Lana
Schwartzman, CAMS
Lana Schwartzman is the Chief Compliance Officer at Paxful, one of the leading Peer-2-Peer Bitcoin marketplaces where she drives forward the vision and strategy for implementation of a robust and industry leading BSA/AML and OFAC compliance program. She has more than 15 years of experience specializing in Compliance and AML, and is a frequent presenter/speaker on crypto compliance. Lana is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and obtained the ACAMS Virtual Currency Certification. She was a contributor to Project Participate “Indicators of Suspicion for VASPs” paper, is part of the AML Working group for Global Digital Finance “GDF”, and is a member of the Blockchain Alliance.
Prior to joining Paxful, Lana spent her early years at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in various compliance roles and thereafter spent 7 years at Grant Thornton LLP in the Regulatory Risk Group specializing in BSA/AML and OFAC regulations. She has assessed and developed the KYC onboarding along with the BSA/AML Programs for various cryptocurrency exchanges, financial institutions and foreign banking organizations. Additionally, she led annual BSA/AML and OFAC independent program reviews along with other non-AML audits. She is known to be a Subject Matter Expert in regulations and compliance for cryptocurrency companies.