Anna Bleazard

Anna Bleazard is Head of Asia Financial Crime Compliance and Co-Head of Southeast Asia Investigations. She is a qualified Chartered Accountant with extensive financial crime, forensic accounting, disputes and litigation support experience.

Ms. Bleazard specialises in providing Financial Crime Compliance advisory services to clients in relation to anti-money laundering (AML), economic sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) and fraud. Her clients include banks, insurance companies, payment services companies, casinos, and digital asset firms. For the last 11 years, Ms. Bleazard has been based in Singapore covering the Southeast Asia region and prior to this she was based in London, covering UK and European clients.

During her time at FTI Consulting, Ms. Bleazard has conducted a number of internal control and compliance reviews including gap assessments, AML and fraud risk assessments and advised clients on AML, sanctions, ABC and fraud risks. She has expertise in performing regulator-driven investigations and reviews and has worked at the behest of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Ms. Bleazard’s experience includes planning, performing and leading complex fraud, corruption, and compliance investigations across Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific covering a multitude of topics including asset misappropriation, accounting fraud, bribery and corruption, channel stuffing, kickbacks, conflicts of interest, money laundering and sanctions.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Bleazard was with a Big Four professional services firm. In her role, she specialised in financial crime investigations, advisory and disputes work across Asia-Pacific covering multiple industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and consumer products.