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Introduction
Josh works at the intersection of financial crime, data and AI, helping leading financial institutions transform how they fight financial crime.
Josh Black is a partner in Ashurst Perkins Coie's Risk Advisory team in Sydney. He advises major Australian and global financial institutions on the strategy, design and delivery of their financial crime capabilities, with particular experience in applying advanced analytics and AI to Anti-Money Laundering / Counter-Terrorism Financing (AML/CTF), Know your customer (KYC) requirements and transaction monitoring.
Prior to joining Ashurst Perkins Coie, Josh was a partner in a Big 4 professional services firm, where he led the Australian financial crime analytics practice. He previously spent five years in Singapore building data analytics capability and working with financial institutions across Asia.
Josh has led enterprise-wide transformation, regulatory response and remediation programs for several of Australia’s largest financial institutions. He works with senior executives and boards on their most complex financial crime challenges, from operating model and capability design through to the delivery of analytics-led solutions.
Areas of focus
- Major Australian bank | Co-led the enterprise-wide redesign of the group’s KYC strategy and operating model, targeting more than A$15m in annual savings and significant technology simplification.*
- Major Australian bank | Advised on the bank’s response to Australia’s AML/CTF reforms, supporting executive decision-making on regulatory interpretation, implementation strategy, and capability design.*
- Multiple Australian banks | Led strategic reassessments of transaction monitoring capability and coverage, spanning data lineage, scenario design, and advanced model development, and delivered prioritised gap analyses and uplift recommendations.*
- Major Australian bank | Led the design of a next-generation financial crime detection strategy, defining the target state, capability requirements, and a multi-horizon development roadmap.*
- Global payments provider | Led a multi-year program to review and restructure the client’s regulatory reporting while it was under significant regulatory pressure.*
- Multiple major banks | Led data-driven assessments of complex, cross-business-unit customer data issues as part of major remediation programs.*
* Experience prior to joining Ashurst Perkins Coie.
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