- Overview
- Experience
Introduction
Lisa is valued by clients for her deep experience across financial crime regulatory response, strategy, remediation and transformation, having supported major regulatory enforcement programs.
Lisa leads the Financial Crime practice for Ashurst Perkins Coie Risk Advisory, working with clients to address financial crime regulatory requirements, understand and manage risk and respond to regulatory enforcement and control failures.
Based in Sydney, Lisa has 22+ years of experience in Australia and the UK, bringing knowledge in financial crime regulation, regulatory enforcement, strategy and transformation programs. She values genuine relationship building and collaboration with clients, and is regularly consulted to advise on critical regulatory matters across AML/CTF, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, fraud and scams.
She has led a number of significant projects across the banking, wealth management, gaming and payments sectors including a wide range of engagements triggered by regulatory and enforcement actions, such as civil penalty proceedings, enforceable undertakings, infringement notices and other supervisory activities.
Lisa spent 16 years at Deloitte, (12 years as partner and leader of Deloitte’s Financial Crime practice); and was formerly a lawyer, admitted in NSW and UK jurisdictions.
Areas of focus
- Large Australian Bank: Investigation and root cause analysis in response to allegations of suspicious activity and development of remedial plan.*
- Global Payments Company: Led a detailed review of the operational effectiveness of globally outsourced AML/CTF functions for a large global payments organization as part of requirements under an enforceable undertaking with AUSTRAC.*
- Major Australian Bank: Independent review of the fraud and money laundering risk and controls relating to the home lending business in response to industry-wide fraud.*
- Australian Casino Operator: Led a major external forensic review of a leading Australian Casino operator, in response to inquiry findings. This work included a review of ML/TF vulnerabilities, an assessment of the AML/CTF control environment and a forensic analysis of the use of credit cards for gaming purposes. As part of this work Lisa appeared before the Victorian Royal Commission into the Casino Operator and License.*
- Major Australian Bank: Led Deloitte’s advisory and execution partnership support for the financial crime transformation program for a Big 4 Australian bank, in response to civil penalty proceedings.*
- Major Australian Bank: Root cause investigation in response to a whistleblower matter in connection with alleged AML/CTF regulatory failures.*
- Australian Casino Operator: Root cause analysis and current state assessment investigations relating to AML/CTF compliance including KYC, enhanced customer due diligence and transaction monitoring associated with issues identified by a regulatory commission.*
- Major Australian Bank: Review of Line 1 Financial Crime risk maturity for the retail division and development of uplift plan.*
- Global Payments Company: Review of the organization's IFTI reporting framework, development and support to implementation of uplift plan.*
- Major Australian Bank: Forensic investigation of Threshold Transaction Reporting issues identified in specific retail channels.*
- Various Australian and Global Financial Services organizations: Led numerous AML/CTF Independent Reviews, ML/TF Risk Assessment, AML reform gap assessment and associated AML/CTF advisory engagements.*
* Experience prior to joining Ashurst Perkins Coie.
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