Anindya Ghosh Chowdhury Director - Risk and Regulatory Consulting

Anindya Ghosh Chowdhury

Anindya is a Director in Risk and regulatory consulting and leads the Prudential regulation risk management services in the UK. He also works closely with a number of payment firms on various aspects of prudential regulation.

Experience

Anindya is an ex-regulator and policy expert from the PRA and joined the firm in 2021. He is a prudential regulation and risk management specialist with close to 15 years' experience in regulatory reporting, regulatory interpretations, recovery and resolution, capital and liquidity risk management, regulatory data, and regulatory investigations. He is also experienced in working with payment firms, enterprise-wide risk management, and risk & control assessments and reviews.

Before joining us, Anindya supervised internationally headquartered banks whilst at the PRA, and worked closely with a number of well-known boards during his tenure as a senior payment firms' supervisor. Anindya is a qualified accountant (ACA) from PwC, where he audited large banks. 

Work Highlights 

Anindya has enabled a number of UK and international banks to improve their regulatory reporting arrangements in light of local and international regulatory reporting requirements and expectations. He has also conducted a number of proxy s166 reviews for UK and international banks on either side of regulatory visits to either front-run pending investigations or adequacy the quality of remediation activities post regulatory examinations.

He has worked closely with a newly authorised firms' boards CFO and CRO to develop their risk management framework up to a standard that is expected of regulated firms. Anindya has also partnered with the CXOs of international banks to appraise and refine risk management, controls, MI and governance in the context of ICAAPs, ILAAPs, recovery and exit planning.

Accreditations/ Memberships of professional bodies

  • ACA (ICAEW)

What our clients say 

"Anindya provided exactly what we asked for, in a simple to understand way. We had good engagement through and he kept us updated with progress. He also went out of his way to assist us in a few queries that we had on the topic. The work provided by his team was thorough and covered all we needed, with plenty of detail o we can have a good understanding on the rationale when applying certain regulations. I would choose to work with Anindya and his team in the future as the was was everything we needed to be delivered."

- Head of Regulatory Reporting (UK retail bank)
"Anindya delivered the project to time and budget. The outcome was tailored to our business model - this was very important as we have a different business model to others, and Anindya took onboard our feedback on this. This was a difficult task, which was done to perfection. Anindya kept us updated regularly at the weekly meetings, and used his specialist knowledge to develop technical scenarios that were accessible to a non-technical audience."

- Head of Legal (Large payment firm)

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