Samar Pratt is the Global Financial Crime Compliance Advisory Leader at Capgemini, based in London. She specialises in anti-financial crime compliance, tech-enabled advisory solutions and managed services. Samar helps clients to enhance their financial crime compliance control frameworks through advice and tech-enabled solutions across the three lines of defence. This includes assisting Front Office, Operations, Compliance and Internal Audit functions to transform their programmes through process automation, analytics and expert advice. She provides support to regulated firms by undertaking quality assurance reviews, proactive programme reviews in advance of regulatory visits, on-site audits, benchmarking reviews, program design and implementation projects, process re-engineering and automation, issue management and validation and specialist training. Through her work, Samar has assisted clients to manage risk more effectively, sustainably and in line with applicable regulatory requirements, industry guidance and best practice, whilst making proportionate and practical recommendations that deliver desired risk management outcomes. 

Samar has led Section 166 reviews of a number of banks and been appointed a Skilled Person on behalf of the Financial Conduct Authority. Samar had also led independent regulatory exams of bank financial crime programmes on behalf of US authorities, having served as a Deputy Monitor on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice and as an Independent Consultant on behalf of the New York Federal Reserve Board. Her work as a deputy monitor for the largest ever court-appointed monitorship brought her into contact with regulators around the world giving her a unique insight into financial crime mitigation practices and regulatory expectations across Europe, Middle East, Americas and Asia Pacific. 

Samar actively supports The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) on a voluntary basis and is Vice Chair of the ACAMS UK Chapter Board. She is an accomplished speaker and has covered topics related to financial crime compliance, audit and assurance at various U.K. and international conferences. She has also published several white paper and articles.