About Trevor Barritt

A career across compliance and financial crime

In financial services, Trevor held roles including Head of Money Laundering Control, Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Compliance Officer at Prudential Securities, CIBC, ING, Credit Suisse, Gen RE and Morgan Stanley. He also served as a Senior Inspector at two predecessor regulators of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority. These roles brought him close to the practical work of designing controls, overseeing escalation and examining how firms put requirements into operation.

Trevor later spent 16 years as an anti-money laundering subject matter expert with NICE Actimize, working on topics including transaction monitoring and customer due diligence. A Z/Yen biography published in October 2020 records his appointment to Featurespace that year.

Expertise grounded in real operating challenges

His work has covered AML controls, transaction monitoring, customer due diligence, beneficial ownership and the use of technology in compliance. Those subjects meet in day-to-day operations: staff need relevant information, clear ownership and workable routes to investigate and escalate concerns.

The right controls depend on the business. Products, customer behaviour, distribution channels, jurisdictions and available data all affect how activity should be understood. Technology can help organise and prioritise information, but it needs clear accountability and review by people who can question its outputs.

A 2023 paper Trevor authored on insurance compliance examines how insurance products and activity can produce different risk indicators from those seen in banking. His published work reflects a recurring theme: controls should fit the business and the evidence available.

• Anti-money laundering frameworks, governance and control effectiveness
• Transaction monitoring, alert investigation and financial crime technology
• Customer due diligence, beneficial ownership and cross-border risk
• Insurance-sector financial crime considerations and proportionate monitoring
• The practical relationship between regulatory expectations, data and operations

Writing, teaching and speaking

Trevor contributed research to a NICE Actimize article comparing beneficial ownership and KYC registry approaches in the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific. In November 2023, he authored a paper on compliance and money laundering risk in insurance.

He has served as a lecturer and examiner in money laundering and compliance for the International Compliance Association in affiliation with Manchester University, and as a consultant to several European regulators. A Z/Yen biography published in 2020 records that work as historical experience.

Trevor spoke at a Z/Yen Financial Services Group webinar in October 2020 about processes and technology for mitigating cryptocurrency-related financial crime risk. The discussion covered controls, customer due diligence, AML developments and the possible role of AI.

Independent perspective

Barritt Consulting is Trevor Barritt's independent consultancy. His experience in UK financial services and regulatory supervision can inform enquiries from organisations working across jurisdictions. The applicable rules and business context are established for each matter.

An engagement begins by clarifying the question, relevant countries and activities, available evidence and decisions the organisation needs to make. The agreed work and any outputs depend on that context.