Cox BSc BFP FCA FCSI AIIA

Dennis Cox is the Founder and Chief Executive of Risk Reward Ltd, where he oversees all consulting and training projects. An internationally recognized financial services risk management. compliance, internal audit and financial crime expert, he specializes in the interdisciplinary forward-looking impact of and opportunities of regulation, digital technologies, and the challenges surrounding implementing the Three Lines Model, corporate governance, credit, market, liquidity/treasury and operational risk, as well as successful compliance implementation techniques and model validation best practise.
Mr. Cox has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of risk, audit within banking, finance and accounting. He has held senior management positions within the banking and accountancy profession as Director, Risk Management at HSBC Insurance Brokers Limited, and Director, Risk Management, Prudential Portfolio Managers. Formerly he held several roles within the audit profession, including Senior Audit Manager (Compliance) at HSBC Holdings PLC and Senior Manager (Banking and Finance) at both BDO Binder Hamlyn and Arthur Young (now Arthur Anderson and Ernst & Young),
As an acknowledged forward-looking global leader in integrated internal audit, risk, governance and compliance and most recently has worked collaboratively as a risk and audit co-sourcing and learning consultant with organisations as diverse as a global Japanese printing manufacturer’s European HQ, United Nations (Geneva), NATO, the World Health Organization, a global Gulf States-based educational foundation, Asian sovereign asset management and investment firms as well as hundreds of banks and government financial regulation and supervisory divisions worldwide.
He is a Fellow, Co-founder and Chairman of the Risk Forum for the UK Chartered Securities and Investment Institute and administers the Risk Reward Global Risk Forum on LinkedIn. A Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA), he has also been a National Council Member for 17 years and a representative of the public as Council Member of the Institute of Actuaries (Insurance) for 10 years.
He holds an honours degree in Mathematics from the London University Westfield College.
A much in-demand speaker and trainer known for his highly-interactive, practical, job-role approaches, ease of communicating complex topics into an enjoyable social learning experience with wit and personal attention to delegates, Mr. Cox is the author of the industry standard Banking and Finance: Accounts, Audit and Practice (1993), An Introduction to Money Laundering Deterrence (2010) and The International Handbook of Money Laundering Deterrence (2014). He is the co-author of The Mathematics of Banking & Finance (2012) and is the senior editor and author of several chapters in The Frontiers of Risk Management (reprinted 2018).