13th Annual International Money Laundering Conference & Exhibition - March 16-19, 2008

the moneylaundering.com and money laundering alert 13th annual international conference and exhibition

Speakers

	Alan Abel AML global practice leader at Crowe Chizek, Fort Lauderdale, he has advised the boards and senior managers of more than 100 global and regional financial institutions in developing and strengthening their AML processes. He has also assisted governments around the world in evaluating their money laundering control efforts. In 2006, he participated in the Financial Action Task Force’s evaluation of the money laundering control efforts of the United States.
	Hany Abou-El-Fotouh, CAMS First vice president and group head of corporate governance and compliance, ABC Bank, Egypt, he is a leading expert on money laundering and terrorist financing controls in the Middle East-North Africa region with extensive experience in AML compliance and training. Founder of the Middle East Compliance Officers' Forum, he has been honored for his work in promoting compliance awareness in Egypt and the MENA region. Previously, he held top compliance positions in multinational institutions, such as United Bank of Egypt, HSBC Egypt and Egyptian British Bank Egypt.
	Lisa D. Arquette Associate director of the new anti-money laundering and risk analysis branch of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Washington, she is an experienced expert in U.S. money laundering controls and serves as chair of the federal banking supervisory interagency group on Bank Secrecy Act examinations. She was a key player in the development, testing and launch in 2004 of the revolutionary interagency United States Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Examiners’ Manual, which serves as a useful compliance guide to financial institutions that do business in the United States. 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 Terrorist Finance Working Group.
	John H. Atkinson Assistant vice president in the Supervision and Regulation Division of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, where he oversees anti-money laundering and fraud examinations, investigations, training, and outreach. He directs the supervision of all aspects of international and domestic wealth management activities and coordinates all enforcement actions in the Sixth Federal Reserve District. Previously, he served two years as the Federal Reserve System’s associate product manager for the Fedwire program. He is also a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and seminars on money laundering matters.

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Nelson Cierra, CAMS
Wells Fargo Bank,
San Francisco USA

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Assane Thioye Diene, CAMS
BHS NY Corporation,
New York USA

“Excellent program with very high quality speakers... answers to major issues.”
Robert A. Petix
National Bank of Kuwait SAK
New York, USA

“Excellent, I would recommend it to anyone (in) the AML industry.”
Patricia Emerson
Wachovia,
Charlotte, North Carolina USA

“Unforgettable conference; many tools to apply in an AML program.”
Diego Tola
Stanford Services Ecuador SA Quito, Ecuador

“The main event in the AML field that one cannot miss.”
Lyonel Dartiguenave
Unibank
Pétion-Ville, Haiti

“Very rich in information.”
Younus Almoalem
Dubai Police
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Mary Rand
AXA Equitable
New York, USA

	Gregory A. Baldwin, CAMS Partner at Holland & Knight, Miami, he practices in the area of complex commercial litigation, specifically in matters involving federal and state money laundering laws, the Bank Secrecy Act, securities fraud and racketeering laws. His practice also includes white collar crime, and civil and criminal forfeitures. Baldwin also assists clients in developing and implementing corporate compliance and AML programs. Previously he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, in Miami, and as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
	Elise J. Bean Staff director and chief counsel, U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Washington. Since 1999, she has directed investigations into money laundering through private and correspondent banking and corrupt "politically exposed persons." She played a key role in helping Senator Carl Levin, who chairs the subcommittee, in drafting many of the money laundering provisions of the USA Patriot Act and the terrorist financing sections of the Intelligence Reform Act. In 2003, she led the hearings on the laundering of the secreted funds of Augusto Pinochet and others at Riggs Bank.
	John J. Byrne, CAMS Executive Vice-President and regulatory relations, global compliance and operational risk executive at Bank of America, Washington, he helps develop the bank’s policies and dialogue with federal and state regulatory and enforcement agencies on money laundering issues, regulations and policies. He is the Chair of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). For 17 years, he was the director of the Center for Regulatory Compliance of the American Bankers Association and the leading spokesman on money laundering issues of the U.S. banking industry. He is a charter member of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group.
	Ralph M. Fatigate Director of litigation and fraud investigations at BDO Seidman, New York, he leads the firm’s anti-money laundering compliance operations and initiatives representing financial institutions throughout the world on Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering issues. Previously, as director of criminal investigations at the New York State Banking Department, he supervised money laundering investigations and bank compliance matters. He helped develop a data mining system to help identify terrorist-related financing through wire transfers and also trained foreign banks and regulators on AML.
	Brian Ferrell Assistant general counsel of compliance, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Connecticut, he serves as senior anti-money laundering and Office of Foreign Assets Control compliance attorney. Previously, he was chief counsel of the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Treasury Department, where he provided legal and policy guidance and advice on a range of money laundering-related issues dealing with the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act, money laundering and terrorist financing regulations and other diverse domestic and international anti-money laundering issues, including the use of financial information in enforcement operations.
	Lewis B. Freeman, CAMS An attorney and certified public accountant, he is principal of Lewis B. Freeman & Partners, in Miami, a firm that specializes in serving as receiver of businesses that have gone bankrupt by virtue of fraud of the principals. He has served as trustee in some of the most publicized fraud cases in recent years. He and his firm also provide forensic accounting and consulting services to federal and state agencies including the Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Florida Department of Insurance, the Attorney General of Florida, as well as law firms and businesses.
	Jorge Guerrero, CAMS President and CEO of Optima Compliance and Consulting, New York, which provides anti-money laundering compliance consulting services to money transmitters, banks, broker dealers, regulators, and law enforcement agencies in the United States and other countries. An attorney, he is also a founding member and former president of the National Money Transmitters Association and former member of the Advisory Board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS).
	Tom Haider Senior vice president for government affairs and chief compliance officer, MoneyGram International, Inc, an international payment services company headquartered in Minneapolis, one of the largest money services businesses in the world. He oversees all aspects of compliance, including anti-money laundering laws and regulations, terrorist financing prevention, and OFAC compliance. He also leads MoneyGram’s legislative, regulatory and licensing operations to ensure ongoing compliance with all government requirements, and to actively present MoneyGram’s positions to legislative and regulatory officials.
	Lester Joseph Principal deputy chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, he guides and assists federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies throughout the United States in money laundering and forfeiture cases, including various “Deferred Prosecution Agreements”. He advises Justice Department officials on money laundering control legislative and prosecutorial policies and procedures and has participated in some of the landmark U.S. money laundering prosecutions, including several that established the extraterritorial reach of the U.S. law.
	Michael R. McDonald, CAMS Principal, Michael McDonald and Associates, Miami, a consulting firm specializing in anti-money laundering issues and examinations of the AML controls of banks and money transmitters and government operations. For 28 years, he was a special agent of the U.S. IRS Criminal Investigation Division, where he was a pioneer of the United States money laundering control effort. He helped found Operation Greenback in South Florida in 1979, the first governmental effort focused on the finances of international drug traffickers. He was a founding member of the Advisory Board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS).
	Jane Ogden Head of corporate financial crime prevention, HBOS, Edinburgh, a United Kingdom banking and insurance group that serves as the holding company for Bank of Scotland, which operates the Bank of Scotland and Halifax. She is responsible for the operations that are charged with the prevention and detection of money laundering, terrorist financing and fraud. She has more than ten years’ experience in the areas of risk management, anti-money laundering, as well as credit, regulatory, fraud and operational risk.
	Jeffrey B. Reitman Head of global compliance at JP Morgan Chase in New York, he oversees the entire compliance function for the global JP Morgan Chase enterprise, including anti-money laundering and OFAC compliance. Previously he was senior vice president and associate general counsel at the company’s southwest U.S. region at the predecessor bank, Texas Commerce Bank until August 2001. He is a career banker and expert on the legal and regulatory issues that global financial institutions face.
	James R. Richards, CAMS Bank Secrecy Act and AML officer, Wells Fargo, San Francisco, is a widely respected and innovative AML officer who helped create the concept of financial intelligence units within financial institutions to coordinate a company-wide approach to the prevention of money laundering and financial crime. He is a former prosecutor in Canada and also previously served as anti-money laundering operations executive at Bank of America and FleetBoston Financial Group, in Boston. He authored a book on transnational and organized crime and money laundering.
	Jeffrey Sklar, CAMS Principal at Sklar Heyman & Co. CPAs, New York, he assists and counsels financial institutions in developing, implementing and reviewing AML and Bank Secrecy Act compliance programs. He has extensive anti-money laundering experience in the check-cashing, pawn-broking and money transmission industries, many of whose members he has counseled in compliance, operations management, internal controls and regulatory issues. He chairs the Money Services Business Task Force of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) and is Chair of the Greater New York Chapter of ACAMS.
	Richard A. Small Global anti-money laundering leader, GE Money, Stamford, Connecticut, he previously served as the managing director of global anti-money laundering operations at Citigroup, overseeing and helping develop global AML policies and procedures. For several years he was the principal money laundering control official of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, responsible for Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering matters, and investigations of banks supervised by the Federal Reserve for possible regulatory and statutory violations of U.S. money laundering laws and regulations. During his government service and after he played an important role in the formulation of anti-money laundering laws and regulations of the United States. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS).
	Daniel D. Soto, CAMS Chief compliance officer, RBC Centura, Raleigh, North Carolina, he supervises and manages the full compliance operations and policies of his multinational institution, including AML. Previously, he oversaw Bank of America’s anti-money laundering and Office of Foreign Assets Control global compliance and was a bank examiner at the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and anti-money laundering official at the U.S. Federal Reserve Board in Washington, where he helped develop its AML examination policies. A recognized expert in international money laundering compliance, he was the founding chairman of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.
	Natasha Pankova Taft, CAMS Director of compliance for global foreign exchange services, American Express Co., New York, she has more than twelve years experience in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing compliance in the banking, foreign exchange and consulting sectors in the United States and other countries. A native of Russia and fluent in Russian, she previously served at Deloitte and Ernst & Young as a consultant where she led global implementation of AML monitoring, account opening and risk databases at various financial institutions. She has also assisted financial institutions in developing risk models, audit programs and AML training curricula.
	Richard Weber Chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, he establishes policies and procedures for prosecutors and investigators in the 93 Offices of U.S. Attorneys throughout the nation. The section he directs in the Justice Department promotes the consistent use of the money laundering statutes among prosecutors and manages the department’s national asset forfeiture program. He has led cases that have resulted in Deferred Prosecution Agreements signed with various well-known financial institutions in the past three years. Previously, he was Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, where he prosecuted complex international and domestic money laundering and forfeiture cases.
	Timothy R. White, CAMS National risk specialist at Banker’s Toolbox, Denver, a company that offers Bank Secrecy Act and AML products to financial institutions. A specialist in OFAC compliance, he has addressed OFAC and BSA issues at several conferences in the United States and Europe, including, in June 2006, a European Union-United States Workshop on Financial Sanctions and Terrorist Financing. He has also helped trainFederal Reserve Bank BSA/AML specialists on OFAC compliance technologies.
	Dr. John S. Zdanowicz Professor of finance, Florida International University, Miami, he is the world pioneer in exposing money laundering and suspected terrorist financing through international trade. His first article, with documentation, on aberrant pricing in international trade as a mask for money laundering, was published in Money Laundering Alert in January 1992. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Customs and the U.S. Justice Department on transfer pricing and money laundering through trade and has presented his research to the European Commission, the Treasury Department’s U.S.-MENA Private Sector Dialogue and international conferences.

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