Lunchtime Webinar - Business-wide Risk Assessments

A Business-wide Risk Assessment (BWRA) helps firms identify financial crime risks, assesses the effectiveness of its preventative and detective controls, and focus its resources. Join this webinar to equip your firm with essential tools and strategies to identify vulnerabilities, quantify potential risks, and create a robust BWRA to ensure your business stays compliant, secure, and maintains its integrity.

This webinar covers end to end BWRA design and execution, including but not limited to:

• Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders
• Designing a controls library
• Inherent and residual risk
• Data collection and assessment
• Next steps post execution and governance approval

Presenter: Jamie Stephens, deputy MLRO Ghana International Bank

Jamie is currently working for Ghana International Bank as Deputy MLRO a position he has occupied since September 2021. Prior to this Jamie was the MLRO for Butterfield Fulcrum Fund Services in Guernsey before joining HSBC, in 2011, as Deputy MLRO for their Private Banking business within the Channel Islands. Following that he lead the financial crime team’s delivery of globally-driven improvements to the bank's AML framework on behalf of the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, ensuring compatibility with the regulations of all three jurisdictions. He left the Channel Islands to take up a Senior Manager position within HSBC UK Bank in the Corporate Banking Financial Crime Team.