in various roles, for the last couple of years Steve has been working in NFIB, heading up the national policing response to Courier Fraud, Romance Fraud and more recently Investment Fraud.

Coinciding with Valentine’s Month and keeping people safe online dating  Steve and his specialist team features as part of 10 new episodes on the critically acclaimed BBC 1 TV documentary For Love or Money, presentingalongside Kym Marsh and Ashleigh John-Baptiste…

Steve Elliot, Managing Director of LexisNexis Risk Solutions UK & Ireland, is a specialist in financial crime compliance, with a wealth of relevant experience, having had responsibility for Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Financial Crime, Security, Investigations / Litigation, Payments and Controls (1^st line) across a range of roles in consulting, as a practitioner and within international law enforcement.

Steve has considerable experience of operating across a number of different industry sectors, including a strong focus around Financial Services, both in his former role with consultancy firm, Huntswood, and in previous roles with Old Mutual Wealth and Zurich Financial Services.

Steve is passionate about the role of technology and innovation in supporting effective risk management and compliance, and has advised many organisations on the transformation to digital KYC to create a safer customer on-boarding process.

A partner in Herbert Smith Freehills’ corporate crime team, Susannah advises clients on issues related to anti-corruption, sanctions, anti-money laundering, fraud, insider dealing and related issues. She assists regulated firms with corporate crime compliance matters, conducts internal investigations, and represents clients in external investigations, in particular by the FCA and SFO.

She is band one ranked in Chambers UK for corporate crime and recognised as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 UK. Susannah sits on the Law Society Money Laundering Task Force, the CLLS Corporate Crime and Corruption Committee and is a consultant editor of Lloyds Law Reports: Financial Crime Series.

Chris acts for a number of banks and other financial institutions, primarily on contentious regulatory matters. He advises clients on internal investigations, FCA and PRA enforcement matters and on interactions with the FOS. His experience in contentious matters also informs his advice to clients on regulatory compliance particularly with respect to culture, governance and conduct risk.

Chris has been on secondment to three international investment banks in both London and New York; this in-house experience has led him to understand better the needs of his clients in order to produce clear, focussed assistance and advice.

Chris specialises in issues facing wholesale banks, particularly in relation to market abuse. He has acted on some of the most high-profile contentious regulatory matters in the market, including in connection with LIBOX and FX investigations, Skilled Persons’ Reviews and Parliamentary investigations.
He also specialises in matters relating to culture and governance, acting in the Salz Review of Barclays and the Kelly Review of the Co-Operative Bank.

Chris is dual qualified in England & Wales and in New York. He spent two years on secondment to Herbert Smith Freehills’ office where he acted on matters involving investigations by the SEC and DOJ.

Nina Kerkez is a part of the Consulting team with LexisNexis Risk Solutions. From her base in London, Nina leads FCC consulting group for our UK and Ireland business.

Nina has started her career in business-to-business marketing, eventually transitioning her talents to technology product development. She specializes in go-to-market strategies and new product development for the risk and compliance sector with attention toward know your customer (KYC) efforts, for the last eight years.

Nina takes a customer-centric approach to strategy and product development, believing that a company’s customers is at the forefront of any business. She is adept at working for and advising complex global organizations on risk and compliance issues to deliver true business benefits.

Nina has just completed Executive MBA at Cass Business School, and already holds Bachelor of Arts in Business and Master of Arts degrees in International Business. She is a Serbian native, and speaks fluent Spanish, colloquial French and has a basic knowledge of Russian and Italian, in addition to her native Serbian language.

Lawrence Wintermeyer is a globally recognised digital finance advocate with a track record as an advisor, executive, and board member working with global brands and startups. Based in London, he is the Principal of Elipses, a digital investment management firm focused on sustainable investments, systematic investment management strategies, big data analytics, machine learning, and DLT technologies. He is the co-founder of Global Digital Finance, a not for-profit promoting fair and transparent markets for crypto and digital assets, and is the former CEO of Innovate Finance, is a PIMFA Board Member, and sits on the OECD Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board. Lawrence has an MBA, is a host on the Digital Asset Report on Fintech.TV, and is a regular Forbes contributor. He promotes ethical and sustainable finance policies for a transparent, secure, and quality digital future for everyone.

Karen has extensive experience working on regulatory issues for a wide range of financial clients, and of working with and within a UK regulator, and for an overseas regulator.  She advises financial institutions on a wide range of issues in both contentious and non-contentious contexts, including notably market abuse, wholesale conduct, conflicts of interest, sponsor duties, investment research, the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, systems and controls issues and the management of legal risk.

She chairs the City of London Law Society Regulatory committee and is the editor and co-author of the Thomson Reuters Practitioner’s Guide  to the Law and Regulation of Market Abuse.

Louise joined Ruffer in 1999 after graduating with an honours degree in accountancy and law and became Ruffer’s Compliance Officer in 2007.

Louise has been a Director of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group since 2004 and its Chairman since July 2016. She is also chair of the PIMFA Financial Crime Committee.

Prior to joining Netwealth in January 2019, Michael was Compliance Director & MLRO at Henderson Rowe, a boutique Mayfair-based investment manager, and was previously Deputy Head of Compliance for Duncan Lawrie Private Bank. Michael started his career with the Burns Anderson Independent Network in Bristol, before relocating to London in 2005 and joining Brewin Dolphin. Following a successful contract role as Compliance Officer for the Private Wealth Management division at Kleinwort Benson, Michael joined Coutts and became an Associate Director in the Compliance Advice & Initiatives team. In 2013 Michael took a career break to travel the world with his wife before returning to the UK and setting up his own independent compliance consultancy.

He holds the International Compliance Association (ICA) Diploma in Compliance, along with professional qualifications with the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) and Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). Michael is a member of the ICA and associate member of the CISI

Marieke Kernet is the Head of Financial Crime for Tilney Smith & Williamson since 2018. She started her career in Luxembourg as a qualified barrister/solicitor, working for a well-known international law firm in their investment funds and then banking & regulatory departments as a senior associate for several years, before moving to a big four consultancy firm in Luxembourg. She moved to the UK in 2014 to HSBC, where she took on the role of European (and UK) Head of Financial Crime Global Banking and Markets.

Louise Marshall is OFSI’s head of EU Exit, Governance, Engagement, Operational Policy and Litigation. She has worked on financial sanctions for over five years and was instrumental in setting up OFSI in 2016.

Prior to that, she held various posts within government including at HM Treasury, Cabinet Office and DFID.

Dr Claudia Natanson is a highly respected digital and cyber security transformation expert and thought leader within the international arena.

A recognised top technology influencer by the Financial Times, her experience and expertise covers diverse industry sectors, FTSE 100, Fortune 500, government and growing organisations. She has held positions as CSO at DWP, MD at BT Secure Business Services, CISO at Diageo and has been appointed Chair for the governments UK’s Cyber Security Council.

A European Commission security expert she has served as board, steering committee member and Programme Chair for the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST).

Heather is Accenture’s UK Consulting lead for Resilience.  She has a background in Risk and has spent over 20 years in Accenture helping (mainly FS) clients to improve their organisations, processes, systems, data, and analytics to better manage Risk – in particular financial crime risk.  She is now focussing on how to help organisations increase their ability to be resilient to uncontrolled and unforeseen events.  She brings together the best of Accenture’s risk, technology and security capabilities to help clients improve their Resilience.

Andy Bates joined the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA) in September 2017 as its Executive Director for the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He brings more than 25 years of experience to GCA, having served as a Chief Engineer, Business Development Consultant, Product Development Director, IT Director in Racal, Cable & Wireless and Level3. Mr. Bates most recently served as the CTO at Verizon EMEA.

While working across a range of technologies such as network, cloud, mobile, VOIP & identity, Mr. Bates has tended to specialise in large secure solutions for governments and challenging the status quo and conventional wisdom of security. He was deeply involved with systems such as Government Secure Intranet, PSN, Police National Network, as well as working with all the major UK government departments and international government customers and agencies, including NATO.

Mr. Bates is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has presented at multiple conferences including RUSI, EU Parliament, Johannesburg, and Budapest. He is married, lives in Hampshire, UK and is a passionate sailor and skier, whilst also being chairman of a charity in his local community.

Mitigo’s experience in protecting financial services firms enables David to highlight common vulnerabilities and explain how to implement a proportionate risk management framework.

David’s speciality lies in advising and securing financial and professional service firms against the threat of cyber-crime and data breaches. David spent a decade as a key player in the security and digital transformation of the Financial Services industry and is highly experienced in technology leadership.

Mitigo is a PIMFA Plus partner, offering member firms a trusted cybersecurity solution which provides operational resilience, data security and compliance with legal and FCA regulatory obligations. Mitigo also provides an emergency cyber incident response service.

Philip Tansley is a contentious technology and privacy lawyer with a particular focus on cyber security and leads Shoosmiths’ cyber incident response. He advises clients in the financial services sector on liability, privacy and reputational management issues and works closely with technology and compliance professionals to manage and resolve cyber incidents. His work in the field of cyber security has been recognised by several industry awards.

Sam Tyfield is a corporate/M&A partner with a practice focused on financial services clients and a member of the dedicated Finance, Innovation and Technology group at Shoosmiths. Sam has been COO and GC of a high-frequency trading firm. As all aspects of his clients’ business fall under the purview of FinReg, Sam was involved in consulting on and drafting measures in the recast MiFID and its regulatory and technical standards which went to organisational requirements for firms and venues. Sam’s key areas of practice are operational resilience, conduct and culture, market surveillance (including the emergence of “neobrokers” and retail trading) and related cybersecurity issues.

Jonathon Crook has specialist expertise in handling a wide range of disputes within the banking, finance and financial services sector and regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings by the FCA and other bodies with a particular focus on retail advice. He is the co-ordinating Partner for the Financial Services Disputes and Investigations practice at Shoosmiths.

John Hartley is a white-collar crime specialist and is regularly involved in defending firms and individuals in the financial services sector in connection with criminal and regulatory investigations.