Shelly Anne
Cooke
Shelly is an accomplished, versatile Senior Counsel and Senior Manager with more than 20+ years extensive, legal, compliance and corporate management experience. She has strong management, and administrative skills providing oversight to legal and AML Compliance staff, coordinating multiple tasks and activities for separate units relative to Compliance and AML. She is currently the Chief Country Compliance Officer and MLRO for Citi trust (Bahamas) Limited, with oversight for The Bahamas and the Cayman Islands. Some of her responsibilities include: overseeing adherence by business units to laws, regulations rules, policies and procedures; advising on implementation of new /revised legal, regulatory requirements and controls; managing the Compliance and AML Unit and overseeing the licensed legal entities; filing SARs and the monitoring and management of SAR reporting activity; managing the review and providing updates to the country AML program; reviewing AML risks for approval of new and existing client relationships prior to approval; and overseeing risk management to identify, assess, monitor, and reporting to senior management and to the Board on AML and Compliance risks.
Shelly has also served as in-house legal and general counsel to one of the country’s largest public corporations, and has served as an Associate at one of the most prestigious law firms in the country.
She has obtained her credentials at the University of the West Indies (LL.B), the Norman Manley Law School (CLE), the University Of Miami (MBA), Columbia University Business School (Dip. Exec Mgmt), and at the Bahamas Institute of Financial Services (ICA). She is currently enrolled in the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners(STEP) Program and is a member of ACAMS. Shelly is also a member of the Bahamas Bar Association, served as Treasurer, Education Chairperson & Executive Committee Member at BACO and has been involved with several regional AML and Compliance seminars.