Zahra Gill
former Financial Crime Strategy and Change Lead, Enhanced Due Diligence
Starling Bank
Session
AI CULTURE – PANEL DISCUSSION
Implementing AI into corporate culture: Approaches for constructing AI-ready teams.
Biography
Zahra has worked as a consultant for a number of Global Financial Institutions and Fintechs for over 15 years, including Barclays, Deutsche Bank, UBS Wealth Management and ICBC Bank. Her area of expertise spans across Sales, Technology, Financial Crime, Product, Operations and Transformation.
As the Financial Crime Strategy and Change Lead at UK based Fintech, Starling Bank, she is a key stakeholder in managing the bank’s in-life risk appetite, creating policies and procedures, and working with technology to automate risk based client solutions. Prior to Starling, Zahra worked as a consultant for the NatWest innovation hub, where she designed and implemented a bespoke, risk- based, Anti- Financial Crime framework to launch and scale up the digital service providers known as NatWest Ventures.
Zahra holds an ICA International Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering from the University of Manchester and is currently studying for the Executive Level ICA Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Crime Compliance. She is also a member of the International Compliance Association and sits as an advisory board member for a number of international RegTech committees.