Robert
Casares
Robert Casares is a highly accomplished Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) with extensive experience in banking operations, information technology, and financial crime risk management. His comprehensive background spans diverse areas of fraud detection, compliance, check fraud, BSA/AML, wire fraud, debit/credit card fraud, and CRB compliance.
Mr. Casares has been providing Financial Crime Risk Management consulting services to financial institutions since 2012, under his consulting firm SentryNet LLC. Before forming SentryNet, Mr. Casares was the Director of a debit card fraud division for a large debit/credit card processing center. In that role, he directed a fraud team that was comprised of fraud analysts and developers where he and his team developed and deployed a custom card fraud monitoring system providing 24/7 fraud prevention support to over 150 financial institutions nationwide.
His experience conducting multiple high-profile fraud investigations with members of the Secret Service, FBI, and IRS Criminal Investigations resulted in the affirmative identification of merchant data breaches and other significant fraud activity stopping fraud at the source, and significantly reducing fraud losses for his bank clients.
Today Mr. Casares is the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for Bankcard International Group, a high-risk merchant services company. There he leads the risk and compliance team as well as heading up banking relations of banking partners currently serving the cannabis industry.