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 HSBC Bank Egypt, Banque Saudi Fransi, and Oman International Bank.
Lisa D. Arquette, CAMS
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.
David Bagley
Head of group compliance, HSBC, London, he coordinates and assures implementation of the institution’s anti-money laundering policies in 84 countries, where some 2,500 compliance officers are under his ultimate supervision. He has substantial experience in managing money laundering risks across multiple business lines and in countries with distinct regulatory environments. He is co-chair of the Wolfsberg Group, a global association of twelve major financial institutions which develops compliance and risk management standards for the financial services sector worldwide. He has served in this role since September 2005.
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.
Herbert A. Biern
Former executive vice president and head of regulatory affairs and compliance at ABN AMRO Bank in North America, he is now its advisor in New York. As head of regulatory affairs he coordinated and implemented compliance and regulatory policies and procedures in the North American operations. Prior to 2005, he was senior associate director of the Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System and was responsible for the anti-money laundering enforcement, investigations and activities of the U.S. central 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.
Harold A. Crawford, CAMS
Global head of anti-money laundering, Brown Brothers Harriman, New York, he implements and oversees the international AML program across all business lines including investment management, global custody, banking and advisory services. Previously, he was deputy regional money laundering prevention officer and head of financial intelligence at the Americas region of UBS Investment Bank conducting money laundering due diligence investigations. He is a former national bank examiner at the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
Michael A. de Luca
Senior Advisor in the Regulatory Policy Programs Division of the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Previously, he worked in the Office of Strategic Analysis and served as acting chief of the Strategic Issues Section. His lengthy career at FinCEN has mainly been devoted to the technical analysis of financial crime data. He co-developed a database to promptly and efficiently query and manipulate data and narratives from suspicious activity reports from financial institutions, which first became a regulatory requirement in April 1996.
Lorenzo Delzoppo, CAMS
The Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering officer at Florida Community Bank, Miami, he manages the small institution’s corporate-wide AML and anti-terrorist financing programs, and coordinates the entire compliance effort. Previously, as chief compliance officer of MoneyExpress Financial Corp., he supervised the AML monitoring of international wire transfers and, before that role, he was chief compliance officer at Girosol Corp., in South Florida. He has developed compliance manuals and training videos, and administered AML training to employees and implemented monitoring software.
Darren J. Donovan
Principal and national forensic banking and finance industry leader, KPMG Forensic, Boston, he represents a variety of international financial institution and other clients in anti-money laundering, financial fraud, due diligence and fraud and integrity risk management matters. He has conducted several transactional “look-backs” for large financial institutions and led a team that conducted independent testing of the AML program of a large mutual fund firm, including review of its proprietary transaction monitoring system. Previously, he was associate director at Kroll, New York.
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 L. Ferrell
Assistant vice president and assistant general counsel, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Connecticut, he is responsible for the development and implementation of a global AML program and ensuring overall compliance of policies and standards for all lines of business. Previously, he was chief counsel of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which is the U.S. financial intelligence unit. There, he provided legal and policy guidance and advice on a range of Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering issues.
Martin Feuer, CAMS
Chief compliance officer of the North American business divisions of Zurich Financial Services, New York, he has thirty years experience in the financial services industry. Previously he was a director at Deloitte & Touche, a compliance officer for Banca di Roma’s U.S. operations and senior Federal Reserve examiner in New York. He is on the board of directors of the International Financial Services Association and belongs to the Association of Insurance Compliance Professionals.
Lewis B. Freeman, CAMS
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.
Hank W. Grant, CAMS
Executive vice president and chief operating officer, SightSpan, Inc., in Charlotte, a consulting firm to financial institutions on AML best practices and procedures, especially on OFAC compliance. Previously, he was executive director of Bank of America’s global OFAC and sanctions programs, where he designed an AML client risk program. He led the compliance division for U.S. and other countries’ regulations in global banking across all products and operations in Asia. In 2006, the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists named him “AML Professional of the Year.”
Gordon A. Greenberg
Partner in the international law firm, McDermott Will & Emery in Los Angeles, he represents corporate and individual clients in money laundering, Bank Secrecy Act and forfeiture civil and criminal matters and congressional investigations, which are often in high stakes “bet your company” cases. The long-time co-host of the annual ABA/ABA money laundering conference in Washington, he was previously a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles where he was chief of the financial investigations unit and tried several groundbreaking cases, including the first extradition from Switzerland to the U.S. for money laundering and one of the largest securities-money laundering cases ever.
Jorge A. 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 E. 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.
Kimberly Hebb, CAMS
Anti-money laundering and bank secrecy act specialist, U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, she supports the development of Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering policy, guidance and examination procedures. She is the lead BSA training instructor and also provides training at the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC). Previously, she worked four years as a compliance officer at a large community bank in Ohio.
Charles A. Intriago
Pioneer in the coverage of money laundering and related subjects through his launch in 1989 of Money Laundering Alert, followed in 1996 by the websites, moneylaundering.com and lavadodinero.com, and international conferences in 1993. He founded the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) in 2001. Often quoted on money laundering subjects by the principal media of the world, he is former U.S. federal prosecutor, Congressional committee counsel, and senior partner in an international law firm. He is fluent in Spanish and a native of Ecuador.
Lester M. 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.
Barbara I. Keller, CAMS
Assistant director, financial markets and community investment, Government Accountability Office, Washington, she is leading reviews of the U.S. Currency Transaction Reporting system, the operations of the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the effectiveness of Bank Secrecy Act compliance and enforcement efforts. Previously, she led reviews of BSA examinations and enforcement, international remittances, USA Patriot Act implementation, the vulnerability of the credit card and Internet gambling industries to money laundering and the implementation and utilization of the National Money Laundering Strategy.
Ron P. King, CAMS
Vice president and chief anti-money laundering officer, Scotiabank, Toronto, he designs, develops, implements and maintains Scotiabank Group’s global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing program. He coordinates all activities related to anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing for the major business lines for the institution and supports management in assessing and managing enterprise-wide risks, developing standards and procedures for anti-money laundering controls, training and monitoring transactions.
Barry M. Koch, CAMS
Global head of anti-money laundering, American Express Company, New York, he manages the corporate AML and sanctions programs and oversees the worldwide compliance programs for its foreign exchange and travelers checks businesses. He is a member of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. Previously, he was a senior vice president of risk management and investigations at Charles Schwab & Co.
William D. Langford
Senior vice president and director of global anti-money laundering, JPMorgan Chase, New York, he oversees the global anti-money laundering program. Previously, he was the associate director for regulatory policy and programs at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, where he focused on the implementation of the anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering provisions of the USA Patriot Act of 2001. He previously served as the senior advisor to the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
Brigitte Lowe
National bank examiner and compliance specialist in the compliance policy division of the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, where much of her work deals with Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering compliance issues. Previously, she was the large bank compliance lead expert on BSA and AML examinations in Cleveland and served as an OCC safety and soundness examiner in Dallas. Since 1990, she has completed many multifaceted, high profile BSA/AML and general compliance examinations of banks of all sizes.
Mia M. Levine
Assistant chief, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, U.S. Department of Justice, which assists federal prosecutors in money laundering investigations and prosecutions. She has prosecuted several noteworthy cases, including the recent prosecution of Union Bank of California, which resulted in a Deferred Prosecution Agreement, forfeiture of $21.6 million and regulatory penalties of nearly $10 million. She played a major role in the American Express Bank International and BankAtlantic cases, which produced Deferred Prosecutions Agreements and forfeitures of $65 million and $10 million, respectively.
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).
Maria Odegbaro, CAMS
An attorney, she manages compliance for DTCC, New York, overseeing Bank Secrecy Act and AML compliance in the U.S. and overseas, including suspicious activity reporting, risk assessment and training. She maintains liaison with regulators, including the Federal Reserve, New York State Banking Department and Securities and Exchange Commission, and reports to senior management and business heads. Previously, she was senior AML officer at Invesco Institutional, New York, served in the special investigations unit of the NASD, and was a prosecutor with the Kings County District Attorney's in New York.
Teresa A. Pesce
Principal in the forensic practice of the international firm, KPMG, New York, she is the firm’s AML service line leader. Before joining KPMG, she was executive vice president and AML director for North America at the global financial services giant, HSBC. Before that she was chief of the Major Crimes Unit and deputy chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan where she supervised all money laundering cases.
Colleen C. Piccone
Deputy associate chief counsel, Customs and Border Protection Division (CBP), Department of Homeland Security, New York, she advises and supervises CBP employees on many issues, including money laundering and forfeiture. She has a unique perspective on enforcement matters having worked at four U.S. departments, Treasury, Justice, State, and Homeland Security. In her years at Treasury she developed an expertise on money laundering issues and worked with U.S. Attorneys’ Offices in criminal and civil cases. She has trained enforcement agents from other countries on money laundering matters.
Maria Elena Plata
Anti-money laundering director, Western Union, Mexico, she has 14 years of experience in compliance and internal audit. Previously, she was deputy director of business and credit audit at IXE Banco, S.A., including AML audit reviews, and coordination of fraud investigations with the legal and security departments. For eight years she worked in audit positions at the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV), of Mexico, culminating as deputy director for planning and on-site examinations of foreign financial institutions.
Molly A. Possehl, CAMS
Attorney and CAMS certified anti-money laundering officer, Transamerica Capital Management, a unit of the AEGON Group, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she manages the anti-money laundering and OFAC program for the annuity part of the business. This includes development and implementation of policies, procedures, controls, and employee training. She also implemented the AML software for the annuities division. Since 2006, she has worked the American Counsel of Life Insurers (ACLI) and the Association for Insured Retirement Solutions (NAVA) on annuity compliance issues.
Waheed Rathore
Senior vice president and head of group compliance and information security, Dubai Islamic Bank Group, Dubai, the first Islamic bank in the world. He is an expert in Islamic banking policies and products, especially in high-risk regions, and has 14 years of experience in leading risk management practices at global institutions. Previously, he was a senior manager at ABN AMRO, where he developed and implemented a risk assessment methodology for the Middle East region and an anti-money laundering monitoring system to detect suspicious activity.
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, he 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.
Alexander D. Seddio
Principal, Anti-Money Laundering Specialists LLC (AMLS), San Francisco, he provides anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing consulting services to banks and other financial institutions. He was a pioneer of the governmental outreach in the United States to financial institutions for cooperation in the money laundering control effort. Before retirement from the agency he was a Special Agent of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division investigating a wide spectrum of financial crimes including money laundering, official corruption, fraud, organized crime, espionage and drug trafficking.
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).
Jack Sonnenschein
Managing director and global head of AML audit, Bank of New York Mellon, New York. Previously, he was the director of risk management standards and initiatives at the global anti-money laundering group of Citigroup, developing technology solutions for customer acquisition and identification programs, transaction and account monitoring and USA Patriot Act and Bank Secrecy Act compliance. He has extensive experience in developing country, product and customer risk models to integrate into and support customer due diligence and monitoring systems.
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.
Lena Stinson
Director of global compliance for the Stanford Financial Group, Houston, she coordinates the entire compliance program for the company’s network of affiliated companies in eleven countries in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean. She develops compliance standards, including anti-money laundering, that cover multiple jurisdictions and diverse financial services and products. Previously, she was the chief operating officer of the Stanford Group Company, a member of the Stanford Financial Group of companies. She holds various U.S. securities licenses and worked at Lehman Brothers before joining the Stanford organization.
Laura Stuber
Counsel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, United States Senate Washington, she supervises a professional staff in a variety of investigations and legislative projects of the legendary Congressional body, the most active in Congress on the money laundering issue. She advises Chairman Senator Carl Levin on issues before the Senate, including subpoenas for testimony and records. In her work for the Senator in the past eleven years, as policy advisor and subcommittee counsel, she has participated in many investigations and hearings involving money laundering, offshore havens, U.S. shell corporations, tax evasion, accounting fraud and other financial crimes.
Natasha Pankova Taft
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.
Lisa Tate
Associate general counsel, American Council of Life Insurers, Washington, she manages ACLI’s litigation activities, including the filing of amicus curiae briefs in courts supporting industry issues. In her position, she also focuses on regulatory and legislative issues involving anti-money laundering, anti-fraud measures, critical infrastructure protection, and securities regulation that affect life insurance companies and their products. Her previous work at ACLI included advocacy of federal tax issues with the U.S. Congress, Department of the Treasury, and Internal Revenue Service.
Ann B. Teixeira
Assistant vice president and anti-money laundering compliance officer at Sun Life Financial, Boston, she is responsible for the anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing policies and programs in the U.S., and has oversight responsibility for the AML programs of the company's international operations in Bermuda. She is currently serving as the project sponsor for the U.S. implementation of AML software in a Sun Life Financial initiative.
Don Temple, CAMS
Director, forensic services practice, KPMG, Baltimore, he is a recognized expert on money laundering, the detection of suspicious transactions and AML programs of financial institutions. Previously, he was the industry expert on currency reporting, fraud and money laundering prevention, detection and enforcement for Mantas. He served for 26 years as a Special Agent with the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service and led and conducted many money laundering, forfeiture and Bank Secrecy Act cases.
David Tilzer
Senior Bank Secrecy Act and AML program manager, Examination Division, Internal Revenue Service, New York, he is a pioneer in money laundering regulation and national BSA expert. He assigns and reviews the work of IRS “Title 31” agents who examine money services businesses, jewelers and life insurance companies for BSA/AML compliance. He sits on teams that review suspicious activity reports and developed training courses for BSA agents who examine life insurance companies. He is creating, with others, a database course to allow agents to effectively test business transactions.
Luisa F. Vargas
Country compliance officer for ABN AMRO Bank S.A. and ABN AMRO Securities in Bogotá, she is head of compliance for the institution’s banking and securities divisions in Colombia. Previously, she worked as the legal advisor of Colombia’s financial intelligence unit, where she was in charge of drafting laws, decrees and policy statements on a wide variety of money laundering issues, participated in the negotiation of bilateral agreements on money laundering issues and analyzed suspicious activity reports for appropriate action.
John Wagner, CAMS
Director of Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering compliance, U.S. 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. As one of the top OCC AML officials, he provides policy interpretation and guidance to examiners and staff and represents the OCC and the U.S. Treasury Department on interagency task forces on money laundering issues. A 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, 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 train Federal 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.
Peter Ziverts
Vice president, external partnerships of the global anti-money compliance department, Western Union, Denver, he develops, maintains and facilitates the company’s relationship with federal, state and foreign government regulators and policy makers in connection with anti-money laundering issues and compliance. He also works with non-governmental organizations in their capacity as opinion leaders on global AML policy issues.
