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Philippe Carrel is Executive Vice President, Risk Management, at Thomson Reuters, based in Geneva Switzerland, currently specializing in aspects of “Implementing Risk Management as a Corporate Culture” at banks and asset management companies around the world. In his special assignment to define “Post Crisis Risk Management” with key financial institutions and regulators he helps risk executives and senior managers dealing with the constraints and uncertainties of the financial markets through a new concept he identifies as “Risk Intelligence”.
Specialist of financial derivatives, valuations and regulatory compliance, he was previously Head of Alternative Investments Strategies at Reuters in New York and Director of Risk and Trade Management at Reuters head office in London. Until joining Reuters, Philippe directed advisory services for banks and securities companies on derivatives risk measurement, hedging and trading strategies, which followed a career dealing securities and derivatives in Europe and Asia. Philippe also advised regulatory authorities, professional associations and exchanges in emerging markets across Asia and directed a financial training institute for many years.
A strong advocate of change in risk management methodologies, he had warned about systemic risk since 2005 and authored the New Handbook of Risk Management, published in 2010, to lay out a detailed methodology for firms and regulators to redefine risk information workflows in the aftermaths of the global financial crisis. He contributed to a project of the World Economic Forum for “Re-thinking Risk management” in 2009.
Philippe is also an active member of the Global Association of Risk professionals (GARP), of which he co-directs the Geneva Chapter. Author of countless articles and white papers, he regularly lectures at high profile seminars, conventions and universities around the world on risk management, hedge fund strategies, and regulatory compliance. His blogs and papers on the changing faces of risk management are publicly available at www.valuationrisk.net and other Thomson Reuters sites He holds diploma from the ESC Marseille, a member of the French Grandes Ecoles network.
Susannah specialises in financial crime and contentious regulatory work and has considerable experience of conducting internal investigations for clients, as well as advising on external investigations by the SFO, FSA and others, and related disputes. She also advises financial institutions and professional services firms in connection with anti-money laundering, fraud and corruption issues, and speaks widely on these areas.
Credentials
Money laundering and sanctions
Corporate crime and corruption
Internal and regulatory investigations
Nick Collier joined Thomson Reuters on 1 March.
Nick reports to Paula Dobriansky, Global Head of Government relations in Washington DC, and will cover the EMEA region for the TR group from London. He will focus initially on the EU financial regulatory reform agenda.
Nick moved to Thomson Reuters from Morgan Stanley, where he had been Head of EMEA Government Relations since June 2007.
Nick previously held roles as the Head of Regulatory Policy at the International Capital Market Association, as the Director of International Risk, Compliance and Government Affairs at Instinet, then a Reuters subsidiary and as the European head of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association.
He started his career in the Bank of England, including a spell as the UK Treasury’s financial attaché to the EU.
He holds a MSC in Economics and Finance from the London School of Economics and a BA from Oxford.
Nick is married with three children.
David Craig is president of Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) business for Thomson Reuters. He is responsible for delivering information, software and services that dynamically connect customers’ businesses to the ever-changing regulatory environment, reducing risk and improving business performance.
David previously served as Chief Strategy Officer and member of the Thomson Reuters Executive Committee, where he was responsible for strategy and business innovation across the $13B global business. Following the $17B acquisition of Reuters by Thomson in May 2007, David led the integration of the two combined businesses, including 53,000 people in over 110 countries.
David also was responsible for the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The Foundation provides training to journalists, connects law firms with NGOs for pro-bono support and provides news and emergency information in times of humanitarian crisis.
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, David was a partner at McKinsey, focusing on financial services, media and technology. He led the IT Strategy Practice and the Outsourcing and Offshoring Practices. Prior to McKinsey, David was a senior partner at AMS (American Management Systems) implementing financial trading, risk and mobile telephone systems. He was the technology lead for a European mobile telecoms start-up and implementation manager for the ABN AMRO global risk system in the Netherlands. His implementation of the new SwapClear service at the London Clearing House won a Queen’s Award for Innovation in 2002.
David has published several papers on information, technology and strategy, including “Intelligence, Intuition and Information”, "IT as a Competitive Weapon" and "The M&A Approach to Outsourcing". He has presented at the Tuck School of Business, Aspen Ideas Institute and London Business School. He won the McKinsey Global Award for Research for his work on outsourcing and was a judge on the European Banking Technology Awards for three years.
Stacey English is head of the Regulatory Intelligence team for Thomson Reuters' Governance, Risk & Compliance business where she is responsible for in-house regulatory analysis and tracking regulatory developments from global regulators. She originally joined Complinet from Barclays Bank where she was head of governance, reporting and intelligence. Stacey is a qualified accountant, having gained the highest results worldwide; has first class degrees in BSc (Hons) Applied Accounting and BA (Hons) Business Administration and holds the Financial Planning Certificate. She has over 15 years' compliance, risk and audit experience within the UK financial services industry.
Stacey began her compliance career at the regulator, spending six years with the Financial Services Authority (and formerly the Personal Investment Authority) where she was responsible for undertaking supervisory visits and reviews into mis-selling. She also spent two years as an internal auditor where she assessed the adequacy and effectiveness of the regulator's own processes, controls and conduct. Stacey moved into the insurance industry, where she was responsible for risk and board reporting, and designing and embedding risk management processes and systems, as a senior manager in Aviva's group risk team and latterly with Lloyd's of London. She has also provided risk management consultancy services to Lloyd's syndicates.
Substantial experience of the law affecting the financial services regulation including policy initiatives and implementation, as well as practical issues of compliance with regulatory obligations.
Richard's practice covers all aspects (both contentious and non-contentious) of regulation by the Financial Services Authority and related issues. Matters he has advised on include potential misselling of complex products, supervisory action by the FSA, new authorisations and questions of whether a business requires authorisation. In advising his clients he brings to bear his 10+ years of experience at the FSA, as well as his previous experience at a "magic circle" firm.
He is an experienced draftsman of financial services regulatory provisions (including a number of FSA Handbook provisions) and statutory notices for disciplinary/supervisory action and is also an experienced complaints investigator.
Richard's expertise covers a wide range of financial services regulatory issues domestically in the UK (including matters of European regulatory provisions), and in the Middle East. His experiences encompases both contentious and non-contentious work, including:
Peter Haines, Managing Director, is a chartered accountant with experience as a regulator with the London Stock Exchange, The Securities Association and the Securities and Futures Authority and as a senior Compliance Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer with blue-chip American, European and Japanese institutions. Haines has travelled widely in these roles and has gained experience in various US, European and Asian financial centres. Peter set up his own compliance consultancy business in 2006, advising banks, asset managers and hedge funds, as well as training in most areas of regulation and compliance
Susannah is a member of Thomson Reuters Governance Risk & Compliance regulatory affairs team. Susannah joined Complinet (acquired by Thomson Reuters) from GE Capital Bank where she was head of compliance. Susannah has nearly 20 years' wide-ranging experience in international and UK financial services.
A qualified chartered accountant, Susannah began her compliance career at SG Warburg where she became head of European compliance. She was the global head of compliance and a founding employee of Caspian Securities, a start-up international full service investment bank focused on the emerging markets. Susannah left Caspian to join PricewaterhouseCoopers as a consultant.
More recently, Susannah was head of international regulatory risk for the Halifax Group and became head of retail regulatory risk for HBOS plc upon Halifax's merger with Bank of Scotland.
Ilan Jacobs is a communications and public affairs professional, with 15 years experience working for multi-national organisations as both a consultant and a full time member of staff.
Ilan is part of the Government Affairs and Policy team in GE’s UK Corporate headquarters, supporting the whole range of GE's businesses in their engagement with Government. In the UK GE employs over 16,000 people in sectors as diverse as oil & gas, energy, transportation, healthcare and financial services. Ilan focuses on helping deliver GE's solutions to the issues facing UK’s policymakers such as creating the low carbon economy, building sustainable cities and providing access to finance for SMEs.
Ilan joined GE as Head of UK Government Relations at GE Money in May 2006, where he developed a ground breaking partnership with a leading credit counselling service, providing independent & free advice for customers having difficulties with their mortgages. He had been Head of Public Affairs, at the Internet Bank Egg, since January 2004, campaigning for reform of personal finance laws to make money simpler for consumers. Previously he was an Operational Director of Consolidated Communications’ Public Affairs team, where he worked for a number of clients including Virgin Mobile, World Vision, Esure and Co-operative Financial Services.
In the 1990s, Ilan advised Chris Axworthy MP, then the Senior Social Policy spokesman for Canada's Federal New Democratic Party, where he drafted papers on the party's social policy. He worked as an aide to Peter Mandelson MP, where he was one of the researchers for Mandelson's definitive book on New Labour, 'The Blair Revolution'. Ilan also assisted Philip Gould, Labour's senior campaign strategist during the groundbreaking 1997 election that brought Tony Blair to power. He also unsuccessfully stood as a council candidate in the London Borough of Barnet in the elections of 1998.
He is a trustee of Camden Jobs Train, a charity providing vocational education and training to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Geoff has been for the last 14 years Managing Director of Lepus, a Management Consultancy specializing in both Research and Consulting. Lepus provides Benchmarking/Market Intelligence, Client Research, System Selection and Associated Due Diligence, and Advisory Consulting. Geoff is the former Global Chairman, founding Board Member, and UK Director of PRMIA (Professional Risk Managers International Association).
Before starting Lepus, he was Head of Computer Development at Tokai Bank Europe. Prior to Tokai, he was IT Director for Fixed Income, Derivatives and Futures Broking at BZW. He jointly ran the IT for the Global Markets Group and sat on the Markets Management Committee. Previous to this he was Head of IT for Abbey National Baring Derivatives.
Before moving back into Banking, he helped set up CATS Software (a Risk Management Vendor) in Europe and was responsible for Sales, Marketing and Support for the UK, Germany, Benelux, Scandinavia, and France. Geoff spent the early part of his career in the States, trading Options on behalf of private clients for 3 years as well as holding a number of Technical, Sales and Marketing positions in Silicon Valley.
He graduated from Bath University with an honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Ian Mason is a partner in the Financial Services Group in the London office. He served as a department head in the UK FSA's Enforcement and Financial Crime Division and is recognized by Chambers 2010 and the Legal Business Legal Experts Report 2010 as a leader in the financial services field. Ian has acted as an FSA skilled person (s166 FSMA) and has served on the AIMA Compliance Committee, the AIMA Market Abuse Working Group and the BBA's TCF Working Group.
Ian has extensive experience in financial services regulatory matters and regularly advises firms and individuals on FSA issues, including investigations and enforcement action, as well as more general compliance issues concerning authorisation or supervision. He has also led major corporate investigations for clients - often in the context of potential action by the regulator. Ian also advises a broad range of financial institutions, including hedge funds, stockbrokers, banks, asset managers and companies. Ian is Joint General Editor of the "International Guide to Hedge Fund Regulation" and is a Consultant Editor of "A Practitioner's Guide to the Law and Regulation of Financial Crime".
David Millar is a process, training and risk management expert with over 35 years experience in banking and financial markets. He has held senior positions in trade associations, consultancies, banks and software houses. For the past five years David was Chief Operating Officer at the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association, PRMIA, a trade association focussed on improving financial risk management through professional membership events, training and certifications. He retired in 2011 and now works as an independent risk management trainer, journalist and consultant.
For over 20 years, in a personal capacity, David offered advisory services to banks, financial utilities and central authorities on strategy, processes, change management, research and outsourcing. He also managed financial services for consulting firms, worked as an operational risk manager in a global bank, advised on and developed risk management products and services, and ran training courses on subjects such as board risk responsibilities, operational and enterprise risk, financial benchmarking and risk culture, as well as training for specific risk management qualifications.
Specific risk consulting and training assignments include:
Scott McCleskey is the Global Head of Financial Services Regulation for Thomson Reuters’ Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) business and is the author of “When Free Markets Fail”, which discusses the free-market case for financial regulation reform. He is responsible for GRC’s news, analysis and other regulatory information, and also writes an editorial column which appears on Reuters and which was awarded the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Scott served in various regulatory and compliance roles in New York, Brussels, Washington and London, including global Chief Compliance Officer for a major regulated firm and Director of Public Regulatory Policy for a European securities exchange. He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from Cambridge and a Master’s in Financial Regulation from London Guildhall University, as well as a Bachelor’s degree in Government from the College of William and Mary.
Oliver Lodge is an acknowledged expert in financial services regulation and compliance. He has advised a wide range of regulated firms on compliance, policy and communication with the FSA. Oliver has a decade of experience at the Regulator (FSA and IMRO), a decade of experience in investment management and latterly eight years as a consultant, establishing OWL Regulatory Consulting in 2009. Oliver has also been a non-executive director and chairman of the audit, risk and compliance committee of an FSA-regulated firm. He is an opinion former on matters relating to the investment industry, a frequent commentator in the press and a proponent of better regulation.
Charles is a senior corporate partner, specialising in Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), IPOs, M&A and joint ventures including privatisations, and the legal aspects of corporate governance/compliance. He advises on legal risk management including the Bribery Act 2010. He also advises boards of listed companies on directors’ duties, the legal aspects of non-financial reporting, directors’ indemnities, board performance evaluation and the collective responsibility of boards.
He is a member of the Primary Markets Group of the London Stock Exchange, the CBI Companies Committee and the ABPI working group on the Bribery Act. Charles has been named as one of the leading M&A lawyers in Europe. He is also recommended for Corporate/M&A, recognised for corporate governance advice and named as one of the most prominent lawyers advising on directors' duties and liabilities in PLC Which Lawyer?
A legal directory recently described him as “excellent – he is experienced, relaxed, pragmatic and very sympathetic to our company’s issues”.
Ely Razin is Head of Business Law and Governance for Thomson Reuters Accelus. His remit is broad, covering Corporate Governance, Major Transactions, Industry Regulation and Disclosure across key global financial centers. Mr. Razin splits his time between New York and London, from where he focuses on business growth in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
Mr. Razin regularly consults with General Counsel and Corporate Executives at major corporations, as well as Senior Partners at leading global law firms. He is a featured guest on Reuters TV, reviewing legal trends of interest to the corporate and financial markets. As well, he speaks often on industry panels focused on the areas described above.
Mr. Razin also acts as principal editor of both the Business Law Advisor platform and the Business Law Currents publication, both of Thomson Reuters Accelus. In this, he works closely with our advisory board, comprised of leading practitioners in the domains above.
A lawyer by training, Mr. Razin began his career as a corporate and securities attorney and worked on a broad range of transactions. He later founded and served as both CEO and General Counsel of Expert Ease. The business was acquired by Thomson in 2004.
Since that time, he has served as an executive at Thomson Reuters, focused on strategy and advisory. Throughout his career, he has focused on market-leading products for both governance and transactions.
Mr. Razin received his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, his M.B.A from the Schulich School of Business of York University and his B.A. from the University of Toronto.
Barnabas Reynolds is a partner of Shearman & Sterling LLP and is head of the Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory practice. His experience includes establishing new financial institutions and infrastructure providers; advising financial institutions and infrastructure providers on business structure, ongoing compliance and other proprietary issues; structuring and facilitating acquisitions and disposals of financial businesses; new financial services and products; legislative drafting; advice on the impact of new laws and regulations; and regulatory disputes, investigations and enforcement proceedings.
Barney recently advised ICE on setting up its credit default swap clearing operations in both Europe and the US, having last year guided it through establishing ICE Clear Europe, the first new commodity futures derivatives clearing house in London since 1880. He has also advised on other important recent events such as Abu Dhabi's purchase and sale of interests in Barclays Bank plc, the various restructurings of Hypo Real Estate, issues arising from the Lehman insolvency, post-Lehman prime brokerage and custody arrangements and the fall-out from the Madoff fraud.
Barney is a member of the main UK financial services market committees and of the FSA Lawyers Consultative Group (a small committee of City practitioners convened by the General Counsel of the FSA).
John Ryan, Compliance Officer - Technology Projects, has been at BNP Paribas since July 2006 and covers a number of areas including surveillance, advisory, Compliance IT and investigations. In this role, he is the main point of contact between Compliance and IT, providing guidance on regulatory and exchange requirements for IT systems and associated business processes used within the bank.
A hot topic for John is the confidentiality of M & A deal information, particularly in regard to the physical and electronic aspects of “Chinese Walls” and the monitoring of electronic messaging systems to identify confidential information leakage, market abuse and propagation of rumours.
Prior to starting at BNP Paribas, John contracted at MAN Group, PICTET AM, he also worked on a number of discrete investigations within the financial sector. His career in Compliance came about as a result of a chance meeting in a pub in 2004, following a period in Iraq working on physical and personal security. Before 2004 John spent a number of years working on projects and customer service programmes for IT service providers. He has a Masters degree in Information Management and his dissertation covered the IT security risks related to mobile and remote working. During his spare time, John is actively involved in a number of Compliance and IT groups and help's shape IT vendors solutions to meet current and future Compliance/regulatory requirements.
Deborah Sabalot is an English solicitor and a US attorney who has specialized in financial services law and regulation for over twenty years. She advises banks and other financial institutions including investment managers and advisers on a wide range of legal, regulatory and compliance matters. She also provides specialist advice to other City law firms and their clients on these matters. Deborah is a professional associate of Outer Temple Chambers, one of the premier sets of commercial barristers in London. She is the consultant editor of the Butterworths Securities and Financial Services Law Handbook which is now in its 12th edition and she has recently been made a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and is working on a book on fiduciary duties and regulatory rules in the financial services industry.
Prior to establishing her own law practice, Deborah Sabalot was a partner of Landwell (PwC Legal), the associated law firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers from 2002 to 2005. She had held an “of counsel” role at Lovells from 2000 to 2002. Prior to 2000 Deborah was Director of Regulatory Services at KPMG (1995-2000) and was a senior lawyer in Clifford Chance's Financial Services Group (1988 – 1995).
Paul Saunders is a Sapient Director based in London. An experienced risk professional, Paul is a member of the Institute of Risk Management and chairs its Operational Risk Special Interest Group. Paul has developed enterprise and operational risk assurance frameworks, including internal change management processes, global reporting frameworks and processes.
Karl Snowden is a Director of FIRSTFLOOR LTD, a management consultancy, and CE of Westminster Forum, for 35 years a key platform for business/government dialogue. Previously he created and headed the LBG/HBOS Public Policy Unit and before that the Zurich UK Government and Industry Affairs Department. He is a Law graduate and a Chartered Accountant. Karl has served on his Institute’s governing Council and in senior roles on ABI, BBA CBI and CII committees.
Jeremy Summers is a partner in the London office of the Business Crime & Regulation department. He specialises in white collar crime with particular emphasis on corruption, fraud and financial regulation. Admitted in England and Hong Kong he has extensive experience of litigating significant and high profile cases in both jurisdictions.
Recent cases
In 2008 Jeremy acted for Balfour Beatty in connection with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina investigation that concluded with the ground breaking first use of new civil recovery powers. This work saw the firm nominated for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyer award for 2009.
His current corruption related work includes:
Authored works
Jeremy is a co-author (with David Williams QC) of the chapter on corruption in the Oxford University Press publication Fraud: Criminal Law and Procedure, an author on confiscation and section editor for Butterworths Fraud: Law, Practice and Procedure.
Jeremy has recently commented in the Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, BBC News and The Times. Jeremy’s recent bylined articles include:
Memberships
Jeremy is a member of the International Bar Association, the Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers, and the London Criminal Courts Solicitors Association for whom he previously served as a committee member. A keen supporter of rugby, Jeremy chairs Rugby Football Union and International Rugby Board Disciplinary Panels and has sat as the single Judicial Officer at IRB World Series 7's tournaments in Dubai, Hong Kong and London.
Mike is a regulatory partner with over twenty-five years of experience in the banking and securities industry and a particular expertise in Financial Services Authority (and its predecessor SROs) regulation. Mike founded and developed the Deloitte London regulatory practice in 1992 and now leads our Banking & Capital Markets Prudential Regulatory team.
Mike has a wide range of regulatory clients in the banking, investment banking, fund management and securities trading arenas. He has worked in Abu Dhabi, Luxembourg and Australia for Deloitte as well as the UK.
Mike has a specific expertise in Client Money and Assets, having been involved with the regime since 1988. Mike undertook a number of alternative approach reviews in 1997-1998, working for clients and for the regulator. He has remained closely involved in the development of Client Money and Assets thinking, particularly following the Lehman collapse, and has an up to date knowledge which is informed by his 20 + years of Client Money and Assets experience.
He is on the FSA and the APB Working Parties on CP 10/20 and PS 11/04 “Improving the auditor’s report on client assets”. Mike is the editor of the Deloitte Banking and Capital Markets Insight publication and a founder member of the Securities Institute and a regular contributor to compliance seminars, most recently with Emad Aladhal and Dean Bagwell of FSA.
Mark Winters’ is the Enterprise Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Executive at Bank of America. Previous positions for Mark include Director of MW Financial Crime Consultancy, Senior Manager and Financial Crime Specialist at Ernst & Young LLP, Senior Manager at Lloyds TSB Bank PLC and Group Head of Financial Crime, Investigations and Operations Audit at Travelex Foreign Exchange.
Mark specialises in creating, reviewing, benchmarking and implementing financial crime governance, operating models, policies and procedures. As well as conducting detailed financial crime risk based assessments and training financial crime professionals.