Wolters Kluwer expands financial regulatory team

Risk and compliance software provider, Wolters Kluwer, has added two financial crime experts to its team in London.

Steve Hancock joins the company as director of regulatory and financial crime programmes and Toni Sless has joined as financial crime product specialist.

Hancock will lead Wolters Kluwer Financial Services’ growing professional services business, which supports insurers as they review, enhance and develop their regulatory processes. Prior to joining the company, Hancock worked at Prudential headquartered in London for 15 years where he served as head of Global Money Laundering Prevention and also established and implemented the company’s global financial crime policies. Earlier in his career, Hancock was a compliance technical officer at Lloyds TSB. Currently, he is honorary president for the Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers (IMLPO), a forum for anti-money laundering professionals to share views, experience and concerns in combating money laundering.

As financial crime product specialist, Sless will work with financial organisations to help them meet regulatory requirements aimed at preventing money laundering, fraud and insider dealing. Sless joins Wolters Kluwer Financial Services from UK Payments Administration (formerly APACS), where she held the position of fraud project manager. Prior to that role, she was identity theft business development manager at Kroll; assistant vice president, investigator and fraud awareness trainer at Bank of America; intelligence analyst at the Serious Fraud Office; and fraud intelligence analyst at GE Money. Additionally, Sless is chairwoman of the Fraud Women’s Network.