Denise Whelan is Head Compliance with CACEIS Investor Services, in Ireland.
CACEIS – a dynamic and progressive member of the Crédit Agricole Group – is one of the world’s leading asset servicing providers to institutional and corporate clients. CACEIS has over 80 employees in Ireland and 3,400 worldwide, in cities such as Paris, Luxembourg, London, Hong Kong and New York. CACEIS Bank, Ireland Branch (“the Branch”) acts as depositary and custodian to collective investment schemes and CACEIS Ireland Limited (“the Company”), provides fund administration and related services to Irish and non-Irish domiciled funds and companies
Before joining CACEIS in 2010, Denise gained extensive compliance experience across the financial services industry in Dublin, London and Edinburgh. With a focus on Compliance Risk, she served as a Senior Manager within Trustee, Asset Manager, and Administrator and Life Assurance organisations. Denise recently moved from a joint role as Head of Risk and Compliance to Head of Compliance and MLRO for CACEIS Ireland.
She was updating author of the PDC 2 Manual “Conduct of Business” 2007 to 2010, involved in the formation of the AML Working Group and instrumental in the development of the Compliance AML Officer, as a distinct discipline. Denise served on the Board of ACOI from 2015 to 2017.