Patricia
Emerson
Trish Emerson is a Senior Vice President and the Head of the AML/BSA Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) for PNC Bank. In this role, she is responsible for the Transaction Monitoring Investigations Team, the Complex Investigations Team, the Enhanced Due Diligence Team, the FIU Operations Team and the Quality Team.
Before joining PNC Bank, Trish was a Sr. Director with Capital One where she was responsible for leading the Complex Investigations Team, the Enhanced Due Diligence Team and the Quality Team. Prior to that, she led the AML Investigations Team at Ally Bank. She has over nineteen years’ experience directly in the financial industry. She has significant experience in Suspicious Activity Report Investigations, Enhanced Due Diligence Investigations and Operations integration.
Prior to her career in banking, Trish was a Special Agent with the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a Special Agent, Trish specialized in international narcotics and money laundering investigations as well as homicide investigations.
Trish attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and minored in Sociology. She is a graduate of the North Carolina Justice Academy Class of 1997.
Her awards include the International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association International Award of Honor and she is a recipient of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Southeast Region case of the year for which she also received the Special Agent of the year award.