Balvinder worked with me at Lloyds for 18 months and I have no hesitation recommending him based upon the quality of his work during this time where he was instrumental in the design and development of a new Control Room system that covered the management of Insider Lists, Wall Crossings, Conflicts of Interest, Personal Account Dealing and Outside Business Interests. Throughout this process, Balvinder consistently demonstrated technical expertise around system design and the regulatory environment to construct simple solutions to complex issues, using automated processes where possible and reducing administration to the benefit of the Control Room and the business. 

Balvinder proved himself a very capable colleague who always displayed good judgement, operated calmly when under pressure and had the ability to make very technical subjects simple to understand. He was a valuable member of my team and I would be very happy to work with him again in the future.

I have no hesitation recommending Balvinder having worked with him on a number of innovative projects focused on automation and change management. Balvinder demonstrated a clear understanding of the drivers affecting our business as well as the technical expertise to navigate through the regulatory environment. His ability to stay calm and make rapid decisions under pressure has been critical in supporting delivery of my projects and he is a highly regarded business partner. 

When I joined Arbuthnot Securities all compliance monitoring was carried out manually which was both time consuming and inefficient. When the then Compliance Assistant resigned we decided we needed someone to write a suite of programs to overcome problems mentioned above. The best candidate was Balvinder Ruprai who had an excellent knowledge of database systems. Balvinder's services were employed and wrote programs covering: 1. Watch and Restricted Lists; 2. Identification of Takeover Panel disclosures; 3. High value trades; 4. Position disclosure; 5. Trades for higher risk clients (AML); 6. AML/ KYC template with links to customer letters and 7. Report facility running off a Microsoft Access database. The above systems were both effective and proved durable and were still operating when I left the company in December 2014. 

I have no hesitation recommending Balvinder Ruprai's technical expertise in this area. 

Our company required an automated solution to identify conflict situations arising in our business. Balvinder designed and built a system which successfully received data from other systems covering the firms' business activities and permitted staff operating control processes and procedures to easily idenitfy any conflicts. I found Balvinder a conscientious and thorough member of the team with an excellent attention to detail who produced high quality work in a timely manner. 

Balvinder combined technological acumen with deep market insight to assist us in forging a pragmatic development strategy for trade surveillance - we've developed exactly what we wanted.

We understood we needed to begin building capability to interrogate trading activity, and had received three proposals from third party specialists with ready-made analytical tools. We knew we had to work within limitations ot our existing systems and budgets, but more importanty that we had to learn how to interrogate our data.

We were not won over by these proposals primarily due the risks around data transfer and interpretation. Balvinder's market insight and technical competence provided for us an opportunity to forge a development path 100% appropriate for our circumstances. Since his initial work in sketching out our first set of tests, we have wasted no time or money building capability we didn't need.

We have grown a focused and highly skilled team around the seed Balvinder planted for us.

He has demonstrated the advantages of agile development.

I worked with Balvinder for circa three years at Lloyds Banking Group. During that time Balvinder was a constant source of support and clarity throughout my work in the Compliance Control Room. Balvinder combines a unique combination of hands on compliance experience, coupled with advanced IT knowledge and natural project management skills. I can't imagine there are many people like Balvinder in the City able to deliver bespoke monitoring /surveilance/ watch list solutions with a true understanding of the actual challenges faced by compliance departments.

Balvinder is an extremely effective, driven and passionate professional. Balvinder has a wide ranging talent being highly proficient at everything from pitching for funds through to developing tactical databases. I worked Balvinder for 15 months at Lloyds where I was his IT Analyst Developer to his Business PM/BA. Balvinder has the utmost dedication to the project, was extrenely. knowledgeable and was highly imaginative and tenacious at tackling issues. I would recommend Balvinder without hesitation and hope to work with him again.