Ben Scott works in financial crime compliance in an Australian bank, where he leads an intelligence team. He spent eight years as a financial intelligence analyst at the New South Wales Crime Commission, an Australian state government agency specialising in asset confiscation and investigation of serious organised crime. He has degrees in history and law. His academic articles have been published in the Journal of Financial Crime and the Journal of Money Laundering Control. Ben’s research interests include intelligence methods, financial crime law and the history of organised crime. He also has a particular interest in the use of data analytics and intelligence technology in detecting financial crime.
Ben Scott
Institution: Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Area of Expertise: Asset seizure, Criminal networks, Disruption, Financial flows, Intelligence, Law, Money laundering