Are you ready for the reforms? Join experts who will guide you through your critical AML/CTF compliance, featuring insights from top legal and industry experts. Understanding the risks and complexity of AML compliance in real estate transactions is essential for all property industry professionals.  This webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge, skills processes and procedures you need to be fully prepared and compliant in time for their implementation.

Presenters

Neil Jeans, Partner, Grant Thornton
Neil has a unique background in financial crime risk management spanning almost 30 years, including working at senior levels managing AML/CTF, Sanctions and Anti-Bribery compliance across Europe, the US, Latin America, Asia, and Australia within two major global investment banks, one European financial services company, and a major Australian bank. He has also worked within law enforcement agencies investigating financial crime and money laundering, and as a financial services regulator developing AML/CTF regulation and AML/CTF regulatory supervision techniques.


Caroline Marshall, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
Caroline specialises in investigations and inquiries, with a particular focus on corporate or financial crime matters. She acts for corporations facing allegations of bribery and corruption, money laundering, sanctions violations and integrity issues, and has represented clients facing regulatory enforcement by AUSTRAC, ASIC and APRA. Her practice covers the full regulatory lifecycle, from regulatory advice to strategy, compliance, enforcement and remediation. She is also an expert in ESG. Caroline works with domestic and international clients across a variety of industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, technology, media and telecommunications, energy and natural resources. She is a dual-qualified lawyer in Australia and England & Wales, and has previously worked in London and Hong Kong. Caroline is a company secretary and director on the board of the Australian Compliance Institute.


Megan Styles, Barrister, Foley’s List
Megan is a barrister at the Victorian Bar and accepts briefs across Australia in a broad range of matters. She has a particular interest in matters involving AML/CTF legislation, asset tracing and proceeds of crime/asset confiscation, financial crime investigations, disclosure issues, law enforcement, bankruptcy and insolvency law and mortgage disputes. Prior to being called to the Bar, Megan was a Principal Litigation Lawyer and Team Leader with the Australian Federal Police Criminal Assets Litigation team of the Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce.  Megan regularly advises and appears in matters involving state and federal agencies, corporations, law enforcement bodies and financial institutions, in a variety of courts and tribunals. She is currently undertaking her PhD at Monash University, on proceeds of crime. In 2023, Megan was invited to present at the International Symposium on Economic Crime at Cambridge University and in 2024, attended the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Summer School on Transnational Organised Crime.


Simon Taylor, Partner, PWC
Simon Taylor leads PwC's Financial Crime practice and is based in Melbourne, Australia. Simon specialises in AML/CTF risk management and transformation and has extensive experience leading large teams to solve complex financial crime risk challenges across various sectors, both in the United States and Australia. Simon has experiencing designing and implementing innovative operating models and frameworks, that leverages analytics and technology, to address regulatory compliance, enable operational excellence and ultimately delivering higher quality intelligence to regulatory bodies and law enforcement. Simon also has extensive experience conducting deep dive reviews to identify root cause issues in AML/CTF processes and works with clients to address tactically, and strategically. Simon works closely with large AUSTRAC reporting entities senior management teams, and boards, to deliver large scale change and regulatory response programs. Simon's expertise also extends to areas such as fraud, scams, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption risk management.


Timothy Goodrick, Director, Forensic, KPMG Australia
Tim is a Director in KPMG’s Financial Crime practice where he specialises in leading projects to design and implement effective systems to combat financial crime, with a focus on financial crime transformation. Tim works with clients in the financial and gaming sectors across the financial crime ecosystem including customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, targeted operating models, technology, data, remediation, and sanctions. Tim joined KPMG in 2019 from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) where he spent 5 years based in France and South Korea. At the FATF, Tim led projects to develop policy on beneficial ownership, anti-corruption and virtual assets, and assessed countries against the FATF standards. Most recently, Tim was the acting Director at the FATF’s Training and Research Institute in South Korea. Prior to joining the FATF, Tim worked in the Australian Government (2007-2012) as the Director of Financial Crime at the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, and previously at AUSTRAC in policy and compliance. Tim has represented Australia and the FATF internationally in various international fora, including at the FATF, G20, OECD, United Nations, Asia-Pacific Group, and the Basel Committee.