John Weare
Consultant
Role and Background
John qualified as a solicitor with a City law firm in 1992. He subsequently worked in the US for a law firm in Memphis, Tennessee, specialising in commercial banking advice and fraud related matters.
John was Head of Financial Crime Threat Mitigation at HSBC in the Middle East for a number of years heading up operations in Bahrain and Kuwait. His knowledge of financial crime and threat mitigation is extensive and covers AML, Sanctions, ABC, Terrorist Financing, Modern Day Slavery and Fraud.
Although financial crime has common characteristics across the world, different jurisdictions often have nuanced and unique risks for businesses operating within them. John is particularly valuable when auditing and advising law firms with an international reach.
His experience allows him to better identify financial crime in higher risk jurisdictions and he can review and design relevant policies, procedures and practices to enable firms to have the peace of mind to continue to effectively service international clients.
John has also worked for the SRA and carried out the first tranche of AML thematic reviews of law firms in 2016. The audit process he helped formulate is still used by the SRA today.
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