The Assembly 2023 - Las Vegas | ACAMS | 2 October 2023 | ARIA Resort & Casino, 3730 S Las Vegas Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89158, USA

As the world emerges from the COVID-19 era, compliance professionals see a financial crime landscape that’s both familiar and ever-shifting. Old-school scourges like frauds and scams change form but never disappear. Technological advances benefit both criminals and crimefighters. Budgets may be shrinking, but laws and regulations are expanding.

In this environment, proficiency united with purpose are essential to the pursuit of the AML and AFC mission. It will sharpen both your skills and your professional vision. Learn from thought leaders and expert practitioners from both the public and private sectors as they share insights with fellow compliance and law enforcement professionals.

If you want to pursue the practical knowledge that will make you a better financial crimefighter. Whether your challenge is uncovering money-laundering by a transnational criminal organization or dealing with the compliance challenges of growth at a community bank, experts from industry and government will provide takeaways you can use on day one of your return to work.

2023 Speakers

KEYNOTES:

Elizabeth Rosenberg
Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Erin West
Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County, Office of the District Attorney

SPEAKERS:

Raul Aguilar
Deputy Assistant Director, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)

Trenson Akana
Special Agent, Criminal Investigative Division (CID), U.S. Secret Service (USSS)

Sarah “Poppy” Alexander
Partner, Constantine Cannon

Carolyn Anderson
AML FIU Senior Manager – HRU, BMO Financial Group

Shilpa Arora
Senior Director, Anti-Financial Crime Segment Solutions, ACAMS

Carlos A. Baixauli, Jr.
Special Agent
U.S. Department of Health and Human, Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG)

Kieran Beer
Chief Analyst and Director of Editorial Content, ACAMS

Neil Bhatiya
Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of, Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes

Jason M. Blazakis
Professor of Practice, Middlebury Institute of International Studies, at Monterey

Joshua Blazer, Esq. MBA,CAMS
Chief BSA/AML Officer, SoFi

Michael Bruno
Postal Inspector Program Manager, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS)

James A. Candelmo
Chief Bank Secrecy Act and AML Sanctions Officer, PNC

Ricardo M. Carcas
Assistant Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human, Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG)

Joby Carpenter
Global SME – Cryptoassets and Illicit, Finance, ACAMS

Carolina Ceballos
Chief Compliance Officer, Paxos

David Ceron
Senior Special Agent, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General (FDIC-OIG)

Vasilios P. Chrisos
Advisory Board Member, ACAMS

Kelly Cooper
Vice President, Global Financial Crimes Compliance, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Hue Dang
Global Head of New Ventures, ACAMS

L. Danaë DeMasi-Lemon
Attorney Advisor, Policy Unit, MLARS, U.S. Department of Justice

Victoria Liu Edison
Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, Chime

Patricia Emerson
Head of Financial Intelligence Unit, PNC

Heather Epstein
Director, Americas Head of Sanctions and ABC, Barclays

Kevin Erdman
Senior Vice President, Assistant BSA Officer – Financial Intelligence, Associated Bank

Alessio Evangelista
Partner, White Collar Defense and Investigations; Financial Institutions; Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Sanctions, Skadden Arps

Howard R. Fields
Executive Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer, MasterCard

Brian Filbert
Senior Director - Head of AML Investigations and Enhanced Due Diligence, Ally

Kathleen Finn Bell
Director of Machine Learning, AML, BMO Financial Group

Marcy Forman
Managing Director, Global Financial Crimes Investigations and Intelligence, Citigroup

Jennifer Fowler
Director for Public Policy, Meta Financial Technologies

Sandra Garcia
Director, TFFC, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Michael Greenman
Senior Vice President, Chief Counsel, Financial Crimes Legal, U.S. Bank

David Griesbach
Product Manager – Payments, Compliance and Identity, Alphabet and Google

Lisa Grigg
Chief Executive Enterprise Financial, Crimes, US Bank

Dr. William Scott Grob
Director - Research and Analysis, ACAMS

Steve Gurdak
Initiative Manager, Northern Virginia Financial Initiative, Washington/Baltimore, HIDTA

Jenni Halleran
Deputy BSA Officer, Head of Financial Crimes Investigations, Silicon Valley Bank

Matthew Haslinger
Executive Vice President, Chief BSA/AML/OFAC Officer, M&T Bank

Caleb Hayes-Deats
Partner, MoloLamken LLP

Alicia Hurd
Associate General Counsel, MoneyGram International

Monique L. Johnson
Vice President, Anti-Money Laundering, Program Governance Manager, TriState Capital Bank

Kellie Junta
Vice President, Financial Crime Analytics (FCA), Global Financial Crimes, Bank of America

Nicole Kitowski
Chief Risk Officer, Executive Vice President, Associated Bank

James Lee
Chief, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI)

Scott Liles
Chief Executive Officer, ACAMS

Dennis M. Lormel
President and Chief Executive Officer, DML Associates, LLC

Meryl Lutsky
Vice President and General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, T&M USA, LLC

William Mack
Resident Agent in Charge, U.S. Secret Service (USSS)

James Martinelli
Deputy Associate Director, Policy Division, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

Amy McCane
Vice President of Compliance, Affinity Gaming

Rick McDonell
Former Executive Secretary, Financial, Action Task Force (FATF), Executive Director, ACAMS

Myrna Olvera
Senior Vice President and BSA Officer, East West Bank

Brian O'Toole
Senior Vice President, Senior Director of Sanctions, Models and Analytics, Truist

Tiffany Polyak
Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Associate, Threat Finance, ACAMS

Melissa Raman
Director, Correspondent Banking and Payments Leader, Wells Fargo

Jas Randhawa
Founder and Managing Partner, StrategyBRIX

Rebecca "Becky" Schauer Robertson
Senior Vice President, Director Financial, Investigations Unit, Atlantic Union Bank

Anthony Luis Rodriguez
Compliance Executive, INTER

Warren Ryan
Director for Europe and Eurasia, Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Kate Salottolo
Global Head of AML and Brand Risk Management, Paypal

Seth Sattler
Chief Compliance Officer, DigitalMint

Nicholas J. Schumann
US Head of Financial Crime Program, HSBC USA

Victoria Spivey
Vice President, Fraud Rings and Analytics, Bank of America

Dan Stipano
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Kara Suro
Managing Director, Fraud Risk Management, Charles Schwab

Marshelle Taylor
1st Vice President, Director of AML/BSA/OFAC Compliance, EagleBank

Craig Timm
Senior Director of Anti-Money Laundering, ACAMS

Craig Tremaroli
Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Jamie Udinson
Senior Director, Crypto Asset Investigations, Complex Investigations and Intelligence, FINRA

Dr. Justine Walker
Global Head - Sanctions, Compliance and Risk, ACAMS

Erin West
Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County, Office of the District Attorney

Peter D. Wild, CAMS-Audit
Founder, Wild AML Solutions

Kimberly Brice Williams
Director, Financial Crimes Investigations Manager Global Markets, Bank of America

Bernard Williams, Jr.
AGC – Legal and Compliance, Sony Pictures Entertainment

2023 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Moody's Analytics
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• SymphonyAI
• TRM
• WorkFusion

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• CSI
• Fenergo
• LSEG
• SAS
• Thomson Reuters
• Verafin

GOLD SPONSOR:
• SkyLight

MOBILE APP SPONSOR:
• Hummingbird

POWER HOUR SPONSORS:
• Dow Jones Risk & Compliance
• McKinsey & Company
• RedFlag Accelerator

KNOWLEDGE LUNCH SPONSORS:
• FinScan
• Quantexa
• Socure