Stephen Platt

Stephen is acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost experts in the regulation of financial services and financial crime in and through offshore financial centres. He is frequently engaged by governments, regulators and financial institutions in sensitive matters involving sanctions, money laundering, corruption and asset recovery.

Stephen is the Principal of Stephen Platt & Associates LLP a firm specialising in Risk and Governance services for the financial services industry. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Law at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., a Director of the Jersey International Business School and the founder of the global AML on-line community, KYC360.

Stephen acts primarily for institutional clients and regulatory authorities globally. For the former he advises on governance, risk management and regulatory compliance. For the latter he conducts regulatory inspections and provides advice on AML/CTF rules and the regulation of trust companies, banks and investments businesses. With additional expertise in sanctions, Stephen regularly advises some of the world’s largest non-US banks on the risks of criminal and civil liability resulting from breaches of Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions and Anti Terror Act Legislation.

Stephen’s expertise is recognised by the British Bankers Association through which he delivers a range of risk management and sanctions training programmes to the banking industry in the UK.

In 2009 Stephen was appointed by the UN and World Bank as a ‘core expert’ on the StAR anti corruption initiative.

Stephen is recommended by the Legal 500 and the Chambers & Partners Directories and is featured in the European Legal Experts Directory.

Stephen is the Chairman of the Jersey Employment Trust, the training and supported employment agency for disabled people in Jersey. He is also a member of the States of Jersey Complaints Panel and a member of the Fostering Panel.

Publications

• International Diploma in Compliance
• International Diploma in Money Laundering Prevention
• MLRO Reference Guide (co-author)

Philip Taylor

Philip Taylor joined Price Waterhouse in London 1970 and was admitted to partnership in 1985. He was the Senior Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Channel Islands from 1998 to 2007 and head of PwC's Global Assurance Quality Inspection programme from 2003 to 2009.

Philip was Chairman of the Jersey Branch of the Institute of Directors from 1989 to 1992 and a founder member of the Jersey Financial Services Advisory Board, the umbrella body for the development of the Finance Industry in Jersey.

He is currently a Commisioner of the Jersey Financial Services Commission and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Jersey College for Girls.

John Boothman

John Boothman was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford. A career banker, he retired in 2002 as Managing Director of Deutsche Bank International Limited. Since then he has taken on a number of paid and voluntary posts. He is currently non-executive Chairman of Jersey Telecom, the principal Channel Islands telecommunications provider, and of Aztec Group, a financial services firm. He is a trustee of The Stroke Association and Chairman of its Jersey branch.