Steven David Blackbourn

Regulatory compliance and financial-crime specialist

Adding flexibility & value to your business

OVER 35 YEARS EXPERIENCE

I have worked in a range of both small and multi-national organisations across the financial services sector over 35 years, specialising in all aspects of compliance and financial-crime risk-management for well over 20 years. The recent 15 years have been as a self-employed consultant with time served as an active UK Board-level non-executive director. 

This founding and cumulative breadth of experience has equipped me to bring and apply a wealth of practical knowledge and applied skill, with a proven hands-on financial-services industry exposure and understanding, to help guide and support the many regulatory challenges and ambitions facing UK and global financial services organisations. 

MY SERVICES

If you require practical and experienced assistance, advice or solutions in respect to:

  • Flexible core functional resourcing for ad-hoc and/or specified project activity
  • An independent and fresh perspective to assist in validating or analysing gaps in existing standards and practices
  • A broadly experienced practitioner to work alongside and help develop and enhance existing internal functions, priorities and demands  
  • Specialist training or advice concerning proportionate risk-based regulatory structures and processes 
  • Assistance in undertaking service testing and reviews of third-party and other business partnerships being assimilated or relied upon  
  • Due-diligence and 'skilled persons' investigations and remedial projects

I can provide tailored and flexible consultancy-based support on activities and topics including:

  • Reliable, discreet but tangible business presence to support and enhance appropriate governance, cultural standards and business acumen
  • Governance and cultural learning, change and improvement
  • Horizon-management on regulatory and financial-crime developments affecting your products, services and operating markets
  • Risk-based driven management information and decision-making solutions/policies including all aspects of risk-assessment and mitigation
  • Incident management as may pertain to any applicable regulatory obligations, investigations and relationship-management
  • Regulatory compliance and/or financial-crime subject expertise on related systems, policy and procedural design and documentation

FLEXIBLE, COMPLEMENTARY APPROACH

With organisations increasingly facing the challenges of operational flexibility and resilience with often temporary or remote resource demands and support needs, I am able to tailor the required level of interim or rolling support for you and your business through either simple online processes and channels, or more specific agreed and integrated solutions, as deemed necessary or appropriate to your requirements and changing circumstances. 

This service approach enables me to deliver your business access to a proportionate and solutions orientated industry practitioner, under a relationship arrangement that provides a reliable remote resource support capability to compliment or simply help expand or strengthen your internal functionality, as may be required or necessary.

ENQUIRE

If I can assist you and your business, then please make initial contact on:

sblackbourn@btinternet.com or via LinkedIn