Alia Mahmud
Regulatory Affairs Practice Lead, ComplyAdvantage
KYC & Data Discussion Leaders
Alia Mahmud is a Regulatory Affairs Practice Lead at ComplyAdvantage. She has deep knowledge of the fintech compliance landscape, having served in senior compliance roles at OakNorth, Revolut, and Algebra.
Howard has undertaken a diverse range of roles in the financial services sector spanning the disciplines of operational management, corporate relationship management, strategy and risk management. Passionate about preventing Economic Crime his current role is to provide Oversight of Economic Crime risks with particular focus on screening and transaction monitoring.
He is an advisory board member for Cifas, the UKs largest cross-sector fraud data sharing organisation, as well as a member of the European Banking Federation Exco financial crime strategy group. He is also an active member of the Europol Financial Intelligence Public Private Partnership.
As an active LinkedIn member Howard regularly shares thoughts and insights into the world of Economic Crime Prevention and the latest developments around the globe.
Howard enjoys running getting in a 5km jog on most days.
Howard is the KYC Transformation lead at Encompass, working with Tier 1 banks to digitally transform their KYC onboarding and refresh processes, driving control, capacity and colleague benefits through the use of the highly impressive Encompass platform.
Prior to this, he held a number of executive-level operational roles with a major global bank including leading their wholesale KYC onboarding and refresh functions.
Iain Armstrong is a Regulatory Affairs Practice Lead at ComplyAdvantage. Iain has held a number of senior compliance roles in major financial institutions, including NatWest, HSBC, and Barclays. Iain also spent eight years working at the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority.
Since being appointed Chief Executive at Cifas in May 2018, Mike has actively worked to grow the community of stakeholders sharing data, intelligence and insight in the pursuit of preventing fraud and financial crime. Mike is passionate about Cifas becoming the driving force behind fraud prevention in the UK and with over 30 years’ experience of tackling and preventing fraud across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, he is determined to bring together a strong cross-sectoral collaborative approach to tackling fraud. With a Master’s Degree in Criminology, Mike has led counter fraud efforts in the National Health Service, Ministry of Defence, Office of Fair Trading, HM Revenue and Customs and the Solicitors Regulation Authority. He also worked at the National Fraud Authority directing cross sector fraud prevention strategies. Mike believes that the battle against fraud is one that cannot be won alone and that only by collaborating as a community can turn the tide on fraud and not only protect each other but also make the UK a safer place to live and do business.
Ralph Ebert is a German lawyer with long term legal and Compliance experience for universal and private banks with 15 years of experience in an international environment. He worked in France, Canada, South Korea and Switzerland as well as short term assignments to Hong Kong and Singapore.
Ralph works currently as Head of Compliance at Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (Suisse) in Switzerland. He also focuses on the integration of RegTech solutions, consequences for Compliance and the modern compliance culture.
Richard Ells is the founder and CEO of Electroneum and AnyTask.com, Board Director for the Digital Pound Foundation, and Advisor for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain. This year at Transform Finance UK, Richard will be sharing his insights into key legislative and technological considerations in relation to KYC and AML that he believes could unlock greater financial inclusion on a global scale.
I have recently started as CDO at FBN Bank (UK) with remit to enhance the business capabilities in the bank to manage the data and improve use of the data to make business decisions and streamline operational effectiveness. Before FB Bank I spent over 2 years at Europe Arab Bank in a similar capacity (as a Lead Architect and Head of MI & Data). Prior to that I was Head of Business Insight Centre in UK’s ECA (UK Export Finance) where I built a data function and delivered technical and business solutions to enhance data management, analytics and automated some of the elements in the data ecosystem to reduce overall costs and mitigate operational and regulatory risks.
