At Malverde, we believe that the best outcomes can be achieved by combining a deep understanding of a topic with a willingness to innovate and challenge the status quo.

Fraud & Financial Crime

Complying with financial crime regulation is not only expensive, it also does little to reduce financial crime​. At Malverde, we’re convinced there is a better way - by aligning technology and operations with risk, financial institutions can be more effective and efficient at reducing financial crime​.

We’re on a mission to help the industry have a greater impact on preventing financial crime whilst reducing cost​. We help financial institutions to:​

  • Truly understand financial crime risks – i.e. how financial crime is carried out through their organisations, rather than the risks of non-compliance​

  • Ensure that technology and operations is fully aligned with these risks so that they effectively mitigate them without creating excessive waste

Data & Analytics

Data is everything. Yet businesses regularly suffer from critical issues in compliance, customer experience and elsewhere as a result of failings in data. Poorly designed data pipelines, inaccurate models and opaque processes are commonplace. We believe true understanding of data is fundamental to almost all business applications, but that this understanding is surprisingly rare.

Our co-founders all started their careers in data, which has underpinned the work they’ve done across various domains and sectors. Doing data well revolutionises businesses.

We started Malverde to make true expertise on data and financial crime readily accessible to our clients.

Our team

  • Richard Elliot-Cooke

    Richard Elliot-Cooke

    Richard is a financial crime prevention SME, with a particular focus on the delivery and optimisation of AML, sanctions and fraud solutions. He has led change initiatives with major financial institutions around the globe to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of financial crime controls through the use of technology and analytics.

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    Simon McMahon

    Simon is passionate about creating effective controls against Financial Crime, with a focus on using data, technology and analytics to improve prevention and detection of Fraud, Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing, as well as compliance with Financial Sanctions.

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    Spaden Elmhirst

    Spaden specializes in financial crime technology implementation. He has expert knowledge in systems design for fraud, AML and sanctions compliance and has implemented such systems across a range of industry sectors.

  • Eoin O'Connor

    Eoin has led projects at a range of financial services institutions to review and improve financial crime controls. He is committed to delivering meaningful change that maximises risk mitigation and operational efficiency.

Why work with us?

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    True Expertise

    Our team have over 40 years of hands-on experience in preventing fraud and financial crime. We were exploiting ‘big data’ before it was called ‘big data’. And we have a passion for staying ahead of the curve. We’re transparent about which topics we know best and will tell you when you’d be better seeking advice elsewhere - we know our success is contingent on you receiving the right expertise.

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    Return on Investment

    We’re an agile organisation, unencumbered by the large overheads which constrain many of our competitors. This means we can hire the best people to provide exceptional services to you at a fair price. We are confident that this allows us to provide you with an unrivalled return on your investment.

  • Whatever it takes

    Bespoke service

    We are passionate about providing an exceptional service to our clients. We know that your success is our success. Financial crime and data challenges demand a crafted solution based on extensive experience, not a cookie cutter approach. We will support you to embed robust and efficient solutions which do not require constant intervention.

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    Transparency

    We believe in clear and open communication. We won’t attempt to convince you that you need to do something you don’t, but we will let you know if we think you need to take a different approach. We want to help you achieve your goals in the most pragmatic way possible.

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    Durability, not duration

    If your hot water supply fails, you will probably call a qualified professional to diagnose and fix the problem. You’ll want someone who understands your boiler, can fix it as efficiently as possible, won’t need to be called back again the next day, and charges a reasonable price for the expertise they are providing.

    All too often our competitors will send a team that doesn’t understand the problem, wants to stay in your house as long as possible and wants to be paid a premium for the privilege!

    We pride ourselves in providing true experts in their field at a competitive price, helping you to fix things as efficiently as possible and self-sustain after we’ve helped you to tidy up!