Masterclass: AI in Sanctions Screening and Transaction Monitoring

Sam Cousins is a Senior Associate at ACAMS, where his work includes supporting public-private partnerships and strengthening ACAMS thought leadership pillar through the development of content on sanctions and risk, particularly the Sanctions Masterclass program and Global Monthly Update. Sam's work also focuses on countering ransomware financing, which includes enhancing industry awareness of the anti-financial crime risks associated with ransomware attacks and supporting the mitigation of those risks through policies, training and public-private dialogue.

Prior to ACAMS, Sam worked on the Sanctions Policy team at UK Finance - the trade association for the UK banking sector.

Will has 20+ years of experience leading global financial crime operations, transformation programmes, and product strategy and development across financial services, both as a Managing Director within banks and as an advisor/consultant. He has previously worked as Global Head of Financial Crime Quality & Standards at Natwest, and his experience comes from a breadth of leading global financial institutions including HSBC, Barclays, and UBS.

Jocelyn is the Global Transaction Monitoring Lead at ING, responsible for all elements of Transaction Monitoring (TM) and previously was the Global Screening Lead. She has also held the positions of Global Head of Sanctions, Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) and Gifts and Entertainment (G&E), Head of Financial Crime Screening and OFAC Officer roles at Barclays. Jocelyn has extensive experience in designing and implementing Sanctions, ABC and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) strategies and operating models, especially in relation to screening/filtering technologies. She is a respected expert on Sanctions, TM and Screening within industry groups, providing thought leadership and contributing to publications.

Long Ye serves as the U.S. Head of Financial Crime Detection at HSBC, overseeing financial crime risk detection including development, implementation, and operations of HSBC’s global AI-driven AML technologies in the US.  He is responsible for the integration of advanced Ai/ML technologies such as Dynamic Risk Assessment (DRA) and Quantexa, as well as traditional rule based systems to detect and mitigate financial crime and is directly involved in the operational execution and strategic oversight of these technologies within the U.S. market.

He has 25 years of experiences in financial services, government and consulting services working globally in Europe, Asia and in the US.   He is a private pilot, motorcyclist and self-confessed data and techno geek.