Paul Mclear

Over the past 12 years, Paul has focused on financial crime and fraud, working across strategy, transformation, and operations. His expertise covers various sectors, including retail banking, corporate and investment banking, asset management, wealth management, and insurance.

He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and holds an IBM Professional Certificate in Data Science as well as a PRINCE2 Practitioner certification. Paul has led complex financial crime projects that are highly visible to c-level executives and regulators, focusing on areas such as transformation, remediation, financial crime technology, and data.

Paul's specialisations include: customer risk assessment; calibration and testing of financial crime technology and data; and detective controls such as name screening, transaction monitoring, and fraud detection. He is fluent in UK and international financial crime laws, regulations, and guidance, and has a proven track record in managing complex change.

Paul has a deep understanding of technology and data from hands-on development and data analytics roles. His skills include Advanced Excel, Python, SQL, and machine learning techniques. Paul is also a full-stack developer with hands-on experience in web development using Python and has brought several financial crime products to market, leveraging cloud technologies (AWS, DigitalOcean) and SDLC tools (Docker, Linux, Git).