What’s the risk? Best practices for conducting a financial crime risk assessment

Date: 17 June 2025

Format: Live Webinar

Date: 17th June 2025

Time: 10:00 - 11:00

Hosted by: Maya Braine - Managing Director, Financial Crime, Alan Hadley - Director, Payment Services and Oyin Okusaga - Senior Consultant, Financial Crime.

Conducting a financial crime risk assessment isn’t just best practice—it’s a regulatory requirement for all UK regulated firms. Yet many organisations struggle to get it right. In this practical webinar, we’ll demystify what’s expected, explain how your risk assessment should inform your entire financial crime framework, and share what “good” looks like. Drawing on real-world experience from within regulated firms, insights from the regulator, and lessons from countless audits, we’ll show you how to simplify the process to make it practical and proportionate, and turn your risk assessment into a valuable, actionable tool.

We will conclude the webinar with a 15 minute Q&A, which allows attendees to submit questions for our speakers.

Agenda

Regulatory expectations and why risk assessments matter
Common pitfalls and the dangers of a poor or outdated risk assessment
The foundations of a strong risk assessment: what good looks like
How to keep the process simple, proportionate and practical
Q&A

Speakers

Maya Braine - Managing Director, Financial Crime

Maya has worked in Financial Services for approaching 15 years, with the last five specifically wording in the financial crime consultancy space. She has worked with a wide variety of regulated financial institutions on developing anti-financial crime frameworks, assurance, remediation and training. She formerly worked in the financial crime teams at Deutsche Bank and HSBC, heading up regional high-risk client assurance teams and intelligence/investigation units. She is a Middle East regional specialist, and has lived and worked in the UAE, Lebanon and Syria.

Alan Hadley - Director, Payment Services

Alan Hadley is the Director of our Payment Services team. With 35 years of experience in financial services, including 15 years in compliance, risk management, and anti-financial crime, Alan brings a wealth of knowledge to Cosegic.

His background spans investment management, stockbroking, international banking, and fintech, with expertise in UK and EU regulatory regimes. Previously authorised as an SMF16 Compliance Officer and SMF17 MLRO.

Oyin Okusaga - Senior Consultant, Financial Crime

Oyin recently joined the Financial Crime team as a Senior Consultant. She has 10 years of experience in financial services, including work on Section 166 projects and financial crime assurance reviews. Oyin provided 2LoD advisory at both Amazon Payments and China Construction Bank, and also spent 3 years in financial crime consulting.