New compliance director for Access FS

Lock joins from Absolute Return Investment Advisers (ARIA) where he was head of compliance, having previously set up a compliance academy at Cooper Associates. The new compliance director said: "I'm looking forward to sharing my commercial approach to compliance across the business, helping drive it forward and achieve our ambitious goals for Access FS. "Before I entered the world of compliance some 10 years ago, I started out in the 90s as an estate agent and then became a financial adviser, so I've been on both sides of the fence and can understand the pressure points on either side...