Inflation risk management

Dennis Cox is the chief executive of Risk Reward, where he oversees all consulting and training projects. He is a UK chartered accountant and an internationally recognised financial services risk management, compliance, internal audit and financial crime expert. Cox specialises in the interdisciplinary forward-looking impacts and opportunities of regulation and digital technologies; the challenges of credit, market, liquidity/treasury and operational risk; successful compliance implementation techniques; and model validation assessment, robustness and best practice.

He has 30 years of experience in risk, banking, financial crime, audit and accounting, having held senior management positions as head of internal investigations at HSBC; director of risk management at HSBC Insurance Brokers; director of risk management at Prudential Portfolio Managers; senior audit manager, compliance at HSBC Holdings; and senior manager, banking and finance at BDO Binder Hamlyn and Arthur Young.

Since 2002 regional and national regulators, banks and financial institutions worldwide have benefited from the regulatory, technical and behavioural guidance and training offered by Cox directly and via well-established and trusted third parties.

He is a fellow, co-founder and chairman of the Risk Forum for the UK Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) and administers the Risk Reward Global Risk Forum on LinkedIn. A fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Cox has also been a National Council member for 17 years and a representative of the public as council member of the Institute of Actuaries (Insurance) for 10 years. He teaches global financial compliance, combatting final crime and conduct risk courses as examination preparation for certification by the CISI. He holds an honours degree in Mathematics from the London University Westfield College.

An in-demand speaker and trainer known for his highly interactive, practical job-role approaches and ease of communicating complex topics into an enjoyable social learning experience with personal attention to delegates, Cox is the author of An introduction to money laundering deterrence, The international handbook of money laundering deterrence and Banking and finance: accounts, audit and practice. He is also the co-author of The mathematics of banking and finance and the senior editor and author of several chapters in The frontiers of risk management.