Katharine Leaman

CEO of Leaman Crellin, Katharine regularly provides compliance advice and coaching to c-suite as well as to front office trading and sales people around the world. Katharine has worked in financial services for thirty years in insurance, distribution, banking, and regulation, including as an Executive Director with Standard Chartered Bank and a Senior Manager at the UK’s regulator, the FSA (now FCA).Katharine’s expertise is in technical areas of the rules such as Market Abuse, CASS, SMCR, the Global FX Code and Outsourcing, as well as issues that have a broader regulatory focus such as market conduct, non-financial misconduct, conduct risk, operational resilience and consumer duty. Some of her successes include establishing global standards for protecting client assets in over 80 countries, and getting a successful outcome in the UK from a section 166, skilled person review on CASS.