Pete
Barnes
Pete Barnes is Group Head of Financial Crime Investigations at Standard Chartered Bank. He oversees significant Financial Crime investigations across the Bank’s global footprint.
Pete has over 26 years of police and industry experience. During his 18 years in the Metropolitan Police he managed the intelligence and disruptions function of the National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit and was commended for his work in disrupting multi-million-pound drug smuggling operations. More recently he established and managed a European Intelligence and Investigations capability at Western Union.
Pete also leads the Bank’s involvement in the UK’s financial Information sharing project, the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce. He chairs a cross industry and public sector working group on human trafficking and has delivered training to law enforcement in the UK and globally on the value of public private partnership in financial crime investigations, specifically in countering human trafficking.