Vito
Armonavicius
Vito Armonavicius is a multilingual certified anti-money laundering and financial crime specialist with over eleven years of experience in the anti-financial crime field.
He has held a number of roles across money service business, retail and corporate banking and fintech industries in the UK and abroad where he had exposure to anti-financial crime advisory, risk management, financial intelligence and investigations, sanctions compliance and AML & KYC operations. He worked at Barclays and Western Union and is currently Head of Complex Investigations at Revolut and Associate Fellow at the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at RUSI.
Vito is a specialist in risk management, open source and social media intelligence gathering, various investigative techniques, data analysis and investigative reporting with a keen interest in cyberpsychology, terrorist and extremist financing, and the intersection between money laundering and cyber analytics. He is the author of an article called Psychoanalytic Approach to Lone-Wolf Terrorist Financing Investigations, which has been published by ACAMS Today; and has lectured at Lithuania’s Mykolas Romeris University, covering the topic of Terrorism and Terrorist Financing. Vito is Associate Fellow at the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and has been a regular presenter for RUSI Europe’s Project CRAAFT covering case studies on right-wing extremist financing.