Samira Ramzan

Samira Ramzan has worked for five different companies since 2015. Samira began their career as an Adjudicator at the Financial Ombudsman Service, where they were responsible for remediating and investigating PPI complaints. In 2018, they became a Compliance Analyst at Eversheds Sutherland, where they were responsible for KYC checks on Investment Managers and their client portfolios in accordance with UK and EU laws and regulations. In 2019, they became a Senior Compliance Analyst at Alpha FX Group plc, where they were responsible for KYC checks on Merchant Service Provider (MSP), Payment Service Provider (PSP) and complex corporate entities. In 2020, they joined Lysis Group as a Senior KYC Analyst and Implementation Advisor for Silicon Valley Bank, and was responsible for ensuring new clients were successfully on boarded as required per global KYC policy, local KYC requirements, meeting tax, and regulatory norms. Samira also acted as a Senior KYC Analyst/Transaction Monitoring Analyst on a Remediation project for Silicon Valley Bank, conducting KYC checks on Venture Capital (VC) firms and other high risk category clients, reviewing CDD and EDD on client files, conducting Gap Analysis, and conducting transaction analysis on all corporate accounts to check payments were in line with expected business activity. In 2022, they began working as a Senior Financial Crime Operations Analyst at SPG.

Samira Ramzan is currently enrolled in a course at The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (The CISI) in Combating Financial Crime. Samira also holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Kent in Law.