Bankers' Almanac Announce the Appointment of Guy Sheppard as Due Diligence Product Manager

LONDON, October 27, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Bankers' Almanac is pleased to announce the appointment of Guy Sheppard as its Due Diligence Product Manager, bringing extensive experience and insight into the risk and compliance markets. Guy has been employed within the risk, financial crime and compliance market for over 6 years, working with companies such as LexisNexis, Wolters Kluwer Financial Services and the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command in a variety of roles and disciplines. His self-professed passion for AML excellence sees him add an exciting and vocal new edge to the Bankers' Almanac product team.

Alastair Brigg, Digital Publisher, Bankers' Almanac, stated, "The hire of product advocates, such as Guy Sheppard, are a key step in the Bankers' Almanac initiative to drive user satisfaction through providing relevant content from its current store of critical documents and bank-to-bank intelligence information."

The Bankers' Almanac Due Diligence Repository currently holds over 150,000* documents from over 23,000* financial institutions. Offering the most up-to-date, critical global banking information available, the Due Diligence Repository provides a consistent and reliable source of information imperative for KYC checks on bank counterparties. Within Bankers' Almanac, Guy's responsibilities centre on the management of the global AML and Compliance product portfolio, further expanding the considerable depth and breadth of essential due diligence content, as well as developing efficient workflow and collaborative functionality.

Guy stated, "I am delighted to be a part of Bankers' Almanac and its deep-seated belief in putting the compliance customer at the heart of everything we do."

He went on to say, "The Bankers' Almanac reach, history and brand surety makes it an exciting place to work, exciting from a development perspective, as we can offer our users new and instinctive ways to on board new counterparties, at pace and with complete confidence."

About Bankers' Almanac

Operating since 1845, Bankers' Almanac continues to set the global standard for banking intelligence, providing payments, due diligence and risk assessment reference data for financial and banking institutions worldwide. With offices in Europe, Asia and the USA, Bankers' Almanac is in continuous contact with banks and regulatory authorities to provide up-to-date, verified data that can be consistently relied upon.

For more information about Bankers' Almanac and the products that it offers visit http://www.bankersalmanac.com.

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    Bankers' Almanac, United Kingdom, London
    http://www.bankersalmanac.com

    *Bankers' Almanac statistics October 2010

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