Graham Barrow

The Dark Money Files

Graham has worked in financial services for the past twenty-five years, latterly providing expertise to a number of high-profile banks in relation to their financial crime control frameworks. He has written the due diligence policy for one global bank and contributed significant expertise to many others. He also works closely with a large number of investigative journalists in both print and broadcast media, helping them to identify and write about organised crime and corruption specifically in respect of the use of legal entities (companies) for laundering the proceeds of their crimes.

Graham regularly speaks at in-house and public events to raise awareness of the close links between financial crime and the organised criminal gangs and corrupt individuals who are responsible for so much of the dirty money entering the financial system and, in particular, the role of UK entities in enabling this.

AC Neil Basu QPM

Assistant Commissioner, Specialist Operations and National Lead for Counter Terrorism Policing, Metropolitan Police

Neil is the Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations in the Metropolitan Police Service and the senior officer in charge of counter terrorism policing in the UK. In a career spanning 26 years, Neil has been at the forefront of counter terrorism policing during an unprecedent shift in threat and has been instrumental in strengthening policy capability, an increasing join-up with community policing, closer working with intelligence partners and an increase in preventative interventions to counter radicalisation.

He has been commended ten times during his career for bravery, leadership and detective ability. He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal (QPM) for distinguished service in 2016.

Julie Beesley

Group Chief Financial Crime Risk Officer, Royal Bank Scotland

Julie joined the RBS Group in 2017 and provides executive leadership of financial crime risk management across the Group.  Having specialised in financial crime across the globe for most of her 30 year career, Julie brings a wealth of international subject matter expertise and experience, including executive positions in banking and consulting. Julie’s most recent roles include the Chief Financial Crime Officer at Westpac Bank, preceded by Forensic Partner at a Big Four Consulting Firm.  Julie is also a fellow chartered accountant, and holds a degree in Physics and a masters and PhD in Criminology.  Her doctorate is in organised crime and terrorism.

Colin Bell

Group Chief Compliance Officer, HSBC

Colin was appointed Group Chief Compliance Officer in November 2018 and is a member of the HSBC Group Management Board.  Colin joined HSBC as the Group Head of Financial Crime Risk in July 2016 having previously worked at UBS, following 16 years in the British Army.

During his time in the Army Colin held a variety of command and staff appointments, including operational tours of Iraq and Northern Ireland, time in the Ministry of Defence, a NATO appointment and completion of the Advanced Command and Staff Course. He joined UBS in January 2007 becoming the Global Head of Operational Risk Control in 2011. In January 2014 he was appointed the Global Head of Compliance (Regulatory and Financial Crime Compliance) and Operational Risk Control for UBS, leading a firm-wide integration programme to introduce a range of enhancements to the firm's financial crime, monitoring & surveillance, conduct risk and cyber risk capabilities.

Commissioner Ian Dyson

City of London Police, Commander

Commissioner Dyson is the national police lead for Economic Crime, the national police lead for Business Crime, and the national police lead for Information Technology within policing.

Ian joined the Metropolitan Police in 1983, working within many different areas including crime and drug squads, vice and strategic planning.  For eleven years he was a public order cadre trained senior officer and has extensive experience of commanding the policing of large public events.  Ian then joined Surrey Police as Assistant Chief Constable in June 2008 overseeing some of the highest confidence levels in the country and improving Neighbourhood Policing.

In September 2010 Ian joined the City of London Police as Commander leading initially on organisational change, and later as the chief officer lead on Economic Crime, expanding the Force’s national fraud responsibilities. He was also the National Police lead for Contact Management and led the national roll out for the 101 non-emergency number. Two years later he was promoted to Assistant Commissioner leading cultural and business change, leadership and performance within the Force, embedding staff empowerment and innovation.  

He was promoted to Commissioner on the 3rd of January 2016 and was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal in the New Year Honours 2016.

Marc Fungard

Global Head, Research and Analytics, Financial Crime Threat Mitigation (FCTM)

Marc Fungard is the Global Head of Research & Analytics within Financial Crime Threat Mitigation (FCTM) which provides research and data-driven risk management via subject matter expertise and big data analytics techniques.He joined HSBC in May 2012, to oversee the establishment and development of a global Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to cover all HSBC entities.

Prior to joining HSBC, Marc was a senior advisor at the United States financial intelligence unit, the Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN), providing support intelligence and analytics issues. Previously, Marc was the Director of the Office of Illicit Finance within the U.S. Department of Treasury and over 15 years in a variety of roles in the US government in intelligence roles, including supporting senior White House officials.

Mike Haley

Chief Executive, Cifas

Since being appointed Chief Executive at Cifas in May 2018, Mike has actively worked to grow the community of stakeholders sharing data, intelligence and insight in the pursuit of preventing fraud and financial crime.  Mike is passionate about Cifas becoming the driving force behind fraud prevention in the UK and with over 30 years’ experience of tackling and preventing fraud across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors he is determined to bring together a strong cross-sectoral collaborative approach to tackling fraud.   Mike is the Chair of the Home Office Joint Fraud Taskforce (JFT) whose main purpose is to reduce the level of fraud and harm it causes to individual victims and organisations by making it significantly more difficult for fraudsters to operate within the UK.  With a Master’s Degree in Criminology, Mike has led investigative teams in the National Health Service, Ministry of Defence, Office of Fair Trading, HM Revenue and Customs and Solicitors Regulation Authority.   He has also worked at the National Fraud Authority directing cross sector fraud prevention strategies.  Mike believes that the battle against fraud is one that cannot be won alone and by collaborating as a community, we can be relentless in our effort to put the spotlight on fraud and not only protect each other but also make the UK a safer place to live and do business.

Gaon Hart

Global Anti-Bribery & Corruption Head of Advisory, Policy & Training for HSBC Bank

Gaon is currently the Global Anti-Bribery & Corruption Head of Advisory, Policy & Training for HSBC Bank. He currently advises on all aspects of bribery & corruption focussing on compliance with the UK Bribery Act, the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Hong Kong Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, amongst other key International legislative requirements.

Gaon was formerly a Senior Crown Advocate for the Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). He has obtained both barrister and solicitor rights in the UK, enabling him to hold adversarial rights in court as well as being experienced in leading investigations and case progression. He was the CPS’s lead specialist prosecutor in bribery & public corruption and, due to his advisory role prior to the Act being introduced, was asked to undertake the first prosecution under the UK Bribery Act. He also provided training to the UK police in the Bribery Act.

As the first lawyer working on developing the CPS Fraud Prosecution Group and the Prosecution Team Leader, he has also worked with the UK Government on fraud projects and was the lead project Lawyer, acting directly for two Attorney Generals, on the Plea Negotiations Guidelines in Serious and Complex Fraud Cases, while also working to develop the UK’s current counter-Fraud architecture during the 2007 Fraud Review.

Prior to working as a prosecutor, Gaon was the Associate Director of a post-graduate University Law Department (London Guildhall University) and a Principal Lecturer.

Tom Keatinge

Director, Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI)

Tom Keatinge is the Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI, where his research focuses on matters at the intersection of finance and security, including the use of finance as a tool of intelligence and disruption. He has a Master’s in Intelligence and International Security from King’s College London, where his research focused on the effectiveness of the global counter-terror finance regime. Prior to joining RUSI in 2014, he was an investment banker for 20 years at J.P. Morgan.

Mary Kirwan

Financial Crime and Cyber Security Specialist

Mary Kirwan is a lawyer on three continents, an ex-Canadian Department of Justice money laundering prosecutor, journalist and cyber security specialist. She has held a number of senior management roles in banking and technology companies, including, most recently, acting as MLRO at Credit Suisse UK. She holds advanced degrees in business and technology and several certificates in cyber-security (CISSP) and data protection (CIPM and CIPP/E).

Satnam Lehal

Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Danske Bank.

Satnam was appointed Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Danske Bank in July 2019 based in Copenhagen.  Prior to that he was a Managing Director and International Head of Financial Crime at Morgan Stanley where he worked for 10 years in London and Hong Kong.  Satnam is also a member of UK Finance’s Financial Crime Committee and the ECSB’s Public Private Steering Group.  Satnam is a graduate of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.

Marco Mukherjee

Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO), Santander

Marco is responsible for Financial Crime Risk oversight Santander UK.  He was appointed as the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) in April 2016, and holds the Senior Management Function responsibility for Financial Crime (SMF17), covering Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, Terrorist Financing and Anti-Bribery & Corruption across all lines of business. Marco joined Santander UK in 2005, leading integration and complex transformation programmes, including the regulatory portfolio. He has almost 30 years of Financial Services experience across industry and a Big Four Consulting practice.  

Marco contributes to the public and private partnership agenda for Financial Crime, and sits on the new Economic Crime Reform Private sector steering group, UK Finance Financial Crime Committee, and Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce Board. Earlier this year, Marco was also part of the winning Santander team “Catch a Chameleon” that was awarded the Eureka prize at this year’s FCA AML Techsprint event, demonstrating the potential of Blockchain technology in combating Financial Crime.

Marco holds a degree in Genetic Engineering from the University of Manchester.

Debbie Price

Deputy Director, National Economic Crime Centre

Debbie is currently on loan to the National Economic Crime Centre at the NCA as the Deputy Director with responsibility for the UK Financial Intelligence Unit and SARs Reform. 

She qualified as a lawyer at Kingsley Napley and joined the CPS Organised Crime Division after 10 years with the firm, specialising in business crime. In 2012 she was seconded to the Home Office as the Head of the UK Central Authority, as UK lead for extradition and mutual legal assistance requests to and from the UK. Back at the CPS in 2015 Debbie led both the Extradition and International Units as a Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor.

Owen Rowland

Head of the Economic Crime Unit, part of the Serious and Organised Crime Group Home Office

Owen Rowland is Head of the Economic Crime Unit, part of the Serious and Organised Crime Group in the Home Office. He and his colleagues are working with domestic and international Government, law enforcement, regulatory and private sector partners to protect the public and businesses from economic crime.

In this most recent roles, Owen: designed the National Crime Agency and set up the Economic Crime Command and National Cyber Crime Unit; led the production and implementation of the Criminal Finances Act, including introduction of Unexplained Wealth Orders and Asset Freezing Orders; chaired negotiations that established the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT); established the Joint Fraud Taskforce; and co-ordinated production of the 2019 Public-Private Economic Crime Plan.

Owen’s previous roles over 20 years within Whitehall and the European Commission  comprised  a range of national security, crime and  policing policy positions including: Head of Drug Strategy; Secretary to the Chilcot Review into Intercept as Evidence; Head of Counter-Terrorism Science and Innovation; lead negotiator for the European Commission on Justice and Home Affairs with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Bosnia & Herzegovina; and Head of Female Young Offenders and Women’s Resettlement in the Prison Service.

Giles Thomson

Deputy Director, Sanctions and Illicit Finance, HM Treasury

Giles Thomson is the senior official in HM Treasury responsible for economic crime policy, including financial sanctions and anti-money laundering / counter terrorist financing. His team led the development of the UK's recently published Economic Crime Plan and are currently working on the transposition of the EU's 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive, amongst other issues. 

Giles is also the UK’s Head of Delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and led the UK's successful 2018 FATF Mutual Evaluation. Giles has held a number of different roles within the Treasury over the last 16 years, with a focus on international economic issues. Prior to taking up his current position, he spent 3 years as Head of the South Asia Department in the Foreign Office.

Kathy Woodfine

Head of Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions and Anti-Bribery, EMEA

Kathy Woodfine is the head of Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions and Anti-Bribery for the EMEA region as well as The UK Money Laundering Reporting Officer.  She is responsible for these respective programmes across all of Citi’s businesses in the region, overseeing a team comprising of approximately 300 staff spread across a number of different locations. 

Prior to joining Citi, Kathy was the EMEA Head of Financial Crime Compliance for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.  Between 2005 – 2011, she also undertook similar roles as the EMEA Head of Financial Crime within Nomura International and Goldman Sachs International as well as holding the position as the appointed Money Laundering Reporting Officer.  Kathy has wide product knowledge having provided financial crime coverage to a number of business areas over the years including investment banking, capital markets, transactional banking, private banking, asset management and cards.

Kathy began her career at the Bank of England, undertaking a number of roles including within their Economics Division and Banking Supervision Division.  During this time she also undertook a secondment to the National Criminal Intelligence Service where she was responsible for, amongst other things, liaising with the UK Government, the regulated sector as well as law enforcement on money laundering trends and typologies.  Kathy holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Financial Economics attained from the University of London.