Money Laundering 2008 - (Page 14) Richard A. Small “ Excellent & comprehensive speakers, and good topics. Edna Gonzalez Laredo National Bank Laredo, Texas USA ” Jeffrey Sklar, CAMS Principal at Sklar Heyman & Co. CPAs, New York, he assists and counsels financial institutions in developing, implementing and reviewing AML and Bank Secrecy Act compliance programs. He has extensive anti-money laundering experience in the check-cashing, pawn-broking and money transmission industries, many of whose members he has counseled in compliance, operations management, internal controls and regulatory issues. He chairs the Money Services Business Task Force of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) and is Chair of the Greater New York Chapter of ACAMS. Global anti-money laundering leader, GE Money, Stamford, Connecticut, he previously served as the managing director of global anti-money laundering operations at Citigroup, overseeing and helping develop global AML policies and procedures. For several years he was the principal money laundering control official of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, responsible for Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering matters, and investigations of banks supervised by the Federal Reserve for possible regulatory and statutory violations of U.S. money laundering laws and regulations. During his government service and after he played an important role in the formulation of anti-money laundering laws and regulations of the United States. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Association of Certified AntiMoney Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). policies. A recognized expert in international money laundering compliance, he was the founding chairman of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). Lena Stinson Director of global compliance for the Stanford Financial Group, Houston, she coordinates the entire compliance program for the company’s network of affiliated companies in eleven countries in North America, Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean. She develops compliance standards, including anti-money laundering, that cover multiple jurisdictions and diverse financial services and products. Previously, she was the chief operating officer of the Stanford Group Company, a member of the Stanford Financial Group of companies. She holds various U.S. securities licenses and worked at Lehman Brothers before joining the Stanford organization. Jack Sonnenschein Managing director and global head of AML audit, Bank of New York Mellon, New York. Previously, he was the director of risk management standards and initiatives at the global anti-money laundering group of Citigroup, developing technology solutions for customer acquisition and identification programs, transaction and account monitoring and USA Patriot Act and Bank Secrecy Act compliance. He has extensive experience in developing country, product and customer risk models to integrate into and support customer due diligence and monitoring systems. Laura Stuber Counsel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, United States Senate, Washington, she supervises a professional staff in a variety of investigations and legislative projects of the legendary Congressional body, the most active in Congress on the money laundering issue. She advises Chairman Senator Carl Levin on issues before the Senate, including subpoenas for testimony and records. In her work for the Senator in the past eleven years, as policy advisor and subcommittee counsel, she has participated in many investigations and hearings involving money laundering, offshore havens, U.S. shell corporations, tax evasion, accounting fraud and other financial crimes. Alexander D. Seddio Principal, Anti-Money Laundering Specialists LLC (AMLS), San Francisco, he provides anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing consulting services to banks and other financial institutions. He was a pioneer of the governmental outreach in the United States to financial institutions for cooperation in the money laundering control effort. Before retiring from the Internal Revenue Service, where he was a Special Agent for the Criminal Investigation Division, he investigated a wide spectrum of financial crimes including money laundering, official corruption, fraud, organized crime, espionage and drug trafficking. Daniel D. Soto, CAMS Chief compliance officer, RBC Centura, Raleigh, North Carolina, he supervises and manages the full compliance operations and policies of his multinational institution, including AML. Previously, he oversaw Bank of America’s anti-money laundering and Office of Foreign Assets Control global compliance and was a bank examiner at the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and antimoney laundering official at the U.S. Federal Reserve Board in Washington, where he helped develop its AML examination Natasha Pankova Taft Director of compliance for global foreign exchange services, American Express Co., New York, she has more than twelve years experience in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing compliance in the banking, foreign exchange and consulting sectors in the United States and other countries. A native of Russia and fluent in Russian, she previously served at Deloitte and Ernst & Young as a consultant where 14 Speakers
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