AFC in Practice: How to Use Audit and Assurance to Test Your Compliance Program

Dr William Scott Grob, CAMS-FCI, CGSS, FRM, CAIA, is the Director of Research and Analysis, responsible for promoting quantitative research methods. He has built customized programs, such as the two Illegal Wildlife Trade certificates developed with the WWF & WJC and the two Ending Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking with the FAST Initiative & Polaris. Previously, he was the ACAMS AML Director for the Americas and Asia. Dr. Grob has over 25 years of financial and banking expertise. His most recent role was as Regional Head of Affiliates Management, HSBC, where he worked on mitigating financial crime and correspondent banking risks across Asia. His 12-year career at the bank also included managing risk within the Equity/FX prime brokerage business, Structured Funds business, and Hedge Fund units.

As CCO and BSA officer at United Texas Bank, Pamela oversees and manages all aspects of compliance within the bank. She is responsible for compliance and regulatory obligations of UTB Global’s innovative digital platform that meets the correspondent banking needs of international banks and seamlessly enables the Digital Asset and Fintech/Digital Payment revolution. UTB Global, together with its correspondent banks, fintech partners and customers enable real-time open global digital banking.

Prior to joining UTB, Pamela was Vice President of Crypto Investigations and Risk for Ciphertrace at Mastercard, where she worked with governments, law enforcement officials, regulators, law firms and financial institutions around the world to understand and mitigate cryptocurrency risk and conduct cryptocurrency financial investigations. She was previously Assistant Vice President - BSA and Information Security for First State Bank. She also has 15 years of international experience with investigations, due diligence and operations mostly in Latin America with the U.S. Government.

Pamela has her Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). She obtained her B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and her MBA from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She has conducted trainings and workshops, and spoken about cryptocurrency and financial crimes globally, to include speaking engagements at INTERPOL, UN, EUROPOL, Basel Governance, ACAMS, ACFCS and other international and federal agencies and organizations. Pamela is an acknowledged industry expert in cryptocurrency intelligence and evidentiary criminal investigations. Her opinions and advice have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and on the TV program News Nation. Pam is fluent in both English and Spanish.

Dr. Sam Adam Elnagdy is a globally recognized, result-oriented, doctoral-level risk and internal audit leader with a deep-seated expertise in shaping future-ready risk management and Audit, frameworks and strategies. His broad experience includes a comprehensive knowledge and practice in Financial Crime Compliance and Technology, Fraud, Cybersecurity, Clouds, and Sustainability. Besides his Doctoral Degree in Computer Science as well as other credentials, he holds many credentials in AFC as CAMS, Advance CAMS-Audit, Advance CAMS-FCI, CFE, CGSS.  He works as the Head of Internal Audit of Mashreq Bank USA with previous experiences in JP Morgan Chase, Citi, MUFG, HSBC, Bank of China, Protiviti and as a consultant with Big 4.

Brandi B. Reynolds is Managing Director of AML & Compliance at Bates Group.  She has more than 17 years of experience in the financial services industry supporting companies in the areas of anti-money laundering (AML) and consumer protection compliance. 

Ms. Reynolds was President and Chief Executive Officer of CorCom, LLC—a consulting firm (that is now part of Bates Group) specializing in federal compliance and risk management offering services in  BSA/AML/OFAC Program Development, Risk Management, Training, and Independent Reviews and specializing in areas such as AML, Financial Crimes Prevention (FCP), Consumer Lending, and Money Services Businesses (MSBs).  Prior to CorCom, she was an in-house Deputy Chief Compliance Officer for 11 years. More information about Brandi can be found by visiting https://www.batesgroup.com/experts/brandi-reynolds