A recurring theme when speaking to CCOs and MLROs at UK-based crypto-asset firms is that global regulators are not aligned when it comes to thinking around how best to regulate crypto-assets. Some are seen as leaning towards being very strict, some seek a middle path, some are consumer-focused others less so, and so it goes…
The ESG team – where best should it be located in a firm? Environmental, Social, Governance – three words that are easy to use and have meaning. They can stand by themselves or be neatly bundled together into a catchy acronym; ESG. So far, so good. Taking these three words and placing an ESG function…
Eiger Regulatory Partners forms alliance with UAE-based SYG Consulting. Eiger Regulatory Partners is delighted to announce an alliance with UAE-based SYG Consulting, a provider of compliance advisory and consulting services to financial services clients across the Middle East. This collaboration is to provide our clients with access to SYG Consulting’s expert compliance advice and regulatory…
Tanya Brandt has been in leadership roles within Investment Banking for 14 years, during which time she has led teams and increasingly complex strategic and regulatory initiatives within business and compliance functions. She is also an executive coach. Coaching leadership is a well-recognised style – how often is it truly applied correctly? It wasn’t until…
Exploring the personal qualities which help shape the most effective Money Laundering Reporting Officers Financial Crime as a function has evolved and expanded greatly over the last three decades. I have written this article to look at the essential DNA of an effective MLRO (Money Laundering Reporting Officer) and following my earlier article looking at…
Exploring the personal qualities which help shape the most effective Compliance Officers I met my first Compliance Officer in 1998. Both the industry and sector were new to me as an ex-Army Officer. Since then and for the next 22 years, I have interacted daily, met with and advised what must be well into the…
There are very choppy waters out there and best to be organised. The CV is often said to be your shop window. It is also your attempt at a self-portrait. For those looking at a planned or unplanned career move, now is the perfect time and as we slowly move towards greater easing of the…
These lyrics, written and originally sung in 1971 by the late Marvin Gaye about the environment, resonate with where we find ourselves today tackling COVID-19 and its fall-out. Things for all of us are most certainly not what they used to be. The ‘new normal’ is slightly abstruse language when used to reference our places…
As we confront and battle to defeat the awful COVID-19 disease whilst each of us is doing our best to protect our loved ones and communities, it can be difficult to assimilate and process the plethora of information, demands and priorities we now face in such unprecedented times. Young officers in the British Army have…