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Stockholm, Se

Norden

Stockholm

Pwc, Financial Services, Sweden

Director, Regulatory Financial ServicesIn my new roles as driver of the PwC Financial Services Regulatory offer I will help our clients understand the impact and strategic consequences of new or amended regulation, as well as lead or take part in Governace, risk and regulation projects as an expert. My aim is to make regulation more understandable, accessable and a part of our clients everyday strategic and operative decisions.Director, Head of Governace and Regulations team - July… Show more Director, Regulatory Financial ServicesIn my new roles as driver of the PwC Financial Services Regulatory offer I will help our clients understand the impact and strategic consequences of new or amended regulation, as well as lead or take part in Governace, risk and regulation projects as an expert. My aim is to make regulation more understandable, accessable and a part of our clients everyday strategic and operative decisions.Director, Head of Governace and Regulations team - July 2013 to Dec 2015In my role as a diretor and Head of Governance & Regulations team I focused on providing help to clients to optimise their strategic regulatory compliance. In my capacity as financial regulations expert I have participated in various projects, covering for example compliance department set ups, developing risk management frameworks, developing remuneration systems, as well as various gap-analysis towards coming regulations (UCITS IV, MiFID, Basel II, AML and Dodd-Frank etc), and have held or participated in projects concerning applications for permission from Swedish FSA. Show less

In my capacity as financial regulations expert I have participated in various projects, covering for example compliance department set ups, developing risk management frameworks, developing remuneration systems, as well as various gap-analysis towards coming regulations (UCITS IV, MiFID, Basel II, AML and Dodd-Frank etc), and have held or participated in projects concerning applications for permission from Swedish FSA.

I provided legal advice on financial and business rules and regulation, business agreements, market conduct and client related information and performed compliance monitoring. I developed and later updated the Training & Competence program. I also aided the implementation of MiFID and the Capital Requirement Directive (CRD) among other things.

I developed and organized the Compliance Function incl. responsibility for Monitoring, Training & Competence, Complaints, PA Dealing, Anti Money Laundering Procedures etc. I provided legal advice on; financial and business rules and regulation, business agreements, market conduct and client related information, and was Secretary and legal counsellor to the Board.

London, United Kingdom

My responsibilities as Senior Compliance Consultant included providing full start up advice for both unregulated funds (Hedge Funds) and regulated funds (Collective Investments Schemes), assistance with Applications for Authorisation with the UK Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA), and full compliance service for above mentioned funds

Sweden

At Finansinspektionen I was working at the legal department mainly with questions related to fund management companies and investment funds. I also acted as legal expert in various working groups under the EU Commission together with the Swedish Ministry of Finance.

Master, Law

Diploma In Investment Compliance, Financial Regulations