Michael
Bass
My banking career began in 2006 with JPMorgan Chase where I went from business banking into compliance in 2010. AML became my passion and after being promoted to manager I was recruited to run the Enhanced Due Diligence group for Bank of the West in the Bay Area in 2015 for three years. I spent a year with a Fintech working for my former CCO to help build an AML operation from scratch before finally returning home to Columbus, Ohio in 2019 to work for US Bank as a Senior AML Manager. During my time in San Francisco I served on the board of the ACAMs NorCal Chapter. Throughout my career in the AML/BSA space I have worked extensively in various operations where I had direct involvement with regulatory exams and large technology projects. The financial crimes compliance space has always felt like home and was a perfect fit for me as a US Army veteran who served in Iraq in 2003/2004 as a Psychological Operations Specialist. It combined my passion for intelligence analysis and collection with the financial services sector. It truly is a pleasure to come into work every day and solve problems to protect the bank and the United States.