Tim Holder has over 20 years of high-level experience working in the Fraud, AML/CFT and Compliance arenas. He is currently a director at AML Analytics where he has worked for over ten years and heads up a team covering the Middle East and Africa.

Having spent the early part of his career working on fraud investigations with law enforcement and central government agencies, Tim has assisted with many high-profile asset seizures, the largest of which was a £7 million seizure working alongside the Asset Recovery Agency.

During this time, Tim worked on and supported with the setting up of an open-source data company called C6. By the time C6 was sold several years later, it had a large, established international client base.

Over the last ten years, he has dedicated his time to working with financial institutions assisting customers with the testing, validation and tuning of sanction screening and transaction monitoring systems. Tim has witnessed the huge global growth in the AML/CFT technology sector as regulatory compliance requirements become more stringent each year.

Tim formed part of the original team that pioneered the use of SupTech by financial regulators, leading the first ever sanction screening system Thematic Review which took place in 2014.

To date, the Thematic Review process has now been adopted by over 20 different jurisdictions around the globe with the technology being used by regulators for the inspection of regulated entities.

Tim has been married for 23 years and has two children who are now grown up. Both have opted to follow Tim into the AML/CFT regulatory and compliance sector.