Tamiyah Ebanks
AML Officer
Cayman Islands
Tamiyah is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and member of the Walkers Anti-Money Laundering Services team.
Tamiyah is a regulatory and financial crime prevention professional with experience advising on Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Terrorist Financing, and Proliferation Financing (AML/CFT/PF) across the Cayman Islands' financial sector. She has established expertise in customer risk assessment, enhanced due diligence matters, complex ownership structures and the application of risk-based approaches to regulatory compliance.
Her experience spans a broad range of client types, including high net-worth individuals, trusts, investment vehicles and corporate structures operating across multiple jurisdictions.
Experience and recent work
Prior to joining Walkers, she held a Senior Client Onboarding position within the banking industry where she was responsible for evaluating prospective client relationships from an AML and reputational risk perspective. She was relied on heavily by business and compliance stakeholders to assess onboarding suitability, identify financial crime risks and adherence to applicable regulatory requirements.
Tamiyah began her career with PwC's Corporate Finance and Recovery practice, where supported insolvency, restructuring and corporate recovery engagements through the provision of AML and regulatory risk evaluations.
Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists