Araba E. Email & Phone Number

London, GB

San Francisco, California, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

New York, NY, US

• My responsibilities include:
• Ultimate responsibility for all regulatory interactions and anti money laundering activities
• Regulatory affairs: meetings with regulators, politicians and industry bodies. Leading the charge to create a sensible crypto asset regulatory regime.
• Part of the global compliance leadership team.

London, England, GB

• My responsibilities included:
• Holder of approval as an EMD individual under the FCA.
• Ultimate responsibility for VertoFX's regulatory, financial crime, fraud and money laundering regimes.
• Assisted with VertoFX securing their Series A funding.

Remote First, US

• My responsibilities included:
• Holder of approval as an EMD individual under the FCA.
• Ultimate responsibility for Coinbase UK’s financial crime and money laundering regimes.
• International expansion projects.

London, London, GB

• My responsibilities included:
• Assisting Paysafe in developing the Compliance function for their Virtual Asset initiatives.

London, GB

• My responsibilities included:
• Creating Coinfloor’s Compliance regime.
• Holder of approval as a Director, Compliance and MLRO for a GFSC regulated institution, previous holder of Director and Compliance functions as an Approved Representative under the FCA (AFE01016).
• Communicating with UK (FCA, HMT & Bank of England) and European (GFSC & MFSA) Regulators about Virtual Currencies and steering future Regulations.
• Speaking at Conferences about Crypto Compliance.
• Front Office facing as part of the Senior Management Team, instrumental in budgets and business planning.

New York, US

• My responsibilities included:
• Deputising for Head of Compliance & MLRO.
• Promoting and embedding a positive compliance culture throughout the company.
• Point of reference for all AML queries and oversight, including client on-boarding and potential: PEPs, Sanctions and Adverse Media.
• Assist the firm with producing effective systems and controls.
• Maintaining regulatory training records, conducting Compliance training, AML training and Inductions.

London, England, GB

• My responsibilities included:
• Undertaking client onboarding and AML duties
• Producing LCG’s current client on-boarding procedures.
• Project delivery and full integration of GB Group products into the new LCG CRM system.
• External presentations to the FCA and potential partners about LCG’s AML procedures.
• Chairing internal meetings.

London, GB

• My responsibilities include:
• Authority on high risk on-boarding for corporate and individual applications.
• Financial crime prevention through the identification of manipulated documentation and bogus information.
• Establishing clients’ sources of wealth and investigating fraudulent applications.
• Reviewing and opening accounts for corporates, PEPs and high risk individuals.
• Managing communication with clients and third party system providers via email, telephone and face to face interviews.

London, GB

• My responsibilities included:
• Managing Registrations & Payments team and training new members of staff (maternity cover).
• Dealing with high level queries.
• Opening worldwide corporate accounts (both regulated and unregulated jurisdictions)
• Risk assessing client applications.

London, GB

• My responsibilities included:
• Opening client accounts: reviewing individual online and paper applications; using the internal Country Risk Matrix to decide which documentation to request; requesting client documentation; checking the validity of.
• Payments processing: withdrawal requests from the sales team; authorising LMAX console withdrawal requests; approving client deposits; buffering client money accounts; inter account transfers; checking flagged.
• Running internal and external reports, including drafting SARs for the MLRO.
• Compliance internal calls monitoring and checking the calls of the Sales and Client Services teams to ensure they comply with legislation.
• Dealing with queries from the Sales, Marketing, Compliance, Customer Services, Risk, Finance and Treasury departments.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• My responsibilities included:
• Completing systems reports; processing registrations reports; ensuring client deals are paid on the correct settlement date.
• Drafting and printing documents.
• Completing outstanding tasks and reviewing queries from staff in Bangalore to ensure consistent quality.
• Answering queries from clients via email and the telephone.
• Answering questions from offshore administrators in Ireland, Guernsey and Bangalore.

Certificate In Anti Money Laundering Awareness, Anti Money Laundering

Certificate In Financial Crime Awareness, Anti Money Laundering

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb), Law