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- Gina Adelphia Executive in Crowe Chizek’s
Financial Institutions Group in Chicago, her consulting
practice is devoted to providing anti-money laundering,
Bank Secrecy Act and customer identification program services
to institutional clients. Previously, she held AML compliance
positions at Sears Roebuck and Bank of America and also
served as the AML and OFAC officer at Banco Popular North
America, directing money laundering investigations, designing
technology to track and report them, and leading self-assessments
of BSA compliance and internal controls in all regions.
- Alma M. Angotti Counsel, Department
of Enforcement of the U.S. National Association of Securities
Dealers, she is the top NASD expert on anti-money laundering
and OFAC supervision and regulation of securities dealers.
Previously, she was senior enforcement counsel of the
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network where she helped
redesign the Bank Secrecy Act enforcement program and
draft BSA and USA Patriot Act regulations for hedge funds,
investment commodities trading advisers, commodities futures
merchants, broker-dealers and mutual funds.
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 Lisa
D. Arquette Associate Director of the new Anti-Money
Laundering and Financial Crimes Branch, U.S. Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, Washington, D.C., she is acting
chair of the federal banking supervisory interagency group
on Bank Secrecy Act/AML examinations and was a key player
in the development, testing and rolling out of the first-ever
interagency BSA/AML Examiners’ Manual. Previously,
she was chief of the FDIC’s AML and special activities
section. She sits on the Treasury Department’s Bank
Secrecy Act Advisory Group and the Terrorist Finance Working
Group.
C. Thomas Atkins, CAMS Senior Examiner
of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, he field-tested
the new interagency Bank Secrecy Act Examiner’s
Manual. He is a longtime Bank Secrecy Act specialist and
is a member of the Federal Reserve System Patriot Act
Working Group. He has conducted BSA/AML training sessions
for bankers and for law enforcement officials in Russia
and Armenia and helped develop AML training courses for
BSA examiners from the five U.S. banking supervisory agencies. -
 Samar
Baasiri, CAMS Head of compliance for Banque de
la Mediterranee in Beirut, Lebanon, she has developed
and implemented the bank’s AML compliance program
from the start in 2002 . She is responsible for preparing,
maintaining and conducting ongoing training programs for
the bank’s personnel and organized a task force
to perform retroactive customer due diligence reviews.
She addresses information requests from foreign correspondent
banks and regulatory agencies and reviews due diligence
reports of all bank branches.
Gregory A. Baldwin Partner in the Miami
office of Holland & Knight, specializing in litigation
and other representation of corporate and individual clients
in a wide range of money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act,
white collar crime, and forfeitures matters, including
development and implementation of compliance programs
focusing on the avoidance of corporate involvement in
money laundering. He is a former federal prosecutor and
counsel to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. - Brian Berntson, CAMS Special Agent,
U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation,
Chicago. During his long career he has conducted many
money laundering and financial crime investigations of
public corruption, drug trafficking, and white collar
crime leading to money laundering prosecutions. H e is
a member of the IRS CID group of expert witnesses that
are called to testify in government prosecutions of money
laundering and Bank Secrecy Act criminal cases, and has
testified in several successful money laundering prosecutions.
Jeffrey Breinholt Deputy Chief, Counterterrorism
Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Washington,
D.C., he leads a team of federal prosecutors that targets
and prosecutes cases involving terrorist financing. He
is a frequent lecturer and the author of two books, Counterterrorism
Enforcement: A Lawyer’s Guide and Taxing
Terrorism, From Al Capone to Al Qaeda: Fighting Violence
Through Financial Regulation (to be published). He
is a Research and Practice Associate of the Syracuse University
Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. - Karen Buck Burgess Senior Adviser,
Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.,
which oversees a principal part of the commission’s
AML effort. She represents the SEC’s legislative
agenda before the U.S. Congress and has held various legal
positions in the Division of Market Regulation and the
Office of the Chairman of the SEC. A lawyer, she is a
frequent speaker on money laundering regulatory issues,
including examinations of securities firms for Bank Secrecy
Act and AML compliance.
Brian Buckley Senior Vice President, International
Risk Management of Visa International, San Francisco,
he oversees Visa’s anti-money laundering program,
coordinates global fraud control initiatives, and develops
global risk management strategies. He has held a variety
of management positions in the division, including product
and technology risk assessment. Prior to Visa, he worked
at the Federal Home Loan Bank, San Francisco, where he
managed residential collateral operations. 
John J. Byrne Senior Vice President and Anti-Money
Laundering Strategy Executive, Bank of America, Washington,
D.C., he works with federal and state regulatory and law
enforcement agencies in developing AML regulations and
policy. For 17 years he was director of the American Bankers
Association’s Center for Regulatory Compliance and
the leading spokesperson of the U.S. banking industry
on money laundering legislative and regulatory issues.
He is a member of the U.S. Treasury Department’s
Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group.  Gregory J. Calpakis, CAMS Director of Training, Alert Global Media, New York, he develops anti-money laundering and terrorist financing training initiatives. He is a former Office of the Comptroller of the Currency bank examiner, AML consultant for KPMG, and has also served as the BSA/AML Officer for a large foreign financial institution. In those capacities, he has assisted financial institutions with the development and implementation of BSA/AML programs, and has conducted training for all levels of personnel.  - David B. Caruso Managing Director, Dominion
Advisory Group, Centreville, Virginia, an anti-money laundering
consulting firm. He previously was executive vice president
of compliance at Riggs Bank, Washington, D.C., where he
built an investigation and security department in response
to adverse, highly publicized actions by the Office of
the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve, Justice
Department and others. Earlier, he was a Special Agent
of the U.S. Secret Service, which investigates money laundering
through credit, debit and pre-paid cards.
Peter G. Djinis A practicing attorney in McLean,
Virginia, specializing in advising clients on BSA and
money laundering issues, he is a former top policy and
regulatory official of the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network where he helped draft Bank Secrecy Act regulations
and in decisions on penalty actions. Previously, he was
a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. He is
the editor of Money Laundering Alert’s
Complete Bank Secrecy Act Regulations and drafted its
section-by-section analysis. 
Cynthia L. Eldridge Assistant United
States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in
Mississippi, she led the prosecution against AmSouth Bank,
the large U.S. regional bank based in Alabama. The prosecution
led to the then-largest forfeiture and money penalty ever
imposed on a U.S. bank for Bank Secrecy Act violations,
a combined $50 million in 2004. She specializes in cases
involving a variety of white collar crime with money laundering
components, including bank, securities, and mortgage fraud,
and other complex cases.
Jamal El-Hindi Associate Director of Program
Policy and Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control,
U.S. Treasury Department, in Washington, D.C. He oversees
compliance policy, licensing and outreach divisions. Previously,
he was an attorney in the office of chief counsel for
foreign assets control in Treasury’s General Counsel’s
Office, where he was advisor on various sanctions programs.
Earlier he was a lawyer at the law firm, Patton Boggs,
in Washington, focusing on regulation of international
business and banking transactions and litigation.  Robb Evans As Principal of Robb Evans & Associates in Los Angeles, he serves as receiver, liquidator, consultant and expert witness in many legal cases on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, other government agencies, banks and other entities. He specializes in the tracing and location of assets of persons and entities that are under investigation or being prosecuted. He has testified before state and federal legislative committees, including the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, regarding offshore banking and money laundering.- Lynne Federman Senior Vice President and Global Director of Anti-Money Laundering Compliance at JPMorganChase in New York since 2003, she supervises all aspects of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing compliance, policies, procedures and projects. Her responsibilities include examination management and regulatory responses, as well as OFAC compliance. She chaired the firm-wide Anti-Money Laundering Oversight Committee (AMLOC), which brought together representatives from across the organization to create and implement anti-money laundering policies and address related issues. She is a participant in the Wolfsberg Group.
 Sharon P. Farrell Director of the
BSA/AML department, North Fork Bank, New York, she administers
AML compliance and provides regulatory guidance to various
business lines, develops and provides training to employees
and coordinates regulatory and internal examinations.
A lawyer, she was investigative counsel to the criminal
investigations bureau of the New York State Banking Department
and its representative on the New York High Intensity
Financial Crimes Area Task Force, where she implemented
the USA Patriot Act compliance best practices program. 
Victoria E. Fimea Vice President and Counsel
of Fort Dearborn Life Insurance, Chicago, where her duties
include development and implementation of the company’s
anti-money laundering program under the new U.S. Bank
Secrecy Act regulations issued by FinCEN. She is a member
of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bank Secrecy Act
Advisory Group. Previously, she was senior counsel of
the American Council of Life Insurers and the leading
voice of the life insurance industry on money laundering
controls and USA Patriot Act issues. 
Shonda Forde, CAMS Senior Examiner of the Central
Bank of Barbados, she leads anti-money laundering inspections
of licensed financial institutions and assesses the risk
management framework and safety and soundness of offshore
banks. She helped develop the Central Bank’s anti-money
laundering framework, including elements such as suspicious
activity reporting, and is one of its main internal AML
training facilitators. She is preparing for an assessment
in 2006 of the Barbados anti-money laundering framework
by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force. -
 Susan
J. Galli, CAMS Senior anti-money laundering coordinator
of Citigroup’s global anti-money laundering team and
director of AML compliance for Latin America. Previously,
she was compliance director of Citibank's cash
management and trade business, including e-commerce. Prior
to that, she was AML compliance officer of Banco Santander
Central Hispano for the U.S. and the Caribbean with responsibility
for compliance by Latin American affiliates. She has served
on the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bank Secrecy Act
Advisory Group.
R. Stephen Ganis Vice President and Enterprise-Wide
Anti-Money Laundering and U.S. Sanctions Officer of Fidelity
Investments, Boston, he is the principal AML and OFAC
compliance officer for several Fidelity business elements,
including broker-dealers, mutual funds, trust companies,
investment advisers, unregistered investment companies,
and insurance companies. A lawyer, he was legal counsel
to the Committee on Banking and Financial Services of
the U.S. House of Representatives, providing advice to
members of Congress on money laundering control issues. 
Cherie D. Hamblin, CAMS Vice President
and compliance officer of TSYS Prepaid, New York, a leading
provider of prepaid card solutions in the booming pre-paid
card industry. The company’s clients include several
Fortune 500 companies, small and medium size business
enterprises, and leading financial institutions. She develops,
administers and supervises the company’s compliance
with statutory and regulatory anti-money laundering and
terrorist financing requirements in the United States
and other countries where AML duties are imposed on the
company.  Stephen M. Hancock, CAMS Head of Group Money Laundering Prevention for Prudential plc, in London, a financial firm in 20 countries throughout Europe, South Africa, Asia and the United States, providing life assurance, pensions and investments, fund management and property investment and management services. He is founding Chairman of the UK Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers and has been an advisor to the Egyptian government, the Czech Police and the European Development Bank in Sarajevo on various AML issues and policies. Marc Hambach, CAMS Associate director of Supervision of the Dubai Financial Services Authority, an independent regulator that sets rules and standards in the new Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), a purpose-build financial free zone in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He administers the DFSA's AML function, authors AML regulations, which aim to mirror the standards and requirements of the FATF 40+9 recommendations, the 2nd EU Money Laundering Directive and certain elements of the USA Patriot Act. 
Peter R. Hazlewood Senior vice president and
head of compliance of DBS Bank, Singapore, the largest
bank in Southeast Asia with operations in 16 countries.
He is responsible for programs in all areas of financial
crime risk including money laundering and terrorist financing.
Previously, he held senior AML positions at JP Morgan
Chase, in New York and Singapore, and was a Detective
Senior Inspector in the intelligence section of the Hong
Kong Police, specializing in cross-border white collar
crime investigations. 
Héctor Hernández Gatica Compliance
and Anti-Money Laundering Managing Director of Grupo Financiero
Banamex, in México, he is also an executive coordinator
of the Mexican Bankers Association and a private sector
representative of GAFI-Sud, the FATF-style regional body
that focuses on money laundering controls in Latin America.
A lawyer, he was counsel of the board of directors of
Citibank in México focusing on international affairs
issues. He participated in corporate restructuring and
governance projects during the acquisition of Banamex
by Citigroup. 
Charles A. Intriago Founder of Money Laundering
Alert, in 1989, and moneylaundering.com and lavadodinero.com,
leading authorities on money laundering and terrorist
financing. Earlier, he served in Miami as a U.S. federal
prosecutor specializing in corruption cases, as special
counsel on organized crime to Governor Reubin Askew of
Florida, and, in Washington, as chief counsel to a U.S.
House subcommittee that oversaw the operations of all
U.S. agencies now involved in the money laundering control
effort.
John A. Ibbotson Detective Inspector of the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, he administers the Toronto Integrated
Proceeds of Crime Section. For 24 years, he has participated
in major money laundering and drug investigations and
is qualified as a money laundering expert witness in Canadian
courts. He played the lead role in many multinational
investigations targeting organized crime groups of various
origins and activities in Canada and abroad and has coordinated
investigations with many law enforcement agencies of other
countries.-
 Ann
F. Jaedicke Deputy Comptroller for Compliance,
U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the principal
U.S. bank regulator, she oversees money laundering control
policies and examination procedures. A member of the interagency
Bank Secrecy Act Task Force, she played a key role in
the development and implementation of the uniform multi-agency
BSA Examiners’ Manual for depository institutions.
She began her career as a bank examiner for the OCC, including
service in London examining the foreign affiliates of
U.S. banks.
- Pamela Johnson Director of global AML compliance monitoring and training at Citigroup, New York, a position that takes her around the globe responding to problem areas of compliance and regulation. Previously she was director of AML policy at Deutsche Bank in New York, senior AML coordinator of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, where she helped develop AML and USA Patriot Act policy.
Lester Joseph Principal Deputy Chief, Asset
Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section of the U.S. Department
of Justice, Washington, D.C., he guides and assists federal
prosecutors and law enforcement agencies throughout the
United States in money laundering and forfeiture cases
and advises Justice Department officials on money laundering
control legislative and prosecutorial policies and procedures.
He has participated in some of the landmark U.S. money
laundering prosecutions, including several that established
the extraterritorial reach of the U.S. law.
Ami Kim Manager of Anti-Money Laundering Compliance
for Capital One Financial Corp., Falls Church, Virginia,
a diverse Fortune 200 multinational financial services
company. She administers several aspects of the company’s
money laundering controls, including issues dealing with
governance and reporting to the board of directors and
senior management. Her management of the AML program includes
risk assessment, policy development, training, auditor
and examiner relations, compliance monitoring and remedial
action. A lawyer, she previously helped manage litigation
in the company’s legal division. 
David Landsman Executive Director, National
Money Transmitters Association, New York, he is an authority
on money laundering controls and regulatory issues applicable
to money transmitting businesses. He specializes in Bank
Secrecy Act and state licensing compliance issues. He
has led efforts to counter the trend among U.S. banks
to close the accounts of money transmitters. He is developing
compliance training and certification programs for the
NMTA, whose members are primarily small to medium-sized
transmitters whose owners and agents are primarily Hispanic. 
William D. Langford, Jr. Associate Director
for Regulatory Policy, Programs and Enforcement of the
U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network, he oversees regulatory compliance and enforcement
functions and participates in establishing and coordinating
national anti-money laundering policy. An attorney, he
is a principal author of several Bank Secrecy Act regulations
that have been issued under the USA Patriot Act. He was
previously special assistant on BSA and AML issues to
the general counsel of the Treasury Department. 
Pedro Martinez-Fraga Partner in the Miami office
of the law firm, Greenberg Traurig and head of its international
practice section. As a litigator, he led the initiatives
of the Chilean government agency, the Consejo de Defensa
del Estado, to uncover and obtain evidence and records
about the U.S. bank accounts of former dictator Augusto
Pinochet, his family and fronts. His effort required four
banks in the United States to produce records and provide
testimony for the government of Chile about the Pinochet
accounts.
Michael R. McDonald, CAMS
Principal, Michael McDonald and Associates, Miami, a consulting
firm specializing in money laundering and forfeiture issues
and independent examinations of AML controls of banks
and money transmitters and operations of government agencies.
As a special agent of the U.S. IRS Criminal Investigation
Division he was a pioneer of the U.S. money laundering
control effort helping to found the legendary Operation
Greenback in South Florida in 1979. He was a special agent
for 28 years and investigated many money laundering cases
that led to conviction. 
Robert S. Michaels Partner in the Chicago law firm Robinson Curley & Clayton, P.C. He litigates cases around the country on behalf of receivers of insolvent insurance companies that were victims of looting and money laundering schemes. He has played a lead a role in lawsuits arising from the scheme led by Martin Frankel, including suits again Dreyfuss Service Corporation, Bear Stearns & Co., AmSouth Bank, and other financial institutions and individuals. 
Christopher A. Myers, CAMS Partner in the Washington
office of the law firm, Holland & Knight, specializing
in white collar crime and corporate compliance representations
throughout the United States. He represents various types
of financial institutions on money laundering and Bank
Secrecy Act matters, including internal investigations,
training, risk assessment, design and implementation of
controls, and compliance. His work in internal investigations
seeks to determine the exposure of clients to regulatory
actions and prosecution and the presentation of appropriate
responses.
Bridget M. Neill Manager of Anti-Money Laundering
Policy and Compliance at the Federal Reserve Board, Washington,
D.C., she formulates, implements and coordinates the U.S.
central bank’s supervision of financial institutions,
including non-U.S. institutions operate in the United
States, for AML and Office of Foreign Assets Control compliance.
She is a member of the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group,
the interagency committee that developed the new interagency
BSA Examiners’ Manual and the U.S. delegation to
Financial Action Task Force meetings. 
Patricia E. Potts Technology program and service
delivery engagement manager at Bank of America, Charlotte,
North Carolina, she manages the bank’s investigation
and detection program of the AML risk compliance technology
section focusing on risk mitigation and efficient technical
application solutions. She has managed and facilitated
core systems processes, integrated multiple systems and
managed data across distinct applications. Previously,
she was engagement manager for implementation of AML software
at Alliance Consulting in New York.
John E. Pyrik, CAMS A consultant to financial
institutions and government agencies, including the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police, on the collection and exploitation
of open source intelligence. Based in Ottawa, he is an
expert on exploiting the Internet for due diligence in
AML work, and has taught an online course on Internet
investigations for several years. Previously, he was an
intelligence officer and a money laundering analyst in
Canada. He is a visiting fellow at the Centre of Intelligence
and Security Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. 
Valerie Regnault, CAMS Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money
Laundering and OFAC Officer, in New York, for the U.S.
offices of the multinational French bank, Societé
Generale, which consists of a New York bank and two securities
dealers, she designed and implemented the AML and OFAC
compliance programs and is the U.S. compliance and AML
training coordinator for the institution. She has implemented
enhanced due diligence processes and monitoring systems
applicable to correspondent, retail and private banking
and broker dealer operations.
James R. Richards Bank Secrecy Act and AML officer,
Wells Fargo, San Francisco, and an innovative AML officer
having helped create the concept of financial intelligence
units for financial institutions to focus and coordinate
an institution’s approach to money laundering and
other financial crime. Previously, he was anti-money laundering
operations executive at Bank of America, in Boston, and
director of FleetBoston Financial Group’s financial
intelligence unit. The author of a book on transnational
and organized crime, he is a former prosecutor in Canada. 
Saskia V. Rietbroek-Garces, CAMS The first
executive director of the Association of Certified Anti-Money
Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), Miami, for nearly four
years from its founding in 2002, she now helps produce
the 3,000+ member association’s training and certification
programs and products. An attorney who speaks five languages,
she is president of AML Services International LLC, in
Miami, lectures on international money laundering and
related issues and is on the editorial board of advisors
of Money Laundering Alert.
Seth D. Rigrodsky Partner in the Delaware office
of the national law firm, Milberg Weiss, the well-known
plaintiff’s firm whose main office is in New York.
He has represented shareholders of Bank of New York and
Riggs Bank in successful stockholder derivative lawsuits
against the members of the board of directors in cases
fostered by the money laundering-related regulatory and
law enforcement problems the institutions encountered
with U.S. authorities. More recently he has filed a similar
suit against the board of directors of AmSouth.
Anthony L. Rodriguez, CAMS Chief Compliance Officer,
RIA Financial Services, a large independent money transmitting
company in Cerritos, California, which also provides other
money services through more than 10,000 agents, stores
and correspondents in several countries primarily in Latin
America. He directs RIA’s global anti-money laundering
compliance program, including AML training for the company’s
independent agents. Previously, he was chief compliance
officer of Pronto Envios, a money transmitter, and a vice
president of compliance at JPMorgan Chase, both in New
York.
Ariadna I. Rojas Compliance Officer of BNP Paribas,
in Panama City and its Cayman branch in Panama, her duties
include monitoring, training and developing money laundering
control procedures for private banking and investment
accounts at both institutions. The latter are supervised
by Panama’s securities regulatory agency. A lawyer,
she has led efforts to coordinate AML compliance standards
and procedures at other Panamanian institutions that operate
in diverse financial sectors such as securities, insurance,
money transmissions, casinos and real estate. 
L. Jeffrey Ross Senior Advisor, U.S. Treasury
Department’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial
Crime, Washington, D.C., he coordinates the operations
of various Treasury agencies, the Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network, Office of Foreign Assets Control and IRS Criminal
Investigation Division, three key elements of the U.S.
government’s money laundering and terrorist financing
efforts. A former prosecutor, he was previously assistant
on money laundering to the Assistant Attorney General
for the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. 
Michael G. Rufino Senior Vice President of Member
Firm Regulation, New York Stock Exchange, New York, he
helped establish the NYSE’s Bank Secrecy Act/AML
examination module and is responsible for training the
exchange’s examination staff on the BSA and the
money laundering control provisions of the USA Patriot
Act. A member of the Treasury Department’s Bank
Secrecy Act Advisory Group, he previously was a field
examiner and examination director of the financial and
operational department of the NYSE’s division of
member firm regulation. Maureen Sanders Regulatory Consultant for Bryan Cave law firm in Washington, D.C. She has served over 30 years at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service as National AML Program Manager among other positions. At IRS, she worked with the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network to establish Bank Secrecy Act examination policies for money services businesses and casinos. She specializes in preparing clients for IRS AML program examinations and also works with clients facing potential enforcement actions. 
Robert B. Serino Counsel at the law firm of Buckley
Kolar and Senior Advisor for Financial Services at Watkins
Consulting, Inc., Washington, D.C., he is a leading U.S.
expert on money laundering and BSA controls at banks and
other financial institutions. His practice specializes
in representing and advising those institutions on supervisory,
regulatory and enforcement issues. Previously, he spent
many years at the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency, including service as deputy chief counsel and
director of enforcement where he oversaw OCC actions against
national banks and individuals. 
Stephen J. Shine Senior vice president and regulatory
counsel, Prudential Equity Group, LLC, New York, he manages
regulatory affairs of the securities and related companies
that serve customers worldwide and offer other products,
including mutual funds, annuities, asset management and
real estate brokerage. They include Prudential Insurance
Co., one of the largest life insurance companies in the
U.S. He advises all AML efforts, helps design AML programs
and is co-chair of the Securities Industry Association
AML Committee and is a former federal prosecutor.
L. Jane Simmons Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering
Officer for correspondent banking of Scotia Bank, Toronto,
she developed the enterprise-wide correspondent banking
policies and procedures manual, which includes money laundering
control responsibilities. She administers all compliance
duties in the correspondent banking division. She played
a leading role in constructing and implementing the multinational
bank’s trade finance and correspondent banking compliance
program, including a retroactive know-your-customer program
for the bank’s 1,400 worldwide correspondent banks
and implementing its correspondent account monitoring
software.
Daniel D. Soto, CAMS Chief compliance officer
of RBC Centura, Raleigh, North Carolina, the U.S. affiliate
of the Royal Bank of Canada, he manages the entire compliance
function including the AML and Bank Secrecy Act portions.
Previously, he was global AML compliance executive of
Bank of America where he oversaw AML and OFAC compliance
worldwide. Earlier, he was a money laundering control
official of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington. He
is chairman of the Association of Certified Anti-Money
Laundering Specialists.
Leonard A. Steinmetz Senior Manager of the Global
Anti-Money Laundering Practice of Deloitte’s financial
advisory services unit, he specializes in developing and
implementing technology strategies, systems and processes
to help financial institutions comply with anti-money
laundering laws and regulations of the United States and
other countries, including currency and suspicious transaction
reporting, enhanced due diligence, information sharing
and customer identification and verification programs.
He analyzes the products of AML software vendors exploring
product infrastructure requirements and capabilities and
operating procedures.  John Wagner CAMS Director of Bank Secrecy
Act and Anti-Money Laundering Compliance, Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, he supervises
development of BSA/AML examination policy and procedures
and training programs for the OCC field staff. He also
provides policy interpretation and guidance to field examiners
and staff and represents the OCC and U.S. Treasury Department
on interagency task forces. A commissioned national bank
examiner, he previously was a BSA/AML specialist in the
OCC’s compliance policy division. - Richard Weber Chief, Asset Forfeiture
and Money Laundering Section, U.S. Department of Justice,
Washington, D.C., he establishes policies and procedures
for the nation’s federal prosecutors and investigators
in asset forfeiture and money laundering cases. The section
promotes the consistent use of the money laundering statutes
among prosecutors and manages the department’s national
asset forfeiture program. Previously, he was Special Assistant
U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, in
Brooklyn, where he prosecuted complex international and
domestic laundering and forfeiture cases.
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 Andrew
J. Zembles Director, Corporate Compliance, Pacific
Life Insurance Company, Newport Beach, California, a Fortune
500 financial services company in the life insurance,
annuities, and mutual funds business, he oversees, directs
and manages the company’s anti-money laundering
program, including development and implementation of policies,
procedures, controls, and training. His management of
the program includes advising the company’s multiple
operating divisions of their AML responsibilities. A lawyer,
his other responsibilities at Pacific Life include managing
and directing the OFAC compliance program.
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