Brita Bayatmakou

Brita Bayatmakou is a Senior Director in FINRA’s National Cause and Financial Crimes Detection Program where she leads the Cyber and Analytics Unit. Her team’s mission is to assess and enhance member firms’ cyber controls, support firm examination teams, and conduct complex investigations in the cybersecurity, cyber-enabled fraud, and crypto asset disciplines. Additionally, she leads the department’s data analytics and technology strategy, which helps to proactively target top financial crime-related threats. Brita joined FINRA from Charles Schwab where she built out several functions within the Financial Crimes Risk Management organization including an intelligence team that analyzed and identified emerging and complex fraud, cyber, and AML-related trends. She also led a team that focused on financial crime threat detection using data science and advanced analytics. Brita served as the BSA/AML Officer of Schwab’s Mutual Funds, ETFs, Worldwide Funds PLC and Charles Schwab Futures, Inc. Brita has authored/co-authored several publications related to financial crimes, cybersecurity, and AML topics. She holds two Masters Degrees, is a Certified Financial Crimes Specialist (CFCS), and Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). In addition to English, Brita speaks French, Farsi, and Arabic.