Our people

Anthony dearing

Founder, and Managing Director.

Anthony is a regulatory lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience practising in the City of London. He has worked as Enforcement Counsel in the Retail Division of the FCA, in the Financial Services Group at Eversheds Sutherland, in the Capital Markets Group at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, and he is a member of the Bar of England and Wales; in that capacity he is a member of a barristers’ Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn, London. He specialises in retail and institutional financial regulation covering all aspects of investment business, Fintech, insurance, CRR and Non-CRR firms. He is approved by the FCA and the PRA to perform SMF16 and SMF17 functions for a third country bank client.

Stephen Broom

Chief Operating Officer, and Director.

Stephen has over 25 years’ experience in the City of London, where has been Senior Clerk of a long-established renowned set of Barristers’ Chambers specialising in Banking law and finance, which he led through a successful restructuring. He is responsible for managing the business of the Consultancy, finance and for client care.

dr Julian Roberts

European & Structured Finance Regulations.

Julian is a lawyer with more than 30 years’ experience in UK and European financial services regulation.  He is a barrister in the UK (called to the Bar in 1986), where he is a member of Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn. He is also a Rechtsanwalt (solicitor) in Munich, in Germany (admission 1994), where he co-founded Wolfsteiner Roberts and Partner.

Professor Roberts is an experienced financial services litigator. Since 2007, he has been leading counsel, both in Germany and in England, in numerous cases involving structured finance and, in particular, derivatives mis-selling.

He is the author of Rechtliche Behandlung von Derivaten (The Legal Treatment of Derivatives) (de Gruyter, 2011), and of frequent articles in the specialist press (Journal of International Banking and Finance Law, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift, Deutsches Steuerrecht, Zeitschrift für Bank- und Kapitalmarktrecht). He is familiar with German, U.K., and New York ISDA agreements.

He is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he took his MA and his PhD, and he teaches at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.

Ian McLaughlin

Head of Risk.

Ian, a Financial Services Regulatory and Capital Markets solicitor, provides risk and compliance advisory and resourcing services to UK and EEA financial services institutions and fintechs. He has held several CCO, CRO and MLRO positions on a permanent and interim basis. Particular expertise includes review and enhancement of (i) compliance monitoring frameworks and provision of compliance policies and procedures and (ii) risk frameworks, including risk appetite statements, risk control self-assessments, risk registers. 

Ian has also led or assisted multiple regulatory authorisations in the UK and Ireland as well as responses to regulatory enquiries, thematic reviews and Dear CEO Letters. In addition, he is an experienced Non-Executive Director and Board & Committee Chair.

Gerrard O’Driscoll

Head of Front Office Trading & Risk.

Gerrard started his career in the City of London working on the floor of the LIFFE, when it was an open outcry forum. There, he worked in the Bund and Short Sterling Government fixed income pits. From there, he joined a Japanese investment bank, Tokai Bank, beginning there on the research desk, covering macro markets and economies, before moving to the Emerging Markets Fixed income trading desk, where he traded Latin American and US Treasury fixed income. He traded both arbitrage and out right positions as a proprietary trader. From there he moved internally to the equity arbitrage trading desk, where he continued to trade for the bank. Later, expanding his portfolio into commodity and energy markets.

Holly Thornton

Senior Associate, Retail Banking and Credit.  

Holly read law at St Mary’s University. Before joining Temple Consulting, Holly was an Associate in the Structured Finance division, based in the UK, of a third country bank headquartered in the Isle of Man. She occupied that role both during the bank’s application to the FCA and PRA for deposit taking permission and subsequently in the bank’s mobilisation phase. Consequently, Holly has depth of both knowledge and experience in the regulatory landscape, particularly concerning AML and CFT, applicable to credit and payments in both the UK and the Isle of Man. Prior to that, Holly was a Credit Associate at BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions UK where she was responsible for the financial evaluation and analysis of new business proposals. She is experienced in payment and credit services particularly in relation to payments infrastructure, AML/CFT and management information relevant to credit. That experience is invaluable for clients who seek to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and regulatory compliance of their credit and payment systems.

Glenda wood

Chief Project Officer.

Glenda has over 35 years of financial services and project management experience. Having worked in both domestic and international banking in the City of London she specialised in Commercial lending. Glenda is a qualified Prince 2 Project and Programme Manager who has gained in depth knowledge of working within both public and private sectors. She spent 12 years working for the Police successfully delivering several large IT and business transformation projects, many of which created strategic and cultural change for the force. In addition, she has also worked for many years in the insurance industry in the City of London running a range of compliance and regulatory change programmes.

STEVEN NEWTON

Head of IT and Information Security.

Steve has over 35 years’ experience in the IT industry, working with businesses and professional service providers in the City of London at all levels of seniority.

Although specialising in IT security and systems, Steve has a wealth of experience in all aspects of IT (hardware and software) within the workplace.