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Alex is responsible for bank-wide data-led insights, executive risk reporting, risk assessments and MI strategy in NatWest Group Financial Crime Risk. Previously led the Group’s efforts to tackle tax evasion: responding to the Criminal Finances Act as well as wider tax transparency (FATCA, CRS) risk management.

Before this Alex was at Barclays, where he supported the front office and managed client and corporate tax risk, across Corporate Banking, Wealth Management, Investment Banking, and in-house mergers & acquisitions.

His Experience includes leading RBS’s response to the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (risk assessments, training, designing and implementing controls), M&A tax from conception to post-completion, including sale of Wealth Asia business and sale of UK trusts business, managing tax risks associated with a wide range of FS products and services including structured notes, prime brokerage, real estate financing, and secured funding (securitisations and covered bonds). He has significant experience working with Financial Crime on tax evasion risk and corporate tax compliance roles.

With two decades of on-the-ground experience across the Americas (including Brazil and Mexico) and China, Grace has worked at TS Lombard since 2007 and specializes in energy, political risk, infrastructure and industrial/tech policy, plus their intersection with emerging new technologies as key research themes. She previously led Latin America research at TS Lombard and has broad sector expertise in core areas spanning clean energy, oil & gas and agriculture alongside trade and tech issues. Prior to TS Lombard, she worked as an EM journalist with articles in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Dow Jones Newswires among other publications. She is a graduate of Harvard University and has an MBA from Brazil’s Getulio Vargas Foundation.

David Otudeko leads the regulation directorate which is collectively responsible for the ABI’s policy work on prudential regulation, conduct regulation, tax, financial and corporate reporting and environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters.

David joined the ABI in June 2021 as Head of Prudential Regulation from AmTrust International where he was part of the Risk Management function and was instrumental in establishing a Shared Services Risk Function at the Insurance Group. Prior to this, he had spells working in the Insurance Risk and Regulation Practice at PwC, the Prudential Regulation Authority’s Major Life Insurance Groups Supervision Department and in various roles at RBS over a 10-year period.

David’s LinkedIn profile can be found here.

Kelvin started his position as Customer Insights Manager at Lloyds Banking Group on January 29, 2023. His role focuses on understanding and improving customer experiences within the banking sector.

With over 25 years of experience, Monika is a Data and Decisioning Leader across Banking & Financial Services, Telecoms, Insurance and Travel domains who has led the omni-channel design and delivery across the globe through customer touchpoints (digital and staff assisted) and helped businesses enhance customer engagement, NPS, growth and retention strategies. Monika has worked with major banks & blue-chip companies in the UK implementing Data and AI driven orchestration, deriving meaningful insights, driving hyper-personalisation, actionable intelligence, and optimising business outcomes whilst balancing customer needs.

Mari Parry is a Principal Engineer at BlackRock, focused on leveraging AI to support Portfolio Management workflows. She has 20+ years of experience delivering innovative solutions for the financial and media sectors in the UK and Germany.