Greg Atkins

Senior Consultant

Greg Atkins, Senior Consultant

Outside of work, Greg is kept very busy by a lively Welsh Terrier and through following / playing sports. Although the less said about previously successful football team he has invested a disproportionate amount of emotion into, the better. Greg takes every opportunity that he can to get play football and cricket, despite his “advancing” years.

Meet Greg

Greg has 14 years’ experience working within financial services, ten of which have been within regulatory consulting. Greg has helped firms manage their financial crime obligations across a variety of engagements and institutions: from Monitorships and Skilled Person reviews with major banks spanning corporate, retail and private banking business lines - to advisory work with challenger banks; foreign banks; and e-money and payments firms. He has spent time on secondment at firms helping to deliver projects, so understands the challenges firms face when delivering regulatory led change.

Experience:

  • Over a period of two years Greg was seconded into the Bank’s 1LoD to devise and implement a risk-based approaches to remediating a population of c15 million retail (personal and small business banking). The approaches were based on identifying and treating customers posing the greatest risk to the Bank.

  • Greg has been the engagement lead and project manager of financial crime related s166 reviews. He was responsible for the day-to-day running of the projects to ensure it delivered on budget and within the timeline stipulated by the FCA and responsibility for bringing together all of the workstreams work into a report to be delivered to the firms and FCA.

  • Greg also has an interest in the Payments sector and has helped firms with their authorisations, scale their controls and has spoken at industry events.