"DBRISK" is a new company devoted to anti-financial crime training and consultancy. It was incorporated in March, 2009 by David Blackmore, a subject-matter expert in this field which includes fraud, terrorist financing, market abuse, insider dealing, corruption, sanctions breaches and money laundering.

David Blackmore, B.A., F.S.I., A.C.I.B., A.Col.

Until June, 2009 David was a Senior Executive Consultant with the MHA Group, one of the UK’s leading anti-financial crime and anti-money laundering consultancies. He joined MHA in October, 2005 after a 34-year career in banking in the City of London, the last 13 of which have been spent in a number of high-profile Compliance and MLRO roles.

These include 5 years with Arab Bank, London as Head of Compliance and MLRO, having previously been Internal Auditor, Compliance Officer and MLRO for the London branch of Greece's largest private sector bank, Alpha Bank A.E. Before that David had similar roles at Italian International Bank Plc. He also worked for HSBC (Midland) for 18 years, mainly in the international corporate banking, sovereign risk and financial institutions areas.

He left for a "career break" of 6 years in the political and parliamentary lobbying arena in London, Brussels and Strasbourg and rejoined the City in 1992.

David is a member of the Compliance Institute and was recently elected to be a full Associate. In July 2009 he was also elected to Fellowship of the Securities and Investment Institute. He currently serves on the S.I.I.'s Compliance Forum and has served on the BBA’s Money Laundering Advisory Panel (MLAP) during the drafting of the 2006 JMLSG Guidance. David is a former Deputy-Chairman of the Banking & Financial Services Special Interest Group of the Institute of Internal Auditors - UK. David is a current Member of the Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers (IMLPO) and he joined the Midlands Fraud Forum in 2007.

David holds a Politics Degree from the University of Leicester.

He has a wide range of experience and as a subject-matter expert is in much demand as a Conference and Seminar speaker and has always maintained good working relationships with Regulators, legal and accounting advisers, key trade associations and law enforcement.