Biography

Hannah Rossiter is a managing director who leads Kroll’s Financial Services Compliance and Regulation practice in the Middle East, based in Dubai.  She has over 25 years of experience in providing regulatory and compliance advice to a wide range of clients across Europe and the Middle East.

Hannah assists banks, wealth managers, and asset managers with regulatory audits and inspections. She also develops and implements tailored compliance policies and procedures for financial services firms to ensure compliance with the national regulators’ doctrine and local law as well as with international best practice. 

Hannah has a broad range of advisory and audit experience and acts as a testifying expert, her experience includes:

• Testifying as an expert witness in a dispute heard the Dubai International Arbitration Centre relating to compliance and regulatory requirements that applied to an international bank’s DIFC branch.
• Testifying as an expert witness in a Swiss tribunal in relation to a dispute between a UK wealth manager and an American investor. She opined on the best industry practices for due diligence conducted by hedge funds investing in illiquid assets.
• Leading Kroll’s Skilled Person appointment team with the Central Bank of U.A.E. supporting the Central Bank Examiner teams in their annual AML review exercise of Licensed Financial Institutions.
• License application support under EU Payment Services Provider Directive for a Firm in France processing payment transactions associated with a payment account and card payments, structuring of compliance and risk functions for the payment services provider.
• Leading a large international AML review under an appointment from the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority of two Scandinavian banks. 
• Coordination and oversight of an independent review of the compliance & risk management function, across multiple jurisdictions, for one the world’s largest investment firms, ensuring that local regulatory and compliance requirements relevant to risk management were fully and effectively addressed. 
• Cross border review for international investment firm headquartered in France to assess governance, organization and resources within compliance and risk functions, assessing local regulatory requirements and mapping those to the Firm’s affiliate-based business model.
• The design and conduct of a group-wide compliance risk assessments across EU and non-EU EMEA businesses and conducting a number of compliance controls on an outsourced basis as part of a final “proof of concept” stage demonstrating the efficiency of the newly designed monitoring plan. 

Prior to joining Kroll, Hannah worked in the investment banking sector and began her career as a finance lawyer with Clifford Chance, working in both their London and Paris offices.