C&A Consulting Expands in Compliance: Gary Swiman and Aaron Kahler Join to Build Out the Practice

NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- C&A Consulting, a New York-based consultancy in the financial services industry, has hired two new senior professionals to build its compliance and regulatory practice.  Noland Cheng, Managing Partner of C&A Consulting, stated, "In building C&A's core consulting practice, our work repeatedly converged with the compliance space of our clients, across various types of programs in which we were engaged.  By the way we approach our work, we tend to bring a compliance and control attitude in our projects, given the experience of our senior professionals who subscribe to the theory that good processes reinforce good compliance.  This was a natural fit for our practice to expand into compliance officially and a great add of two senior practice leaders."

Mr. Gary Swiman has joined the firm as a principal to lead its compliance and regulatory practice. He will report to Mr. Cheng. Mr. Aaron Kahler has also joined the firm as a principal in the compliance department specializing in anti-money laundering, fraud management and fraud investigation. He is also a specialist in the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In his new role, he will report to Mr. Swiman. 

"C&A Consulting is very pleased to be bringing on board such talented executives whose vast experience will be instrumental to helping our fund manager, broker-dealer, hedge fund and private equity clients meet the challenge of complying with all of the new regulations coming down the pipeline," said Mr. Cheng.

With more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, Mr. Swiman was previously president of the asset management and broker-dealer group of ICS Risk Advisors. Mr. Swiman has also worked as the chief compliance officer for Aberdeen Asset Management, a $700 billion international investment advisor and fund manager and Evercore Partners. He has also functioned as the deputy head of regulatory affairs for Merrill Lynch.  Mr. Swiman has overseen the development of compliance and audit programs covering hedge funds, fund of funds, private equity, mutual funds, separately managed accounts and structured products and integrated those programs with regulatory requirements.

Mr. Swiman is an attorney, a certified public accountant, a certified fraud examiner, a certified financial forensic specialist, a certified anti-money laundering specialist and a chartered hedge fund professional. He has been cited in numerous publications including Reuters, Fortune, Pensions and Investments, Hedge Fund Alert and the American Bankers Association Journal.

"Having worked alongside Aaron in the past, I am excited to once again join forces with him to keep pace with the growing compliance and regulatory unit at C&A Consulting," said Mr. Swiman.

With more than ten years of experience in the financial services industry, Mr. Kahler was previously director of the bank secrecy act and anti-money laundering services for ICS Risk Advisors where he worked directly with Mr. Swiman. He has also functioned as a senior member for the forensic and dispute services practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services and as an anti-money laundering manager for Citibank. Mr. Kahler has managed AML/FCPA compliance and due diligence/relationship vetting initiatives, some of which include; independent program testing, risk assessments, transaction monitoring system validations/optimization, transaction monitoring analysis and know-your customer remediation. As a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and Certified Fraud Examiner, Mr. Kahler is also an advisory council member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. 

For further inquiries please contact Mr. Gary Swiman, Principal, Compliance of C&A Consulting and Mr. Aaron Kahler, Principal, AML & FCPA Compliance of C&A Consulting at 646-233-2112. Their emails are [email protected] and [email protected].

C&A Consulting LLC serves the financial services industry and the alternative investment industry related to Compliance, Technology, Operations, Accounting & Finance, Risk & Control, and Process Improvement & Re-engineering.       

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