Stephen Sanders
Regulatory, Compliance and Governance Expert
Former compliance chief and regulator. Advises firms on conduct, risk and market integrity.
Biography
Stephen has worked for over 40 years in the financial services industry as regulator, risk manager, compliance officer and senior executive. From 2015 to 2019 he was a member of the EMEA Executive Committee of JP Morgan Chase as Chief Compliance Officer for EMEA, leading a professional staff of more than 600 across 30 jurisdictions. He was accountable for major change and implementation programmes firm-wide, chairing programme boards across multiple front-office and support-function managements.
Prior to this he led the firm’s regulatory policy capability across EMEA and APAC, serving as Chair of the Regulatory Reform Oversight Committee and as a member of the EMEA Operating Committee. Earlier in his career he held senior management roles as a bond and equity-market regulator with the London Stock Exchange, and in governance, compliance and risk with J. Rothschild Group (as a Director of J. Rothschild Capital Management Ltd), Deutsche Bank Group (as a Director of Morgan Grenfell & Co plc) and RBS Group (where he was also an Audit Committee Member for the Offshore Bank).
Alongside his executive career, Stephen has played a leading role in professional education and thought leadership in risk and regulation. He has written and edited books in these fields and has taught for both City University Business School and the ISMA Centre at Reading University. He is now a Visiting Professor and Advisory Board Member at Kingston Business School.
Industry appointments have included service as the UK Representative on the EU Consultative Panel of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors and as Chair of the AFME MiFID II Committee. He has been a Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investments and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (with Distinction) and has completed executive programmes at Cranfield and Harvard Universities.
Alongside his Sanders Consulting activities, Stephen serves on the Advisory Board of the fintech Umony Ltd and was until 2025 a member of the Advisory Board of the risktech Acin Ltd, having also been a Senior Adviser to the insuretech Bondaval.