Chris Leatherland,
head of financial crime and MLRO
GE Capital Bank (GE Money)

Chris is currently Head of Financial Crime and Money Laundering Reporting Officer at GE Capital Bank (GE Money), a large retail centric operation with in excess of 8 million accounts handled by varying channels, and through numerous relationships both direct and with partners.

Previously with the National Australia Group (Europe) in a similar role, he has a retail/commercial Banking background with an extensive history in regulatory interface, addressing the creation of both strategic and operational Anti-Money Laundering prevention and detection regimes. He has experience in effective commercially balanced risk based methodologies in "Know Your Customer" due diligence and application criteria, with various techniques used for transaction/activity monitoring from simple monetary value exception reports to intelligent IT based rule modelling solutions.

With excess of 15 years experience liaising with all guises of Law Enforcement Agencies, both domestic and overseas his roles have provided him with comprehensive exposure to legal processes and operational cases across all Financial Crime mandates including Anti-Money Laundering, Fraud and Terrorist Financing.