Practitioner notes and current thinking
Insights
Recent writing
- 22 September 2026 Bringing expertise into a programme Where the Outsider Sits Programmes get scoped with care. The arrival of the people brought in to help is sometimes left unspecified, and that omission tends to decide whether the expertise is absorbed or paid for and wasted.
- 15 September 2026 Right-sizing a financial economic crime programme Proportion, not Scale A financial economic crime programme is not built by copying the largest version available. It is built by knowing what the institution needs, what it does not, and being able to evidence the difference.
- 24 June 2026 Remediation, BAU and the work a fix leaves behind The Footprint a Fix Leaves Behind A CDD remediation is judged on whether the files get fixed. Less attention goes to the shape it leaves behind in the day job, which is often where the next problem starts.
- 24 June 2026 Proportionality and the cost of caution The Cost of Caution Why over-classification in financial crime risk drives cost and quietly departs from the very principle the rules are built on.