Chris Oakley

Independent Financial Crime Expert .

Chris has over 20 years experience working within the Financial Services Sector and consulting and advisory within the provision of Economic Crime prevention software. With a focus around the use of Data and Analytics, Chris has managed the Financial Crime analytics and strategy for Virgin Money as well ensuring the global strategic fraud requirements for HSBC were being met, both for the current and future needs. As a Global Subject Matter Expert at Featurespace, Chris worked with customers on the how to approach solving their Financial Crime threats, as well as speaking across the US, Europe & Africa on the challenges and opportunities within the use of Data and Analytics to help mitigate Financial Crime.

As Head of Fraud at Form3, Chris is leading on our external approach to helping to prevent Economic Crime within Account-to-Account payments. This approach is being delivered through the creation of a low latency, high availability cloud orchestration layer which will allow institutions to enrich their existing data used for decisioning with consortia level intelligence across both the Outbound and Inbound legs of payments delivering improved Fraud Detection and reduced False Positives.