Interview with Joe Goddard, Membership & Account Director, Stop Scams UK
To start us off, can you tell us a bit about yourself, as well as your role at Stop Scams UK and what your work focuses on day-to-day? I’m the Membership & Account Director at Stop Scams UK. I joined Stop Scams in November 2024, having previously led multi-discipline, global collaboration campaigns in online advertising. […]
Article: The EU’s AML Reset: From Compliance Activity to Operational Effectiveness and Credible Outcomes
The EU’s new AML framework – anchored in AMLR and AMLA – is not simply regulatory evolution. It is a structural reset of how financial crime risk is judged, supervised, and operationalised across the financial system. For years, institutions have invested heavily in controls, systems, and resourcing. Yet the uncomfortable truth remains – despite this […]
Interview with Hamza Zarrouk, Head of Investigations and Fraud Control, AXA XL
To kick us off, can you tell us a bit about your role at AXA XL and your focus within investigations and fraud control? My name is Hamza Zarrouk, and I am the Head of Investigations at AXA XL. I have dedicated my career to uncovering and mitigating various forms of financial and organizational misconduct […]
Interview with Giana Quandt-Martiena, Chief Compliance Officer, KBC Bank NV, Rotterdam
To start us off, can you tell us about yourself and your role at KBC Bank NV, Rotterdam? A little about myself, born in the Caribbean, with a legal and business background, international experience and for the last four (4) years working as Chief Compliance Officer in the Netherlands, the city of Rotterdam for a […]
Interview with Pallavi Kapale, Senior Financial Crime Officer, Financial Crime Intelligence Unit, Bank of China
To start us off, can you tell us a bit about your role at the Bank of China and your focus within the Financial Crime Intelligence Unit? I detect, analyse, prevent and disrupt fraud and money laundering networks. The objective is not only restricted to resolving complex cases but also to anticipate future threats. Within […]
Interview with Laura Lehane, Head of Financial Crime & MLRO, AJ Bell
To start us off, can you tell us about yourself and your role at AJ Bell? I’m Laura Lehane, Head of Financial Crime and MLRO at AJ Bell. I joined the business in June 2024, moving into the Investment industry after 20 years in Retail Banking. I lead everything financial crime, including the design and […]
Interview with Joe Goddard, Membership & Account Director, Stop Scams UK
To start us off, can you tell us a bit about yourself, as well as your role at Stop Scams UK and what your work focuses on day-to-day? I’m the Membership & Account Director at Stop Scams UK. I joined Stop Scams in November 2024, having previously led multi-discipline, global collaboration campaigns in online advertising. […]
Article: External Fraud in Banking
External Fraud in Banking: The Systemic Threat that Demands a Coordinated National Response External fraud has become one of the greatest threats to the stability of the financial sector, customer trust, and the integrity of the economic system. In recent years, banks have witnessed a continuous, sophisticated, and diversified growth in fraud attempts, in a context where organised crime, […]
Interview with Katharine Strain, Head of Financial Crime Prevention, Danske Bank
To start us off, can you tell us a bit about your role at Danske Bank and your focus within Financial Crime Prevention? I lead the Financial Crime Prevention team with responsibility for protecting both our customers and the Bank from financial crime. Our work spans customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, fraud detection and prevention, […]
Interview with Aisling Twomey, Head of FinCrime, Business Banking, EU, Sanctions, Monzo Bank
To start us off, can you tell us a bit about your role at Monzo Bank and your focus as Head of FinCrime for Business Banking, EU and Sanctions? I have been at Monzo Bank almost 4 years now. When I first joined, I worked on building financial crime controls for the Retail Bank, before […]