Experts in Financial Institutions

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We are market leaders in this core area of our business

Financial institutions claims are often complex. They generate challenges that require specialists. We are those specialists.

Our decades of experience in this field mean insurers have instructed us on thousands of notifications in over 100 countries. We combine experience and knowledge, as well as linguistic and specialist technical skills, to adjust challenging claims around the world.

We understand financial institutions, their insurance policies and the requirements of underwriters. We distil complex information into the clear, concise reports needed to facilitate correct decision making.

Our people travel when appropriate or investigate remotely. Either way, we ensure we engage with all the stakeholders; working closely with brokers and reinsureds, as well as an insured’s security, internal audit, legal, and risk management personnel. We often have pre-existing relationships with those parties, as well as an understanding of each country’s relevant laws and customs. All our team are well versed in the potential reputational issues that can arise.

Our knowledge of losses affecting banks, stockbrokers, traders, investment managers and other financial entities covers everything from complex information technology fraud and professional negligence cases to armed robberies and burglaries.

Our expertise

Bankers Blanket Bond

Comprehensive crime

Electronic and computer crime

Premises, bullion and cash in transit risks

Financial institutions professional indemnity

Financial institutions directors and officers liability

Our team

Meet the Financial Institutions experts

Andrew Hutchinson

Director

Andrew Hutchinson is head of ASL’s financial institutions class of business.

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Erika Hinojosa

Director

Insurers choose Erika Hinojosa to resolve some of the most complex and high value claims sustained by leading banks and corporations in Spain and across the Americas.

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Stephen Ixer

Director

Stephen Ixer handles financial sector crime and liability assignments across Latin America and the Caribbean.

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David Ledger

Director

David Ledger works for insurers around the world, resolving claims under financial institutions and crime policies. He is both a chartered accountant and chartered loss adjuster.

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Robert Lloyd

Director

Robert Lloyd is recognised across the financial lines market for his problem solving and for delivering exactly what ASL’s client insurers want.

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Edward Maddison

Director

Edward Maddison is ASL’s senior commercial director. Insurers have long benefited from his unrivalled experience and expertise on some of the largest and most complex notifications in the financial lines market.

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Helen Meredith

Managing Director

Helen is ASL’s Managing Director. She leads ASL’s political risk and credit practice and also deals with claims affecting financial institutions worldwide.

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Hetle Soni

Director

Hetle Soni is a true specialist in financial crime losses, management liability and professional indemnity claims.  She deals with matters in the UK, offshore and internationally.

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James Vincent

Director

James Vincent leads the multi-disciplinary loss adjusting team at ASL’s office in Dubai and is responsible for the firm’s business throughout the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific regions.

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Joana Ball

Associate Director

Joana Ball is part of ASL’s multi-disciplinary loss adjusting team.  Her focus is on financial institutions and crime losses, primarily in the Spanish speaking world, and political risk and credit exposures worldwide.

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Kunal Benodekar

Associate Director - Dubai Office

Kunal Benodekar specialises in financial institutions, crime and cyber claims throughout the Middle East, India, Africa and Asia Pacific. He is based in ASL’s Dubai office.

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Alison Horne

Associate Director - Dubai Office

Alison Horne is a qualified solicitor, with long-standing experience of the most complex of financial institutions, crime, cyber, professional indemnity and political risk claims.

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Claudia Houlihan

Associate Director

Claudia Houlihan deals with first party losses and third party exposures sustained by financial institutions in every continent. She is bilingual in English and Portuguese.

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Sandy Kapoor

Head of Dubai Office

Sandy is Head of our Dubai Office and has extensive experience handling financial institutions, crime, cyber and professional indemnity claims throughout the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Eastern Europe.

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Elinor Lamerton

Associate Director

Elinor Lamerton is a lawyer with commercial acumen and long-standing experience of professional and financial risks. Elinor joined ASL’s London office from RPC, where she managed complex and often multi-party litigation and arbitration disputes.

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Daniel West

Associate Director

Dan West’s specialisms are business interruption, crime, cyber, financial institutions, and political risk and credit.

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Jolanta Wichtowski

Associate Director

Jola is a member of ASL’s multi-disciplinary loss adjusting team dealing with crime and other financial sector losses.

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Jessica Bain

Senior Adjuster - Dubai Office

Jessica Bain specialises in financial institutions, crime, cyber and trade credit claims across the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific.

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Georgia Blessed

Senior Adjuster

Georgia Blessed is a qualified chartered accountant and a forensic accounting specialist. Georgia applies that expertise for the benefit of ASL’s insurer clients across the full range of financial lines and cyber exposures.

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Ayda Hajihosseinloo

Senior Adjuster

Ayda Hajihosseinloo qualified as a solicitor with Norton Rose Fulbright, before joining ASL’s London-based team.

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Charles Harris

Senior Adjuster

Charlie Harris is a chartered accountant, specialising in financial institutions, crime, cyber and political risk claims.

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Thomas Morley

Senior Adjuster

Tom Morley is a chartered accountant with a wide-ranging audit background. He specialises in claims under crime, cyber, business interruption and financial institutions policies.

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Marcus Newman

Senior Adjuster

Marcus Newman specialises in cyber, financial institutions and crime claims, in the UK and internationally.

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Alice Squizzoni

Senior Adjuster

Alice Squizzoni is a qualified chartered accountant, who joined ASL’s London team from BDO. Alice brings her skills to bear on crime, cyber, financial institutions and business interruption claims, as well as credit exposures.

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William Sanders

Senior Adjuster

Will Sanders is a chartered accountant with a broad audit background, having worked in private practice and in-house in both the UK and Australia. At ASL, Will specialises in investigating and quantifying claims under crime, cyber, business interruption and financial institutions policies.

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