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The Association has enlisted the highest level of
international industry professionals to serve on its Advisory Board,
representing several industries and regions. The Advisory Board is responsible
for keeping ACAMS on the cutting edge of anti-money laundering practices and
ensuring ACAMS’ place as the premier provider of state-of-the-art services to
its members.
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 John
J. Byrne, CAMS
Advisory Board Chair
Regulatory Relations Executive – Global Compliance & Operational Risk
Bank of America
Byrne recently joined Bank of America as senior vice president. Previously, he
worked for the American Banker’s Association for 22 years and was responsible
for ABA's lobbying, regulatory and educational efforts on money laundering, and
other compliance issues. He is a member of the Treasury Department's Bank
Secrecy Act Advisory Board. He was also the first private sector recipient of
the “Director's Medal for Exceptional Service” from the Treasury Department's
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
email: john.j.byrne@bankofamerica.com |
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Richard
Small
Advisory Board Vice Chair
Global Anti-Money Laundering Leader, GE Money
Small is the global anti-money laundering leader for GE Money in Stamford, Connecticut. Previously with Citigroup, Small was the managing director, global anti-money laundering and was responsible for overseeing the AML policies and procedures for Citigroup’s businesses globally. Prior to Citigroup, Small worked with the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. He joined the Federal Reserve in 1989 as special counsel, with responsibility for all Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering matters, conducting investigations of complex financial transactions, suspicious activities and related enforcement actions.
email: rick.small@ge.com |
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Samar Baasiri, CAMS
Head of Anti-Money Laundering Unit, BankMed
Baasiri is currently the head of the Anti-Money Laundering unit at BankMed in Beirut, Lebanon and has been in charge of preparing the bank’s Anti-Money Laundering policies and procedures on a risk-based approach. She also participated in building the AML risk matrix model now used in the bank and implemented Anti-Money Laundering software for the AML unit for monitoring customers and internal accounts. Previously she was the head of operations division and trade finance at the United Bank of Lebanon, the customer relations manager at Bank Audi and is the former assistant head of operations & trade finance at HSBC, Canada.
email: baasiris@bankmed.com.lb |
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Lisa
Kim Estrada, CAMS
President, Five Point Consulting
Estrada is president of Five Point Consulting. Estrada has created and implemented day-to-day administrative compliance issues in anti-fraud, anti-money laundering, and privacy policies and procedures for several product providers under one holding company. She served as the separate accounts compliance officer overseeing Rule 38a-1 compliance under the 1940 Investment Company Act for a product provider and worked closely with fund complexes and broker/dealers in the securities industry.
Estrada received her juris doctor from Barry University.
email: lestrada@itradefx.com |
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Wissam Fattouh
Deputy Secretary General, Union of Arab Banks
Fattouh joined the Union of Arab Banks (UAB) in January 1990. He served as the director of conferences and was responsible for the supervision of regional and international events. Currently the assistant secretary general of the UAB, Fattouh opened the channels of communication with international bodies in the financial community and is recognized as a pioneer in the MENA region for creating AML/CFT technical training programs and forums. Fattouh has also established a number of professional associations such as the Group of Certified Compliance Officers (GCCO), Group of Certified Risk Managers (GCRM), and was one of the initiators of the US-MENA Private Sector Dialogue on AML/CFT where he remains as an active member of its steering committee.
email: wissam@uabonline.org |
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Rainer G. Hoerning, CAMS
Senior Compliance Officer and
Vice President, Credit Suisse
Hoerning assists the global AML compliance director and is responsible for ensuring bank-wide compliance with laws, regulations, international standards, and internal policies as senior compliance officer and vice president of Credit Suisse in Zurich, Switzerland. His focus is on minimal standards and the global management of risks associated with money laundering and terrorist financing. He also represents Credit Suisse in the Wolfsberg Group. Previously, he was compliance advisor at Citizens Financial Group's Financial Intelligence Unit in Rhode Island, USA.
email: rainer.hoerning@credit-suisse.com
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Barry Koch, CAMS
Senior Vice President, Washington Mutual
Koch recently joined Washington Mutual as senior vice president in charge of the compliance program for the retail bank. He is also responsible for WaMu's enterprise anti-money laundering program. Before joining WaMu, he was global head of AML at American Express, where he was also responsible for the Sanctions Center of Excellence. He has held senior compliance positions at Charles Schwab & Co., and Smith Barney. Koch represented American Express on FinCEN’s Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, created by Congress to advise the Secretary of the Treasury on BSA issues, and wrote the screenplay for Money Laundering: A Global Menace, the anti-money laundering training video used widely in the financial services industry. He participates in industry working groups and initiatives such as The Wolfsberg Forum, the New York Clearing House AML Committee, and the United States Treasury Department's Private Sector Dialogue.
email: barry.koch@wamu.net |
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James
Richards, CAMS
Senior Vice President and Corporate Bank Secrecy Act Officer, Wells Fargo
Richards recently joined Wells Fargo as a senior vice president and the corporate
Bank Secrecy Act officer. Previously, he was the global AML operations
executive in the compliance risk management division of Bank of America. Prior
to joining FleetBoston (currently Bank of America), Richards served as supervisor
of the Narcotics Forfeiture Group and assistant district attorney in the
Middlesex County Special Investigations Unit in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is
a former Canadian barrister and was a Special Constable with the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police. James is the author of “Transnational Criminal Organizations,
Cybercrime, and Money Laundering” (CRC Press, 1998).
email: Jim.R.Richards@wellsfargo.com |
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Saskia Rietbroek, CAMS
President, AML Services International, LLC. USA
Rietbroek is president of AML Services International, LLC, a consulting and training company in the money laundering and terrorist financing field. She was the first executive director for the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) from 2001 to 2005. Rietbroek has developed training manuals, has conducted training for Money Laundering Alert and ACAMS, and coauthored “The Guide to Anti-Money Laundering: A self - study course” for Informa, a U.K. financial crime services company. She has an International MBA from Florida International University, a law degree from the Netherlands and Peru, and speaks five languages.
email: saskia.rietbroek@gmail.com |
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Nancy
J. Saur, CAMS, FICA
Group Head of Compliance & Risk Management, ATC Group N.V.
Saur is currently responsible for compliance and risk management for the offices of the ATC Group
N.V. In 2004, she was appointed director and general manager of Bodden Compliance Services Ltd., a successful compliance consulting company headquartered in the Cayman Islands. She founded the Cayman Islands Compliance Association, managed the development of computer-based training for its members and created a Cayman Islands module for an international compliance training program.
email: nancy.saur@atctrust.ky |
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Daniel
D. Soto, CAMS
Chief Compliance Officer, RBC Centura
Soto was recently elected as the new chief compliance officer
of RBC Centura. Before joining RBC, he was responsible for overseeing
anti-money laundering (AML) and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
compliance activities in Bank of America's worldwide operations. Soto also
worked as bank examiner with the FDIC and the Federal Reserve and helped
develop the Fed's AML examination policies. He is recognized as an expert in
the international laundering compliance field.
email:dan.soto@rbc.com |
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