Bintou
Coker
Bintou Coker is a certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist from ACAMS, holds an MBA from University of Nicosia, Cyprus and BSC from London Metropolitan University, UK in Banking and Finance. She is a leading West African based financial crime fighter, the Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Standard Chartered Bank, The Gambia. She works in the Gambia currently, and prior to that established the compliance unit at GTBank Liberia Ltd and acted as MLRO, also contributed in setting up the Liberia Financial Intelligence Unit.
Bintou has 13 years of experience in the banking sector and has been in various roles within the financial sector with wealth of experience. Also, a former Head of Chapter for ACCPA (Association of Certified Compliance Professionals in Africa) Gambia where she demonstrated great leadership in bringing together all compliance professionals to achieve one common goal which is to fight against financial crimes. Bintou recently collaborated with John Cusack who is the former Global Head of FCC at Standard Chartered Bank in drafting the Gambia Threat Assessment that was recently published on the Financial Crime News (FCN).