Turning Compliance Theatre into Real Control

Value Delivered

  • Confident product decisions grounded in regulatory insight
  • Stronger first-line product risk ownership
  • Evidence-based roadmaps and prioritisation
  • Sharper positioning and go-to-market execution
  • Faster delivery of commercially viable solutions
  • Senior product and risk judgement at critical moments

I am also the co-author of Trade-Based Money Laundering Compliance and the Law and a recognised voice in economic crime prevention and compliance technology. My approach is practical, commercially astute and designed to help organisations make better decisions faster.

Free TBML Learning App

Built from Research You Won’t Find Anywhere Else.

Most anti-money laundering training is recycled compliance theater: generic red flags, FATF talking points, and checkbox mentality. This app is different.

It’s built on original PhD research, real banking interviews, and case studies that expose what regulators miss and what technology can’t catch. You’ll learn what TBML is, why TBML detection fails, where the blind spots are, and how criminals exploit the gap between theory and practice. This isn’t about memorizing definitions—it’s about thinking critically and questioning the assumptions that allow trillions to flow undetected every year.​

Launch TBML Academy for Beginners

This app is completely free. It took years of research, a lot of money to conduct, time to do analysis, and refinement to create. If this app helps you see TBML differently, don’t pay me. Pay to Coptic Orphans to keep a Coptic child in school and out of the vulnerability that laundered money exploits. TBML underpins crimes that produce poverty, exploitation, and social fragility, which charities like Coptic Orphans then tackle head-on through the power of education.

Coptic Orphans operates with integrity, a spirit of service, and a commitment to excellence—values that should also define compliance work. They provide quality education, food, medical care, and empowerment programs for girls and young women who would otherwise be left behind. If this app sharpens your thinking and makes you better at your job, pay it forward by helping a child stay in school and break the cycle of poverty.

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Learn. Question. Act. And give someone else a chance to do the same.

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My Book

Reviews:

A stimulating, critical examination of TBML and how it is combatted (or not). The authors cogently argue that the true danger of TBML is not its invisibility, but our belief that rigorous compliance frameworks equal control, when in fact, the illusion of control allows illicit finance to flourish. – Michael Levi, Cardiff University, UK

TBML is arguably the largest and most consequential money laundering methodology today, yet simultaneously the least understood, recognized, and enforced. This timely and valuable book provides fresh insights. I applaud its focus on how both policymakers and practitioners often prioritize symbolic responses over meaningful and substantive countermeasures. – John Cassara, former U.S. Treasury Special Agent (retired); Author of Trade-Based Money Laundering: The Next Frontier in International Money Laundering Enforcement

Contact: mariola.marzouk@gmail.com

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