Andy M. Email & Phone Number

As an accomplished Economic Crime Manager and anti-financial crime professional with over fifteen years of AFC experience, I possess a diverse background having successfully led teams in both the public and private sectors.I have a demonstrable history of leading and managing successful teams in both the public and private sectors, working at the forefront of intelligence-led policing while specialising in investigating complex financial crime and asset recovery, and at a senior level within the financial sector. This experience enables me to effectively contribute to organisational objectives across various domains.I have a thorough knowledge of legislation with regards counter fraud, anti-money laundering and anti-bribery and corruption investigations. I am fully confident in identifying and assessing the financial crime risks faced by financial institutions and building risk based control frameworks to counter them. I am a qualified financial investigator, specialised fraud investigator and hold the ICA Int. Dip. in Money Laundering.I have worked closely and successfully with partners from the public and private sectors, both in the UK and abroad, and I am comfortable communicating complex financial crime concepts to audiences regardless of their level of expertise. I have led seminars at Project CRAAFT, an EU-led initiative to counter terrorist fundraising, and presented at The Hague on trans-national money laundering. I am an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and goal-oriented individual with a strong work ethic who strives to achieve at the highest level in any undertaking.Big fan of The Wire as well (as everyone should be).

Listed skills include Writing, Law, Research, Investigation, and 3 others.

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  Economic Crime Manager

  Starling Bank

  Aug 2023 - Present

  Economic Crime Manager supporting the expansion of Starling Bank’s second line of defence financial crime function. I manage a large team responsible for designing and building the bank’s financial crime frameworks, oversight of disclosures, training, PEPs and Sanctions screening, MI, team and department QA and QC, and the creation, review and updating of 1LoD and 2LoD financial crime processes and procedures. I act as SME/financial crime advisor to other business areas, including advising on the implementation of AI financial crime solutions, implementing, streamlining and de-risking internal processes, and supporting the continuous improvement to TM rules. I also act as a financial crime advisor to the legal team. I have overseen an improvement in output, both in terms of volume and quality/outcomes. I led an up-skilling initiative to improve the bank’s ability to identity financial crime, especially around the differences between unusual and suspicious activity, and how to best articulate this accurately and concisely. I work closely with both internal and external stakeholders to drive improvement across all financial crime compliance areas within Starling.