New Challenges
in Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime
a series of half-day, practical workshops for practitioners
Thursday 6th December 2007 &
Tuesday 15th January 2008
24th floor, Tower 42, London EC2
ABOUT YOUR WORKSHOP PRESENTERS
Rowan Bosworth-Davies has considerable experience in all areas of fraud, economic and white-collar crime, and money laundering, as an investigator, an academic, a regulator, a writer and from the the legal perspective.
A legal consultant and a former Fraud Squad detective at New Scotland Yard, Rowan ran the investigations division of one of the UK’s financial Self Regulatory Organisations for two years. He spent 10 years as criminal justice consultant to leading law firms in the City of London, and has over 25 years’ practical and theoretical experience of the investigation and prosecution of fraud and white-collar crime.
Rowan is the joint author of “Money laundering – a practical guide to the new legislation”, and has been published on several other occasions. He is a regular contributor to Complinet, Money Laundering Bulletin and Fraud Intelligence.
Rowan has redesigned the entire financial crime training programme for the UK’s National Criminal Intelligence Service and has engaged in a wide variety of training roles for the Metropolitan Police Company Fraud Squad. He has also provided training and compliance programmes for a number of organisations across the UK and internationally.
Rowan’s recent role was that of Director of the Fraud and Anti-Money Laundering Solutions programme for SAS International. He now delivers high-level strategy consulting and training on financial crime and money laundering prevention globally.
Peter Atkinson joined MHA at the beginning of August 2007. His previous role was as MLRO for the UK Retail and Business Banking arms of Barclays PLC, managing a 50-strong team of policy experts and analysts.
In his role as MLRO Peter has overseen the implementation of the current risk-based approach, undertaking risk assessments, revising policies and procedures as required and contributing to the development of training programmes for staff at all levels. He well understands the challenges of implementing effective electronic identification (EID) systems and transaction monitoring systems (TMS). In addition he has managed the internal and external reporting processes, working in close partnership with SOCA, and has first-hand experience of the many, many ways in which criminals attempt to launder their criminal proceeds through the banking sector.
As a senior executive consultant at MHA, Peter will apply his considerable experience in undertaking various financial crime/anti money laundering projects, and the design, development and maintenance of client handbooks, manuals, training and course material for both large and small clients.
