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Board oversight
The questions a committee should be asking, and whether the papers in front of it can bear those questions.
Principal advisory · London
Independentcounsel for boards,when regulationand growth meet.
I advise boards and senior executives of banks, payment firms and fintechs on compliance, financial crime, governance and cross-border regulatory risk. Three decades inside global institutions, now retained as a principal.
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Financial crime and AML/CTF
Judgement on the framework: risk, escalation, sanctions, and the report the board actually needs.
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Regulatory permissions and change of control
How a board prepares for an application, a change of control, or a meeting with a regulator.
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Governance, conduct and product compliance
What stays in the compliance function, what is overseen outside it, and how product decisions are challenged.
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Questions I am working on
A governance conversation.
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AI and human judgement
What a compliance team should keep when routine work is automated, and how accountability stays with a person.
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What has actually worked
Financial crime technology after the pilot: where it has earned its place, and where it has not.
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Cloud concentration
The governance questions a board can no longer defer when critical work sits with a handful of providers.
For
Boards under pressure.
Senior risk, compliance and financial crime executives at banks, electronic money institutions, payments firms and fintechs.
Not for
Outside this practice.
- Individual investors.
- Anyone seeking a law firm.
- Firms that want an operations team transferred in.
A mandate
How an instruction starts.
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A conversation
We establish the question, and whether I am the right person to hold it.
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A conflict check
Current appointments are considered before anything is accepted.
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A written scope
The work, the form of the output, and what it will not cover. Fees are agreed then. They are not listed here.
Earlier roles
Where the judgement was formed.
2005–2018
Deutsche Bank
Compliance director. Built and led the function across Turkey, Ukraine, Malta, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, then central compliance for EMEA and Germany, including a team of more than 120.
2020–2025
Trive
Executive director, chief compliance officer and MLRO in the UK, with non-executive roles in other group companies.
2019–2020
Turkish Bank (UK)
Non-executive director and group entity senior manager, on the audit, risk and compliance committee.
1999–2005
J.P. Morgan
Project manager in London, after an internal control role at Chase.
Speaking
A public record.
7–8 October 2026
ICA FinCrime & Banking Forum, London
Moderator and panellist. AI: Preparing compliance teams for the unknown · AI in FinCrime: What Has Actually Worked
10 November 2026
#RISK Expo Europe, ExCeL London
Speaker. AI and Cloud Concentration Risk: The Governance Questions Boards Can No Longer Defer
22 September 2022
XCINA, City of London Club
Keynote. Compliance challenges and opportunities amidst regulatory change
A conversation
Book an appointment.
A short note is enough. The matter itself is discussed on the call.