ANNE DEDA-ANCEL

Anne is the AML/On-boarding specialist at Effecta and brings with her 20 years of legal and regulatory experience, with a specific focus on financial crime and regulatory mapping.  Anne has worked at tier one legal firms as well as in house within the large institutional banks in the UK and Abu Dhabi.

Anne’s roles have included assisting law firms to manage different KYC projects simultaneously, undertake Due Diligence checks on various entities and individuals (globally), including Directors, Shareholders and Ultimate Beneficial Owners, Screening  for Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), sanctions and/or any adverse news as well as conducting thorough analysis and applying judgement on documents/information while assessing the risk levels.

In addition to the above Anne has worked in house at investment banks including JP Morgan and BAML where her role was to improve the control environment of the firm by documenting the relevant obligations arising from laws and regulations, and connecting those obligations to policies, procedures and communicating these efficiently with various functions of the firm. Anne has also worked in the in-house legal department reviewing client agreements and related documents for Exchange traded derivatives and leading a team of documentation specialists making regulatory and compliance checks on various global institutional clients wishing to trade derivatives with the bank on various Exchanges worldwide.