Speakers

Alastair is Managing Director of NatWest Trustee & Depositary Services he joined RBS in 1980 and has been with TDS since 1987.

During that time he has acquired an extremely broad and detailed understanding of the regulatory, operational and product aspects of collective investment schemes, serving in a range of operational, compliance and product roles. Prior to his current role was responsible for overseeing product and industry developments, Alastair participates in a broad range of industry groups and has been a central contributor to both the development of the TDS business and our clients’ own product development initiatives.

Prady Kapoor, a senior manager with our advisory division, has been leading our RDR initiative for asset management. He has provided a significant amount of input into several RDR related projects and provides RDR related training and education to clients and Ernst & Young staff.

Prady has significant experience providing advisory and consulting services to the asset management and asset servicing industry across Europe, Asia and the US and has deep experience delivering strategic projects in areas of operations and distribution.

Tony Stenning, Managing Director, is the head of BlackRock’s UK Retail Business. Tony’s service with the firm dates back to 2000, including his years with Mercury Asset Management and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. Tony plays an active role with a number of industry bodies, frequently engaging with regulatory authorities and government on a range of industry issues/ initiatives. In addition to heading the UK Retail business Tony is also a member of the Leadership Committee and Chairs the board of BlackRock Fund Managers Limited. Tony is also a regular speaker on various industry topics.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Tony spent several years in private client fund management with a particular focus upon collective investment schemes. Mr Stenning holds a BA (Hons) in Economics and is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Jonathan joined Speechly Bircham in 2010 as a partner from Farrer & Co where he was the senior partner in its Financial Services team. Jonathan was admitted as a solicitor in 1988, and prior to that originally qualified as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1982.

Jonathan covers a wide range of financial services product and regulatory work with a particular focus on advising institutional clients in the wealth management and private banking sectors.

Jonathan’s product practice includes advising on the structuring, establishment and distribution of investment funds, investment trusts, structured products and other types of investment product provided by the private wealth community.

An important part of Jonathan’s practice is advising on the legal aspects of lending and deposit facilities. He has advised many banking clients on the structuring of lending facilities consistently with the increasing application of regulation in the area of consumer credit and mortgages.

On the regulatory side, Jonathan’s practice covers the range of UK and EU legal and regulatory issues faced by those providing financial services in, from and into the UK, including MiFID, financial promotions, BCOBs, mortgage regulation, custody and client money, distribution and conduct of business rules generally.

Jessica advises a range of financial services clients based both in the UK and offshore on UK and EU regulatory issues, with a focus on the wealth management and private banking sectors.

Particular experience includes advising FSA regulated businesses on interpretation of the FSA Handbook and providing advice on financial promotions. Jessica also has experience in advising on and structuring collective investment schemes (both regulated and unregulated).

Phil is a Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers. When Phil started funds audits, there were only unit trusts and a complicated structure had both Income and Accumulation units and invested in both equities and bonds. He has spent the last 15 years trying to keep up with the increasingly complex fund types and structures and an ever widening universe of investments.

Phil is a member of the IMA SORP working party and represents PwC on funds industry matters.

Julie Patterson directs the work of the Investment Management Association on issues impacting authorised funds (regulation, operations, accounting and tax) and on other tax matters (direct and indirect) impacting investment management products and services. She leads a team of people with a wide variety of experience and skills, including specialist knowledge in product regulation, retail distribution, fund accounting, operations and tax.

After working for a number of industrial and professional firms, she joined the Bank of England in 1984. She spent 14 years at the Bank, during which she had a variety of responsibilities – markets surveillance, banking supervision, personnel, management of the Government’s yen-denominated reserves – graduating to Senior Manager, FX clearing houses. In 1998, she transferred to the Markets & Exchanges Division of the newly created Financial Services Authority, before joining the Association of Unit Trusts and Investment Funds (the predecessor of IMA) in 1999 as Senior International Policy Adviser. She was appointed to Director in 2001.

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