October’s AML Professional of the Month was awarded to Atuweni Juwayeyi-Agbermodji, CAMS. Juwayeyi-Agbermodji is a member of the Malawi Bar Association. She holds a master’s in public international law. She is currently pursuing a master’s in anti-corruption compliance and collective action with the International Anti-Corruption...

September’s AML Professional of the Month   was awarded to Abdul Waris Latifi, CAMS. Latifi is a compliance professional with over eight years of expertise in anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF), financial crime, sanctions, investigations and regulatory compliance. Latifi currently works as deputy money laundering reporting...

August’s AML Professional of the Month   was awarded to Niclas-Andreas Müller. Müller is an experienced auditor and advisor with deep subject-matter expertise in anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions compliance and fraud risk management. As a senior manager at the global accounting firm KPMG, Müller assures...

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...

April’s AML Professional of the Month was awarded to Farid Ahmad Yousufzai, CAMS. He is an active member of the anti-financial crime (AFC) community and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). Yousufzai is a subject-matter expert and specialist in anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) and...

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...