Matthew Whalley
Director, Legal Risk, EY
Background
- Matt is a Director within the UK FSO Legal team. He has extensive experience delivering large and small, high-profile projects within the Financial Services sector.
- He founded the UK’s first legal risk practice at Berwin Leighton Paisner and is former Head of Legal Operations at HSBC Group Management Office Legal.
Experience
- Privacy Risk Control Framework for UK High Street Bank: Designed and implemented a GDPR compliant Privacy Risk Control Framework, including privacy risk taxonomy, target design control environment and control testing matrix.
- Deep-dive Privacy Risk Assessment in advance of FCA license application: Led a risk based review of data protection exposure for a UK challenger bank, in advance of application to FCA for license.
- Legal risk assessment for leading global insurer: Designed and implemented EMEA legal risk framework. Led the first legal risk identification and assessment exercise for UK business lines: Property Casualty, Life and General Lines. Control assessment and augmentation plan.
- Company Secretariat Operating Model: Review current and target Op Model for CoSec department in advance of listing. Model action plan to achieve required Operational state.
- First global legal risk framework for global bank: Designed and implemented first global legal risk framework across 53 jurisdictions and four global business lines: Global Banking and Markets, Insurance, Retail Banking Wealth Management, Commercial Banking, and Corporate functions.