Ameesha
Chandnani
Ameesha leads a team within U.S. Financial Crime Analysis team as part of HSBC’s Compliance function. The team is dedicated to proactive identification of risk across a variety of financial crime topics including bribery and corruption, international money laundering, sanctions evasion, emerging financial technologies, and fraud, among others. She oversees subject matter experts on the team who analyze developments across the globe that impact the bank’s risk profile and develop typologies to proactively identify latent risk through proprietary data analysis. Prior to joining HSBC in 2018, Ameesha spent most of her career in intelligence, most recently as an Intelligence Specialist at the New York Police Department where she focused on terrorism investigations and emerging cryptocurrency typologies. Ameesha earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Northwestern University in 2005 and a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2011.