James is currently the Head of Financial Crime Risk Governance Team at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank focusing on uplifting the FCR Framework and Enterprise Wide Risk Assessments. Before moving to Australia 5 years ago James worked for a number of Investment Banks in London. His career started in onboarding at Bank of America and Goldman Sachs working on various remediation projects and working on uplifting processes and controls. James then moved to UBS where his career in Financial Intelligence Unit within the Bank started in earnest working in advisory with a focus on sanctions and PEP risk management. James last role was as a compliance manager at ICBC Standard Bank working again in advisory for the commodity trader focusing on uplifting their sanctions program. James is qualified as a Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS), ACAMS Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and studying for his Advanced CAMS-Audit Cert5ification. James is also a serving member of the Australasian Chapter Board of ACAMS.