Grant Thornton has been build up its AML/CTF capabilities in current months with the arrival of Martin Stone and Annelies Homersham.
Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) legal guidelines and frameworks are among the many most advanced and quickly evolving areas of monetary regulation and compliance, requiring specialist abilities and information.
Thus, Grant Thornton has considerably boosted its experience by means of the addition of skilled practitioner Martin Stone as a companion in Melbourne, along with workplace colleague and specialist adviser Annelies Homersham as a principal.
“With restricted AML specialists nationally, we’re proud to have Martin and Annelies be a part of the extremely skilled and educated advisors in our workforce,” said Jarrod Lean, who was appointed nationwide threat consulting chief in 2023. “We’re dedicated to constructing our AML functionality in-house to strengthen the breadth and depth of abilities and experience inside the market.”
Martin Stone brings 20 years value of threat and compliance expertise to the agency, together with time at ANZ as head of monetary crime and MLRO (cash laundering reporting officer) for the financial institution’s Australian division. Previous to that, he served in senior monetary crime roles with an AML focus at NAB, AMP, and AXA, earlier than most not too long ago going out on his personal.
“Martin has been offering specialist AML/CTF consultancy providers since 2022, and has supported companies in responding to formal AUSTRAC investigations,” the agency states. “He has a demonstrable historical past of partnering with enterprise capabilities and executives to make sure threat and management environments are understood and applicable for the enterprise, in addition to aligned to the dangers confronted.”
Stone isn’t unfamiliar with Grant Thornton, having beforehand labored intently with AML apply chief and companion Neil Denims (Katherine Shamai can be a companion within the workforce, becoming a member of from PwC in 2016), who bought his boutique monetary crime advisory Initialism to the agency in 2022.
Annelies Homersham joins Grant Thornton as a principal in Melbourne after the previous 4 years at PayPal, the place she guided the funds big by means of an investigation by regulator AUSTRAC whereas strengthening governance controls. Earlier than that, she was a director at Deloitte, and earlier hung out in quite a lot of enterprise and IT roles courting again 20 years, together with at Medibank Non-public and ANZ.
The pair’s appointments come amid the nation’s newest regulatory replace, which is anticipated to current appreciable challenges for enterprise. Homersham mentioned, “With the Tranche 2 AML/CTF reforms set to reshape Australia’s monetary crime panorama, it’s a crucial time for organisations to strengthen their compliance frameworks and adapt to evolving regulatory necessities.”
