Since 2004, Danos Group has specialised in Financial Crime recruitment and executive search within Financial Services, supporting regulated organisations with permanent, interim and consulting solutions.
We partner with banks, investment managers, insurers, FinTechs and payments firms to strengthen Financial Crime functions — from senior leadership appointments through to specialist delivery and regulatory remediation programmes.
How We Support Financial Crime Functions
Permanent Recruitment Senior and specialist Financial Crime hiring, from functional leads through to executive-level appointments.
Interim Financial Crime Solutions Short-term leadership cover, remediation support and regulatory programme delivery, provided by experienced Financial Crime professionals.
Financial Crime Consulting Deployment of senior practitioners and project teams to deliver defined Financial Crime initiatives, including AML remediation, KYC uplift, sanctions and transaction monitoring programmes.
Our solutions enable organisations to address regulatory scrutiny and supervisory findings with appropriate Financial Crime capability.
We advise boards and executive teams on senior Financial Crime hiring, where regulatory accountability, judgement and delivery capability are essential.
Our mandates regularly include:
Head of Financial Crime
Head of Financial Crime Compliance
MLROs and Deputy MLROs
Senior AML, Sanctions and Investigations leaders
Conducting Officers with Financial Crime responsibility
Assignments are delivered through retained executive search, contingent senior recruitment or interim leadership, depending on the organisation’s regulatory exposure and timelines.
Global Financial Crime Recruitment Coverage
With established teams across the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific, we deliver Financial Crime talent globally. Our network is actively maintained and built through long-standing relationships with senior leaders and specialist practitioners operating within regulated Financial Services environments.
Danos Associates offered much more than simply sourcing candidates.
They helped frame the scope of the search, giving context as to where we could search for our candidate pool and provided a commercial view of the labour market in this field and what we could expect… The shortlist of candidates we received was of a very high standard. Each candidate had been looked at critically.
Nicola SwannHR Director
Danos Consulting offered an excellent Interim Head of Compliance as a solution whilst undertaking our challenging permanent search mandate.
Danos Consulting really listened to our needs, parachuting in a candidate with the right technical skill set and personality. They really understood the DNA of our business which enabled them to provide support effectively when working to tight onboarding deadlines.
General Counsel, Niche Asset Management Firm
Danos Associates spend a lot of time getting to know your team and the culture, which makes it easier when new staff join the business.
In credit risk often the candidate pools have the same skill sets, however there are elements that the CV miss out. The Danos team work tirelessly to understand the skills levels of all candidates and most importantly, they get us quality candidates we can close and bring on board quickly.
Director of Model, Development Banking
Danos was referred to me as the best in the business.
I needed to find risk and compliance staff. My experience corroborates precisely that. Thorough, encyclopaedic market knowledge and execution orientated.
Hugo van VredenburchNon Executive Director, TMF Group
