Clarinda is a financial crime compliance specialist with nearly 15 years experience in her field. She primarily specialises in supporting FCA-authorised Payment Institutions and EMIs (as well as those going through the FCA authorisation process) tackle complex financial crime regulatory compliance initiatives as they scale up.

After many years advising firms across Payments, eMoney, FinTech and the wider financial services sector, Clarinda launched her solo venture - 𝐂𝐅𝐖 𝐅𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 - in 2026 to provide specialist and bespoke support to financial crime leaders who need hands-on and practical assistance grounded in extensive experience of working with financial services firms as well as regulators.

Clarinda's experience includes:
* AML audits/independent financial crime reviews
* Banking partner mandated reviews (including ClearBank scope, Barclays scope, ISX scope and Visa scope)
* s166 Skilled Person reviews (including firm-side support) and wider FCA-related financial crime support
* Design/uplift of financial crime policies and procedures
* AMLR and AMLA
* Bank of England RTGS onboarding support
* VREQ navigation and assurance support
* Design and delivery of tailored training
* Ad hoc 'trusted advisor' support (e.g. policy and procedure enhancement)

Clarinda also brings wider experience of supporting clients with proactive and reactive AML/financial crime/compliance initiatives in banking, building societies, betting and gaming, legal and professional services, crypto, the art market and real estate sectors.

She trained at a Big4 consultancy (EY), where she stayed for 6 years and left as a Manager in 2020. Since then, she has held compliance consultancy roles in a leading multinational law firm (Norton Rose Fulbright), the 5th largest accountancy and professional services firm globally (BDO) and a boutique financial crime consultancy (BeyondFS) prior to launching her CFW Fin Crime Consulting practice.