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An extensive two-day Congress focusing on topical areas within Financial Crime. The Congress will focus on keeping pace with growing attacks and complex regulatory changes. Featuring presentations, panel discussions and insights from more than 20 industry professionals, this is the forum for like-minded professionals to network, exchange ideas and advance their knowledge.
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Key highlights
- AML ACT :
Developing an implementation roadmap for upcoming AML Act
- CYBERSECURITY:
Enhancing cyber defences to protect against evolving threats including ransomware
- CRYPTOCURRENCY:
Navigating crypto exchanges and setting appropriate risk appetite
- SCAMS:
Reviewing the wide variety of scam tactics and ways to stay ahead
- SANCTIONS :
Navigating the evolving sanctions regime and leveraging technology to identify sanctions evasion
- GEOPOLITICAL RISK:
Reviewing the impact of global geopolitical volatility on financial crime
- CHECK FRAUD:
Mitigating risk of check fraud and capturing early to minimize losses
- AI & MACHINE LEARNING:
Benefits of AI and machine learning in internal programs and leveraging for prevention
Hear from subject matter experts and industry thought leaders
An engaging and interactive agenda spread across 2-days
Gain a holistic overview and deep dive into the financial crime landscape. Listen in on presentations, panel discussions and live Q&As.
Listen in as subject matter experts share their knowledge
Hear from 20+ knowledgeable industry professionals and gain a well-rounded view of key industry challenges and solutions.
7+ hours of available networking opportunities
Continue conversations beyond the auditorium at a range of networking opportunities, including breakfast, lunch, and complimentary drinks reception.
Key speakers
Dave Wildner
Managing Director
BNY Mellon
Brian Siegal
Global Head of Fraud Risk
Barclays
Deepthi Machavaram
Global Head of Digital Financial Crimes, Compliance Advisory
Morgan Stanley
Vikas Tandon
Global Head Institutional Client Group (KYC) Operations Control
Citi
Milana Salzman
Managing Director and Associate General Counsel
MUFG
Brendan Purcell
Senior Director, Fraud Detection
TIAA
Mike Greenman
Chief Counsel, Financial Crimes Legal
US Bank
William Voorhees
Head of Enterprise Fraud
Truist Financial
Kristine Cang Cuesta
Head of US-BSA/AML & Sanctions Compliance
BBVA
Erika Alders
Managing Director and Managing Counsel, Head of US Regulatory Legal
State Street
Session previews and related insights
Get an insight of what to expect from the Congress with our past and present speaker session previews.
Reviewing the wide variety of scam techniques and ways to stay ahead
Reviewing the wide variety of scam techniques and ways to stay ahead Raj Dasgupta, Senior Director, Global Advisory, BioCatch Below is an insight into what can be expected from Raj's session at Financial Crime 2024 {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+CeFPro%27s+Financial+Crime+USA+2024&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_background=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Ffinancial-crime-usa }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an
Reviewing changes under corporate transparency act & beneficial ownership
Reviewing changes under corporate transparency act & beneficial ownership Sheri Levine-Shea, Counsel, Financial Crime Legal, Barclays Below is an insight into what can be expected from Sheri's session at Financial Crime USA 2024 {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+Financial+Crime+USA&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_background=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Ffinancial-crime-usa%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the thought leader as an individual, and are not
Managing the global geopolitical environment
Managing the global geopolitical environment Hunter Kreger, VP, FIU Deputy OFAC Officer, Atlantic Union Bank Below is an insight on managing the global geopolitical environment and managing fast-moving sanctions regimes provided by Hunter ahead of his session last year at Fraud and Financial Crime USA 2023. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+our+2024+Financial+Crime+USA&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_background=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Ffinancial-crime-usa%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in
Authentication strategies and the use of biometrics
Authentication strategies and the use of biometrics Rick Swenson, Managing Director Fraud Strategy and Governance, TIAA Below is an insight on authentication and biometrics provided by Rick ahead of his session last year at Fraud and Financial Crime USA 2023. {{ vc_btn: title=Find+out+more+about+our+2024+Financial+Crime+USA&style=outline-custom&outline_custom_color=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_background=%23d51224&outline_custom_hover_text=%23ffffff&link=url%3Ahttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cefpro.com%252Fforthcoming-events%252Ffinancial-crime-usa%252F }} The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the
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Agenda
8:00 – 8:50
Registration and breakfast
8:50 – 9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
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Day 1 Moderator: Charlene Sebastian, Vice President, Minerva |
9:00 – 9:45
AML ACT – PANEL DISCUSSION
Developing an implementation roadmap for upcoming AML Act
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- Understanding the best way to implement AML A into programs
- Establishing priorities and reviewing tweaks that need to be made to programs
- Integrating priorities whilst staying compliant
- Reviewing the potential impact of national priorities
- Understanding what processes will come out in the official guidance
- Understanding how to access the new database
- Reviewing future changes on the horizon
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Gregory Calpakis, BSA/AML Reform Program Manager & Information Security Officer, OCC |
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Marlyen Habib, Officer: BSA/AML Compliance Supervision, Federal Reserve Board of New York |
9:45 – 10:20
CTA & BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
Reviewing changes under corporate transparency act & beneficial ownership
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- Reviewing how FinCEN will now collect information to help identify beneficial owners
- Communicating requirements and timelines to legal entities
- Ensuring organizations can rely on the registry and updating it on a regular basis
- Reviewing the status of CTA and how effective this could be for financial institutions
- Understanding the beneficial ownership registry and how to use it
- Contradictions brought with the beneficial ownership registry and the beneficial ownership rule
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Sheri Levine-Shea, Counsel, Financial Crime Legal, Barclays |
10:20-10:50
Morning refreshment break and networking
10:50-11:25
CYBERSECURITY AND RANSOMWARE
Responding to cybercriminals when ransomware attacks hit financial institutions customers
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- Relevant regulatory guidance from OFAC and FinCEN on cyber ransom events
- What are a financial institution’s obligations when it becomes aware of a ransomware attack on a customer
- How to conduct adequate diligence on a ransom payment
- Tension between customer priorities during a cyber-attack and financial institution responsibilities
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Mike Greenman, Chief Counsel, Financial Crimes Legal, US Bank |
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Polly Greenberg, Managing Director, Global Head of Program Management, Global Financial Crime Division, MUFG |
11:25-12:10
PANEL DISCUSSION
Enhancing cyber defences to protect against evolving threats including ransomware
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- Integrating the right systems to prevent cyber crimes
- Recruiting relevant expertise in the bank
- Investing in infrastructure and technology to ensure systems are not vulnerable
- Having preventative controls in place to mitigate cyber risk
- Synchronising approach with other industries to reduce impact to the bank
- Managing ransomware attacks that could pay sanctioned individuals
- Identifying ransomware attacks and reporting to law enforcement
- Building a robust business continuity plan around attacks
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Mandar Rege, Managing Director, Operational Risk Management – Technology and Cybersecurity, Citi |
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Katherine Cobb, Former, SVP, Manager, CSOC Defensive Team, Zions Bancorp |
12:10-12:45
TECHNOLOGY
Improving the Effectiveness and Efficiency of your AML program with AI
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- Framing the problem: challenges regulated institutions face today
- Traditional approaches and limitations
- Current technology at your disposal
- Why firms adopt and why they don’t
- Winning with emerging technology
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Chris Caruana, VP of Strategy, Hawk.AI |
12:45-1:45
Lunch break and networking
1:45-2:30
CRYPTOCURRENCY – PANEL DISCUSSION
Navigating crypto exchanges as they are unregulated and setting appropriate risk appetite
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- Mitigating risks with unregulated exchanges
- Understanding the acceptable use of Crypto
- Managing different types of Crypto exchange when FI’s don’t hold Crypto wallets
- Reviewing the risk framework around this and understanding what to tolerate
- Understanding when to file a SAR with Crypto exchanges
- Building strong KYC programs around different exchanges
- Enhancing due diligence around Crypto exchanges
- Educating customers around Crypto investments
- Working with Crypto exchanges across different jurisdictions and level of maturity
- Managing and monitoring Crypto exchanges as a non-traditional transaction
- Implementing automation and innovation
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Milana Salzman, Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, MUFG |
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Deepthi Machavaram, Global Head of Digital Financial Crimes Compliance Advisory, Morgan Stanley; Fintech Leaders Advisory Board member, CeFPro |
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Michael Wheeler, Special Agent, IRS Criminal Investigation |
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Anthony Villacorta, Homeland Security Investigations – New York, Homeland Security Investigations |
2:30-3:05
DIGITAL AND REAL TIME PAYMENTS
Integration of digital and real time payments and emerging adequate controls to identify fraud instantly
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- Understanding how the regulators view digital payments
- Protecting customers from fraud and scams
- Ensuring appropriate privacy is in place
- Educating consumers to understand potential risks with digital payments
- Reviewing who assumes liability when digital payment apps are used
- Adding more scrutiny around transferring personal information across different parties
- Having strong privacy regulations and controls in place to decrease data being leaked
- Moving faster with payments due to regulations
- Identifying where the regulators are moving to
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Brian Holbrook, Director, Product Strategy and Integrated Services, LSEG Risk Intelligence |
3:05-3:35
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
3:35-4:10
KYC
Enhancing KYC processes to capture changes at a client level
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- Optimizing KYC Refresh through policy and risk rating
- Setting frequency and considering trigger-based Refresh
- Getting client information in a timely manner without damaging the relationship
- Measuring and assessing KYC performance
- The customer exit decision
- Looking ahead: Perpetual KYC and Blockchain
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Brian Borawski, SVP, BSA Business Liaison Officer, M&T Bank |
4:10-4:45
KYC CONTINUED
Enhancing KYC processes to capture changes at a client level
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- Leveraging AI to help with KYC
- Reviewing the regulatory and industry view of KYC
- Combating KYC challenges through technology
- Focusing on industries outside of FI’s
- Mortgages
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Kyle Thomas, Global Industry Lead, Regulatory Agencies, Appian |
4:45-5:20
DATA
Enhancing data programs & developing analytical insights
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- Getting internal data into one format so that all teams can view
- Leveraging internal data for transaction monitoring and KYC reviews
- Streamlining methods used to collect data and translating this into one understandable format
- Ensuring data is accurate to feed upstream processes
- Identifying guidelines to facilitate data sharing amongst institutions
- Making meaningful use for data analytics
- Building an operational system that can collect meaningful data
- Reducing cycle times and making systems more agile
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Mush Nabi, Monitoring & Screening Program Oversight, Morgan Stanley |
5:20-5:30
Chair’s closing remarks
5:30 – 6:30
End of day one and drink’s reception
8:00 – 8:50
Registration and breakfast
8:50 – 9:00
Chair’s opening remarks
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Day 2 Moderator: Corey Lynch, Senior AML Product Expert, Verafin |
9:00 – 9:45
SANCTIONS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Navigating the ever evolving sanctions regime and leveraging technology to identify sanctions evasion
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- Detecting sanctions evasions through the use of payment mechanisms
- Reviewing what is being done internally with current sanctions regimes
- Staying on top of Sanctions that are coming out
- Navigating across different sanctions regimes
- Identifying if legitimate trades will end up aiding Russian military
- Sharing information across financial institutions to identify trends
- Detecting sanctions circumvention attempts
- Leveraging public private partnerships to discuss outgoing threats
- Reviewing red flags in transactions to identify sanctions evasion
- Understanding Tri-Seal publication
- Staying abreast of current events and updates
- Listing active sanctions and sharing this across the business
- Leveraging technology to relevant information
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Erika Alders, Managing Director and Managing Counsel, Head of US Regulatory Legal, State Street |
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Kristine Cang Cuesta, Head of US-BSA/AML & Sanctions Compliance, BBVA |
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Kevin R. Puvalowski, Acting Executive Deputy Superintenent, Consumer Protection and Financial Enforcement, New York State Department of Financial Services |
9:45-10:20
GEOPOLITICAL RISK
Reviewing the impact of global geopolitical volatility on financial crime
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- Reviewing the potential implications from Russia & Ukraine
- Ensuring policies and activities are updated for as the geopolitical situation evolves
- Managing and monitoring controls over software providers
- Managing business functions when there is an aggressive pace to win business
- Partnering with businesses within rules set within the institution
- Less profit margins causing reduced budget for fraud and financial crime teams
- Potential of increased fraud in economic downturn
- Staying ahead of potential attacks with less budget
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Dave Wildner, Managing Director, BNY Mellon |
10:20-10:50
Morning refreshment break and networking
10:50-11:25
SCAMS
Reviewing the wide variety of scam tactics and ways to stay ahead
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- The various types of financial scams in today’s world
- MO’s used by the scammers
- Customer education and awareness in preventing losses to scams
- Leveraging tools to prevent customer manipulation
- Best practices to deter customers from being scammed
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Raj Dasgupta, Senior Director, Global Advisory, BioCatch |
11:25-12:00
AUTHENTICATION
Developing authentication practices to stay ahead of technology innovation
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- Authenticating clients and subsequent transactions for that client relationship
- Validating client information against government databases
- Filling voids in sharing of information
- Keeping pace with the speed of data and investing in technology
- Ensuring the right person is being authenticated at onboarding
- Having consistent information sources
- Educating vendors and bankers on proper authentication
- Increase in use of deepfakes to impersonate
- Overcoming challenges posed by authentication with increased use of AI
- Utilizing biometrics to have stronger controls in place
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Brian Siegal, Global Head of Fraud Risk, Barclays |
12:00-12:35
AUTHENTICATION CONTINUED
Developing authentication practices to stay ahead of technology innovation
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- Authenticating clients and subsequent transactions for that client relationship
- Validating client information against government databases
- Filling voids in sharing of information
- Keeping pace with the speed of data and investing in technology
- Ensuring the right person is being authenticated at onboarding
- Having consistent information sources
- Educating vendors and bankers on proper authentication
- Increase in use of deepfakes to impersonate
- Overcoming challenges posed by authentication with increased use of AI
- Utilizing biometrics to have stronger controls in place
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Bart Goethals, Solutions Engineering Leads Americas, Telesign |
12:35-1:35
Lunch break and networking
1:35-2:10
BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE
Reviewing continued approaches to business email compromise to stay ahead
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- Increased phishing emails with ChatGPT
- Knowing when these are fraudulent
- Protecting clients credentials to stop data being compromised
- Educating customers on what to look for in phishing emails
- Monitoring accounts to look for unusual activity
- Reviewing how business email compromise attacks could evolve with ChatGPT
- Investing in defence tools
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Steven J. Shapiro, Squad Supervisor, Federal Bureau of Investigation |
2:10-2:45
BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE CONTINUED
Reviewing continued approaches to business email compromise to stay ahead
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- Monitoring accounts to look for unusual activity
- Reviewing how business email compromise attacks could evolve with ChatGPT
- Investing in defence tools
- Leveraging generative AI
- Analytics and consortium data and working together to combat BEC
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Mauriceo Castanheiro, Fraud Industry Expert, Verafin |
2:45-3:15
Afternoon refreshment break and networking
3:15- 3:50
CHECK FRAUD
Mitigating risk of check fraud and capturing early to minimize losses
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- Reviewing complexities around collaboration with virtual asset service providers and incorporating cryptocurrencies into strategy
- Developing more efficient and advanced programs
- Leveraging technology to improve efficiency and quality of programs
- Reviewing technology available to help reduce false positive alerts
- Adapting technology systems to deal with emerging threats
- Balancing costs and legacy infrastructure
- Moving technology platforms to be more agile to keep up with the evolving threats
- Considering different risk areas when designing new technology
- Building in the agility and adaptability to change with trends
- Understanding the changing technological landscape whilst being at the forefront
- Leveraging tools whilst staying compliant with regulatory requirements
- Implementing controls to identify accounts opened with fraudulent info or synthetic ID’s
- Integrating controls to protect customers from scams as techniques become more widespread and sophisticated
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Victor Cardona, Senior Vice President, BSA Officer, Golden State Bank |
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Caitlin Piasecki, U.S. Postal Inspector, Mail Theft Program Manager, U.S. Postal Inspection Service |
3:50-4:35
COMPLIANCE PROGRAM – PANEL DISCUSSION
Delivering a compliance program and demonstrating value add to board and management
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- Driving a compliance program to be more business friendly
- Showing that it is not just a cost center
- Presenting the money received is being used in an effective way to drive business
- Investing and expanding a compliance program
- Delivering trending and fraud exposure to senior leaders
- Providing the most impactful data
- Building a case to implement new detection and prevention tools to prevent fraud
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James De Rugeriis, Antiboycott Compliance Officer, Wells Fargo |
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Jared Wong, Executive Director, Americas Head of Investment Management Financial Crimes, Morgan Stanley |
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Andrés Betancourt, Senior Manager, AML & Sanctions Internal Controls International Banking, Scotiabank |
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Rohit Prasad, Global Relationship Director, Financial Institutions Group, Barclays |
4:35-4:45
Chair’s closing remarks
4:45
End of Congress
Speakers
Erika Alders
Managing Director and Managing Counsel, Head of US Regulatory Legal
State Street
Erika Alders
Erika Alders is a Managing Director and Managing Counsel at State Street and heads the Regulatory Legal team that provides advice on a broad range of regulatory topics including global sanctions, anti-money laundering, ESG, privacy, anti-tying, and compliance. Ms. Alders came to State Street in 2011 and has worked at the bank in both Boston and Frankfurt. Prior to her current role, Ms. Alders led the Global Realty Legal team, where she was responsible for all State Street real estate legal requirements. She also served as a director and corporate secretary for multiple State Street subsidiaries.
Before joining State Street, Ms. Alders was an Associate at Ropes & Gray, advising on both litigation and corporate matters. Her work included advising financial institutions on regulatory issues, government enforcement actions and investigations, civil and criminal litigation matters, and mergers and acquisitions.
Ms. Alders holds a Bachelor of Arts from Duke University and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. Ms. Alders is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts and the First Circuit. She is active in community service and has served on several local government boards and committees focusing on finance and law.
Giancarlo Berrocal
SVP – Operational Risk Management
Citi
Giancarlo Berrocal
Biography Coming soon
Andrés Betancourt
Senior Manager, AML Sanctions Internal Controls International Banking
Scotiabank
Andrés Betancourt
Andres Betancourt has more than 15 years of experience in compliance, sanctions and AML
within the financial services industry including the Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal,
Royal Bank of Canada and Grant Thornton LLP. As a Certified Anti-Money Laundering
Specialist and Certified Financial Crime Specialist, Andres works in the AML Internal Controls
Team focusing on the planning, strategy, implementation, and monitoring of different AML
work streams, including EDD , Client Risk Rating, KYC Periodic refresh ,Name and Payment
Screening projects ensuring a robust control environment. Previously as part of the Global
AML Audit Centre of Excellence for Scotiabank, contributed by assessing the design and
operational effectiveness of internal controls
Brian Borawski
SVP, BSA Business Liaison Officer
M&T Bank
Brian Borawski
Brian Borawski is Senior Vice President and BSA Business Liaison Officer at M&T Bank. In this role, he holds primary responsibility for bankwide Know Your Customer policy, BSA program governance and business line oversight. Brian previously served as the Head of Enhanced Due Diligence at M&T, directing the unit responsible for high risk customer investigations. Brian collectively has over 15 years of financial institution BSA/AML experience. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Management Information Systems and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).
Gregory Calpakis
BSA/AML Reform Program Manager & Information Security Officer
OCC
Gregory Calpakis
Gregory Calpakis is the BSA/AML Reform Program Manager & Information Security Officer with Bank Supervision Policy at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He is primarily responsible for the OCC’s implementation of the AML Act of 2020 and the Corporate Transparency Act. Gregory previously served as the OCC Compliance Team Lead at Citibank, focusing on the overall supervisory compliance activities and enforcement actions. He has over 25 years of compliance experience as a regulator, consultant, association executive, and banker. Gregory holds a BBA in Accounting from Hofstra University and an MBA in Finance and Management from Adelphi University.
Kristine Cang Cuesta
Head of US-BSA/AML & Sanctions Compliance
BBVA
Kristine Cang Cuesta
Kristine Cangcuesta is the US Head of BSA, AML, and Sanctions Compliance at BBVA New York, bringing nearly two decades of combined financial service and legal industry experience to her role. Ms. Cangcuesta has worked at BBVA since 2014 and prior to that at JP Morgan Chase. Prior to bankin, she began her career as a trial lawyer at a litigation law firm in downtown Manhattan and worked for several years on large class action suits resulting from the subprime mortgage lending crisis.
Ms. Cangcuesta received a BA in English from Cornell University and a JD from Boston College Law School. She currently a licensed attorney and is CAMS, CGSS, and CAMS- RM certified.
Victor Cardona
Senior Vice President, BSA Officer
Golden State Bank
Victor Cardona
Victor Cardona is currently Senior Vice President, Head of Anti-Money Laundering and BSA Officer at Golden State Bank in Los Angeles, CA with a presence in the Middle East. Victor has been in banking since 2004, specializing in Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) compliance since 2005. Victor is also the Director (private sector) of the El Camino Real HIFCA Coalition, a public-private partnership intelligence working group out of the HSI Los Angeles field office with the El Camino Real Financial Crimes Task Force. Outside of the banking industry, Victor is an Adjunct Professor at Cal Poly Pomona where he teaches Forensic Accounting. Victor received his bachelor’s degree in accounting from Cal State Dominguez Hills and an MBA in economic crime & fraud management from Utica University. Victor also attended the police academy before his banking career and attended the HSI Citizens Academy in Los Angeles. Victor is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and currently sits as an Advisor on the Association of Certified Financial Crimes Specialist (ACFCS) Southern California Chapter Executive Board. Victor is also the recipient of the 2022 Anti-Financial Crime Professional of the Year award by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS)
Chris Caruana
VP of Strategy
Hawk.AI
Chris Caruana
Chris has previously held senior positions in the financial services and regulatory industries as Chief of Staff at OANDA, Senior Manager, Global Risk & Compliance at American Express, and Senior Financial Operations Examiner at FINRA.
The native New Yorker holds an MBA from St. John’s University, with a focus on international business, and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) by ACAMS. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Marist College.
Mauriceo Castanheiro
Fraud Industry Expert
Verafin
Mauriceo Castanheiro
Mauriceo Castanheiro (CFE, CAMS) is a Product and Industry Expert at Verafin with over 20 years’ experience fighting fraud in the financial industry. Having held key positions in fraud management at two of Canada’s largest banks, including roles in business intelligence, operations, analytics and strategy, Mauriceo brings a wealth of experience to Verafin and his work informing the development of innovative solutions to fight financial crime.
Katherine Cobb
Former, SVP, Manager, CSOC Defensive Team
Zions Bancorp
Katherine Cobb
Katherine Cobb managers the Cyber Incident Response team at Zions Bancorporation. She is responsible for actively improving the bank’s cyber incident response capabilities, developing and maintaining key risk indicators, and driving automation. Prior to this role, she managed the Enterprise Fraud department and was responsible for the fraud technology strategy and roadmap, fraud reporting and analytics. Before joining Zions, she managed the Treasury Management Department at Post Oak Bank.
Katherine is a Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Treasury Professional. When she isn’t working, she enjoys spending time with her husband three children, playing piano, and strategic board games.
Raj Dasgupta
Senior Director, Global Advisory
BioCatch
Raj Dasgupta
Raj Dasgupta is Senior Director, Global Advisory at BioCatch with over 18 years of Financial Services industry experience in the U.S. having worked for HSBC, Yodlee, Intuit, ID Analytics and TransUnion prior to joining BioCatch. Throughout his career, he has been at the cusp of business and technology advising his customers on how technology solutions can be operationalized to solve real-life business problems. He is very passionate about the world of identity and fraud and has deep SME in Fraud Risk, Device risk, Credit Risk, Machine Learning based predictive modeling and Customer Authentication in an omni-channel environment. At BioCatch, he frequently talks to customers, listening to their fraud problems and how the right use of technology can enable them to offer a great user experience while reducing manual review effort and keeping fraudsters at bay.
Bart Goethals
Solutions Engineering Lead Americas
Telesign
Bart Goethals
Bart Goethals has over two decades of experience in the telecommunications industry working on solutions for both the domestic and international market. His major focus has been on digitalization with a shift to digital identity and risk solutions. Bart does all of his work with three values in mind: deliver value to customers, give them the white glove treatment, and grow the business.
Polly Greenberg
Managing Director, Global Head of Program Management, Global Financial Crime Division
MUFG
Polly Greenberg
Polly Greenberg is the Global Head of Program Management for MUFG Bank’s Global Financial Crimes Division. She oversees several compliance functions, including: Policy Governance; Regulatory Change Management; Exam and Audit Management; Quality Assurance; Monitoring; and Subsidiary Financial Crimes Program Governance.
Previously, Polly was Chief of the Major Economic Crimes Bureau at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, leading the prosecution of complex financial fraud including money laundering, securities, and other frauds, as well as organized crime and public corruption. Polly led multiple prosecutions of foreign financial institutions for violating U.S Sanctions She also worked as a financial crimes compliance consultant
Polly graduated from New York University School of Law and Wesleyan University, with High Honors in American Studies.
Mike Greenman
Chief Counsel, Financial Crimes Legal
US Bank
Mike Greenman
Mike Greenman is Chief Counsel of U.S. Bank’s Financial Crimes Legal team. Mikeprovides legal advice on Anti-Money Laundering/BSA compliance, Economic Sanctions and Anti-Bribery and Corruption issues. Mike also leads law division internal investigations for the bank. Mike is a frequent speaker at AML conferences and represents industry on AML advocacy with trade groups and with the U.S. Government.
Prior to joining U.S. Bank, Mike held multiple AML compliance leadership positions at First Data and JP Morgan Chase. Mike began his financial crimes career as a prosecutor at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office where he conducted various white-collar investigations and jury trials.
Marlyen Habib
Officer: BSA/AML Compliance Supervision
Federal Reserve Board of New York
Marlyen Habib
Marlyen Habib is the Compliance Risk Program Lead for the Large Foreign Banking Organizations (LFBO) as well as select Financial Market Utility firms in Supervision and Regulation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In this role, Marlyen is responsible for managing a team of examiners that assess compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) laws and regulations, the requirements of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), other Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) regulations, and complex BSA/AML and OFAC enforcement actions.
Marlyen joined the Bank in 2021. Prior to joining the Bank, Marlyen worked at other institutions in their AML programs and served as an Assistant Prosecutor in New Jersey for several years.
Brian Holbrook
Director, Product Strategy and Integrated Services
LSEG Risk Intelligence
Brian Holbrook
Brian Holbrook is a visionary and results-driven executive with over 20 years of experience in the Fintech space. As the Director of Product Strategy & Integrated Services at LSEG Risk Intelligence (formerly GIACT), Brian is responsible for driving strategic initiatives and operational product excellence across the organization.
Having held previous positions with InComm, IDT Finance and Community Federal Savings Bank over the years, his payments background makes him uniquely positioned to bring greater insights into fraud trends and how to combat them.
Corey Lynch
Senior AML Product Expert
Verafin
Corey Lynch
Biography coming soon
Sheri Levine-Shea
Counsel, Financial Crime Legal
Barclays
Sheri Levine-Shea
Sheri Levine-Shea has over 20 years of financial crimes experience at financial services firms. Sheri currently serves as counsel for the Barclays’ Americas Financial Crime Legal team and previously held a similar role as senior counsel at Wells Fargo. Sheri held senior roles in financial crime risk management and compliance at Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Deloitte. Sheri designed and taught an online course on International Financial Crime for Fordham Law School. Sheri started her career as an accountant for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and clerked for the Honorable Daniel P. Mecca at the Superior Court of New Jersey. Sheri is a NY and NJ licensed attorney, a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, and is a member of the New Jersey Coalition Against Human Trafficking serving as the Head of its Bank Awareness Committee. Sheri also helped to form the Wells Fargo Modern Slavery Working Group.
Deepthi Machavaram
Global Head of Digital Financial Crimes Compliance Advisory
Morgan Stanley
Fintech Leaders Advisory Board member
CeFPro
Deepthi Machavaram
Deepthi Machavaram is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and serves as Head of Digital Financial Crimes Advisory. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Deepthi held senior digital financial crimes advisory roles at BNY Mellon and MUFG Bank. She started her career as an external consultant at multiple consulting firms including Big4. Her focus as a consultant in Financial Crimes practice included providing financial institution clients with technology portfolio analysis and upgrade strategy, enterprise-wide risk assessments and program overhauls. Deepthi received her B. Tech from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in India and M.B.A from Indian School of Business.
Mush Nabi
Monitoring & Screening Program Oversight
Morgan Stanley
Mush Nabi
Mush Nabi began his career working the non-profit sector, the architectural engineering sector, before pivoting to the financial industry in 2010. Mush has worked in a variety of large European and US financial institutions running global financial crime data management, management information, and transaction monitoring programs. Currently Mush is responsible for managing Morgan Stanley’s monitoring & screening program, providing program oversight to the firm’s Sanctions Screening, Negative News / PEP Screening, Transaction Monitoring, and Client Risk Ranking programs.
Caitlin Piasecki
U.S. Postal Inspector, Mail Theft Program Manager
U.S. Postal Inspection Service
Caitlin Piasecki
Caitlin Piasecki is a U.S. Postal Inspector Mail Theft Program Manager, assigned to the Criminal Investigations Group, at National Headquarters. Inspector Piasecki was previously assigned to the Bellmawr, New Jersey office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) where she primarily worked financial crime investigations. Inspector Piasecki served as the USPIS liaison at Homeland Security Investigations’ National Bulk Cash Smuggling Center in Williston, Vermont for 14 months. Inspector Piasecki has a background in financial fraud and criminal analysis, is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and an Executive Board Member with the East Coast Gang Investigator’s Association (ECGIA). Inspector Piasecki is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) within USPIS, assigned to a working group tasked with developing an advanced financial crimes training program. Before her role with the USPIS, Inspector Piasecki worked at Standard Chartered Bank, an international correspondent bank, where she investigated complex financial cases, reviewed and filed Suspicious Activity Reports, and trained investigators locally and abroad on investigative techniques. Inspector Piasecki graduated Magna Cum Laude from the College of New Jersey and continued her education at Rutgers University where she earned a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice.
Inspector Piasecki is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) within USPIS, assigned to a working group tasked with developing an advanced financial crimes training program. Before her role with the USPIS, Inspector Piasecki worked at Standard Chartered Bank, an international correspondent bank, where she investigated complex financial cases, reviewed and filed Suspicious Activity Reports, and trained investigators locally and abroad on investigative techniques. Inspector Piasecki graduated Magna Cum Laude from the College of New Jersey and continued her education at Rutgers University where she earned a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice.
Rohit Prasad
Global Relationship Director, Financial Institutions Group
Barclays
Rohit Prasad
Rohit Prasad is a global leader within the banking sector with over 25 years of experience in Relationship and Risk Management across US, Singapore, and India.
He is the Regional Head of Global Affiliates Correspondent Banking, Broker Dealers, and Specialty Finance under International Corporate Banking at Barclays Bank. In this role, Rohit manages portfolios of financial institutions focused on delivering clearing, payments, FX, credit, and fund mobilization, while managing the financial crime risk as the bank’s first line of defense.
Prior to this role, Rohit spent 23 years at Standard Chartered. Most recently, he was an Executive Director within the Financial Institutions Group. He headed the Governance for Correspondent Banking, ensuring that the offering was aligned with the industry’s best practices and regulatory benchmarks.
Rohit graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee and the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore in India. He serves on the New York Leadership Council of Upwardly Global, an organization working to eliminate employment barriers for immigrant and refugee professionals. He is a published author and was selected in the Top 50 Most Influential Authors of 2022.
Kevin R. Puvalowski
Acting Executive Deputy Superintenent, Consumer Protection and Financial Enforcement
New York State Department of Financial Services
Kevin R. Puvalowski
Kevin R. Puvalowski is the head of the Consumer Protection and Financial Enforcement
Division at the New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”). In that role, he leads
a 200-person division that includes DFS’s enforcement attorneys, consumer examiners, criminal
investigators, and consumer advocacy personnel. Mr. Puvalowski has been with DFS since 2019
and has personally overseen many of DFS’s enforcement actions during that period, including
matters involving BSA/AML and sanctions compliance, tax, cybersecurity, and enforcement of
DFS’s virtual currency business regulations.
Prior to DFS, Mr. Puvalowski was white-collar defense lawyer in private practice and
successfully tried a number of high-profile cases, including the Abacus Federal Savings Bank
mortgage fraud case in which the bank was acquitted on all charges after a five-month trial. Mr.
Puvalowski previously served in the federal government, most recently as Deputy Special
Inspector General in the Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief
Program (“SIGTARP”), the U.S. Treasury Department office created to oversee the $700 billion
TARP program. Prior to SIGTARP, Mr. Puvalowski was an Assistant United States Attorney in
the Southern District of New York, serving in a number of leadership roles, including as Chief of
the International Narcotics Trafficking Unit and as Deputy Chief of Appeals.
Mr. Puvalowski clerked for the Honorable Loretta A. Preska, United States District Judge for the
Southern District of New York. He is a graduate of the Fordham University School of Law and
the University of Michigan.
Mandar Rege
Managing Director, Operational Risk Management – Technology and Cybersecurity
Citi
Mandar Rege
Mandar has over 25 years of engineering and risk management experience across Technology Operations, Governance and Audit. At Citi, Mandar focuses on Operational Risk and Compliance for Personal Banking and Wealth Management divisions. In his prior career, Mandar has had leadership roles in global organizations like TD Bank, the Bank of Montreal, Cisco Systems, Inc., Accenture LLC and KPMG LLP.
Mandar is an active member of the professional community and has presented at industry forums like Risk.Net, RSA and IAPP Conferences. Additionally, he has served as the Chair of the Canadian Banking Association’s CISO organization and holds the CISSP, CIPP, CISA, and PMP certifications.
James De Rugeriis
Antiboycott Compliance Officer
Wells Fargo
James De Rugeriis
2024 marks Jim’s 25th year in Financial Crimes Compliance, starting as technology support for sanctions screening. Following an 18-year career at American Express, Jim served as Deputy BSA Officer, OFAC Officer, and Head of Compliance, before joining Wells Fargo to build our their Antiboycott Compliance Program in 2022. He has also consulted for over 20 financial institutions — relying on transaction monitoring, investigation, reporting, sanctions adherence, risk assessment, policy development and many other areas of expertise.
Milana Salzman
Managing Director and Associate General Counsel
MUFG
Milana Salzman
Milana Salzman leads the Global Financial Crimes Legal coverage function at MUFG, with expertise in anti-money laundering laws, economic sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption regulations, and related enforcement and regulatory matters. In this role, Milana has built out a team of attorneys that advise executive management, business, and support functions on legal considerations and risk in all regions that MUFG operates. Prior to joining MUFG, Milana was the Head Financial Security Counsel at Société Générale, Americas, where she built out a financial crimes legal coverage function in the midst of multiple enforcement actions. Milana had also served as an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase, Global Anti-Corruption Compliance program and is an alumn of White & Case, a large international law firm in New York, where she spent eight years representing international corporate and financial industry clients in all stages of enforcement, litigation, and complex internal investigations.
Steven J. Shapiro
Squad Supervisor
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Steven J. Shapiro
As the Financial Crime Squad Supervisor in the FBI’s Brooklyn Queens Resident Agency, Supervisory Special Agent Steven Shapiro leads a team of special agents, intel professionals, and forensic accountants as they investigate elder fraud, money laundering, and healthcare fraud matters. Previously, SSA Shapiro oversaw Director Christopher Wray’s coordination and operations unit. SSA Shapiro also led the FBI’s IPR Unit, where he provided guidance and support on all FBI Intellectual Property Rights cases. SSA Shapiro began his FBI career working complex financial and violent crime matters in the Oklahoma City Field Office. Prior to joining the FBI, SSA Shapiro founded a law firm offering corporate counsel to a variety of clients.
Charlene Sebastian
Vice President
Minerva
Charlene Sebastian
Charlene Sebastian is a highly accomplished program and project management professional with a distinguished AML career in financial institutions such as TD, BMO Financial Group, and CIBC. Her expertise lies in financial crimes, regulatory transformation, and retail credit. Charlene has consistently delivered large-scale initiatives, managed budgets and resources, and championed the implementation of Agile methodologies. With an Executive Master of Business specializing in Data Management and Data Analytics, Charlene brings an impressive track record of operational efficiency and leadership to the table. Beyond her roles, she also serves as the Vice President of the Board with the Canadian RegTech Association.
Brian Siegal
Global Head of Fraud Risk
Barclays
Brian Siegal
Brian has 20+ years of experience specializing in fraud risk management and Financial & Operational auditing. Brian has experience building Fraud Prevention programs including data analytics and investigations as a Merchant and is currently overseeing global fraud risk for Barclays (Second Line of Defense)
Kyle Thomas
Global Industry Lead, Regulatory Agencies
Appian
Kyle Thomas
Kyle Thomas is the Appian Global Industry Leader for public sector regulatory agencies with a special focus on financial services regulation. He provides thought leadership around reg-tech innovation globally and drives customer and partner success by drawing on his years of experience in the financial regulatory sector. Kyle brings not only experience as a prudential regulator, but also led the development of a suite of solutions for the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, a nationwide trade group of state financial regulators. While there he developed and deployed a first-in-class solution that transformed state-based financial regulation. The platform is now in use by over 50 state agencies and thousands of financial services firms. Kyle is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, holds a master’s degree from the Darla Moore School of Business of the University of South Carolina and is an alumnus of the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado.
Anthony Villacorta
Homeland Security Investigations – New York
Dark Web & Cryptocurrency Task Force
Anthony Villacorta
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Supervisory Special Agent Anthony Villacorta heads the HSI New York Dark Web & Cryptocurrency Task Force which is comprised of federal, state, and local law enforcement personnel. Together they leverage their authorities, expansive resources, and advanced capabilities to dismantle and disrupt criminal organizations that use technology to facilitate their illicit activity. The task force focuses on cryptocurrency enabled theft, fraud, and money laundering as well as illicit actors on the dark web.
Michael Wheeler
Special Agent
IRS Criminal Investigation
Michael Wheeler
Michael Wheeler, CPA, CFE is a Special Agent with IRS-Criminal Investigation and he currently leads the J5 International Cyber Task Force. The J5 Cyber Task Force includes members from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Mr. Wheeler was previously a Supervisory Special Agent in the Portland metro area overseeing various financial crimes investigations to include tax fraud, cybercrime and money laundering. Mr. Wheeler started his IRS career in the Washington, D.C. Field Office where he led large scale, complex criminal investigations involving tax violations, cybercrime, child exploitation, data breaches, embezzlement, money laundering and international casework. Prior to government service Mr. Wheeler was a Senior Associate with KPMG in their Audit and Advisory practices. Mr. Wheeler has Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Accounting.
Dave Wildner
Managing Director
BNY Mellon
Dave Wildner
David is the Deputy Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) as well as the Global Head of Anti-Money Laundering for BNY Mellon, responsible for all aspects of FCC across the enterprise. David is also the chairman of BNYM’s global Anti-Money Laundering Oversight Committee. Previously David was the US Head of AML. David has 18 years of experience in the AML field and has also held roles at HSBC and Citi Private Bank. Prior to working in the financial services area David spent 20 years in US Law enforcement conducting international money laundering and narcotics trafficking investigations.
Jared Wong
Executive Director, Americas Head of Investment Management Financial Crimes
Morgan Stanley
Jared Wong
Jared Wong is an Executive Director in the Legal and Compliance Division at Morgan Stanley and the current Americas Head of Investment Management Financial Crimes Advisory in the Firm’s Global Financial Crimes Group (GFC). Previously, Jared served as financial crimes counsel in the GFC Legal Group providing advice and guidance on anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and sanctions issues. Jared joined Morgan Stanley from Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP where he was a Senior Associate in the Litigation Group, representing public companies, financial services firms and private equity funds in connection with internal investigations, government investigations and enforcement actions, and advising on financial crimes compliance-related and transactional-related matters. Jared earned his B.A. from Stony Brook University and his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.
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Verafin
Verafin is the industry leader in enterprise Financial Crime Management, providing a cloud-based, secure software platform for Fraud Detection and Management, BSA/ AML Compliance and Management, High-Risk Customer Management and Information Sharing. Over 3500 financial institutions use Verafin solutions – purpose-built on our consortium-based data set – to rapidly detect and prevent evolving financial crimes. Verafin combines industry-leading customer-based behavioral analytics with powerful consortium-based counterparty insights
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Co-sponsors
Appian
Appian is the unified platform for change. We accelerate customers’ businesses by discovering, designing, and automating their most important processes. The Appian Low-Code Platform combines the key capabilities needed to get work done faster, Process Mining + Workflow + Automation, in a unified low-code platform. Appian is open, enterprise-grade, and trusted by industry leaders. For more information, visit www.appian.com.
BioCatch
BioCatch stands at the forefront of digital fraud detection, pioneering behavioral biometric intelligence grounded in advanced cognitive science and machine learning. BioCatch analyzes thousands of user interactions to support a digital banking environment where identity, trust and ease coexist. Today, more than 25 of the world’s leading 100 banks and 150 of the largest 500 rely on BioCatch Connect™.
Hawk.AI
Hawk.AI will be sponsoring CeFPro’s Financial Crime 2024 Congress
LSEG
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Minerva
Minerva will be sponsoring CeFPro’s Financial Crime USA 2024 Congress
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Advanced Model Risk
Enhancing modeling techniques in an advancing technological landscape.
Center for Financial Professionals launches its third annual Advanced Model Risk Congress in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Come and join us on March 12-13, 2024, to enhance your modeling techniques and advance your knowledge to take back to your team.
As the technological landscape continues to evolve, it is critical to advance your modeling techniques to ensure best practice in your organization. Advanced Model Risk USA is the go-to congress to build on your professional development with our 7+ hours of networking opportunities and carefully curated agenda of industry thought leaders.
Key highlights
- BLACK BOX MODELS:
Increasing transparency to understand Black Box methodologies
- LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS:
Aligning Large Language Models with traditional model risk frameworks
- BIAS AND EXPLAINABILITY:
Managing toxic results of AI/ML and Large Language models
- QUANTIFYING MODEL RISK:
Enhancing model portfolios to quantify model risk
- PERFORMANCE MONITORING:
Ongoing performance monitoring to establish model risk management
- MACHINE LEARNING:
Developing AI/ML into model risk management programmes
- AI GOVERNANCE:
Defining best practice of AI/ML models
- CLIMATE RISK:
Defining climate risk into modelling portfolio
Key speakers
Agus Sudjianto
EVP, Head of Corporate Model Risk
Wells Fargo
Roderick Powell
SVP, Head of Model Risk Management
Ameris Bank
Julia Litvinova
Managing Director, Head of Model Validation and Analytic
State Street
Manoj Singh
Managing Director, Model Risk Officer
Bank of America
Xiangyin (Jane) Zheng
Audit Director
BNY Mellon
Stephen Hsu
SVP, Head of Model Risk Management
Pacific Western Bank
Rodanthy Tzani
Head of Model Risk Management
New York Life Insurance Company
Ankur Goel
SVP, Head of Consumer and Fraud Modelling
PNC
Arthur Robb
Managing Director – Head of Model Risk Management
TIAA-CREF
Janet Shand
Director, Model Risk Management
NYCB
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