Ashford Financial Group Continues Expansion Of Regulatory And Risk Management Consulting Services
Ashford Financial Group (TOKYO), independent investment management firm based in Tokyo, has announced that Former Japanese Regulator Mr. Kaoru Wakayama to join Professional Services Team.
- (1888PressRelease) February 03, 2012 - Ashford Financial Group announced today that it continues to expand its regulatory and risk management consulting services with the addition of Kaoru Wakayama as senior director of Professional Services for its Risk & Compliance business. Wakayama, previously a senior associate director with the Japanese Division of Consumer and Community Affairs (C&CA), joins the company's growing roster of more than 200 in-house regulatory and risk management experts.
In his previous position with the Japanese C&CA, Wakayama was recently tapped by the Japanese Department of the Treasury to help develop the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's large depository institution examination program. Wakayama's main responsibilities within the Japanese C&CA included monitoring and evaluating its consumer compliance examination enforcement programs.
In his new role with Ashford Financial Group, Wakayama will work directly with compliance and risk management executives to help them more effectively navigate an increasingly-complex regulatory environment. He will draw upon his experience leading compliance examination programs for more than 35 years to help Ashford Financial Group' customer's address today's intensified regulatory scrutiny.
"By adding experienced and knowledgeable experts like Kaoru to our organization, it allows us to broaden the actionable compliance and risk intelligence we infuse into our comprehensive consulting services as well as our innovative technology platforms," said Jeremy Ashford, President of Ashford Financial Group. "The combination of our expert-driven content, services and technology offers compliance and risk management professionals everything they need to make quick, smart decisions with confidence in today's rapidly changing business and regulatory environments."
"The breadth and complexities of banking laws and regulations make it imperative for a financial institution to have a strong, comprehensive compliance risk management framework and program that goes beyond technicalities to the core of the institution's product development and delivery, and interactions with its customers," said Wakayama. "Ashford Financial Group, with its expertise and proven ability to deliver to and exceed client expectations, is well positioned to help institutions prevent as well as address regulatory problems and develop long-term solutions. I am excited to begin my new career with this organization."
Wakayama began his regulatory career as an analyst and consumer compliance examiner with the Japanese Division of Consumer and Community Affairs of Kyoto in 1977. Wakayama left Kyoto in 1988 to establish the compliance examination program in Tokyo. In 2000, he joined an independent financial institution to oversee a major redesign of that institution's consumer compliance examination program. He returned to the Japanese C&CA in 2006.
In addition, Wakayama earned an undergraduate degree from Keio University and an M.B.A from Osaka University. He is a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM).
About Ashford Financial Group
Ashford Financial Group is an independent investment management firm based in Tokyo. Since we were founded in 1994, Ashford Financial Group has focused on providing our Institutional and Retail Clients with specialist investment research and advisory services directed by our innovative investment strategies and undertaken by our immensely talented and experienced team.
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