Vito Armonavicius

Vito Armonavicius is a certified anti-financial crime specialist with 15 years of international experience across banking, fintech, cryptocurrency, and money service businesses, including roles at Barclays, Western Union, and, currently, Revolut, where he is Group Head of the Complex Investigations Unit. He has a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing compliance, investigations, and global operations teams across the first and second lines of defence (1LoD/2LoD), and is a trusted advisor to senior executives, MLROs, regulators, and law enforcement.

An Associate Fellow at RUSI's Centre for Finance and Security, Vito is a regular contributor to Project CRAAFT, presenting case studies on extremism and terrorism financing. His interests include sanctions, threat finance, risk management, open-source intelligence, investigative techniques, and cyberpsychology. He is the author of 'Psychoanalytic Approach to Lone-Wolf Terrorist Financing Investigations', published by ACAMS Today, and has lectured at Lithuania's Mykolas Romeris University and the Centre of Excellence in Anti-Money Laundering's certification programme on terrorism and terrorist financing.

Vito is a strong advocate for global anti-financial crime initiatives through public–private partnerships and industry engagement.