Sophie Hawkins

Sophie Hawkins is the Head of Control Function for Lloyds Banking Group, Commercial Banking Asia. Her responsibilities cover all aspects of Financial Crime prevention controls, including AML, STF, Anti-Bribery and Fraud. She is also responsible for Operational Risk and Conduct Risk management, and first line oversight and monitoring. Ms Hawkins joined Lloyds Banking Group in 2014 with responsibilities across the Commercial Banking Financial Crime governance framework, and re-located to Singapore in 2016 to assume her current role. Prior to this, Ms Hawkins held several key Financial Crime prevention roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland, notably including the establishment of the Corporate Banking Financial Intelligence Unit and leading a complex CDD remediation programme.