CCLS Professor Rosa Lastra chaired a double book launch for two books written by CCLS alumnus.
On 10th May 2021 Professor Rosa Lastra chaired a double book launch for two books written by CCLS alumnus Dr Alan Brener (Law PhD, 2018).
They are: Housing and Financial Stability: Mortgage Lending and Macroprudential Policy in the UK and US, (Routledge, 2020); and Strategies for Compliance: Tools, Techniques and Challenges in Financial Services, (Routledge, 2021).
You can watch the Launch online.
Dr Brener is a Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London’s Laws Faculty and he is also a Deputy Director of the Faculty’s Centre for Ethics and Law. Besides his LLM from UCL and PhD from Queen Mary University London he is also a qualified Chartered Accountant and member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Banker Institute in Scotland and a member of its Quality and Standards Committee.
Prior to starting his PhD Alan worked for Santander UK and was responsible, at different times, for the compliance and retail legal departments and regulatory policy. Before joining Santander in 2005, from 1996, he headed the compliance departments for the retail banking divisions of Natwest and RBS banks. From 1989 to 1996 Alan was a senior prudential and conduct of business regulator for the insurance and collective investments sectors, having previously worked on aspects of public policy at the Department of Trade and Industry.