Women in
Financial Crime

Serious careers. Real conversations.

Professional women from different generations standing together
Different backgrounds. Different stages. One professional community.
Who we areA young professional listening during a working session

Financial crime is serious work.
The people doing it matter too.

Women in Financial Crime is being created as a professional home for women working across AML, sanctions, fraud, compliance, consulting, regulation and beyond.

We want to make useful knowledge easier to access, help women build careers with confidence and create space for the honest conversations that rarely happen in formal industry settings.

Whether you are considering your first role, building technical expertise, leading a team or returning after time away, there should be something here that helps you move forward.

Why we’re here

We’re setting out to…

01

Make knowledge clearer

Turn complex financial crime subjects into practical learning people can understand and use.

02

Support real careers

Share guidance for every stage, from first applications and qualifications to management and leadership.

03

Build genuine connection

Bring women together across roles, sectors, locations and levels of experience.

Women at different career stages solving a problem together
What you’ll find here

Useful things.
Made for real life.

A growing platform shaped around what women in the industry actually need.

Learning

Clear explanations and practical sessions

Spotlight Learning, technical explainers and a place where no sensible question is treated as stupid.

Career support

Help for where you are and where you’re going

Role guides, qualifications, interviews, progression, leadership, returning to work and career changes.

Community

Events and conversations with substance

Opportunities to meet, learn from and support women across the financial crime profession.

Stories

The parts of working life we usually edit out

Confidence, difficult bosses, burnout, mistakes, ambition, health, setbacks and the small wins worth celebrating.

Everyday work. Honestly told.

The conversations
behind the career.

Because a serious professional platform can still talk like a human being.

01
Workplace & real life

I’m a grown-ass woman
and I’m afraid of my boss.

Fear at work can happen when you’re experienced, capable and senior. Let’s talk about why it happens and what helps.

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Career & confidence

Celebrate the wins.

The big achievements matter, but so do the quieter moments that show your career is moving forward.

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Workplace & confidence

The toxic boss.

What makes difficult management genuinely harmful, and how unpredictability slowly changes the way you work.

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Career & support

The mentor.

The people who change the course of your career, sometimes without even realising it.

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Monthly spotlight
Money MenDan McCrum

When the success story
becomes too good to question.

Our first book spotlight explores persistence, professional scepticism and the people who kept following the evidence.

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Compliance
& Coffee

A more relaxed space for the conversations that happen around the work, not just inside the rulebook.

We’ll talk about confidence, career decisions, workplace frustrations, small wins and the things many of us experience but rarely say out loud. Thoughtful, useful and never corporate for the sake of it.

Explore Compliance & Coffee
Coming soon

Good coffee.
Honest conversation.
No compliance theatre.

Three women having a relaxed professional conversation over coffee
Conversations with substance, in a setting that feels human.
Career & learning resources

From your first AML role
to the leadership table.

Role guides, qualifications, interviews, progression, returning to work and the practical things nobody teaches you about building a career.

Three young women learning and sharing ideas together
Start where you are

You do not need ten years of experience to belong here.

We want women entering the profession to see themselves in this community from day one. Ask the basic question, learn how the industry works and meet people who remember what starting out felt like.

Explore learning
Spotlight learning

No question is stupid.
No jargon is sacred.

Practical sessions that make complex financial crime topics clearer, without assuming you already know the answer.

First session

Risk assessments
made easy

Understand the logic, ask better questions and build something people will actually use.

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“The conversations we wish
we’d had earlier.”
Women at different career stages talking at a community gathering
Come as you are. Ask what you need. Share what you know.
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