Francisco “Paco” Mainez is the current Global Head of Financial Crime Strategy for Nium and former Global Head of Data and Analytics for Wealth and Personal Banking Financial Crime Risk at HSBC, where he has used his experience in Financial Crime and Intelligence to integrate different capabilities into services and solutions that can improve prevention, detection and investigation of Financial Crimes, such as:

·        Risk Intelligence and Control Analysis.

·        Typology analysis and application to operational processes.

·        Optimization of Financial Crime capabilities, combining advanced technologies with revamped processes and training.

·        Process efficiency assessment and improvement, including detection scenario performance analysis.

Throughout his career, Francisco has specialised in activities related to data extraction, analysis and insight reporting, covering Money Laundering, Fraud, Financial Crime Typologies, Operations, Customer Due Diligence and Tax Evasion, among other areas.  His team was also involved in rolling out an Advanced Analytics solutions for Financial Crime, reducing the volume of KYC reviews significantly (c.12%) across large markets and optimizing operational costs.

Francisco’s experience includes working extensively with the Council of Europe and governments’ Financial Intelligence Units (FIU) in deploying intelligence-led processes and approaches to help them tackle financial crime. He also fulfilled roles in Standard Chartered Bank in London and Singapore after completing several tours of operations in Military Intelligence for NATO and the European Union in different geographical locations.