Shilpa Arora

Anti-Financial Crime Director ACAMS

Shilpa is the Senior Director - Anti-Financial Crime Segment Solutions for ACAMS where she is responsible for the development of anti-financial crime solutions for ACAMS clients. Shilpa partners with CCOs, COOs and Heads of AFC functions in regulated entities to enable holistic learning, bespoke engagement, best practices and preparing the landscape for AFC professionals of the future. Shilpa represents ACAMS by leading roundtables, speaking at select major industry events, participating in think tanks and proactively engaging with industry practitioners. Shilpa has presented the keynote addresses at select conferences, chaired executive round tables at ACAMS’ marquee conferences and conducted AFC Board briefings for ACAMS’ large clients.

Shilpa is an industry expert in financial crime prevention and AFC technologies in the financial services sector. She has a strong understanding of risk frameworks, control environments and automation. She is highly regarded for her ability to deliver large scale culture change, technology transformation and financial crime prevention. In her previous roles Shilpa was accountable for all areas of financial crime prevention including KYC/ CDD, customer screening, payment screening, transaction monitoring, customer risk assessment and assurance. She led organisations through the implementation of AML/ CTF and ABC policies, advisory on high risk onboarding, training and communication and risk assessments.

Shilpa joined ACAMS as Anti-Money Laundering Director for Europe, Middle East, and Africa in Jan 2020. Previously, Shilpa was the Head of Financial Crime Prevention for the Retail and Business Bank in Santander UK. She also held leadership roles in Barclays in financial crime prevention, governance and controls and led large transformation programmes.