Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor

Strategy Adviser

Chris Taylor is a highly experienced compliance professional and his work includes delivering strategic compliance and business advice to help clients in growing their businesses.

Following graduation in Social Sciences in 1968, Chris Taylor has spent his career within the financial services industry, working predominantly within the fields of Banking and Asset Management. Commencing as a graduate trainee in commercial banking, he then pursued an initial career path in Human Resource management, qualifying as a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development and gaining substantial experience of graduate recruitment/development, training, disciplinary/grievance procedures and strategic up and down-sizing.

Since 1985 he has worked within Compliance and Regulation from its commencement in the UK. He has held the positions of CF10 (Compliance Oversight) and CF11 (Money Laundering Reporting Officer) in several businesses, including the roles of Joint Deputy Global Head of Compliance for NatWest Group and Director of Compliance for Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch, a Swiss Private Bank.

He has conducted strategic reviews of businesses overseas ranging from North America, Europe to the Far East, providing education and strategic analyses to local Boards and Senior Management.

He has experience of conducting and mapping operational risk assessment and promoting effective corporate governance. His experience includes chairing the Audit and Compliance Committee of the London subsidiary of an overseas bank. Chris is a frequent speaker at and Chairman of conferences in London and is also actively involved with training and education including courses run by The Compliance Register. He has had a number of articles published in learned journals.

He was formerly Chairman of an independent Fund Management Compliance Discussion Group, Deputy Chairman of the Securities and Investment Compliance Forum and a member of the Securities and Investment Institute’s Integrity and Ethics Committee having recently assisted the Institute in writing and editing their publication, “Integrity at Work in Financial Services”.

He was formerly Chairman of an independent Fund Management Compliance Discussion Group, Deputy Chairman of the Securities and Investment Compliance Forum and a member of the Securities and Investment Institute’s Integrity and Ethics Committee having recently assisted the Institute in writing and editing their publication, “Integrity at Work in Financial Services”.

Since 1997, rather than performing a narrow, technical compliance role he has operated at Senior Management/Board level in providing broad, strategic input and advice in situations such as new business start-ups, business re-modelling, business expansion and down-sizings.

Chris holds several non-executive directorships within Financial Services businesses, is a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman within the Guild of International Bankers.