Speaker profile: Samar Pratt

Samar Pratt is the Global Financial Crime Compliance Advisory Leader at Capgemini, based in London. She specialises in anti-financial crime compliance, tech-enabled advisory solutions and managed services. Samar helps clients to enhance their financial crime compliance control frameworks through advice and tech-enabled solutions across the three lines of defence. She provides support to regulated firms by undertaking quality assurance reviews, proactive programme reviews in advance of regulatory visits, on-site audits, benchmarking reviews, program design and implementation projects, process re-engineering and automation, issue management and validation, and specialist training.

Samar has led Section 166 reviews for a several banks and been appointed a Skilled Person on behalf of the Financial Conduct Authority. Samar had also led independent regulatory exams of bank financial crime programmes on behalf of US authorities, having served as a Deputy Monitor on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice and as an Independent Consultant on behalf of the New York Federal Reserve Board. Her work as a Deputy Monitor for the largest ever court-appointed monitorship brought her into contact with regulators around the world giving her a unique insight into financial crime mitigation practices and regulatory expectations across Europe, Middle East, Americas ,and Asia Pacific.

Samar actively supports The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) on a voluntary basis and is Vice Chair of the ACAMS UK Chapter Board.