Simran Bharaj

Economic Crime Risk Management Expert

GKSB Consultancy

Simran is an expert in financial crime risk management. She has worked within the regulated FS sector for over 15 years advising on all aspects of AML, ABC, terrorist financing and sanction compliance issues. She has also worked at the Financial Conduct Authority as a specialist economic crime supervisor conducting thematic reviews, deep dives, intervention and enforcement work. She is increasingly instructed by non-FS firms on risk assessment, policy and troubleshooting matters to proportionately facilitate compliance.

Simran is a keen conference speaker on how to apply practical implementation to legal/regulatory requirements. Furthermore she is a frequent opinion writer for the Financial Times and Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence. Her current passion is her policy work on Modern Slavery/Human Trafficking and is finalising a sectoral policy report with Stop the Traffick, an anti-human trafficking charity, for whom she is a volunteer.