With 20 years of experience in the information industry, Neil works with his customers to help them improve their data flow into their organisations using integration, technology and hosted solutions to aid better decision-making and risk mitigation. The majority of his experience has been in the financial services industry where he continuously works to understand the client’s challenges, monitor the shift in the regulatory landscape, and then in turn look to data and technology led innovation to bring practical solutions that enhance the customer and supplier due diligence processes.

Charmian Simmons is a Financial Crime and Compliance Expert for Financial Services covering the EMEA region. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector across risk management, financial crime, internal controls and IT advisory. She is responsible for providing practitioner expertise, thought leadership and analyzing key policy/regulatory/cultural/technology drivers transforming the compliance market. Charmian is CAMS, CRMA, CDPSE and CISA certified.

Prior to joining BAE Systems, Charmian was a Regional Director of Strategy and Performance for the Risk business at Refinitiv, the Head of Audit in North America at Lloyds Banking Group USA, and a Vice President at Morgan Stanley covering Institutional Securities and Capital Markets.

Nick delivers economic crime policy and advocacy on behalf of members, leading on international engagement, benefi cial ownership and grand corruption. He provides the secretariat for the Anti-Bribery and Corruption panel and supports the money laundering advisory panel and UK Finance input to the economic crime reform programme. Prior to UK Finance, Nick worked both as a private sector advisor, supporting audits of corporate compliance and government reviews of public contractors and local authorities, and as a civil servant, representing the UK at the OECD working group on bribery and the OECD Responsible Business Conduct working group.