This session will be an introduction to a, to be organised, in-person Perth Professional Series, later in the year on financial Fraud.
Session Abstract – Follow the Money
Modern organised crime no longer operates as fragmented gangs or loosely connected groups. Today, these organisations function as corporate-grade enterprises, exploiting global banking systems, digital currencies, trust-based financial networks and regulatory blind spots across jurisdictions.
This session provides a practitioner-led intelligence briefing on how criminal financial systems actually operate, drawing on real-world experience from inside covert banking structures used to penetrate cartel, trafficking and terrorist-linked networks.
Designed for IT audit, IT risk and IT governance professionals, the session focuses on strategic oversight rather than technical implementation.
Session Outline (50 Minutes)
- Organised Crime as a Corporate Model
2. Financial Intelligence vs Traditional Enforcement
3. Digital Currencies, CBDCs and Trust-Based Systems (Hawala)
4. Implications for IT Audit, Risk and Governance
5. Q&A
Speaker Bio – ISACA Perth Professional Development Session
Keith Bulfin is an international financial-intelligence practitioner, author and former investment-banking executive with more than two decades of frontline experience dismantling transnational criminal and terrorist financial networks.
Keith is one of a very small number of practitioners globally who has operated covert banking structures from inside live criminal organisations, including cartel-linked, trafficking and terrorist-funding networks spanning Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. During this work, he was directly involved in mapping, managing and disrupting financial flows exceeding USD $200 billion, later verified by US and international law-enforcement and intelligence agencies.
He previously served as CEO of JWB-Jersey Investments in Washington DC, chaired by Ava Roosevelt of the Roosevelt family, advising ultra-high-net-worth families and institutional investors on complex financial structures, risk and governance.
Keith holds a Master of Research (Money Laundering in Banking Systems), a Master of Business Law, a Bachelor of Economics, and postgraduate studies in Business Administration.
He is the author of the national bestselling book Undercover (now in television development) and has appeared on 60 Minutes, International Spy Museum – SpyCast, True Spies, Gangland Wire, and extensive international television, radio and print media.
Today, Keith focuses on applied financial intelligence, helping IT audit, IT risk and governance professionals understand how modern criminal organisations operate as corporate entities — and how financial, legal and governance tools can be used to disrupt them without kinetic or enforcement-heavy approaches.
Slide pack
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