The Wolfsberg Group announces today the appointment of its next Executive Secretary, J. Edward 'Ned' Conway, effective November 1st. Mr. Conway was most recently the Group Head of Financial Crime Compliance Framework and Policies at Banco Santander. His career in financial crime prevention began at the US Department of Defense, where he was a member of the Iraq Threat Finance Cell in Baghdad in 2007, and was then the resident threat finance analyst for a Special Operations Command Joint Task Force in Balad, Iraq, in 2009. In the private sector, Mr. Conway worked at PwC and Barclays before joining Santander. He collaborates regularly with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, training financial intelligence units and related government agencies in the Americas, East and West Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. He also chairs the UN’s Private Sector Dialogue on the disruption of financial crimes related to crimes that affect the environment. Mr. Conway is a member of the ACAMS Advisory Board and the co-editor of the volume Counterterrorism and Threat Finance Analysis During Wartime (2015). At Wolfsberg, where Mr. Conway has been a delegate since 2019, he led the working group that produced the Guidance on Digital Customer Lifecycle Risk Management, and he played a key role in updating the Group’s Payment Transparency Standards in 2022. Alan Ketley will retire from his role as Executive Secretary since assuming the position in 2021. The members of the Wolfsberg Group are grateful for Mr. Ketley’s leadership over an important period of transition for the Group and during a critical moment of regulatory reform across the US, UK and the EU. From Wolfsberg co-chairs Jen Calvery (HSBC) and Joe Salama (Deutsche Bank): “Over his tenure, Alan has been able to advance the Group's focus on effectiveness with key supervisory authorities across the globe. Existing standards have been updated to respond to current challenges, and new guidance released under his leadership has focused the Group's energy on emerging areas of interest, all while increasing the accessibility of the Group's work by facilitating translations into various languages beyond English. We wish him all the best as he takes a well-deserved break from his decades of dedication to effective financial crime compliance.”