Chris Kahts

Global Head of Financial Crime Risk and Global MLRO Macquarie Group

Chris serves as Macquarie’s group head of Financial Crime Risk having joined the firm at the end of 2020. Prior to Macquarie, Chris spent 14 years with Barclays serving in various roles across Compliance and Risk based in South Africa, Switzerland and the UK. He joined from KPMG where spent 3 years across a number of advisory and audit engagements for clients in Europe, Southern and Central Africa. Chris holds a BSc (Hons cl.) in Computer Science & Mathematics, CISA and Hdip Auditing. His focus and passion is set on disrupting the harm that financial crime has to society.