Lombard Risk Management, a financial software provider specializing in regulatory compliance and collateral management, has appointed George Leckie to lead sales and business development for its new ComplianceAssesor solution, according to a company statement.
Leckie will be based in London when he takes the helm for the new offering, which aims to help financial executives in the UK ensure their firms are compliant with existing regulations before signing the legally binding “regulatory attestations” now required of them.
Leckie has a background in software solution sales that stretches back 25 years, and prior to his new job at Lombard led new business and strategic account management at LRN, a European ethics and compliance education and software provider, according to the statement.
“My view is that firms must not see compliance as something problematic and a burden, but rather a way of business life that fosters a better, more productive and secure environment,” Leckie says. “In the words of [author and business ethicist] Dov Seidman, who has been a significant influence in my career: ‘How we do anything means everything’.”
Regulatory attestations, recently introduced by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), are signed by senior executives to personally guarantee their firms have met regulatory requirements. Under the terms of the attestations, those executives may then be held personally responsible if their firm is later found to be noncompliant.
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