Mr John Paul Cusack

John Cusack was born in Greasbrough in South Yorkshire and spends his time in the Peak District in Derbyshire, UK and in the Graubunden in Switzerland. He is an English Lawyer by training, graduating from Leeds University in 1989.

He practised as a lawyer for Simpson Curtis (now Pinsent Masons), before joining the legal department of Swiss Bank Corporation based in its Investment Banking Division in London in 1990. Upon the merger of SBC and Union Bank of Switzerland in 1999, he transferred to Basel and in 2000 to Zürich, working in the merged firm, UBS AG, until 2014. He was UBS’s first Group Money Laundering Reporting Officer, leading the Financial Crime Compliance Team globally and acting as Deputy Head Group Compliance.

He joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2014, as the Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance and remained in that role until stepping away in 2019.

Between 2004 - 2005 and 2017 - 2019, he was also Chair of the Wolfsberg Group, an association of now 12 global banks which aims to develop frameworks and guidance for the management of financial crime risks.

Between 2020 and 2025 He was the inaugural Chair of The Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime.

Currently he is a senior adviser on fighting financial crime with OliverWyman, a founder and Chair of the Advisory Board of a Industry Regtech Global Screening Services and Faculty Lead on Illicit Finance for the Wealth Management Institute.

He is also a regular speaker and contributor to events and articles from both public and private sector on fighting financial crime.

He has authored “Red Alert” and has published many articles and papers on financial crime and related matters, including the Global Financial Crime Threat Assessment.