Meri Badanyan is currently the Quality Assurance/KYC Team Lead at ACX Compliance, a crypto outsourcing firm. Her previous role was as an AML Investigator at Silverbird Global Limited, a UK-based EMI. Prior to starting her international career, Meri spent nearly 12 years at ARMBUSINESSBANK CJSC (now AMIOBANK CJSC), where she headed the Internal Monitoring Division (AML Team) from 2018 to 2022. From 2006 to 2018, she held various AML positions at different commercial banks in Armenia.

In 2017, Meri earned an international golden standard specialization from ACAMS in Luxembourg, following a preparation course organized by the House of Training of Luxembourg (ATTF). She has participated in numerous international trainings and has extensive knowledge of AML risks in both traditional banks and fintechs. Meri is skilled in real-time and post-transaction monitoring, fraud monitoring, and conducting routine and complex investigations and research. She also possesses strong working knowledge of SARs.

Meri holds a Master's degree in Finance and Credit from the Armenian State University of Economics (formerly the Yerevan State Institute of Economy). She is an active ACAMS member and holds both CAMS and CAMS-RM certifications.