Our securities compliance course instructor is a specialist in investment banking governance, audit, risk, and compliance, bringing extensive international experience to his work. He holds an MBA from Bayes Business School in London and is a Chartered Certified Accountant. He began his career with Price Waterhouse in Kingston, Jamaica, before relocating to London in the wake of the 1986 financial “Big Bang.” Over the years, he has worked with several major financial institutions, including Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Continental Bank, CIBC, and ABN AMRO.
Throughout his career, he has held roles spanning internal audit, product control, risk management, and SOX compliance. His work across major global financial centres has given him deep expertise in regulation, governance, and internal controls across the full lifecycle of investment banking and capital markets products. His experience covers areas such as credit trading and derivatives, asset securitisation and structured finance, foreign exchange and FX options, interest rate derivatives, as well as commodities and treasury operations. In addition, he has taken on leadership responsibilities, playing a key role in developing and implementing strategic initiatives within global banking and markets, alongside delivering large-scale training and cultural change programmes across more than 50 countries.
In his current capacity, he delivers financial crime compliance programmes for leading global banks, including HSBC, Société Générale, SMBC, RBS, Lloyds, Nordea, and Handelsbanken. His training focuses on key areas such as anti-money laundering, sanctions compliance, tax evasion prevention, terrorist financing prevention, and anti-bribery and corruption measures, along with their associated governance frameworks. His programmes are designed for both frontline staff and senior management, reaching audiences across private, corporate, and retail banking sectors in the UK, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas.
He has also served as a Master Trainer on HSBC’s global financial crime training programme and has developed specialised workshops on AML and sanctions with a focus on financial markets, securities, and investment products. His broader experience includes delivering train-the-trainer courses, presenting to US regulators, and providing instruction on audit, conduct risk, operational risk, treasury, Basel III, liquidity and capital management, and ICAAP. Additionally, as an Associate of RSM, he has conducted financial crime and regulatory compliance reviews for institutional clients and is the author of three books, including Clearing The Bull: The Financial Crisis And Why Banks Need A Human Transformation (2012).