PIMFA Learning: The SMF Regulatory Briefing Programme 2026 – All You Need to Know About Everything That Matters Most

Experienced chartered accountant, compliance officer, regulator and former auditor, with over 35 years' experience in capital markets, asset management, wealth management and investment banking.

Peter has run his own consultancy business since 2006, working with banks, wealth managers, asset managers, brokers and hedge fund managers in developing training programmes and managing their regulatory, reputational and governance issues.

He also get involved in expert witness work, board-level assessments of senior management, governance reviews and pre-visit (PRA/FCA) reviews, as well as reviews of firms' compliance departments, policies and procedures and monitoring plans.

In 2011, Peter assumed a NED role with a UK-based bank for five years and was Chair of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee. In January 2019, he assumed a similar role with another UK bank and was subsequently appointed as Interim Chairman and then Deputy Chairman. Since January 2017, he has devoted most of his time to being Group Head of GRC Training for CCL Academy, an amazing group of people and a specialist provider of financial crime, governance, risk and compliance training to Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Specialties: Governance, risk and compliance training and advice in all areas of investment banking, asset management, capital markets and certain retail areas; pre-visit reviews of conduct, governance, risk and liquidity; reviews of Compliance functions, following the work on BS8453. I also specialise in areas of financial crime such as AML, ABC and market abuse. NED roles for UK or overseas financial institutions, with a bias towards Risk, Compliance and Audit responsibilities.

Nigel specialises in training boards, senior managers and other staff on the impact of regulation and regulatory change.

He is a CFA Charterholder and Chartered Fellow of the CISI, with over twenty years’ industry experience. With a background in compliance in private banking and wealth management He has have a particular interest in effective corporate governance and the management of compliance and regulatory risk.

His interests also include issues relating to sustainable finance/ESG and climate risk, conduct and culture (including non-financial misconduct), and all aspects of financial crime prevention

Recent assignments have included briefing multiple boards and executive teams on the implementation of the Consumer Duty, delivering compliance and ethics training for senior managers and front-office staff and creating a user-friendly risk and compliance handbook for a major international bank.

His training style is highly interactive, seeking to engage participants with the relevant issues through the use of case studies, group discussion and real-life examples. Although based in the UK, he works internationally – recent assignments have included Dubai, Zurich, Mauritius and Saudi Arabia.

Nigel is an active member of the CISI and was previously the Chair of the Training, Competence and Culture Interest Group. I currently serve as co-Chair of the CISI Review Editorial Panel and regularly host CISI webinars.