Ms. Walker has supported several firms with the enhancement of their anti-money laundering (AML), fraud, anti-bribery and corruption, and sanctions compliance programs. She has advised on complex matters involving allegations of insider trading, market abuse, bribery and corruption, tax evasion, and money laundering. Ms. Walker was recently appointed as an Independent Expert to monitor the compliance of a European bank with the terms of a plea agreement with the US Department of Justice. 

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Walker spent three years as a Managing Director at K2 Integrity, where she led the Financial Crimes Risk Management practice in London and several engagements for global systemically important banks (G-SIBs), systemically important banks, and other financial services firms based in EMEA and the US. She supported a large US wealth management firm to enhance its first-line Bank Secrecy Act/AML and sanctions risk management function, assisting the client to establish and implement a risk appetite framework. Ms. Walker also co-led a Federal Reserve Board monitorship assessing a G-SIB’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions compliance. 

Previously, Ms. Walker spent over 12 years at the Financial Conduct Authority, where she was a technical specialist in the Enforcement and Market Oversight Division and provided legal and strategic advice on high-profile and complex enforcement investigations involving significant AML/CFT (combating the financing of terrorism) systems and controls failures, fraud, misleading statements, and insider dealing. She was also the lead supervisor for an investment bank, with responsibility for assessing the bank’s business model, strategy, systems, and controls to identify and mitigate key supervisory risks. In this role Ms. Walker led a governance review focused on the board and board risk committee and assessed the bank’s approach to conducting risk management. Prior to this, she was a senior prosecutor for two government departments. 

Ms. Walker earned a bachelor’s degree in law (honors) from the University of Westminster. She is qualified as a barrister (England and Wales) and completed her bar vocational course at the Inns of Court School of Law.