Solving regulatory challenges together, delivers better outcomes for all
Managing risks and regulatory compliance can feel daunting. Co-Labs offers a clear path forward. Our collaborative ecosystem connects experts and practitioners, providing the insights and solutions you need to succeed. Let us be your guide.
It’s our mission to enable collaboration
ABOUT CO-LABS
Co-Labs is a global ecosystem connecting risk, regulatory, and compliance experts with practitioners. We tackle complex use cases and industry challenges through collaboration and we share knowledge. Our unique Collaboration-as-a-Service fosters impactful partnerships and empowers all participants to achieve better outcomes.
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We focus on business solutions for local, regional and global use cases, designed to be accessible and sustainable for firms of all sizes and SME users.
Our use cases include Economic Crime; ESG & Sustainability; Regulatory Reporting; AI & Ethics; Cyber Security; Financial Inclusion; and Operational Resilience.
Together, we create solutions …
CaaS
This is Collaboration-as-a-Service
Co-Labs is a proven enabler of collaborative work in private and public partnership, often with regulator and industry association input.
We work with all parties in the ecosystem to connect, create and curate highly relevant, timely and tangible business solutions that use technology, data and AI in ways that provide responsible, sustainable value, for all.
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Creating pragmatic and adoptable solutions that address the most critical (and toughest) risk and regulatory challenges, is what keeps us awake at night, so you don’t have to!
By creating a community of essential participants and guiding them through an iterative, trust-based process, Co-Labs uniquely facilitates the collaboration required to solve complex risk and regulatory compliance challenges. Jointly we address specific technical and operational challenges head-on to deliver a better outcome for all stakeholders.
MEET THE TEAM
Co-Labs created an ecosystem of experts, practitioners, regulators, associations, vendors, academics and lawyers.
OUR FOUNDERS
Sarah Sinclair
Co-Founder and CEO
Sarah is a highly entrepreneurial, commercially astute and trusted senior change operator with over 30 years of diverse experience mainly but not limited to the financial services sector.
She is applying her technology background and ability to turnaround the impossible, closing Gaps in risk and regulatory compliance, across the industry.
Working with diverse clients and multi-disciplinary teams, Sarah still specialises in knowing exactly what is required to make the difference in situations where complex change is struggling to get ‘over the line’
Rob Atkins
Co-Founder and COO
Rob has over 30 years Tier 1 banking senior management experience providing a unique blend of delivery and subject matter expertise across several risk types (credit, operational & regulatory).
He acts as a trusted partner to clients and colleagues, with demonstrated patience and ability to bring about positive change in highly complex environments.
Rob continues to lead multi-disciplined programmes including IRB, IFRS9, Capital Optimisation to deliver complex solutions in a simple manner to enable clients to achieve their objectives
STRATEGIC ADVISORS AND COLLABORATORS
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Adriana Ennab
Digital & Capital Markets Policy Expert & Advisor
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Alan Blanchard
Business Development Leader | RegTech, SaaS Sales, Partnerships
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Annabel Gillard
AI Ethics | Organisational Culture | Behavioural Science FORGOOD | Independent Director
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Annabel Nelson
Sustainability Leader | Strategy | Finance | Policy | Advocacy
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Anne Elkington
Board Advisor / NED | Financial Services | Business Strategy | Finance & Investment | Governance
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Carolina Minio Paluello PhD
Architect of FinTech ecosystems
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David Marriage
Disruption and Innovation - Sustainability at PwC
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Dr Theodor Cojoianu
Associate Professor in Sustainable Finance at Edinburgh University
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Graham Corr
FinTech RegTech ESG Advisory Regulatory Reporting
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Isabelle Chatel de Brancion
Architect, entrepreneur, investor
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Jane Jee
Lawyer with Board level experience in compliance and online payments
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Jonathan Frost
Fraud & Cybercrime Consultancy : Economic Crime : Law Enforcement
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Jonathan Guppy
Head of Sustainability, South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
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Julia Streets
Founder and CEO, Streets Consulting Ltd, Senior leadership coach
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Kristoffer Nilaus Tarp
Director for Sustainability at Advice
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Michael Collins
1st Chair of the IRSG* ESG Committee (*International Regulatory Strategy Group)
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Paris Jordan, CFA
Head of Responsible Investing @ Charles Stanley | Co-Founder of Virtuvest
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Prof. Carsten Maple
Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering and Director for Cyber Security Research
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Prof. Iwa Salami
Professor of Law & Director, UEL Centre of FinTech
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Prof. Karen Elliott
Chair/Professor in Finance & FinTech
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Prof. Robert Wardrop
Prof at Cambridge University and spin-out founder of RegGenome
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Richard Peers
Founder at ResponsibleRisk Ltd
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Tristram Hicks
Author 'The War on Dirty Money', anti-money laundering & criminal justice adviser
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Rachel Woolley
Strategic Advisor | Financial Crime
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Anthony Gavin
SupTech | Supervision Transformation | Strategic data |technology and data enabled business transformation
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Dr. Mick O’Connor
RegTech | GRC | Complex Systems | Organisational Effectiveness
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Devraj Basu
Regtech and AI | Convenor of Regtech Forum
Co-Labs London Launch event 3rd July 2024. Adriana describes how far the industry has come, whilst recognising the need for more collaboration, to solve problems.
Adriana Ennab, ex Credit Suisse, with other key speakers, share their views and calls to action re collaboration
Julia Streets talks about the key highlights of the launch event, and what is truly different about the Co-Labs approach.
Julia Streets, Founder and CEO, Streets Consulting, was our brilliant MC for this launch event
A key member of our ecosystem, Matt Paver, describes how businesses can benefit hugely by sharing knowledge, in what is a mutual responsibility to decarbonise.
Matt Paver, Carbon Responsible, with other key speakers, share their views and calls to action re collaboration
TESTIMONIALS
“The Bank believes in the need to transform how regulatory reporting works.
As we set out in our Transformation Plan, we know that collaborative initiatives will be crucial to deliver that transformation: both those run by the Bank and FCA, such as our joint transformation programme, and private sector initiatives with similar goals like Co-Labs.”
Angus Moir,
Bank of England
“Change Gap, in creating Co-Labs, is taking affirmative action to bring interested parties together and unlock the potential of technology to improve the whole ecosystem.
Co-Labs will drive the definition and adoption of much needed standards and best practice strong platform for growth is created and appropriate areas of competition are enhanced to the benefit of all parties within the system. Financial crime prevention in particular can be vastly improved by better collaborative efforts.”
Jane Jee, Project Financial Crime,
Payments Association
“Co-creation of value and ultimately trust is key for the future collaborative regulatory ecosystem given the unprecedented growth in both the volume and complexity of regulations.
I see Co-Labs by Change Gap as a great initiative augmenting the collaboration efforts by standards bodies. Innovative collaboration among all stakeholders is needed to bridge the existing and future gaps in the RegTech and SupTech environment and unlock new levels of trust for a digital economy. We are looking forward to working with ChangeGap in the Co-Labs to create a more automated and efficient regulatory ecosystem.”
Michal Piechocki, Chairman + CEO Business Reporting - Advisory Group