Our story
We founded KYC Global Technologies in 2016, but the seeds of the business were sown in the experience of our Founder, Stephen Platt, conducting multiple systemically important regulatory investigations into the financial crime compliance of financial institutions around the world.
Collectively, our team has over 150 years of investigating and remediating businesses’ AML compliance environments.
That experience has taught us three things:
- Legacy screening tools are not fit for purpose in combating financial crime in the 21st Century
- Businesses are struggling to meet the data challenge and are failing to utilise the data they hold to manage risk effectively and drive effective risk governance;
- Despite spending an ever increasing amount on compliance headcount, AML compliance failures and resulting enforcement actions against financial institutions are increasing because legacy technology is inadequate.
We resolved to develop next generation screening and data analytics software that facilitated a paradigm shift in AML compliance. That is what we have done.
Now over 700 businesses, regulators and law enforcement agencies across the world use our technologies to combat financial crime.
Our people
One of the qualities that differentiates KYC Global Technologies from all other AML technology providers is our commitment to cultivating a team of subject matter experts and data scientists. AML is in our DNA and that is reflected in the way we design, build and deploy our solutions and in the operational efficiency gains experienced by users of our technologies.
Stephen Platt
Stephen is the Founder and the CEO of KYC Global Technologies. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading experts in financial crime prevention on which his counsel is widely sought by businesses and regulators alike. Prior to establishing KYC Global he spent 25 years conducting large scale regulatory enquiries into AML compliance failings by businesses ranging from Tier 1 banks downwards. He is a barrister, the original founder of the International Compliance Association, an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC and the author of the #1 best-selling book ‘Criminal Capital’
Tom Devlin
Tom is our Senior Regulatory Adviser. Educated at Oxford Tom worked in corporate finance at Rothschilds before qualifying as an English barrister. For much of the past ten years he has been managing systemically important enquiries for regulators into compliance failures within regulated businesses both on and offshore. With his deep expertise in the AML challenges faced by businesses he plays a critical role in the design specification of our technologies and in supporting enterprise customers.
Jeremy Swetenham
As Director, Sales and Channel Partnerships, Jeremy manages enterprise and partner relationships for KYC Global Technologies. Jeremy obtained a BEng Hons in Electronic Engineering from Edinburgh and went onto become the youngest Major in the British Army at the age of 26, where he also served as the Chief Technical Training Officer for the Royal Armoured Corps. More recently, as Head of Commercial Operations for Newtel Solutions, he played a key role in establishing a pan- island telecommunications service provider with a focus on enterprise services. Jeremy has a deep technical expertise and thorough understanding of risk management through the application of people, processes and technology.
Neal King
Neal is our Chief Technical Officer in which role he leads a team of in-house developers. Neal has a long track record of designing and coding software solutions designed to manage risk and improve customer lifecycle management. His previous roles have included senior appointments at a Tier 1 bank and at fiduciary and investment businesses.
Sherjeel Aman
Sherjeel is our Head of Implementation and Customer Support in which role he leads a team of technically minded customer focused professionals. Sherjeel obtained a BEng in Electronic Engineering from King’s College, London and Masters in Communication & Signals Processing from Imperial College, London. His previous experience includes roles at Citi, Accenture and most recently as an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs
Val Cartwright
Val is our finance Director and Head of Operations in which role she is responsible for workflow management, finance and HR. Val is a Chartered Accountant. She was previously Head of Finance Planning and Analysis at CPA Global
Caroline Ruark
Caroline is our General Counsel in which role she is responsible for all external legal relations and corporate governance. She obtained her degree in law from Edinburgh University. She is a qualified English solicitor. Caroline’s previous experience includes roles at Slaughter & May, Maples & Calder and Mourants.
Simon Ingham
Simon Ingham is a Senior Enterprise Relationship Manager. A former British Army Officer Serving with 29 Commando Regiment and 1st Regiment Royal Artillery he has applied his military experience in developing a highly tuned knowledge of enterprise risk management.
Ian Crosby
Ian is Head of Group Risk and Chairman of Stonehage Fleming. He chairs several family offices, is a Director of numerous mutual funds, fund advisory and investment boards and committees and acts as trustee on a number of family trusts. Ian has Bachelor of Commerce and LLB (Law) degrees.
Peter Kenyon
Peter Kenyon is the former Chief Executive of Umbro, Manchester United and Chelsea FC. He is the founder of Coaches Voice and a widely respected expert in Business Strategy and commercial operations
Stephen Chandler
Stephen is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Notion Capital, a venture capital firm focused on Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service; and a board director of several high-potential tech companies. Also Co-founder of SeedCloud, the seed incubator which helps great technology ideas become successful businesses.
Previously President, EMEA and CFO at MessageLabs, the global leader in SaaS messaging security acquired by Symantec in 2008 for $700m.
Stephen Platt
A RegTech Pioneer in the AML arena, Stephen is the co-founder of the International Compliance Association and the author of the #1 bestselling book 'Criminal Capital' published by Palgrave Macmillan widely regarded as a seminal work on money laundering prevention.
Stephen is one of the world's leading authorities on the criminal abuse of financial services through on and offshore jurisdictions. He is a former practising barrister and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. He is the original author of the International Diploma in Compliance and the International Diploma in Money Laundering Prevention - professional qualifications that have been awarded to tens of thousands of professionals around the world. He has assisted the World Bank on both the StAR initiative and the groundbreaking study tracking illicit financial flows from Somalian piracy. Additionally, he has worked on some of the most notorious kleptocracy asset recovery actions of the past 30 years. He has trained numerous supranational bodies, regulators, law enforcement and intelligence agencies. He consults to Stephen Platt & Associates LLP on large-scale regulatory investigations.
Our values
Our core values serve as the foundation for our decisions, actions and communication.
Expert
Everything that we innovate, build and deploy is founded upon a commitment to maintaining our expertise in Financial Crime Compliance and Data Science.
Focus
As tempting as it can be to pursue new opportunities for the application of our technology, we don’t. We have a laser sharp focus on eliminating financial crime with smart technology. It’s all we do.
Innovation
We are curious. We constantly question and innovate allowing us to give our customers an edge.
High Impact
Our technology is high impact. It acts as a force multiplier in improving risk governance and creating compliance control efficiencies.
Responsible
We believe that business should be a force for good not bad. We are proud that our technology is designed to help our customers combat crime. We do no harm and strive always to benefit the communities in which we work through a commitment to equality, transparency and social responsibility.
Trust
Nothing is more important to us than the trust of our customers.
Our locations
Our commitment to financial crime prevention extends to funding KYC360, the world’s leading online AML knowledge portal. KYC360 features premium content from over 150 contributors including some of the world’s leading AML experts drawn from industry, regulators and law enforcement.
KYC360 is free and includes an online CPD Wallet enabling users to maintain a record of their evolving AML expertise.