Maleka Ali, CAMS, CAMS-Audit

Maleka Ali, President of Arc-Serv (an Independent BSA/AML/CFT/OFAC consulting firm), has over 35 years of experience in the financial industry. Through key roles at several financial institutions, including serving as the BSA officer at three, Maleka has assisted in mergers, acquisitions, system conversions, and the creation of Denovo banks. She also had over a decade of experience at a major AML software vendor, where she learned the inside/out of AML monitoring systems.

She’s CAMS certified and was part of the inaugural class for the Advanced CAMS-Audit certification. Maleka has assisted over 750 institutions in BSA and OFAC compliance programs, model validations, risk assessments, exam remediation, staffing assessments, BSA/OFAC training and how to utilize automated monitoring effectively. She was a founding board member of the ACAMS Southern California Chapter and currently serves on the boards for the ACAMS San Diego Baja California and Hawaii chapters.