Who We Are

Who Are We?

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AMLsupportUK is a limited liability company but actually operates as a trading name of its parent company, Howells Shepherd International Limited (HSI Ltd).

Now in its twelfth year of business, HSI Ltd was formed by a former career detective (our Operations Director) from Scotland Yard's Fraud Squad and the Serious Fraud Office who, prior to leaving, worked as a Fraud Intelligence Officer. A Graduate in Business Studies from Kingston University, and the holder of a Graduate Diploma in AML from Manchester University Business School and the International Compliance Association, he brings a high level of expertise to the work environment.

Our Commercial Director is a former senior manager and director of Norwich Union whose business acumen complements the founder's operational skills. We are supported by a strong forensic accounting team, an investigative lawyer, a computer forensic team, and specialist researchers.

Our International Due Diligence Team has many years experience in investigative research with exceptional results. We have worked on such high profile cases as Exxon, Allied Deals, and the Parmalat case providing meaningful and timely work product to our clients.

In the past our team has identified terrorist bankers, organised crime syndicates, hedge fund fraudsters operating as beneficial owners in the BVI, a multi million dollar counterfeiting group operating in the Bora Bora foothills, numerous front companies and the like all engaged in some form of money laundering.

The business has developed over the past from a fraud and operational risk consultancy to one that now concentrates on providing business intelligence to international clients. Many of those clients are household names.

Our strengths not only rest in a strong in-house team with extensive resources, but with a network of affiliates and business partners around the world who can provide added value to our work product. Those international partners have been long-standing within our business relationship and are not names plucked from a trade directory. Their own capabilities have been tested on many occasions and found to meet the high standard required by our company.

Unlike many offering this type of service we have a proven track record over many years. Let us bring that skill to you.

The Head of our Consultancy and Training Team is the former Head of Fraud and AML from one of the top four UK clearing banks. He is:

Past Chairman of the BBA ML Advisory Panel
Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers
Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland
Associate of the Institute of Credit Management
Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
External Trainer for the International Compliance Association in AML