Alistair Wellmann (Past Speaker)

Alistair Wellmann joined Scotiabank in 2012 as Managing Director and Head of Compliance for the UK, Middle East and Europe, and became Head of Compliance for Asia Pacific in 2017. Scotiabank is Canada’s third largest and most international bank with over 86,000 employees in over 55 countries. Alistair oversees Compliance across Scotiabank’s businesses in Asia Pacific which include corporate, investment and transaction banking, equities and fixed income sales and trading, prime brokerage, foreign exchange, money markets as well as the ScotiaMocatta precious and base metals business. Alistair has 20 years of banking, regulatory and compliance experience gained in the UK, the US and the Middle East. From 2006 until 2008, he was the FSA’s lead on implementation of best execution and client categorisation under MiFID and he spoke at a number of industry roundtables and conferences on those topics. He has also presented at the European Compliance Conference. Alistair holds an M.A. (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Christ Church, Oxford and completed his graduate legal studies at the College of Law in London. He was called to the bar in 2005.