Richard Snookes
Richard Snookes

Richard Snookes

Chief Compliance Officer & MLRO

Richard joined BACB in June 2022 as Interim Head of Financial Crime Risk and Money Laundering Reporting Officer, he was promoted to Chief Compliance Officer in September 2022.

Having previously worked at Barclays Capital, Santander UK and RBS, Richard is experienced in leading teams responsible for risk monitoring at an international level. Richard is highly competent in managing complex, specialist risk environments, having served as Chief Compliance Officer at Sberbank CIB in London, where he led a control enhancement programme and restructured the UK office’s compliance processes. Richard has worked in financial crime prevention and regulator engagement, which has seen him supervise the deployment of robust controls in both trade finance and correspondent banking contexts.

Richard holds a BSc. from Imperial College London, and an MBA Accreditation from the London School of Economics.

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