Mark Crawley is a regulatory, governance and assurance professional with over 20 years experience in stakeholder engagement, compliance, intelligence and audit in both the public and private sectors. Mark has worked in financial crime for the last 10 years at AUSTRAC and NAB, where he is currently the manager for Regulatory Affairs. Mark is responsible for maintaining a transparent and productive working relationship with AUSTRAC and other financial crime stakeholders, providing regulatory advice, and ensuring NAB’s compliance with regulator expectations. Through this role, Mark is also responsible for shaping the broader banking industry’s position in relation to regulatory guidance and change. 

Before joining NAB, Mark led AUSTRAC’s Industry Education and Outreach team. In this role, Mark was responsible for educating and influencing the broad cohort of AML/CTF regulated entities to improve compliance with their obligations through direct engagement, development of guidance products, and communicating AUSTRAC’s expectations through industry conferences and webinars.

Mark also oversaw regulatory compliance across a diverse range of industries regulated by AUSTRAC, leading a team that conducted regulatory assessments on individual reporting entities and key regulatory campaigns focusing on casino junkets, electronic gaming machines, superannuation, and non-major financial institutions. In addition, Mark helped build AUSTRAC’s regulatory strategy and risk model, which is used to facilitate the regulator’s compliance prioritisation and targeting.

While at AUSTRAC, Mark was also identified by The World Bank Group as a subject matter expert on AML/CTF regulation, and invited to facilitate the development of a risk-based regulatory framework for the Cambodian casino and real estate industries in response to grey listing by the FATF.  

Mark’s passion for regulation extends into his hobby job as an international tennis official, working as a Referee and Chief Umpire at numerous international level events, and as the Assistant Chief Umpire at the Australian Open.