Exploring new complexities in the fraud and financial crime landscape and best practices to stay ahead
Fraud & Financial Crime USA
4th Annual | March 16-17, 2022 | New York City
PANDEMIC STIMULUS
Reviewing long term impact of increased fraudulent claims on government stimulus
AML ACT
Reviewing final standards under AML Act and impact to financial institutions
TRANSACTION MONITORING
Reviewing transaction monitoring techniques to enhance insight and detection
SANCTIONS
Reviewing the evolving sanctions regime and compliance with latest mandates evolving sanctions regime
BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE
Prevention tactics and safeguards to educate and mitigate risk of business email compromise attempts
CYBER RISK
Reviewing the cyber risk landscape and increased scope of attempts
SCAMS
Reviewing different types of scam tactics and mitigation techniques to stay ahead
IDENTITY THEFT
Managing increased attempts in fraudulent applications and identity theft to protect customers
Lester Joseph
Head, Global Financial Crimes Intelligence Group
Wells Fargo
Nicole De Bello
Anti-Money Laundering Counsel, Executive Director
Morgan Stanley
Carlos Orel
Head of AML Risk, Regulatory Advocacy, Products and Monitoring
TD Bank N.A.
Tim Lutz
Director – Financial Intelligence Unit
U.S Bank
Sabeena Liconte
Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Chief Legal Counsel
BOC International (USA) Holdings Inc., member of Bank of China Group
Mandy Ramlow
Head, North American AML Financial Intelligence Unit
BMO Harris Bank N.A
Victor Lessoff
Managing Director, Head of Internal Investigations
TIAA
Patrick Killeen
Unit Chief – International Corruption Unit
FBI
Bharat Sadula
Director AML/ATF and Sanctions Audit; Global Head of Transaction Monitoring
Scotiabank
James Cousins
Head, US Sanctions Program Management & OFAC Reporting
Standard Chartered
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8:00 Registration and breakfast
8:50 Chair’s opening remarks
Day 1 Moderator: mthree
COVID-19 – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Moving towards a new BAU
- Risks returning to the office
- Controls for hybrid and remote working
- Creating policies and procedures to control and mitigate new risks
- Flexibility to retain talent
- Opportunities for fraudsters to identify loopholes
- Impact of the pandemic on customer behaviour
Victor Lessoff, Managing Director, Head of Internal Investigations, TIAA
Mandy Ramlow, Head, North American AML Financial Intelligence Unit, BMO Harris Bank N.A
Nicolas Khouri, Senior Compliance Director, Enterprise AML Investigations, Ally
Robert Maddox, Partner, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
PANDEMIC STIMULUS
Session details
- Federal stimulus for unemployment allocation and PPP schemes
- Due diligence prior to distribution of payments
- Approaches when fraud is identified after payment is transferred
- Tracking multiple applications across states
- Reviewing on a federal and state level
- Impact to inflation with substantial amounts potentially lost
- Preventative measures and industry collaboration
Anne Archer, VP, Director, Enterprise Fraud Strategy, Atlantic Union Bank
10:20 Morning refreshment break and networking
Session details
- P2P payments streams
- Same day ACH allowing for immediate access to funds
- Increased risk in a real time environment
- Changing behaviour and demographics of customers
- Managing real time accessibility to funds
- Increased popularity and use across businesses
- Limited client impact with security measures
Stas Alforov, Director of Research & Development, Gemini Advisory
TRANSACTION MONITORING
Session details
- Adapting to continuous change
- Testing transaction systems with sample data
- Managing linear rules and continued change
- Using AI, machine learning and graph analytics
- Regulatory approaches to testing evolving methods of evaluation
- Uses of internal and synthetic data
- Future regulation for technology to reduce manual risks
- Identifying money laundering
Lee Geier, Director, Head of Monitoring and Investigations Americas, Commerzbank (tbc)
TECHNOLOGY – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Leveraging AI, analytics and RPA
- Large scale pattern analysis and anomalies
- Identifying cost benefit of long term investment
- Interpreting data for management of risks
- Developing sophisticated models for pattern detection
- Business case to invest in technology and automation
- Explaining technology and output to regulators
- Understanding risk of technology alongside benefits
- Setting up technology enablement and flexibility to adapt
- Changing customers and business environment
Tim Lutz, Director – Financial Intelligence Unit, U.S Bank
Sudharshan Narva, Director, Data Analytics Internal Audit, TIAA
Julian Horky, Head of Risk Controlling, Berenberg Capital Markets
Bharat Sadula, Director, AML/ATF and Sanctions Audit; Global Head of Transaction Monitoring, Scotiabank
12:45 Lunch break and networking
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
Session details
- Expansion of international cooperation amongst private and government organizations
- Establishing relationships with international partners
- Developing productive processes to exchange information
- Running parallel investigations
- Privacy laws across jurisdictions
- Legal environment across jurisdictions and political landscape
Heith Janke, Special Agent, FBI
CONVERGENCE – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Regulatory intersection between fraud, cyber and money laundering
- Interrelated nature of risks
- Understanding full impact when viewed holistically
- Pulling data across monitoring systems
- Integration of data and analytics to investigations
- Reviewing process end to end and effective utilization of resources
- From fraud scam through to laundering of funds
- Increased fraud and money laundering as a result of Covid-19 stimulus
Patrick Killeen, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI
Nicolas Khouri, Senior Compliance Director, Enterprise AML Investigations, Ally
Ken Jones, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting
RISK ASSESSMENTS
Session details
- Standardized inventory of fraud schemes
- Determining fraud scenarios
- Standardization across the industry of fraud schemes
- Risk and control taxonomies
- Leveraging anti-bribery and corruption regulation as a baseline
- Developing industry standards
- Developing common tolls and assessment methodologies
- Setting up global fraud risk assessments
Julian Horky, Head of Risk Controlling, Berenberg Capital Markets
3:40 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
BUSINESS EMAIL COMPROMISE
Session details
- Training and social engineering testing
- Reinforcing internal controls
- Managing third party compromise
- Establishing ways to identify breach
- Implementing verification techniques:
- Call-back verification
- Interconnectedness of security infrastructure
- Best practices
- Investigation progression from law enforcement
Dalit Stern, Senior Director/ Enterprise Fraud Risk Officer, TIAA
SCAMS
Session details
- Tactics and lengths to perpetuate a scam
- Increased sophistication of scams and tactics
- Education and awareness
- Behavioural activity to identify irregularities
- Determining liability for losses
- Detecting patterns in accounts
- Increased elder abuse cases
- Identifying potential cases and tracing funds and money mules
Aisha Rouse, Director, Fraud, Morgan Stanley
5:20 Chair’s closing remarks
5:30 End of day 1 and networking drinks reception
8:00 Registration and breakfast
8:50 Chair’s opening remarks
Day 2 Moderator: Bryant Moravek, Director of AML & Sanctions Compliance, Risk Advisory Services, Kaufman Rossin
AML ACT – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Accessing to information – managing privacy restraints
- Incorporating priorities into programs
- Balancing compliance and efficiency with resource constraints
- Managing implementation changes amidst continued uncertainty
- Gaining clarity on timelines and expectations
- Impact to filing a SAR
- Modernizing practices and expectations
Carlos Orel, Head of AML Risk, Regulatory Advocacy, Products and Monitoring, TD Bank N.A.
Nicole De Bello, Anti-Money Laundering Counsel, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Mark Elkommos, VP, Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Manager, SMBC
Lester Joseph, Head Global Financial Crimes Intelligence Group, Wells Fargo
BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
Session details
- Changes to beneficial ownership
- Reducing burden on beneficial ownership
- Implementing centralized database for beneficial ownership
- Collecting information on beneficial ownership from inception throughout lifecycle
- Mandate of clients sharing information and having it shared
- Amending onboarding documentation to mandate sharing of information
- Aggregating and managing information
Sabeena Liconte, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Chief Legal Counsel, Bank of China
10:20 Morning break and networking
SANCTIONS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Managing continuous geopolitical changes
- Ensuring integrity of data feeds
- Adapting to constant change and monitoring country risk
- Proactive management of emerging issues
- Setting risk appetite for unstable countries
- Increased complexity of China sanctions
- Financial impact to US institutions
- Complexity of Afghanistan and guidance with increased uncertainty
James Cousins, Head, US Sanctions Program Management & OFAC Reporting, Standard Chartered Bank
Mark Elkommos, VP, Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Manager, SMBC
Evan Weitz, Managing Director, International Controls Executive, Wells Fargo
DATA
Session details
- Data requirements for increased use of technology
- Cleaning and understanding data
- Disparate infrastructure to collate data sources
- Streamlining for transaction monitoring
- Reading and interpreting data
- Data consistency across infrastructure
- Aligning data across systems
- Data management practices for client onboarding and lifecycle management
Sudharshan Narva, Director, Data Analytics Internal Audit, TIAA
12:10 Don’t treat your customer like a criminal
Barry Bowen, Co-founder & CMO, Fraud.com
12:20 Lunch break and networking
RANSOMWARE
Session details
- Preventing terrorism infiltrating systems
- IT capabilities to mitigate breach
- Internal controls and communication in event of breach
- Appropriate insurance and contact with law enforcement
- Increasing public and private cooperation
- Ransomware task force
- Increased risk with use of cryptocurrency
- Impact of facilitating transaction for ransomware payment
Lester Joseph, Head Global Financial Crimes Intelligence Group, Wells Fargo
CYBER RISK
Session details
- Leveraging external cyber events for financial fraud
- Collecting customer dat to open accounts elsewhere
- Understanding KYC data requirements
- Diversity of attackers and cybercrime environment
- Cybercrime as a service
- Identification techniques for new and current customers
- Metrics to determine identity
- Impacts of large scale data theft events on account opening fraud
- Impact on remote working and increased vulnerabilities
CRYPTOCURRENCY
Session details
- Federally issued crypto currency and impact on AML
- Determining origin of transaction
- Tracking origination of funds across all accounts
- Following trail to see where transfers are directed
- Crypto exchanges operating outside of regulation
- Education on risks and used in money laundering
- Federally issued crypto currency and impact on AML
- AML considerations for authorized crypto businesses
- Investigate tracing for evidence to find funds
Jason Samuels, Special Agent, Homeland Security Investigations
3:05 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
DIGITAL BANKING
Session details
- Tracking pattern spends to detect changes
- Developing clear merchant descriptions
- Increased digitalization and virtualization of fraud
- Using AI and smart programming
- Recognizing data sources and tracking anomalies
- Elevated transaction activity on digital platforms
- Impact to transaction monitoring models
Mandy Ramlow, Director VP, US AML Financial Intelligence Unit, BMO Harris Bank N.A
IDENTITY THEFT
Session details
- Account opening and fraudulent transactions
- Influx of approaches with Covid-19
- Steps to minimize risk and losses
- Accessibility of dark web and access to customer credentials
- Technology to separate identity theft victims and attackers
- Increase in cases with Covid-19 stimulus
- Fraudulent accounts to deposit government stimulus
ESG
Session details
- Reviewing how AML impacts corporate ESG
- Strengthening ESG programs through various social risks
- Anti-human trafficking, exploitation programs etc.
- Impact of greenwashing
- Standardized frameworks for ESG disclosure
- Aligning across the industry
- Developing unified financial disclosure policies
Nicole De Bello, Anti-Money Laundering Counsel, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
5:25 Chair’s closing remarks
5:35 End of congress
Stas Alforov
Director of Research & Development
Gemini Advisory
Stas Alforov is the Director of Research and Development at Gemini Advisory; in this role, he identifies and improves ways of monitoring asset portfolio exposure and effectively assists financial institutions in mitigating payment card fraud. Stas started his cyber career at the National Cyber Forensic Training Alliance (NCFTA) as part of the Cyber Financial program. He focused on identifying Eastern European threats to the payments industry, monitored and identified money mule networks, and led the US participation in the Airline Action Days operations for several years.
Anne Archer
VP, Director, Enterprise Fraud Strategy
Atlantic Union Bank
Anne is speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2022.
James Cousins
Head, US Sanctions Program Management & OFAC Reporting
Standard Chartered Bank
James is speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime 2022
Nicole De Bello
Anti-Money Laundering Counsel, Executive Director
Morgan Stanley
Nicole is speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2022.
Mark Elkommos
VP, Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Manager
SMBC
Three-time “The Risk Universe Magazine” Cover-front Author, Mark Elkommos works at SMBC as VP, Compliance Monitoring & Testing, is a seasoned AML professional with more than 15 years of Financial Crime Compliance experience. Mark also is an avid technology & compliance reader, and evidently, a popular author of AML and FinTech topics. He wrote numerous articles on many Risk Management Magazines, also he is a regular LinkedIn blogger. Visit his LinkedIn page and website to know more
Lee Geier
Director, Head of Monitoring and Investigations Americas
Commerzbank
Lee is speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2022.
Julian Horky
Head of Risk Controlling
Berenberg Capital Markets
Julian oversees Berenberg Capital Markets’ risk management program as the Head of Risk Controlling. Berenberg is a multinational full-service investment bank founded in 1590 with a significant presence in New York. Prior to returning to the industry, he consulted large financial institutions around the globe with a focus on Western Europe and North America. His financial and tech skills made him a trusted advisor across treasury, finance, ALM, and risk departments and a frequent speaker at industry events.
Heith Janke
Special Agent
FBI
Heith is speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2022.
Ken Jones
Senior Managing Director
FTI Consulting
Ken Jones’ federal law enforcement career spanned more than 20 years and included a wide variety of global risk management, investigative, compliance, security and leadership experiences. His work includes fraud-related areas and criminal and corporate investigative expertise and expert witness testimony. Mr. Jones has helped many global corporations develop or improve their Financial Crime (AML, FIU, Fraud, ABC, Sanctions) compliance, risk assessment and investigative programs. He has managed AML investigations, fraud risk management and investigations, the financial intelligence unit and he was the cyber/cyber-fraud crisis incident manager for the Americas Region at UBS.
Lester Joseph
Head Global Financial Crimes Intelligence Group
Wells Fargo
Lester Joseph is the Head of the Global Financial Crimes Intelligence Group at Wells Fargo & Company. The primary mission of this Group is to provide intelligence on money laundering activity and financial crime trends to all parts of the enterprise. He joined Wells Fargo in March 2010. Mr. Joseph worked for the United States Department of Justice from 1984 to February 2010. From 2002-2010, he was the Principal Deputy Chief of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section (AFMLS). During his tenure in AFMLS, the Section played a major role in several noteworthy money laundering investigations and prosecutions involving major financial institutions.
Nicolas Khouri
Senior Compliance Director, Enterprise AML Investigations
Ally
Nicolas Khouri is currently the Deputy AML/BSA Officer at Ally Bank responsible for leading the execution of key BSA/AML program components such as risk assessments, governance and business line oversight.
Prior to that Nicolas was the Senior Compliance Director at Ally Bank overseeing AML Investigations. As part of his role, Nicolas manages a team that handles all AML investigations, SAR filings and all law enforcement requests and coordination. Prior to that Nicolas was a Senior Audit Director with Ally Bank overseeing all of Compliance and Legal.
Nicolas has over 20 years of financial institutions and investment banking auditing and compliance experience focusing mainly on AML and International Operations. Nicolas holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from the George Washington University and is a certified anti-money laundering specialist (CAMS) since 2006. Nicolas has been an invited speaker and/or panelist at several national conferences on AML and auditing including Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), American Bankers Association (ABA), Florida International Banking Association (FIBA), The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) and the Financial Markets Association (FMA).
Patrick Killeen
Supervisory Special Agent
FBI
Supervisory Special Agent Patrick Killeen.
- Employed as Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent since 2003
- Investigated cases involving International Transnational Organized Criminal Enterprises, Money Laundering, International Corruption
- Staffed in multiple FBI divisions, including Detroit, New York, and FBI Headquarters (Washington DC)
- Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, Master’s degree in Business Administration.
Victor Lessoff
Managing Director, Head of Internal Investigations
TIAA
Supervisory Special Agent Milan R Kosanovich has worked for the FBI for over thirteen (13) years specializing in white collar criminal investigations. He is a graduate of Syracuse University (BS) and Georgetown University (JD). He has worked in the New Haven and Cleveland field offices. He served as a detaileé to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission while working as a supervisor in the Economic Crimes Unit at FBIHQ. Kosanovich has lectured and taught on behalf of the FBI in 11 different countries across four continents. He currently supervises the White Collar Crime squad in Cleveland along with the Midwestern Cryptocurrency Task Force, and serves in multiple collateral duties as a member of the nationwide Financial Crimes Response Team and is certified as a Hostage Negotiator.
Sabeena Liconte
Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Chief Legal Counsel
BOC International (USA) Holdings Inc., member of Bank of China Group
Sabeena Ahmed Liconte serves as Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer to the investment banking division of Bank of China International – BOC International (USA) Holdings Inc. (“BOCI US Holdings”) and its two subsidiaries, BOCI Commodities & Futures (USA) LLC, a registered futures commission merchant and CME Group Inc. clearing member, and BOC International (USA) Inc., a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA (collectively, “BOCI”).
Prior to joining BOCI, Sabeena’s previous professional experience included Futures & Derivatives Counsel to E*TRADE Financial Corp., including E*TRADE Clearing Corp. and E*TRADE Securities Corp.; the Office of General Counsel at Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Incorporated, the Division of Enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Bank of New York Mellon’s Legal Division and the Securities Fraud Prosecution division of the Attorney General’s Office for the State of New Jersey.
Sabeena is a licensed attorney with a Juris Doctor from the St. John’s University School of Law. She also completed a visiting year at Fordham University School of Law. In addition to her law degree, she holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Columbia University and, paying homage to her Canadian roots, a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Political Science from the University of Toronto.
She also serves as a board member and Secretary to Bank of China International’s US holding company, BOCI US Holdings; board member of the Center for Financial Professionals FinTech Advisory Group; Diversity Chair of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Committee – Futures and Derivatives Law Subcommittee, and committee member of the New York City Bar Association’s Foreign and Comparative Law Committee and Derivatives and Futures Committee.
Tim Lutz
Director – Financial Intelligence Unit
U.S Bank
Tim is speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2022.
Robert Maddox
Partner
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Robert Maddox represents banks and financial institutions across the United States. His work involved representing clients before the CFPB, DOJ, EOUST, OCC, FRB, HUD, SEC and multiple state regulatory agencies, including banking, finance and insurance agencies. Robert has worked with both legal and business managers for numerous clients to draft and outline procedures in response to pending or new legislation. Robert is a thought leader on the CARES Act and related state laws regarding mortgage forbearances, deferrals and other loss mitigation options, as well as foreclosure and eviction moratoriums. Additionally, Robert has handled matters both at the pre-litigation and initial complaint filing phase as well as being employed during discovery, to depose expert witnesses and at the pre-trial phase to assist the current counsel.
Bryant Moravek
Director of AML & Sanctions Compliance, Risk Advisory Services
Kaufman Rossin
B.J. Moravek is a Director of AML & Sanctions Compliance in Kaufman Rossin’s risk advisory services group, where he applies his expertise to assist clients with complex Bank Secrecy Act and Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) and sanctions compliance, as well as investigative matters.
He brings over 30 years of experience in banking, regulatory compliance, and financial crimes investigation. He is a federally designated expert in BSA and most recently served as a Senior Bank Examiner with the Office of The Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in Washington, D.C. specializing in BSA/AML and Sanctions compliance. Prior to that, BJ served as a Senior Special Agent within the Office of Enforcement at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). He completed a twenty-year career as a Supervisory Special Agent with the United States Secret Service and served as a Senior Advisor to United States Senator Alfonse D’Amato, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.
Additionally, he has served as a BSA/AML/OFAC Compliance Officer for several large complex multi-national financial institutions during his career. B.J. directs BSA/AML consulting engagements including transaction look-backs, risk assessments, independent testing of compliance, and model validations and calibrations.
B.J. is a Certified Global Sanctions Specialist.
Sudharshan Narva
Director, Data Analytics Internal Audit
TIAA
Sudharshan Narva is a seasoned data analytics leader with more than 22 years of experience in building end to end data driven solutions to combat fraud, waste and abuse. Narva worked in large healthcare organizations such as Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna-CVS, Pfizer etc., where he led and managed risk based proactive data driven initiatives to identify and target fraud, waste and abuse. Among the solutions Narva and his team operationalized were outlier & anomaly detection, behavioral fraud segmentation, control effectiveness measurement and predicting future fraud.
Narva presently leads TIAA’s Internal Audit Data Analytic team to support Internal Audits & Investigations and is leading an initiative to move the division from sample based audits/investigations to risk based full population testing & automation.
Narva is Industrial & Production Engineer, MBA major in Operations Research and Methods and CFE.
Carlos Orel
Head of AML Risk, Regulatory Advocacy, Products and Monitoring
TD Bank N.A.
I have over 30 years of Compliance experience in the financial services industry. I am the Head of AML Risk, Regulatory Advocacy, Products and Monitoring and champion an amazing team who delivers with pride every time. My team provides leadership to Regulatory Advocacy and Change Management, new Products and Services that the Bank wants to bring to market, objective evaluation of business line compliance to AML requirements, AML Risk Assessment, evaluation of AML surveillance systems and execution against Operational Risk Management requirements.
Charlotte is my base and my team is in NJ, MN, SC and TX.
Mandy Ramlow
Head, North American AML Financial Intelligence Unit
BMO Harris Bank N.A
Mandy Ramlow is a financial services professional with over 25 years of banking experience, of which the majority have been spent in the AML and Compliance field. She joined Bank of Montreal (BMO) in 1996 and has held numerous progressively more senior roles throughout the bank including in the branches and Compliance before joining AML in 2004. She has played key roles in supporting integration/merger activity and managed a number of different Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) teams before taking on the role of U.S. AML FIU Director in February 2014 and now the Managing Director of the AML North American FIU overseeing the U.S and Canadian jurisdictions (2019).
Mandy began her banking career at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, in Sydney Australia, prior to moving to the United States, where she has a B.A from the University of Wisconsin and is currently working on her MBA with a concentration in Business Intelligence. Mandy has been CAMs certified since 2008.
Aisha Rouse
Director, Fraud
Morgan Stanley
Aisha is speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2022.
Bharat Sadula
Director AML/ ATF and Sanctions Audit; Global Head of Transaction Monitoring
Scotiabank
Bharat is speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2022.
Jason Samuels
Special Agent
Homeland Security Investigations
From 2001 through 2013, S/A Samuels was assigned to HSI’s New York Office where he worked large international narcotics and violent crime cases including a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Cases.
In 2014, S/A Samuels was assigned to the HSI Child Exploitation Group where he helped initiate a large-scale enforcement operation focusing on positions of public trust.
Beginning in 2016, S/A Samuels was assigned to the newly formed HSI Dark Web and Crypto Currency Group where he initiated Operation Dark Gold described in a 2018 Department of Justice press release” as the First Nationwide Undercover Operation Targeting Darknet Vendors.”
Since 2019, S/A Samuels has been assigned to the Long Island Financial Crimes Group.
Dalit Stern
Senior Director/ Enterprise Fraud Risk Officer
TIAA
DALIT STERN is a Senior Director and Enterprise Fraud Risk Officer in TIAA. She leads the oversight of fraud risks and misconduct and drives enhancements to the fraud risk program. She leads assessments of internal and external fraud; monitoring of metrics; development of policies and standards, root-cause analysis and escalation protocols, risk appetite statements.
Ms. Stern is a CPA (Isr.) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). An MBA graduate of Tel Aviv University who holds a certificate in Cybersecurity: Managing Risk from Harvard University. She is an adjunct professor at New York’s Baruch College and is a frequent speaker and author on fraud risk management and investigations.
Evan Weitz
Managing Director, International Controls Executive
Wells Fargo
Evan Weitz is currently a Managing Director and the International Controls Executive for Wells Fargo. In that role, he is responsible for all global first-line-of-defense risk awareness, identification, and management of all risk issues including regulatory, compliance, and operational risk. Evan previously served as the Financial Crimes Leader for the Corporate and Investment Banking Division at Wells Fargo and as the Regional Head of Controls for Europe and Americas – Financial Crime Compliance for Standard Chartered Bank. Prior to joining the private sector, Evan spent almost a decade as a federal prosecutor serving as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in Atlanta, New Jersey and New York City. As an AUSA, Evan handled a wide array of financial prosecutions with a special emphasis on complex money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act, and asset forfeiture cases. For his work in United States v. HSBC Holdings plc, Evan received both the Assistant Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service (the highest award given by the Department of Justice – Criminal Division) and the Department of Homeland Security Director’s Award for Meritorious Service. He began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and has been a guest lecturer at both the Fordham and Cardozo Schools of Law. Evan holds a B.A. from Rutgers College and a J.D. from the Emory University School of Law.
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We have secured a preferential rate from $299++ per night. Please click here or use the link below to secure your accommodation.
Please note; this rate will expire on March 1 2022 and we only have a limited number of rooms. We advise to book your sleeping rooms prior to this date to avoid disappointment.
If multiple rooms are required please register each room one at a time with the number of nights and guests in each room.
Yes, the Center for Financial Professionals are happy to discuss speaking opportunities at the Fraud & Financial Crime USA Congress. For further information on this please contact alice.kelly@cefpro.com or call us on +1 888 677 7007.
Business attire is requested. The Congress is a formal opportunity to network with like-minded professionals and to gain knowledge from the industry’s finest risk management experts.
We offer incentives for ‘early bird’ registrants of the Congress, as outlined on our pricing structure. Registration includes breakfast, refreshment breaks, lunches, the cocktail reception at the end of the day, full access to the sessions and exhibition area. Presentations from the sessions are also available, subject to speaker approval.
All registered attendees will receive an email with access to documentation and speaker presentations after the Congress*. We will work with our presenters to include as many presentations as possible on our App during the Congress.
* Please note that our speakers often have to gain permission from their relevant compliance departments to release their presentations. On rare occasions compliance may not allow presentations to be distributed.
Yes. As with all of our events, the Center for Financial Professionals will be providing brilliant coffee, breakfast, lunch, refreshments, and smaller bites during the networking breaks.
There are ample opportunities for networking and interaction throughout the Congress, such as:
- Breakfast, lunch and refreshment breaks
- Cocktail reception at the end of the day (subject to confirmation)
- Q&A, panel discussions and audience participation technology
Yes there are plenty of opportunities for the Center for Financial Professionals to share thought-leadership to the attendees of Fraud & Financial Crime USA Congress and our wider risk professionals community. At the event we can distribute your material to the attendees, offer you an exhibition booth, and provide speaking opportunities so that you may enjoy a more prominent presence at the Congress. Visit the Sponsor tab for further information or contact sales@cefpro.com / +1 888 677 7007
Yes. As part of a media partnership we can offer a variety of options to increase the branding and awareness of your association, company, certificate, publication or media. We are flexible with what we can offer however we usually:
- Provide a discounted rate to attend
- Place your logo and profile on the Congress website
- Place your logo on promotional content where applicable
- Distribute your media/marketing at the Congress
- Promote through social media channels
To discuss this further please contact lauren.carter@cefpro.com or call +1 888 677 7007.
If you are unable to attend the Congress due to national/Covid restrictions, CeFPro would be more than happy to offer you a refund, credit note or the option to transfer the ticket to a colleague who is able to attend.
Representing a financial institution or government body – (E.g. Bank, Insurance company, Asset Manager, Regulator)
Fraud & Financial Crime USA
16-17 March 2022
END OF YEAR
SPECIAL
$599
SAVE $500
Registrations before December 10
NEW YEAR
SPECIAL
$699
SAVE $400
Registrations before January 21
EARLY
BIRD
$899
SAVE $200
Registrations before February 25
STANDARD
RATE
$1,099
Registrations after February 25
Representing an information/service provider (E.g. Consultant, Vendor, Executive Search Firm, Law Firm)
Fraud & Financial Crime USA
16-17 March 2022
END OF YEAR
SPECIAL
$1,499
SAVE $1000
Registrations before December 10
NEW YEAR
SPECIAL
$1,699
SAVE $800
Registrations before January 21
EARLY
BIRD
$1,999
SAVE $500
Registrations before February 25
STANDARD
RATE
$2,499
Registrations after February 25
PLEASE NOTE: To qualify for the preferential ‘early bird’ rates, registration must be received by the close of the ‘early bird’ working day, and payment can be made at the time of registering, or up to a week after registration is made an invoice sent. CeFPro reserves the right to increase rates should payment be delayed significantly. For Group Rates to be valid, the whole group must register at the same time, though names can be changed at any time up to the event at no additional cost. Should a delegate register at a rate that is inaccurate, CeFPro reserves the right to issue an additional invoice for the outstanding amount.
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