PATTISON BINADEIGHA BOLEIGHA (B.sc, MBA, FCA, ACIT, HCIB, CAMS, CRMA, CGIET)

Pattison Binadeigha Boleigha is a Professional with over 31 years banking experience with 18 years of experience at senior management level in compliance, internal controls, conduct, monitoring Anti-Money laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism and Proliferation (AML/CFT/CFP), IT Governance and Anti-Fraud, including providing strategic and visionary leadership and guidance.

Pattison is a graduate of University of Nigeria, Nsukka and an Alumnus of INSEAD, London Business School Executive, Harvard Business School and IMD executive programs.

He is a member of many professional bodies including the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Fellow Compliance Institute, Nigeria, (CIN) Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). He is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) (designation from the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists). Pattison is also certified in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA). He is also a member of the Compliance Institute, Nigeria and holds membership of the Risk Managers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN) and the Institute of Credit Administration (ICA). Pattison is also Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) from ISACA, and he is also a Certified ETHICS 1ST Independent Compliance Assessor (ICA) with Centre for Independent Private Enterprise (CIPE).

His broad expanse of experience and professional qualifications in banking enables him to efficiently handle his divergent duties. Securing an enviable reputation as a trail blazer and advocate in the fight against money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism in Nigeria, Pattison is the immediate past Group Chief Conduct & Compliance Officer of Access Bank Plc where he retired meritoriously in October 2022. Access Bank is one of the largest banks in Nigeria with presence in ten countries in Africa, Asia, and the United Kingdom.

He is the President/Chairman of the Compliance Institute, Nigeria, the former Chairperson of the Core Group of the Convention on Business Integrity (CBi) and first Chairman/President of the Compliance Officers Forum of GIABA Member States (COFGMS) and Co-Chair of the GIABA Private Sector Consultative Forum (PSCF). He currently serves as the Chairman of Membership Committee of the International Federation of Compliance Associations (IFCA). He is also the immediate past Chairman of the Committee of Chief Compliance Officers of Banks in Nigeria (CCCOBIN), former Secretary of the Board of Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) Nigeria Chapter. Pattison was the Chairman of the Committee that set up the Forensic Accounting program of ICAN Faculty of Audit and Investigations and serves in the ICAN Faculty on Consulting and Information Technology. He is also a member of the Working Group on Anti Money Laundering of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). He served as the coordinator of the Team of Auditors who managed the Secretariat of the Presidential Committee on the Verification and Reconciliation of Fuel Subsidy Payments in Nigeria Chaired by the former GMD/CEO of Access Bank Plc Mr. Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede. Pattison represents Access Bank Plc in the International Banking Security Association (IBSA) based in the U.S.A (the only African bank in the Global body) and has been an active participant in the AML/CFT National Risk Assessment process since 2011. Pattison was appointed to serve in the Nigeria e-Fraud Forum working committee on the setting up of the Dedicated Police Cyber Crime Unit (De-PCCU). He is currently on the SWIFT Financial Crime Compliance Network representing the Africa Region.

Pattison is an erudite public speaker who has facilitated in several national and international conferences, workshops, courses, and summits for organisations like C5 –Anti Corruption, Risk Managers Association of Nigeria (RIMAN), and Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), ACFE and ISACA. Within the past 18 years, Pattison has also facilitated training programs and served as examiner in Compliance, Internal controls, Audit, Risk Management, Anti-Fraud, Anti-Money Laundering, Ethics and Governance for several professional bodies in Nigeria including the Financial Institutions Training Centre (FITC), Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, (CIBN), RIMAN and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). He has also made presentations to global bodies like the United Nations Global Compact on Anti-Corruption, ACAMS and Transparency International. During his facilitations for GIABA and other bodies, Pattison has travelled widely and trained financial institutions’ staff all over Africa in places like, Ghana, Senegal, Benin, Zambia, South Africa, Kenya, Togo, etc.

Pattison is happily married with five children and three grandchildren.