Crispin is a Financial Crime Risk & Compliance specialist with extensive experience in regulatory compliance, risk controls, governance and assurance. He brings a unique combination of insights, experience and pragmatism to complex group-wide agendas and help clients navigate the fast-evolving financial crime risk landscape.

Through his work in both financial institutions and professional services firms over the past 20 years, Crispin has accumulated in-depth remediation experience in resolving deficiencies raised in regulatory enforcements from both US Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC). This distinguishes him as one of very few professionals with such experience in the APAC region. At ANZ Bank, Crispin assisted in the remediation of OFAC sanctions breaches, which resulted in a substantial reduction of its extraterritorial penalty. Over the years, Crispin developed deep working relationships with regulators and law enforcement agencies in combating financial crime. At the invitation of the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, Crispin spoke as an industry witness before the Inquiry into financial-related crime (2015). In June 2022, he was invited to speak at an expert roundtable held at the United Nations Office, Vienna by the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime pursuant to the UN General Assembly resolution 75/282.

Crispin is recognised as an expert in financial crime by The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, an international non-governmental organisation (headquartered in Switzerland) dedicated to developing new and innovative strategies and responses to organised crime. In 2022, Crispin was invited to be a member of the Global Organised Crime Steering Committee of Global Initiative, working with representatives from the United Nations and delegations from the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. Crispin currently advises the Global Initiative on financial crime to provide a better understanding of the impact of this criminal market and to identify good practices and possible recommendations to mitigate financial crime threats associated to organised crime.

Crispin speaks regularly at financial crime conferences and was recently invited by Transform Finance, Regulating the Game, Bank Negara Malaysia and Malaysian Association of Money Services Businesses (MAMSB), New Zealand Police, and the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice.

He has been serving as a voluntary Board member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) Australasian Chapter for over 16 years and co-authored the CAMS and Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) study guide and exam questions. Crispin is a Certified Advanced AML Audit Specialist (CAMS-Audit), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He is the author of the book “FATF Review of Standards – 2010-2011”, available on Amazon. Crispin teaches postgraduate students on International Financial Crime at the University of Sydney.