Alistair Wellmann
Managing Director and Head of Compliance, EMEA, Scotiabank
Alistair Wellmann joined Scotiabank as Managing Director and Head of Compliance for the UK, Middle East and Europe in 2012. Scotiabank is Canada’s third largest and most international bank with over 86,000 employees in over 55 countries. Alistair oversees Compliance across Scotiabank’s businesses in the UK, Ireland, France, the UAE and Turkey which include corporate, investment and transaction banking, equities and fixed income sales and trading, prime brokerage, foreign exchange, money markets as well as the ScotiaMocatta precious and base metals business.
Alistair has 16 years of banking, regulatory and compliance experience gained in the UK, the US and the Middle East. From 2006 until 2008 he was the FSA’s lead on implementation of best execution and client categorisation under MiFID and he spoke at a number of industry roundtables and conferences on those topics. He has also presented at the European Compliance Conference.
Alistair holds an M.A. (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Christ Church, Oxford and completed his graduate legal studies at the College of Law in London. He was called to the bar in 2005.