An investment banking governance, audit, risk and compliance specialist with extensive international experience delivers Advanced Sanctions training courses at Redcliffe Training.
He holds an MBA from CASS Business School, London and is a Chartered Certified Accountant. He worked for Price Waterhouse in Kingston, Jamaica, before arriving in London after the 1986 "Big Bang". He has worked for several major institutions, including Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Continental Bank, CIBC and ABN AMRO. His roles have included internal audit, product control, risk management and SOX.
Besides gaining experience in the major global financial centres, the aforementioned roles covered all aspects of regulation, governance and internal controls over the origination, sales and trading of a broad range of investment banking and capital market products. These products include:
- Credit trading and credit derivatives
- Asset securitisation and structured finance
- Foreign exchange and foreign exchange options
- Interest rate derivatives
- Commodities and treasury
Our sanctions training expert has served as a business manager, where he played a leading role in the development and implementation of major strategic initiatives within global banking and markets. This was followed by the delivery of a training and cultural change programme in alignment with that strategy across 50 countries.
He currently delivers financial crime courses for major banks (HSBC, Soc Gen, SMBC, RBS, Lloyds, Nordea and Handelsbanken) covering anti-money laundering, Sanctions, Tax Evasion, Terrorist Financing, Bribery & Corruption, as well as their related governance aspects. This delivery encompasses frontline staff and senior managers across global markets, private, corporate and retail banking in the UK, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the US and the Americas.
He was a Master Trainer on HSBC’s global financial crime training programme. Based on his considerable experience in the financial markets, he has developed specialist AML and Sanctions workshops in financial market products, securities and investments. He has also run train-the-trainer (TTT) courses and delivered presentations for US regulators.
Besides this, he has delivered training programmes in Audit, Conduct Risk, Operational Risk, Treasury, Basel III, Liquidity Management, Capital Management and the Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP).
He is also the author of three books, including Clearing The Bull: The Financial Crisis And Why Banks Need A Human Transformation (2012, iUniverse).