Who are we?

Malverde are a specialist consultancy helping financial institutions strengthen and optimise financial crime controls.

We’re not generalist consultants. We build our reputation on hands on experience of building and configuration systems and solutions to effectively and efficiently manage financial crime risk.

We channel this expertise by providing both software products and traditional advisory services to our clients.

Why we’re different

We’re set apart by our unique blend of perspectives. Our team has worked for leading vendors, top-tier consultancies, and taken on secondment roles within financial institutions — giving us a 360° view of the challenges our clients face.

As a start-up, we have the flexibility to fully leverage this breadth of expertise to deliver pragmatic, high-impact solutions for our clients.

What we bring

Strong technical capabilities in data, systems, and control optimisation

First-hand business experience, bringing grounded, pragmatic solutions

In depth familiarity with key controls, including name screening, payment screening and transaction monitoring

Operational know-how, having supported a wide range of institutions in improving their financial crime frameworks

Proven regulatory credibility, acting on behalf of clients in regulatory responses and meetings

Innovation and agility, delivering tailored solutions without the bureaucracy

Competitive rates, thanks to low overheads and a lean operating model

At Malverde, we believe that the best outcomes can be achieved by combining a deep understanding of a topic with a willingness to innovate and challenge the status quo.

Fraud & Financial Crime

Complying with financial crime regulation is not only expensive, it also does little to reduce financial crime. At Malverde, we’re convinced there is a better way - by aligning technology and operations with risk, financial institutions can be more effective and efficient at reducing financial crime.

We’re on a mission to help the industry have a greater impact on preventing financial crime whilst reducing cost. We help financial institutions to:

Truly understand financial crime risks – i.e. how financial crime is carried out through their organisations, rather than the risks of non-compliance
Ensure that technology and operations is fully aligned with these risks so that they effectively mitigate them without creating excessive waste

Data & Analytics

Data is everything. Yet businesses regularly suffer from critical issues in compliance, customer experience and elsewhere as a result of failings in data. Poorly designed data pipelines, inaccurate models and opaque processes are commonplace. We believe true understanding of data is fundamental to almost all business applications, but that this understanding is surprisingly rare.

Our co-founders all started their careers in data, which has underpinned the work they’ve done across various domains and sectors. Doing data well revolutionises businesses.

We started Malverde to make true expertise on data and financial crime readily accessible to our clients.

Meet the team

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Richard is a financial crime prevention SME, with a particular focus on the delivery and optimisation of AML, sanctions and fraud solutions. He has led change initiatives with major financial institutions around the globe to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of financial crime controls through the use of technology and analytics.

Richard Elliot-Cooke

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Simon is passionate about creating effective controls against Financial Crime, with a focus on using data, technology and analytics to improve prevention and detection of Fraud, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, as well as compliance with Financial Sanctions.

Simon McMahon

Spaden specializes in financial crime technology implementation. He has expert knowledge in systems design for fraud, AML and sanctions compliance and has implemented such systems across a range of industry sectors.

Spaden Elmhirst

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Eoin has led projects at a range of financial services institutions to review and improve financial crime controls. He is committed to delivering meaningful change that maximises risk mitigation and operational efficiency.

Eoin O’Connor

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Stuart brings a wealth of experience in financial crime, payments, automation and KYC to the malverde team. His background in consulting and technology transformation is invaluable in supporting our clients to optimise their financial crime technology.⁣

Stuart Gray

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Christian is a Data Scientist with a background in Computer Science and brings additional coding and development expertise to the team. He supports the creation and application of technical solutions to help tackle financial crime.

Christian Ocklind

Why work with us?

True Expertise

Our team have over 40 years of hands-on experience in preventing fraud and financial crime. We were exploiting ‘big data’ before it was called ‘big data’. And we have a passion for staying ahead of the curve. We’re transparent about which topics we know best and will tell you when you’d be better seeking advice elsewhere - we know our success is contingent on you receiving the right expertise.
Return on Investment

We’re an agile organisation, unencumbered by the large overheads which constrain many of our competitors. This means we can hire the best people to provide exceptional services to you at a fair price. We are confident that this allows us to provide you with an unrivalled return on your investment.
Bespoke service

We are passionate about providing an exceptional service to our clients. We know that your success is our success. Financial crime and data challenges demand a crafted solution based on extensive experience, not a cookie cutter approach. We will support you to embed robust and efficient solutions which do not require constant intervention.
Transparency

We believe in clear and open communication. We won’t attempt to convince you that you need to do something you don’t, but we will let you know if we think you need to take a different approach. We want to help you achieve your goals in the most pragmatic way possible.
Durability, not duration

If your hot water supply fails, you will probably call a qualified professional to diagnose and fix the problem. You’ll want someone who understands your boiler, can fix it as efficiently as possible, won’t need to be called back again the next day, and charges a reasonable price for the expertise they are providing.
All too often our competitors will send a team that doesn’t understand the problem, wants to stay in your house as long as possible and wants to be paid a premium for the privilege!
We pride ourselves in providing true experts in their field at a competitive price, helping you to fix things as efficiently as possible and self-sustain after we’ve helped you to tidy up!