July’s AML Professional of the Month was awarded to Stacy Albers, CAMS. Albers serves as a Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) officer at First Bank & Trust, a $3.7 billion community bank located in the Midwest. During her 10 years in the anti-financial crime industry, Albers...

June’s AML Professional of the Month was awarded to Jayakrishnan Jayan, CAMS. Jayan has over a decade of experience as an anti-financial crime specialist and has contributed to various essential financial crime controls and capabilities in the financial industry. In his current role as the...

May’s AML Professional of the Month was awarded to Art Taylor, CAMS-FCI. He currently serves as the global head of compliance investigations within PayPal’s Global Financial Compliance and Customer Protection (GFC&CP) division. PayPal is a global leader in digital payments and fintech. PayPal enables payments...

March’s AML Professional of the Month  was awarded to Elizabeth (Liz) Owen, CAMS. Owen is the vice president Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) officer at Avidia Bank, a community bank located in Hudson, Massachusetts. Her responsibilities include overseeing a group of analysts and high-risk specialists as...

February’s AML Professional of the Month  was awarded to Joan Pilsmaker, CAMS. Pilsmaker has 30 years of experience in financial crimes for banking and casino operations and has held several leadership positions focusing on anti-money laundering (AML) operations and investigations. Pilsmaker is currently the AML...

January’s AML Professional of the Month was awarded to April Hannan, CAMS. Hannan is currently the senior manager, enterprise anti-money laundering (AML) training at Scotia Bank. In this role, she is responsible for building the enterprise-wide anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) training program, working with various...

December’s AML Professional of the Month was awarded to Chadwick Burgess, CAMS. He was recognized for his leadership in the anti-money laundering (AML) field. Burgess is currently a manager within the AML financial intelligence unit (FIU) high-risk team at BMO Financial Group, which oversees operation...

November’s AML Professional of the Month was awarded to Danilo Wanderley, CAMS. Wanderley was recognized for his positive impact in the anti-money laundering (AML) field. Wanderley is an active member of the anti-financial crime community and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). With more...

October’s AML Professional of the Month was awarded to Matthew Haslinger, CAMS. Haslinger was recognized for his achievements in the anti-money laundering (AML) field. He is the chief Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) officer for M&T Bank. Haslinger attended George Mason University’s School of Law...

September’s AML Professional of the Month  was awarded to Rezaul Karim, CAMS. Karim was recognized for his achievements in the anti-money laundering (AML) field. Karim is an ambitious AML compliance professional from Bangladesh with five years of experience working in the diverse risk control functions...