Evan M. Email & Phone Number

Belfast, Gb

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Key career highlights and notable professional experience includes the following:1) Held an interim DMLRO function at an industry-leading FX firm, which involved day-to-day operational responsibility over the AML/CTF regime to include oversight of the CDD process, actioning escalations, high-risk client sign-off, team management and suspicious activity reporting to the NCA, as well as MI reporting to the CCRO and ad-hoc policy/process improvement.2) Led AML compliance audits for a large number of payment and e-money institutions, in order to test and review the adequacy and effectiveness of their policies, procedures, systems and controls.3) Provision of training seminars to industry figures on a number of topics, including regulatory updates on the EU's 5MLD as transposed into the UK legislative framework and how this change affects obliged entities, as well as on how to manage financial crime risk in relation to virtual assets.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Key career highlights and notable professional experience includes the following:1) Collaborated on a long-term project with a sector-leading financial institution, which involved a set-period of time for review of the initial position, before being embedded on-site for several months to develop and deliver a robust business-as-usual financial crime risk framework.2) Undertook an interim role with a cryptocurrency firm to provide a comprehensive review of its existing risk management framework, as well as to design of a bespoke ‘whole firm risk assessment’ framework, a methodology to support this and to report on the effectiveness of its controls.3) Led AML compliance audits for a large number of payment and e-money institutions, in order to test and review the adequacy and effectiveness of their policies, procedures, systems and controls.4) Provision of training seminars to industry figures on a number of topics, including the effective application of a risk-based approach and how to deal with PEPs and sanctioned individuals/entities.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Key career highlights and notable professional experience includes the following:1) Assisted in applications to the FCA for authorisation and re-authorisation as payment and e-money institutions by providing oversight and analysis of AML/CTF policies and procedures.2) Undertook outsourced CDD functions for various payment and e-money institutions, which included conducting enhanced due diligence measures on high-risk clients with complex (multi-layered and multi-jurisdictional) corporate structures (involving trusts, funds, LPs, LLCs, SPVs).3) Took part in a large-scale remediation project in which over 400 client files were analysed, with the objective of re-implementing appropriate customer due diligence and enhanced due diligence.4) Provision of ad-hoc compliance advice on a wide variety of topics, as well as guidance notes and papers on various topics, including the UK sanctions regime from a firm’s perspective.5) Obtained the ICA International Dipoma in Anti-Money Laundering (Merit).

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Politics, Philosophy And Economics

Activities and Societies: PPE Society, Politics Society, Boxing, NI Football Club. Modules Included: Approaches to Philosophy.

Ica International Diploma In Anti-Money Laundering, Merit

Ran by the International Compliance Association (ICA) and accredited by the Alliance Manchester Business School, this NQF Level 6.

A-Levels In History (A), Geography (A) And Classical Civilisation (B)

Activities and Societies: Football, Rugby, School Newspaper, Debating Society, Prefect.