Barclays Wealth is set to host a Financial Crime Conference on the 9th November in aid of their charity of the year, Wish Upon a Dream.
There will be a total of five guest speakers at the conference, which has been accredited by the Compliance Institute and will count for 3.5 hours of continuous professional development for attendees.
Guest speakers and the subjects they will cover during the conference include:
Helen Parry, Consultant Editor, Complinet – Market abuse and insider dealing
Before joining Complinet as consultant editor, Helen was a Reader in Law at London Metropolitan University, where she was Director of the Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Services Law and a specialist on the law Masters Programme in comparative US and UK law and regulation, and comparative US and UK financial crime.
She was the editor and contributing author of the Sweet and Maxwell Law and Regulation Series, which included titles on the law and regulation of hedge funds; futures trading; swaps and off exchange derivatives trading; bond markets; and exchanges and alternative trading systems.
In the 80s and 90s, Helen worked as a regulator in the derivatives industry in the early days of regulation, helping to implement the provisions of the 1986 Financial Services Act as Head of the Division of Public Affairs at the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers, and as Regulatory Manager at the International Commodities Clearing House and International Financial Markets.
Helen was originally an academic criminologist specialising in white collar crime and has also worked with private sector investigatory agencies such as the International Maritime Bureau, which deals with maritime crime and piracy, and the Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau.
She also writes the Complinet Code Cracker Series of legal analysis and series of investigative pieces called 'The Helen Parry Report'.
Peter Clucas, Director, Cains Advocates Limited – Proceeds of Crime Act 2008
Peter is an Isle of Man Advocate (qualified 1992) and non-practising English Solicitor who manages Cains’ Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution Team.
He regularly appears before the Isle of Man High Court representing leading financial and commercial institutions in connection with banking disputes, insolvency work, Companies Acts applications, fraud and asset recovery proceedings.
Peter has assisted the Isle of Man Government in relation to regulatory and anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism legislation, most notably advising the Financial Supervision Commission on the introduction of legislation to regulate corporate service providers in the Isle of Man, and assisted in the amendment to the Island’s anti-money laundering regulations.
He also represents the Isle of Man Law Society on the Island’s Joint Anti-Money Laundering Advisory Group and is a regular conference speaker on the Isle of Man’s anti-money laundering legislation regulations.
Paul Heckles, Head of Enforcement, Financial Supervision Commission – Bribery and corruption
Paul joined the Commission in December 2000 and prior to this worked for HM Customs and Excise in the UK for over twenty-one years.
He has spent the majority of his career on various investigation teams, including several years on those specialising in money laundering and drug and pornographic smuggling. He also spent some time serving on the team responsible for the training of investigators within HM Customs & Excise.
Paul Spencer Lloyd, UK Money Laundering Reporting Officer, Barclays Wealth – Data privacy issues relating to financial crime
Paul also covers the UK and OffShore Islands as Head of Region Financial Crime Advisory. He has been with Barclays Wealth since the beginning of the 2009 and was previously UK MLRO for ABN AMRO.
He has worked at HM Treasury and personally brought in the Money Laundering Regulations 2003 and advised on the HMT approval of the JMLSG Guidance Notes. Prior to the Treasury, Paul worked with the City of London Police for almost twenty years mainly investigating Fraud and Money Laundering.
John Atherton, Barclays Wealth – Fraud and AML ‘cases of interest’
John has been with Barclays for ten years in the Isle of Man and is currently the Head of the Barclays Wealth Offshore Islands compliance team, and the compliance business partner to the Barclays Wealth Advisory teams that provide fiduciary and wealth structuring solutions out of Cayman, Singapore, Geneva, India, Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.
The conference, which will take place at the Manx Museum from 9am - 12.30pm, is suitable for all money laundering reporting officers and their deputies, money laundering compliance officers, directors and senior managers who need to be aware of developments in the financial crime environment.
The cost to attend is ?150 per person, with all proceeds from the conference going to Wish Upon a Dream; Barclays Wealth will also make a donation to the charity.
If you would like to book your place at the conference or require any further information, please contact John Atherton: john.atherton@barclayswealth.com.
