About Financial Crime Intelligence Ltd
Financial Crime Intelligence Ltd was established in 2014 by a management team consisting of highly experienced finance and technology professionals who shared an interest in addressing the alarming level of financial crime.
The benefits from financial institutions sharing intelligence directly with each other were quickly recognised notwithstanding certain data protection challenges.
FCI’s Assimilated Economic Crime Intelligence System (AECIS) successfully addresses these allowing financial institutions to collaborate with each other within the framework of the UK Data Protection Act.
As such, AECIS continues to attract interest from industry bodies and member organisations who see it as an essential tool for protecting the public and themselves.
Our Vision
To significantly improve efficiencies in the use of available fraud intelligence, thereby reducing criminality, whilst at the same time increasing the public’s confidence in the financial sector’s ability to tackle fraud.
Our Mission
To provide financial institutions with a collaborative solution to increase the detection of fraud, increase prosecutions, increase asset retrieval and prevent further criminality.
Chris Anderson
CEO
Chris Anderson, CEO is a financial crime expert with over 30 years of banking experience. He was responsible for the European rollout of the Merrill Lynch discretionary business control framework and chaired the investment governance committee. This was followed by senior management positions in global risk & control and global financial crime investigations.
Chris was also a member of the Fraud Strategic Advisory Panel at the British Bankers Association. His experience led him to develop several innovative concepts to tackle the increasing scale of financial crime and these converged with FCI’s objectives. A natural alliance was formed which resulted in Chris’ appointment as CEO.
Pedro Tortosa
Director
Innovative engineer, entrepreneur and technology evangelist with experience creating and leading technology startups from scratch and growing them until effective commercial traction in the market.
Strong technology base and deep knowledge of the infrastructure hardware and software solutions market with more than 30 years experience, from Electronic Engineering to IT, from IBM mainframes to Intel platforms.
Specialties: Technology Startups, innovation, leadership, Infrastructure Solutions market, Big Data
Ashraf Sleiman Agha
Strategic Advisor
With over 27 years finance and operations experience including 8 years as Head of Treasury in Saxo Bank (2000-2008) where Ashraf was responsible for liquidity management, hedging of FX exposures, compliance / AML screening and reporting, short-term investments, funding, sweeping and cash pooling, cash management & SWIFT administration.
In 2008 Ashraf went on to design and operate similar platforms in FX & cash management for CFH Markets where he was a co-founder and Executive Director, accountable for all operations including back office, risk management, liquidity, payments & cash management, end of day processes & bank relations, and subsequently, between 2011 and 2014, as Chief Operating Officer of the Foreign Exchange business at Marex Spectron with responsibility for business development & strategy, liquidity, execution, designation notices, prime brokerage, clearing, margin management & regulatory issues.
Most recently, Ashraf held a number of controlled functions for various firms with the UK FCA including: Authorised Company Director (CF1), Customer Function (CF30), Chief Compliance Officer (CF10), CASS oversight reporting officer (CF10a) and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (CF11).