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Global Sanctions Forum
October 2025
London, UK

Charmian Simmons
Financial Crime & Compliance Expert and Strategy Leader at SymphonyAI
Speaker

Profile

Charmian Simmons is a Financial Crime and Compliance Expert covering Financial Services at SymphonyAI. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector across risk management, financial crime, internal controls and IT advisory. She is a technology evangelist specialising in AI innovations and transformation. Charmian is responsible for providing practitioner expertise, thought leadership and analysing key policy, regulatory and technology drivers transforming the compliance market.

Prior to joining Symphony AI, Charmian was a Fincrime Expert with BAE Systems, a Regional Director of Strategy and Performance for the Risk business at Refinitiv, the Head of Audit in North America at Lloyds Banking Group USA and a Vice President at Morgan Stanley covering Institutional Securities and Capital Markets.

Charmian is CAMS, CDPSE, CRMA and CISA certified.

Agenda Sessions

  • Exploring the Application of AI in Sanctions Screening

    10:35
  • Leveraging AI in Sanction Screening: How AI is Alleviating Sanctions Strain

    15:30