About Dr Alan Brener, PhD, LLM (UCL), FCIB, ACA (Edit profile)

Alan Brener is a Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London’s Laws Faculty and he is also Deputy Director of the Faculty’s Centre for Ethics and Law and also Deputy Director for Education. 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. 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. Most recently, prior to starting his PhD, Alan was on secondment from Santander helping to set up the Banking Standards Board with the objective of improving standards of conduct and professionalism within the banking industry. Last year Alan published his second book on compliance in financial services following on from his earlier book on financial stability and housing policy. Strategies for Compliance: Tools, Techniques and Challenges in Financial Services by Alan Brener (Routledge Dec 2020) Housing and Financial Stability: Mortgage Lending and Macroprudential Policy in the UK and US (Routledge Research in Finance and Banking Law) by Alan Brener (Routledge, Dec 2021)