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Bristol, GB

London

London, England, United Kingdom

POSITIVE CONTEXT is a financial crime capability consultancy established to serve the needs of leading banks, regtechs and compliance specialists. We offer advisory services on how to build and optimise industry-leading financial crime solutions. We specialise in data management, prevention, detection and investigation of financial crime.

London, England, United Kingdom

Author of Hands-On Entity Resolution - A Practical Guide to Data Matching with Python

London, England, United Kingdom

• Ensuring HSBC is equipped with the systems, tools & data to manage financial crime risk, including Dynamic and Contextual Monitoring, Transaction Monitoring, Name & Transaction Screening, Fraud, Investigations and Data;
• Operation and optimisation of Transaction Monitoring and Name Screening controls;
• Oversight and execution of data and access management, privacy & ethics. Design, operational security and privacy compliance of global data platform. Introduction of Privacy Enhancing… Show more
• Oversight and execution of data and access management, privacy & ethics. Design, operational security and privacy compliance of global data platform. Introduction of Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) to address data.
• Executive management of a global team of ~200 Product Owners, Business Analysts and Data Management professionals. Indirect leadership of Compliance IT (~1000 staff).
• Reduce Risk: Delivered faster, cheaper and more comprehensive detection, analysis and investigation of Financial Crime through introduction of the following capabilities:o Multiple award-winning Global Social Network.

• Regulatory Approval: At a critical time for HSBC, secured Skilled Person endorsement that Financial Crime Data Quality was ‘generally good and subject to an effective governance framework’. Demonstrated effective data.
• Increased Effectiveness: Led Unified Case Management delivery consolidating investigative casework, global SAR… Show more
• Increased Effectiveness: Led Unified Case Management delivery consolidating investigative casework, global SAR filing and customer exit into structured workflows for 6000 users worldwide. Integrated capabilities for.
• Investment for Growth: Played a key role in founding, and securing HSBC series A investment in, Quantexa, now valued at over $1billion and adopted as HSBC core technology provider for financial crime and master data.
• Enhance Efficiency:Transition of ~150 data science community from legacy SAS to cloud-ready Python, accelerating delivery and uplifting model performance and reuse. Delivered and maintained a secure hybrid.

London, United Kingdom

• Accelerate Delivery: Introduction of agile methodology and delivery of a suite of network & investigative tools to manage global exposure risk and enable joined-up complex casework;
• Drive Consistency: Delivery of HSBC’s first structured big-data platform providing a unified, secure and performant view of HSBC data globally across 50+ jurisdictions and multiple lines of business. Rationalised.

• Management of highly sensitive strategic industry relationships of critical importance to national security and the international 5-eyes community;
• Developed a strategic relationship with a multinational corporation, securing board level support to take strategic risk to promote national security;
• Built a new international industry partnership from first contact to full operational partnership and intelligence delivery for the 5-eyes community.

• Leadership of UK headline counter-terrorism operations, threat assessment;
• Directed intelligence and cyber tradecraft for UK CT Operations, 200 analysts;
• Multi-agency (UK and 5-eyes) operational management and critical incident response;
• Operational capability gap analysis, requirements specification and delivery.

M.Eng, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

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