Kristi started her career with Oppenheimer Funds, initially within the retirement plans and broker-dealer functions, before moving into compliance. After nearly twenty years with Oppenheimer, she wanted to establish her career in compliance with a larger institution, gaining a broader breadth of experience. Kristi subsequently joined Western Union, where she spent five years, initially serving as the head of the global compliance program overseeing a team of 150 across various locations. She was then asked to rebuild global customer care operations, a newly created role to design and implement a new business strategy within call center operations.

Having completed the customer care program at Western Union, Kristi joined MoneyGram where she led and remediated the compliance functions covering AML and Fraud Prevention. She oversaw an AML function across 38 different countries for over three years, before moving into a new position within compliance overseeing a strategic compliance technology function. In this capacity, Kristi designed and led various projects specifically covering process improvement and automation, the establishment of a continuous monitoring strategy, and large-scale system implementations and integration.

Kristi left MoneyGram in 2018, and worked as an independent consultant at Skrill USA Inc., where she served through August 2019 as the Deputy Chief Compliance Officer. She has led large scale AML functions with two of the world’s largest payments providers, and more recently a payment FinTech organization prior to starting with Green Dot where she currently serves as the SVP, BSA/AML Officer role for both the Corporation and the Bank. Kristi also serves as the organizations Law Enforcement contact.

Kristi has served on the Board of Directors of ACAMS, North Texas Chapter since 2014, was a member of BSAAG – FinCEN Systems IT Systems Planning for the Future – Subcommittee Co-Chair in 2008/2009, had received a patent while working with Western Union for Real-Time Risk Assessment and had received a patent with MoneyGram for compliance processes. Kristi has served on the steering committee for the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), and U.S. Financial Coalition Against Child Sexual Exploitation (FCACSE), and has served as a co-chair for the AML Team for the International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators (IAFCI). Kristi previously held two FINRA licenses while employed with OppenheimerFunds.

Email: kdiehl@greendotcorp.com