With almost 30 years of experience in the banking sector, Peter Harte works with clients to manage complex and critical transformation programs across multiple areas of financial crime compliance—sanctions, payment screening, anti-money laundering (AML), transaction monitoring, service centers of expertise, and offshoring. Working with the firm’s chief technology officer, Peter leads a team focused on data and technology screening, data analytics and reporting, and change management. He also oversees the CTO portfolio.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Peter was the screening controls expert group lead for ING’s Group Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) team, where he led a cross-group team of screening and sanctions experts to deliver change, operational effectiveness, and efficiency. He was responsible for the buildout of centers of expertise in Warsaw, Bucharest, and Manila for the offshoring of FCC and compliance roles in Europe, Asia and Australia. He also held operational oversight responsibility for the groupwide second line of defense screening activities and alignment with first line of defense process and systems leads.
Before his time at ING, Peter was global delivery lead for Standard Chartered Financial Crime Compliance Controls’ surveillance transformation program, covering transaction monitoring and sanctions screening. This was a multiyear program to overhaul the financial crimes compliance (FCC) controls functions delivering dramatic improvements in organizational capability and quality, including transaction monitoring (TM), names screening (NS), and transaction screening (TS), and covering all processes, people, governance, and technology. Peter directly led the changes in the offshore monitoring teams’ organizational structure, build-out, processes, training, recruitment, and geographic spread.
Prior to that, Peter was the senior program delivery lead at HSBC as part of the financial crime compliance change function, with specific responsibilities for transaction monitoring programs. Peter has also worked at RBS in the regulatory and credit risk area covering transaction monitoring, Pillar 3 model monitoring, credit risk model development business projects, trade compliance monitoring, and disclosure of interests IT projects. Before joining RBS, Peter worked as the delivery manager for all global IT programs for the compliance and legal area of ABN AMRO, directly managing multiyear AML and transaction filtering implementation programs across all jurisdictions in which the bank operated.
Peter has a dual B.Eng. degree in computer systems and electronic engineering from Kings College, London. He holds a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and an Association of Project Management (APM) Project Management Qualification.