Complinet announces shortlist for 4th Annual Compliance Awards
- Awards ceremony scheduled for Thursday January 17, 2008 in London -
London, UK – November 27 2007 – Complinet, the leading provider of solutions that dynamically deliver relevant compliance intelligence to industry professionals, has announced the shortlist for the 4th Annual Compliance Awards.
Due to be held on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London, the awards will recognise the contributions of compliance officers, compliance trainers, and professional advisers in helping to ensure that the UK remains at the forefront of global financial services.
While most of the categories will be familiar to the 300 compliance professionals who attended the 2007 awards, there are also new categories reflecting the maturing and evolving nature of the compliance industry.
“To mark Complinet’s tenth anniversary this year, we have included a new award the Compliance Personality of the Decade,” said Chris Pilling, founder and CEO of Complinet. “We also recognise that the compliance industry is becoming more international as a result of globalisation in the financial services industry, so we have created a new category to recognise the International Compliance Personality of the Year.”
A panel of external judges drew up the shortlist from a long list of nominations received by the industry. Criteria included the quality of the individual applications, the judges’ own knowledge of the nominated person or project, and the weight of support behind a particular person or project.
The full shortlist is as follows:
- 2008 Compliance Officer of the Year (sponsored by Badenoch & Clark)
- Rajiv Vyas, AXA Rosenberg Investment Management
- Tracey Pollock, GE Capital Solutions
- Kay Leslie, Pink Home Loans
- 2008 Young Compliance Officer of the Year
- David Feldman, Illium Managing Agency Ltd
- Oonagh McKinley-Hutchinson, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
- Caroline Scott, Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd
- 2008 Money Laundering Reporting Officer of the Year (sponsored by IMLPO)
- Clive Shelton, IFDS
- Steven Judge, Tradeindex
- Ben Hur, NIBC Bank
- 2008 Most Effective Compliance Trainer at a Regulated Firm
- Maire Gibson, Standard Bank Plc
- Richard Mahon, Aon Consulting
- Scott Morris, UBS Investment
- 2008 Best Technology Solution (sponsored by Compliance Recruitment Solutions)
- Aquin (MIG21)
- Orchestria (Bo Manning)
- Tonbeller AG (Paul Hamilton)
- Verifile Limited (Eyal Ben-Cohen)
- 2008 Trade Association Personality of the Year
- Simon Hills, British Bankers' Association
- Ashley Holmes (posthumously), Finance & Leasing Association
- Anthony Belchambers, the Futures and Options Association
- 2008 International Compliance Personality of the Year
- David DeMuro, Lehman Brothers Inc.
- Anthony Belchambers, the Futures and Options Association
- Sarah Watts, Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited
- 2008 Best Regulatory Law Firm or Lawyer of the Year
- CMS Cameron McKenna (Simon Morris)
- Clifford Chance (Nick O'Neil/Dermot Turing for MiFID Connect)
- Denton Wilde Sapte (Regulation Practice)
- 2008 Most Practical Consulting Firm (Sponsored by Hays)
- IBM
- The Consulting Consortium
- Investit
- 2008 Best Regulatory Accountancy Firm or Accountant of the Year
- Moore Stephens (Lorraine Bay)
- BDO Stoy Hayward
- Grant Thornton
- 2008 Award for Outstanding Long-Term Service to the Compliance Industry
- Arthur Selman, Consultant
- Ross Maclean, GLG Partners
- Bob Upton, Lloyds TSB
- 2008 Complinet Personality of the Decade
- Angela Knight, British Bankers' Association
- Peter Beales, London Investment Banking Association
- David Kenmir, Financial Services Authority
- John Tattersall, PwC
Winners will be announced at a gala dinner attended by more than 350 industry professionals at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane, London, on the evening of January 17, 2008. Dan Waters, FSA director of Retail Policy and Sector Leader for Asset Management, will act as compere for the ceremony.
More information about the awards can be found at www.complianceawards.com.
About the Annual Compliance Awards
The Complinet Annual Compliance Awards were launched in 2004 to recognise the successes and achievements of compliance professionals from across the financial services industry and supporting professional services firms.
The 4th Annual Compliance Awards will recognise the contribution of the compliance role, compliance trainers, and professional advisers in helping to ensure that the UK remains of at the forefront of global financial services.
The awards provide an opportunity for more than 300 guests to enjoy an evening of awards, comedy, good food, and fine wine in the company of leading compliance colleagues, regulators, and friends from related industries.
The awards are judged by a panel of highly-respected financial services experts.
About Complinet
Complinet is the leading provider of dynamic and connected risk and compliance solutions to the global financial services industry.
The company’s solutions minimize exposure to risk by providing the information and technology to track and connect live external events, such as regulatory or sanction changes, with internal policy management and screening activities.
Complinet was founded in 1997 and employs more than 200 people in its offices in New York, London, Sydney and Dubai. Every day, industry professionals in more than 1,600 firms across 81 countries rely on Complinet to provide information, analysis and solutions that help them keep pace with changing regulations.
