Janna Garcia is a member of our risk advisory team based in London. She specialises in financial services regulation and works with a broad range of clients on regulatory compliance matters and regulatory change programmes.

Janna has over 10 years of legal and risk experience in the UK and Australia. Before joining the firm, she worked in the UK Deposit Takers Supervision directorate at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). During this time, Janna led projects responding to acute risks experienced by PRA-regulated banks, which included overseeing s. 166 skilled person reviews and working on joint initiatives with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). She also worked on operational resilience, recovery planning and solvent exit planning projects relating to non-systemic banks and mutuals.

Prior to this, Janna gained an extensive understanding of risk culture and risk management and controls at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), where she held roles in enforcement, data analytics and the Executive Director’s Office responsible for the licensing, crisis management and prudential policy frameworks.