At HSBC, Shearer created an award-winning analytics application integrating customer, transaction, risk, and external data from over 50 countries to enable risk detection across multiple customer types. He also led the development of an industry-first cloud-based machine learning platform for financial crime detection.

Michael spent 20 years working in government intelligence and counterterrorism prior to his time at HSBC.

Michael has also authored a recently published book, Hands-on Entity Resolution. It is available now at Amazon and other booksellers.