Anila represents over 300 firms on sanctions compliance and export controls implementation at UK Finance, the collective voice for the banking and finance sector. This includes advancing work with international regulatory bodies, governments and enforcement agencies to align on foreign policy objectives via public and private sector information.

Winner of the 2023 ICA Europe Awards, Anila is recognised and celebrated as Founder of the Women in Sanctions Forum and Co-host of the UK Finance Sanctions School podcast series, regularly bridging the gap as a generational leader promoting Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

Andy Humbles is a Managing Director based in Bournemouth in UK, and is JPMorgan’s Deputy Global Head of Sanctions Compliance as well as the Global Head of Sanctions Compliance for the Corporate and Investment Bank, with responsibility for co-ordinating day-to-day compliance with the U.S. and international sanctions programs. Andy has worked at JPMorgan since 2003. Prior to joining compliance in 2012, he worked in various project and operations management roles, principally supporting equity and fixed income products within the Markets business within JPMorgan’s Corporate and Investment Bank. Andy graduated with a degree in Law, and started his career in retail banking at Lloyds Bank, after which he joined Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equity Division in 1997 working in a variety of operations roles both in London and Japan.

He regularly participates in industry dialogue around many of the key sanctions issues, with a particular focus on the challenges posed by the Ukraine / Russia related sanctions over the past 8 years. He was Chair of the UK Finance Sanctions Panel between 2014 and 2020 and is member of UK Finance’s Sanctions Committee. Through these roles, he regularly engages in industry discussions with the European Commission, OFAC, US State Department, European Banking Federation and various UK government departments in the context of key sanctions developments, and has presented at a number of external training seminars and workshops on similar themes.

Anu has extensive 21 plus years of experience in UK, USA and Asia including global multi-year complex Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) transformation initiatives. 
She is also Fellow of International Compliance Association specialising in drafting of Global AML Policy, Standards, and global implementation, advisory at Group / Business / Regional Level. 

Anu is currently EMEA Head of Regulatory Change and Global Programmes at BNY Mellon. She has previously worked with HSBC, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, RBS and Cisco Financial Services. In 2016, she advised a FinTech company which uses Artificial Intelligence systems for FCC. Anu started her career in Technology before moving onto FCC.
 

Joelle Jones is a Sanctions Senior Manager at HSBC with primary focus on Trade Sanctions and Export Controls. She has previously held financial crime advisory roles at HSBC within the global private bank and global banking and markets lines of business covering AML, AB&C, sanctions, tax, and fraud. Prior to HSBC, she held regulatory and financial crime roles at UBS AG as part of a graduate programme.

Alongside graduate training at UBS, she held training roles within the Compliance department of DVB Bank, later moving to Legal with a focus on aviation and shipping finance.

Michael Cass-Antony is a Senior Advisor and Team Lead in the State Department’s Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and Implementation. In this capacity he leads a team responsible for formulating policy and coordinating with partners on sanctions issues related to Europe (including Russia) and Africa.

Michael previously served as a Policy Advisor within the U.S. Department of Treasury’s national security policy office – the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC), where he worked as member of the Europe team covering Russia and Eastern Europe. Prior to his time in government, Michael worked in the private sector advising public and private sector clients on AML/CFT matters and developing strategies to aid clients in adapting to emerging technologies such as 5G and AI.

Michael is a current Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellow at the Centre for New American Security (CNAS). Michael received his MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in International Affairs and International Economics where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the SAIS Review of International Affairs. He also holds a BA in Political Science from Skidmore College.

Neil is responsible for the UK Finance sanctions programme and has worked in the financial services sector for over 20 years, concentrating on sanctions compliance since 2009. Prior to joining UK Finance, Neil was the sanctions SME for Internal Audit at Deutsche Bank in London and previously worked at Lloyds and later HSBC helping both banks review and improve their international sanctions compliance.

Neil is a Fellow of both the International Compliance Association and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies and holds an MSc in International Commercial Law and Financial Crime Compliance from the University of Law.

Sinéad Goss is the General Counsel for AML, Anti-Bribery and Sanctions Legal across the UK, Europe and Middle East and Africa at Citi. Having originally trained and qualified as a corporate solicitor she joined Citi in 2007 as the EMEA Head, Investment Banking Legal. Sinéad fulfilled this role for 7 years before moving into her current role in 2014. She provides legal advice to the bank on complex AML, Anti-bribery and sanctions issues across the region, including both advisory and investigations work, and has been substantially involved in navigation of the Russia/Ukraine sanctions. 

Sven Bates is Counsel for International Trade at Baker McKenzie's London office, where he qualified in 2010. Sven has also been seconded to a Tier 1 UK bank and has previously worked for the European Commission and the UK Shadow Attorney General.

Sven's practice focusses on sanctions, export controls, anti-bribery and trade remedies. Sven has significant multi-jurisdictional experience in advising in these fields in the context of compliance and investigations and has counselled companies on negotiations with the highest levels of government, particularly in the sanctions space.

Sven's expertise is reflected in the Legal 500, where he is ranked as one of the top 10 lawyers in the City for international trade. Sven is also a regular speaker at external events hosted by the Financial Conduct Authority, the London Institute for Banking and Finance and C5, and is periodically quoted in the FT and other press articles.

Todd is Europe & Americas CFCC (Conduct, Financial Crimes and Compliance) Advisory lead for Trade & Physical Commodities, Digital Channels & Data Analytics, and Sustainable Finance at Standard Chartered Bank in London. Todd recently repatriated from Singapore where he held a similar focus within the Group CFCC Advisory team. Todd brings many years of experience in risk and compliance roles having led various initiatives, built several monitoring frameworks, and contributed industry expertise and thought leadership working for Banks such as Wells Fargo (Hong Kong), SMBC (London), and Citibank (London).

Zia Ullah is Co-Global Head of Corporate Crime and Investigations at Eversheds Sutherland.  Zia is a globally recognised specialist in International Sanctions and has led multiple cross-border sanctions investigations. He advises on all aspects of corporate/financial crime and was previously the Global Head of Sanctions at Barclays. Zia is a current FCA-approved ‘Skilled Person’ for Financial Crime.

Zia and his team have provided strategic advice to over 100 institutions during the last year, including both UK and global financial institutions with respect to the legal, regulatory and commercial issues arising from the expansion of UK, EU and US sanctions against Russia following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.  His team has also advised on the impact on sanctions compliance frameworks, divestment activity in Russia, the application of exemptions and licences, and the reporting requirements in light of potential breaches of sanctions 

Zia co-authored a chapter for Global Investigations Review’s first ever book on sanctions compliance - “The Guide to Sanctions” – Zia’s team also publishes the only global guide on international sanctions setting out details on over 70 jurisdictions sanctions compliance requirements (Home - Global Sanctions Guide (eversheds-sutherland.com)).

Zia is co-chair of the UK Finance Sanctions Committee which is the most senior sanctions body within the member association for UK located banks and is also a member of HM Treasury’s Senior Implementation Group, a body comprised of  all government departments with responsibility for the UK’s sanctions regime. Zia is also a committee member at the Fraud Lawyers’ Association.

Zia was recently included in the Lawyer’s Hot 100 for 2023 and is also included in a number of other industry directories.

William acts as the AML/CTF Programme Lead at Commerzbank London branch, reporting into the MLRO. He has a decade worth of experience, having previously worked within the Financial Crime teams at Credit Agricole CIB at their London and New York offices where he provided transaction advisory expertise on trade finance and large syndicated facilities.