Emma Walker is a managing director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice in London. She has extensive experience in financial services regulation, risk management, and financial crime compliance. Emma advises financial institutions on the enhancement of anti-money laundering (AML), fraud, antibribery and corruption (ABC), and sanctions compliance programs.
In a recent engagement, Emma helped lead a K2 Integrity independent consultant team to review the OFAC compliance policies and procedures and their implementation at a global financial institution to monitor and assess compliance with an order issued by the Federal Reserve Board.
Before joining K2 Integrity, Emma spent more than a decade at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and its predecessor, the Financial Services Authority (FSA). She was a legal technical specialist in the FCA’s Enforcement and Market Oversight Division, providing legal and strategic advice on high-profile and complex enforcement investigations which included suspected significant AML systems and controls issues, market abuse, and insider dealing. Emma also led an FCA supervision team to develop and deliver the supervisory strategy for a wholesale bank, reviewing the bank’s business model, strategy, and systems and controls to identify and mitigate key supervisory risks.
At the FSA, Emma provided legal advice to the Enforcement Division’s senior leadership team on a wide range of policy issues, revised several enforcement processes and procedures, delivered core skills training to the Enforcement Division, and led investigations into systems and controls failings at some of the largest banks in the UK.
Prior to the FSA, Emma was a senior prosecutor for two government departments, where she managed a team of lawyers and prosecuted high-profile, multimillion-pound matters involving fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering.
Emma completed her bar vocational course at the Inns of Court School of Law and received her LL.B. (Hons.) from the University of Westminster. She is qualified as a barrister.
