Prior to establishing MHA in 1993 Michael spent 20 years as a senior executive within the Midland Bank Group in various roles covering security, fraud, internal audit and money laundering compliance and reporting. He was a founder member of the UK Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (JMLSG).
Michael regularly undertakes training and consulting on behalf of governments, financial regulators, regulators, banking associations and individual institutions in various parts of the world. He advises financial sector institutions on compliance policies and training strategies and is often called to advise on remedial compliance strategies following critical supervisory reports.
Michael is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Certified Accountants and a Fellow of the Institute of Internal Auditors.
Sue Thornhill
Sue has specialised in money laundering prevention for the past 17 years. She was previously a Director at the British Bankers' Association (BBA) where she was one of the original founders of the UK Joint Money Laundering Steering Group.
From 1990 to 2003, Sue authored the JMLSG Money Laundering Guidance Notes for the Financial Sector. She acts as consultant to a number of financial and non-financial sector firms in the UK and overseas, and regularly advises governments, regulators and other institutions on strategies to prevent money laundering, most recently in Jersey and Guernsey and the Isle of Man. Sue has recently been part of the UK team undertaking the statutory review of the Financial Services Commission of Gibralter. Sue is consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat and is the author of the Commonwealth Model of Best Practice for Combating Money Laundering in the Financial Sector.
Sue is a member of the Advisory Board of the International Compliance Association and sits on the Money Laundering Steering Group of the Financial Sector Skills Council.
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MHA are a specialist training and consulting firm working across all sectors covered by the UK money laundering regulations and with organisations affected by financial crime internationally.
MHA specialises in anti-money laundering, financial fraud and compliance services. Our activities in these areas fall into three categories.
• Consulting - bespoke consulting with an emphasis on
practical solutions
• Training - classroom, e-learning videos and video streamed
solutions
• Resources - publications and online resources for MLROs
and those tasked with countering fraud
MHA is well known for creating the most appropriate compliant, cost-effective solutions available and because our consultants have all held senior in-house roles, we take into account the practical, day-to-day business needs of clients.
For more information regarding AML Training please contact us or call 0870 97 49 414.
Jan Hagen
Jan
has more then 10 years experience of designing,
developing and delivering learning solutions for
many of the UK's leading financial institutions.
During the last 6 years his focus has been on
learning solutions that address compliance issues,
and has implemented AML training projects for a
wide variety of organisations, including law firms,
financial institutions, regulators and many, many
more.
Before joining MHA, Jan worked with Ernst &
Young UK's Regulatory and Risk Group. Whilst there,
he developed a compliance training effectiveness
assessment methodology for a large UK high street
bank and was responsible for its implementation of
a risk based AML training strategy for 11,000
account openers. Jan also has considerable
experience of developing web-based courses for
organisations such as Gartmore, Smith &
Williamson and Legal & General.
At MHA Jan is
responsible for delivering high quality training
solutions based around MHA's core expertise in
financial crime and money laundering prevention and
Jan holds the UK Diploma in Anti Money Laundering
from the International Compliance Association, of
which he is also a professional member.
