Shannon Bennett has spent her entire career working in the Financial Industry with a primary focus on the laws and regulations related to Financial Crime. She recently accepted a new role at U.S. Bank in the Customer Due Diligence Operations (CDDO) where her new role is SVP-Chief Operations Officer. Prior to that she was in an executive position and responsible for managing the entire Financial Crime Portfolio in the Project Management Organization. Before her move to U.S. Bank, Shannon was with Wolters Kluwer Financial Services (WKFS) as the Senior Director/General Manager of Financial Crime Control Strategy and Consulting, serving as a senior advisor and strategist to clients in preventing, identifying, and resolving opportunities for fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes in banking, securities, insurance, and other financial service organizations.

Prior to joining WKFS in 2012, Shannon was the Senior Director for Law Enforcement Liaison and Technical Strategies for MoneyGram International, where she served in a variety of compliance leadership roles, including overseeing agent oversight, compliance technology initiatives, government reporting, and transaction monitoring functions.

She has been on the ACAMS Greater Twin Cities Chapter board since 2011 in many different roles and currently is a Co-Chair. Shannon frequently presents at ACAMS and other industry conferences and has written several articles in various industry publications.