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Our latest anti-financial crime (AFC) guru, Rezaul Karim, CAMS, is a highly experienced and internationally recognized compliance professional from Bangladesh with a demonstrated history of working in know your customer (KYC) compliance, anti-money laundering (AML) investigations, risk governance and effective handling of various financial crime...
Our latest anti-financial crime (AFC) guru, Patricia Kordesch, CAMS, has three decades of experience in the areas of governance, risk management, control frameworks and internal audit, with a focus on anti-money laundering (AML) and change management. She held leadership positions in Europe, APAC and the...
Anti-financial crime (AFC) guru Adam Vocalino-Szymanski, CAMS, has been in the AFC industry for nearly seven years. He began his career in AFC as an investigator tasked with reviewing various suspicious activity alerts and cases. Vocalino-Szymanski is now the deputy Bank Secrecy Act and deputy...
This month’s anti-financial crime (AFC) guru, Lindsay Lindmier, CAMS, CAFP, is the director of Financial Crimes and Bank Secrecy Act/Office of Foreign Assets Control (BSA/OFAC) officer at Security National Bank in Omaha, Nebraska. Security National Bank, which is a privately owned bank with an asset...
Marbel Guilamo Peña, gurú de la lucha contra los delitos financieros y anticorrupción, tiene 20 años de experiencia en la banca. Actualmente es gerente de la División de Cumplimiento Ético, Antisoborno y Anticorrupción del Banco de Reservas (Banreservas). Su trabajo ha contribuido significativamente a las...
Anti-financial crime (AFC) guru Marbel Guilamo Peña, who has 20 years of experience in banking, is the manager of the Ethical Compliance, Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Division at Banco de Reservas (Banreservas). His work has contributed significantly to the areas of banking regulation, compliance operations, corporate...
El gurú en antilavado de dinero (ALD) Sanjeev Menon, director gerente del área de prácticas legales y de cumplimiento de Madison Davis, está especializado en la contratación de ejecutivos y ofrece soluciones de personal a clientes que luchan contra el crimen financiero. Menon es profesional...
Anti-financial crime (AFC) guru Amy Wotapka, CAMS, CRCM, CFE, CIPP, FCRA, CQIA, is a lifelong banker with over 20 years in the AFC industry and a champion for other AFC professionals. Beginning her career as a suspicious activity investigator, Wotapka now serves as Bank Secrecy...
Anti-financial crime (AFC) guru Sanjeev Menon, managing director of Madison Davis’s Legal and Compliance Practice Area, specializes in executive recruitment and provides staffing and workforce solutions to compliance and anti-financial crime (AFC) clients. Menon, who is an ASA Certified Staffing Professional and holds a Society...