Michael
Shearer
Michael Shearer is a true veteran of banking and intelligence, with a wealth of experience in anti-financial crime technology. As the former Group Head of Compliance Product Management at HSBC, Shearer played a pivotal role in equipping the bank with advanced systems, tools, and data to manage financial crime risk. Shearer’s achievements at HSBC include the creation of a multiple-award-winning analytics application, which integrated customer, transaction, risk and external data from over 50 countries to enable risk detection across multiple customer types. He also led the creation of an industry-first cloud-based machine learning platform for financial crime detection. Prior to HSBC, Michael spent 20 years working in government intelligence and counter terrorism. He is also the author of an upcoming book, Hands-on Entity Resolution, which will be published in spring 2024.