Shankar Kuladevan leads Deloitte’s AMLR 2027 regulatory readiness work and brings over 18 years of experience across financial services, regulatory change and financial crime compliance.
He previously spent five years as a Director in Financial Crime Compliance at UBS, where he led global AML transformation initiatives spanning client risk rating, CDD/EDD, correspondent banking and financial crime controls across the US, UK, EMEA and APAC, working with requirements from regulators including the FCA, FINMA, OCC and Federal Reserve.
Shankar combines deep AML subject-matter expertise with hands-on experience translating complex regulatory requirements into practical operating models, controls, technology and implementation programmes. His current focus is helping firms understand the implications of AMLR and prepare pragmatically for the July 2027 requirements, from regulatory gap assessment and governance through to customer risk frameworks, due diligence, data, controls and implementation.
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