Criminal: NatWest

Denis O’Connor, a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment, was a member of the British Bankers’ Association Money Laundering Committee from 2003-10 and a member of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group’s Board and Editorial Panel between 2010 and 2016. He has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences on financial crime issues, both in the UK and abroad.

Decades of anti-money laundering regulation, yet a UK high street bank failed on a fundamental level to prevent money laundering, and was convicted: Denis O’Connor examines its crime in detail.