Megan
Nelson
Megan Nelson is the Senior Vice President, Director of Financial Crimes Governance for Truist. Megan is responsible for managing the governance, program framework, and risk identification components of a comprehensive Financial Crimes (FC) program; inclusive of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory compliance and Enterprise Fraud Management (EFM). This includes Company-wide anti-money laundering, sanctions risk assessments, customer risk rating, know your customer standards, identify theft red flags assessments, and testing/monitoring processes related to AML and fraud. Prior to joining Truist, Megan was the Vice President over the Global Financial Crimes Compliance Risk Management Office for American Express. In this role, Megan had responsibility for enterprise-wide development of standards and processes related to Customer Due Diligence, Financial Crimes risk assessments, and Customer Risk Rating. Prior to that role Megan served as the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti Money Laundering Officer for American Express Bank, FSB. Prior to American Express, Megan served in various Compliance leadership roles including Bank Control Officer for GE Capital, where she led risk identification, assessment, and testing in Compliance and as the Chief Compliance Officer and Bank Secrecy Act Officer and Anti-Money Launder Officer for a banking organization owned by Lehman Brothers. Megan graduated from Mesa State College. She and her husband, have two children and reside in North Carolina.
Email: Megan.Nelson@truist.com