After 20 years in anti-financial crime roles across regulation and banking, with an increasing focus on technology, I decided to join a company I have been watching since its inception: ComplyAdvantage. Everything I have seen in my career has left me convinced that the biggest leaps forward in the anti-financial crime space are going to come from well-funded businesses who employ significant resource in the fields of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence, and have the flexibility to quickly adapt to changing regulations and risk typologies. ComplyAdvantage fits that bill perfectly.Prior to joining Comply, I spent ~11 years working in Financial Crime roles in three of the UK's biggest banks - mostly in senior Compliance roles, but more recently as the 1LoD Head of Risk at Mettle, a NatWest franchise. Before joining the banking industry, I spent ~8 years in the Enforcement Division of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), working mainly on financial crime investigations after a period spent focusing on misconduct/mis-selling cases. Specialisms over the years have included:-Policy maintenance-New Product Approval-CDD Quality Assurance / remediation-PEP management projects-Business-wide Risk & Controls Assessments-Designing innovative methods of testing staff awareness-Large-scale Change programmes-Management frameworks for High-Risk customers and Reputational Risk-Helping business-side colleagues implement new controls and processes-Management and approval of Third Party service providers -Regulatory investigations and intelligence work focused on Investment FraudA significant portion of my career has been focused on the intersection between Digital products/services and Risk: reducing friction in customer journeys while retaining robust compliance. Good understanding of AML, Sanctions, AB&C, Fraud, and Transaction Monitoring. I also understand the fundamental importance of the principles of Agile to the successful delivery of quality software products.While I am happy to receive InMail, I will generally only accept Connection requests from people I have met and/or worked with.