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Anchali Muraleetharan
Associate

Anchali Muraleetharan

Languages
  • Tamil
  • English

Anchali joined the Financial Services and Regulatory team at CMS on qualification in 2019 following completing a seat in the team during her training contract. Anchali trained at NatWest and has had extensive experience working with internal stakeholders at the bank advising on a variety of matters moving between different areas of the bank including NatWest Markets, Commercial Banking and Coutts Legal. 

Anchali has experience working with firms in the financial services sector on contentious and non-contentious matters, including drafting financial crime policies, advising on whether business processes meet AML requirements, reviewing investment fund documentation and assisting with cross-border projects. She has advised and supported on various FCA enforcement matters and where clients have been subject to skilled persons reviews. She has completed a secondment in the contentious regulatory team of a major retail bank.
 

Relevant experience

  • An insurer in relation to a whistleblower investigation into a number of serious allegations of non-financial misconduct.
  • A major retail bank and senior stakeholders in relation to a complex independent inquiry.
  • A main listed company on an FCA enforcement investigation relating to the company’s systems and controls.
  • A bank in relation to a skilled persons review around its systems and controls and governance arrangements for regulatory reporting.
  • An insurer in its internal investigation into material regulatory breaches in its business operations and sales practices.
  • Assessing whether an electronic money institution’s new governance framework and client onboarding framework meets the FCA’s regulatory requirements.
  • Drafting a detailed AML advice note for an investment management firm.
  • Conducting an internal investigation into a mortgage lender’s historic PCI DSS submissions.
  • Reviewing investment fund documentation for pension scheme clients of a large fiduciary manager.

Education

  • University of Law - Legal Practice Course (2015)
  • University of Sussex - Law LLB (2014)
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