Christopher
Ruzich, JD, CAMS
Christopher Ruzich is the regional head of Deutsche Bank’s Financial Crimes Intelligence Unit in the Americas. Chris supervises a growing team of senior financial crime experts. Chris and his team produce reports related to proactive reviews of sanctions evasion, terrorist financing, human trafficking and other significant financial crime concerns. Chris’s team focuses on building out and maintaining public private partnerships. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Chris provided financial crime compliance advisory services on correspondent banking clients in the Middle East and Africa for Standard Chartered Bank. Chris started his career at Standard Chartered with the Financial Crimes Investigation Unit, where he supervised and trained a team of more than a dozen anti-money laundering investigators. Chris was responsible for overseeing Standard Chartered New York’s major investigations, coordinating with law enforcement and liaising with Standard Chartered affiliates across the Bank’s network on global investigations. Before beginning his career in financial crime compliance, Chris worked as a prosecutor for nearly a decade, serving as a deputy attorney general for the State of New Jersey and an assistant prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey. As a deputy attorney general, Chris investigated and prosecuted healthcare claims and insurance fraud, racketeering, money laundering, commercial bribery, tax evasion and other white-collar criminal offenses. While an assistant prosecutor, Chris handled over a thousand felony cases. Chris obtained his law degree from The Fordham University School of Law.