Reviewing the evolution of the financial crime landscape and revolutionary mitigation tactics
Fraud & Financial Crime USA
3rd Annual | October 6-7, 2021 | Virtual
AML
Identifying new money laundering techniques and the impact of AMLA
INSIDER FRAUD
Mitigating the risk of insider fraud with the increasing value of data in the context of the pandemic
SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Understanding mitigation techniques for organizations to manage fraud as a result of social engineering
RANSOMWARE
Enhancing understanding of treatment and risks of ransomware attacks
AI AND AUTOMATION
Integrating automation technology effectively into fraud and financial crime operations
CRYPTOCURRENCY
Reviewing the risks and requirements when dealing with cryptocurrency in a financial institution
REGULATION
Addressing increasing regulatory expectations across jurisdictions
MONEY SERVICE BUSINESS
Reviewing Money Services Business activity and how banks can work alongside them
HOME WORKING
Reviewing changes in controls as a result of incorporating hybrid and remote work environment into institutions
Sabeena Liconte
Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Chief Legal Counsel
BOC International (USA) Holdings Inc., member of Bank of China Group
Victor Lessoff
Managing Director, Head of Internal Investigations
TIAA
Max Lerner
Managing Director, Global Head of Sanctions Compliance & Anti-Bribery
State Street
Milan Kosanovich
Supervisory Special Agent
FBI
Brandon Reddington
Head of Sanctions Advisory, Government Sanctions Group
Goldman Sachs
Lester Joseph
Head, Global Financial Crimes Intelligence Group
Wells Fargo
Carlos Orel
Head of AML Risk, Regulatory Advocacy, Products and Monitoring
TD Bank N.A.
James Short
Global Head of AML/ ATF
Scotia Bank
Joseph Del Broccolo
SVP, Head of Financial Crimes Compliance
HSBC
Rebecca Schauer Robertson
Senior Vice President, Director Financial Investigations Unit
Atlantic Union Bank
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08:00 Breakfast and registration | 08:50 Chair’s opening remarks
Moderator: Michael Gorman, MTHREE
HOME WORKING – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Developing controls to a permanent virtual or hybrid environment
- Leveraging automated detection and prevention capabilities
- Balancing costs savings vs. potentially weakened controls
- Educating staff on cyber hygiene practices
- Human psychological element in a more relaxed environment
- Keeping staff diligent in a remote location
- Identifying patterns of activity at home to monitor behaviors
Rebecca Schauer Robertson, Senior Vice President, Director Financial Investigations Unit, Atlantic Union Bank
Bharat Sadula, Director, AML/ATF and Sanctions Audit, Scotia Bank
INSIDER FRAUD
Session details
- Increased risk with remote work forces
- Moving data to an unsecure environment
- Monitoring capabilities of home working for violations
- Increased value of data in the current fraud environment
- Risk to reputation of data theft
- Monitoring access to data
- Increased risk in harder economic environment
- Mitigation techniques and enhanced controls
Victor Lessoff, Managing Director, Head of Internal Investigations, TIAA
Sudharshan Narva, Director, Data Analytics Internal Audit, TIAA
10:20 Morning refreshment break and networking
COLLABORATION
Session details
- Legal environment across jurisdictions
- Importance of timeliness as criminal practices evolve
- Criminal ability necessitating quicker sharing of information
- Moving towards real time access to information
- Aggregating shared data to identify trends
- Limitations of historical data
- Streamlining processes for faster filing of data
- Information sharing with entities and affiliates
Max Lerner, Managing Director, Global Head of Sanctions Compliance & Anti-Bribery, State Street
SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Session details
- Treatment of vendors to mitigate risk
- Increased vulnerability as a result of COVID-19 and changes to work environment
- Mitigation techniques for financial institutions to use
- Identifying owner of account releasing funds
- Verification steps to detect anomalies
- Increase in tactics including romance scams, voice scams and elder abuse
- Managing fraud when legitimate user authorizes payment
Dalit Stern, Senior Director, Fraud Enterprise Risk Officer, TIAA
2LoD COMPLIANCE ASSURANCE
Session details
- Understanding the importance of Compliance Assurance to the institutions Compliance control environment
- Comparing the difference and similarities between Compliance Assurance and Internal Audit
- Addressing Compliance Assurance review stages and expectations
- Monitoring and testing activities
- Mitigating regulatory gaps with advance warning
Mark Elkommos, VP, Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Manager, SMBC
12:35 Lunch break and networking
Session details
- Get up to speed on the current trends and understand the full impact of merchant breaches
- Learn the stages of the theft cycle – from installation of e-skimmers on e-commerce sites through to the sale of exposed cards on the dark web
- Discover how e-skimmer infections evade detection
- Hear how teams leverage surface and dark web data to shorten fraud mitigation cycles, limit client exposure, and cut reputational damages
Stas Alforov, Director of Research & Development, Gemini Advisory
RANSOMWARE – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Treatment of ransomware attacks internally and on customers
- Impact of customers paying ransom to an OFAC listed or sanctioned account
- Liability of breach of requirements
- Informing customers of treatment of ransomware attacks
- Use of cryptocurrency to maintain anonymity
- Case studies of health care and pipeline ransomware cases
- Notifying law enforcement of facilitation of payment
Carlos Orel, Head of AML Risk, Regulatory Advocacy, Products and Monitoring, TD Bank N.A.
Lester Joseph, Head, Global Financial Crimes Intelligence Group, Wells Fargo
AI AND AUTOMATION
Session details
- Using technology more effectively and building efficiencies into programs
- Bridging the gap between the business and IT teams
- Integrating AI into operations and bringing to maturity
- Upskilling of staff and changes to organizational structure
- Governance requirements when using AI
- Managing regulatory and audit concerns
- Developing a strong business case with AI in demand across the enterprise
- Implementing explainable AI
3:30 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
TRADE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
Session details
- Understanding the business and the regulatory goals of implementation
- Comparison of US & EU regulations
- Common frauds and detection algorithms
- Project execution; timeline, challenges, BAU & results, recommendations and lessons learned
- Addressing the role of AI in trade surveillance
Julian Horky, Head of Risk Controlling, Berenberger Capital Markets
CRYPTOCURRENCY – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Risks of anonymity in a payments environment
- Understanding the risks involved with accepting and offering cryptocurrency
- Utilization of investment fraud schemes
- Reliance on cryptocurrency as the basis to entice people to invest
- NFTs vulnerability for money laundering
- Developing infrastructure controls and working with regulators
- Understanding limitations in visibility of flow of funds for fraud and money laundering
- Increased risk in complying with sanctions
Milan Kosanovich, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI
James Cousins, Head, US Sanctions Program Management, Financial Crime Compliance, Standard Chartered
Jim Finnerty, Director, AML Compliance Risk Management, Citi
Boris Richard, Managing Director, FTI Consulting
5:20 Chairs’ closing remarks | 5:30 End of day one & networking drinks reception
08:00 Breakfast and registration | 08:50 Chair’s opening remarks
REGULATION – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Increase in regulatory expectations
- Regulatory focus on protecting data and monitoring access
- Expanding the scope of requirements for reporting breaches across jurisdictions
- Managing the myriad of expectations and definitions across States
- Reporting victim fraud regardless of whether it occurred internally
- Changes to BSA and AML consultation
Sabeena Liconte, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Chief Legal Counsel, BOC International (USA) Holdings Inc., member of Bank of China Group
Lester Joseph, Head, Global Financial Crimes Intelligence Group, Wells Fargo
Mark Elkommos, VP, Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Manager, SMBC
Bryan Moravek, Director of AML & Sanctions Compliance, Risk Advisory Services, Kaufman Rossin
REGULATORY RISK MANAGEMENT
Session details
- How to build an effective exam management team
- Best practices for exam preparation, execution and post mortem
- QA
- Making Dry Runs a core part of the FCC program
- Knowing your exam team
- New trends in exam execution
James Short, Global Head of AML/ATF, Scotia Bank
10:20 Morning refreshment break and networking
SANCTIONS
Session details
- Implementation of China related sanctions
- Determining what companies are targeted under the order
- Identifying which securities issued are in the scope of restrictions
- Nuanced and limited executive order
- Afghanistan: discussion of sanctions-related risks and considerations in light of recent developments
Brandon Reddington, Vice President, Head of Sanctions Advisory, Government Sanctions Group, Goldman Sachs
SANCTIONS
Session details
- Developing sanctions compliance best practices
- Emerging technology to enhance sections compliance
- Addressing the sanctions landscape under the Biden Administration
- Recent updates in Sanctions
Dana Begin, Director, Fidelity Investments
ACCOUNT OPENING – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Reviewing device intelligence and reputation effectiveness
- Identification of mule accounts
- Detecting legitimate user account hacks and synthetic IDs
- Indirect implications for financial institutions
- Money laundering and human trafficking breaches
- Evolution of identity fraud with new tool and techniques
- Access to customer identity and data
Ayelet Biger-Levin, VP Market Strategy, BioCatch
Rebecca Schauer Robertson, Senior Vice President, Director Financial Investigations Unit, Atlantic Union Bank
Seth Ruden, Sr. Director Fraud Operations, First Tech Federal Credit Union
12:45 DON’T TREAT YOUR CUSTOMER LIKE A CRIMINAL
Barry Bowen, Founder & Chief Commercial Officer, Fraud.com
12:55 Lunch break and networking
AML
Session details
- Evolution of mechanisms to move money
- Emergence of cryptocurrency and NFTs
- Scalability to train workforce on evolutions
- Filtering expertise across functional areas
- AML Act: Timelines for change and impact on industry
- Changes to beneficial ownership database
- Timeline for changes
- What could the final changes include?
- Impact on requirements for SARs and currency transactions reporting
Carlos Orel, Head of AML Risk, Regulatory Advocacy, Products and Monitoring, TD Bank N.A.
BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
Session details
- Reviewing potential changes under new AML Act
- Regulatory proposals and consultation on beneficial ownership
- What could future changes look like?
- FINCEN proposed changes
- Identifying beneficial ownership in less sophisticated legal environments
Sabeena Liconte, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Chief Legal Counsel, BOC International (USA) Holdings Inc., member of Bank of China Group
MONEY LAUNDERING
Session details
- Laundering techniques utilized, including trade based money laundering, virtual currency, cyber value units
- Common practices & exploitations of banking and regulatory vulnerabilities
- Interconnections of enterprises based on geographic locations, laundering methods
- Best practices for investigations of money laundering enterprises
Patrick Killeen, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI
3:40 Afternoon refreshment break and networking
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Session details
- Regulatory focus across Europe and US
- Red flags to identify human trafficking and related crimes
- Human trafficking addition to SARs reporting
- Increasing awareness across the industry
Ken Wolckenhauer, VP, Vendor Management, Nordea Bank
MONEY SERVICE BUSINESS – PANEL DISCUSSION
Session details
- Risks of third party payment processes moving money quicker
- Leveraging fintech infrastructure with less regulatory constraint
- Servicing clients so they don’t bypass banks
- Tracking flow through the bank
- Managing travel rule when working with correspondent banks
- Working with money service businesses to ensure compliance to move bulk payments
Joseph Del Broccolo, SVP, Head of Financial Crimes Compliance, HSBC
5:20 Chairs’ closing remarks | 5:30 End of Congress
Stas Alforov
Director of Research & Development
Gemini Advisory
Ayelet Biger-Levin
VP Market Strategy
BioCatch
Barry Bowen
Founder & Chief Commercial Officer
Fraud.com
Stas Alforov is the Director of Research and Development at Gemini Advisory; in this role, he identifies and improves ways of monitoring asset portfolio exposure and effectively assists financial institutions in mitigating payment card fraud. Stas started his cyber career at the National Cyber Forensic Training Alliance (NCFTA) as part of the Cyber Financial program. He focused on identifying Eastern European threats to the payments industry, monitored and identified money mule networks, and led the US participation in the Airline Action Days operations for several years.
Ayelet is a senior leader with over 20 years of experience in the technology and information security industry, with a diverse background in Product management, R&D, marketing, and professional services. She holds the role of VP of Market Strategy at BioCatch, focused on helping financial institutions provide seamless and secure digital transactions, by leveraging the power of behavioral biometrics. Prior to joining BioCatch, Ayelet has spent over 10 years at RSA Security in various roles in both the Fraud Intelligence and Enterprise Authentication solution areas. Ayelet also held various roles at IBM, focused on innovation.
Having nearly three decades of experience in fraud prevention, risk and compliance projects for multimillion-dollar brands and start-ups, he knows what truly drives conversions. Barry is a deep technologist at heart and commercial and earned his skill in computer science, electronics and on the ground delivering credit risk, liquidity, market risk, compliance and anti-fraud projects with Mysis, Hitachi, IBM and alike.
James Cousins
Head, US Sanctions Program Management, Financial Crime Compliance
Standard Chartered
Joseph Del Broccolo
SVP, Head of Financial Crimes Compliance Monitoring
HSBC
Mark Elkommos
VP, Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring & Testing Manager
SMBC
James Cousins will be speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2021
Joseph Del Broccolo will be speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2021
Mark Elkommos will be speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2021
James Finnerty
Director, AML Compliance Risk Management
Citi
Julian Horky
Vice President, Head of Risk Controlling
Berenberg Capital Markets
Lester Joseph
Head, Global Financial Crimes Intelligence Group
Wells Fargo
James Finnerty will be speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2021
Julian oversees Berenberg Capital Markets’ risk management program as the Head of Risk Controlling. Berenberg is a multinational full-service investment bank founded in 1590 with a significant presence in New York. Prior to returning to the industry, he consulted large financial institutions around the globe with a focus on Western Europe and North America. His financial and tech skills made him a trusted advisor across treasury, finance, ALM, and risk departments and a frequent speaker at industry events.
Lester Joseph is the Head of the Global Financial Crimes Intelligence Group at Wells Fargo & Company. The primary mission of this Group is to provide intelligence on money laundering activity and financial crime trends to all parts of the enterprise. He joined Wells Fargo in March 2010. Mr. Joseph worked for the United States Department of Justice from 1984 to February 2010. From 2002-2010, he was the Principal Deputy Chief of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section (AFMLS). During his tenure in AFMLS, the Section played a major role in several noteworthy money laundering investigations and prosecutions involving major financial institutions.
Patrick Killeen
Supervisory Special Agent
FBI
Milan Kosanovich
Supervisory Special Agent
FBI
Max Lerner
Managing Director, Global Head of Sanctions Compliance & Anti-Bribery
State Street
Supervisory Special Agent Patrick Killeen.
- Employed as Special Agent and Supervisory Special Agent since 2003
- Investigated cases involving International Transnational Organized Criminal Enterprises, Money Laundering, International Corruption
- Staffed in multiple FBI divisions, including Detroit, New York, and FBI Headquarters (Washington DC)
- Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting, Master’s degree in Business Administration.
Supervisory Special Agent Milan R Kosanovich has worked for the FBI for over thirteen (13) years specializing in white collar criminal investigations. He is a graduate of Syracuse University (BS) and Georgetown University (JD). He has worked in the New Haven and Cleveland field offices. He served as a detaileé to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission while working as a supervisor in the Economic Crimes Unit at FBIHQ. Kosanovich has lectured and taught on behalf of the FBI in 11 different countries across four continents. He currently supervises the White Collar Crime squad in Cleveland along with the Midwestern Cryptocurrency Task Force, and serves in multiple collateral duties as a member of the nationwide Financial Crimes Response Team and is certified as a Hostage Negotiator.
Max Lerner is a Managing Director at State Street, a leading global bank focused in custodial, asset management and advisory, transfer agency, and administrative services based in Boston. In his role, Max serves as the Global Head of Sanctions Compliance and Anti-Bribery & Corruption Compliance. Max is accountable for the design, management, and execution of State Street’s global sanctions and anti-bribery and corruption programs, including the screening systems and resulting alert risk analysis and resolution, policy and business unit advisory functions, regulatory engagement and remediation activities, and personnel management of teams based across the globe.
Prior to his tenure at State Street, Max served as Legal Regulatory Counsel at Standard Chartered Bank, a major global bank focused on retail, trade finance, commercial, and correspondent banking, based at its New York office. Max’s practice focused on AML & sanctions advisory, dispute resolution management, and regulatory engagement, investigations, and remediation.
Max also currently serves as Chair of the Association of Global Custodians’ AML & Sanctions Committee.
Victor Lessoff
Managing Director, Head of Internal Investigations
TIAA
Sabeena Liconte
Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Chief Legal Counsel
BOC International (USA) Holdings Inc., member of Bank of China Group
Bryan Moravek
Director of AML & Sanctions Compliance, Risk Advisory Services
Kaufman Rossin
Victor Lessoff is the Head of Internal Investigations for TIAA, a fortune 100 financial service company providing pension, banking, brokerage, asset management and life insurance services to the non-profit sector. Prior to his present position, Mr. Lessoff was the Director of Technology at Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). Mr. Lessoff also held a number of other positions in IRS-CI including Special Agent in Charge and Financial Crime Director. Mr. Lessoff is a CPA, CFE and CAMS. He holds bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Delaware as well as a MBA from the University of Buffalo.
Sabeena Ahmed Liconte serves as Deputy Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer to the investment banking division of Bank of China International – BOC International (USA) Holdings Inc. (“BOCI US Holdings”) and its two subsidiaries, BOCI Commodities & Futures (USA) LLC, a registered futures commission merchant and CME Group Inc. clearing member, and BOC International (USA) Inc., a registered broker-dealer and member of FINRA (collectively, “BOCI”).
Prior to joining BOCI, Sabeena’s previous professional experience included Futures & Derivatives Counsel to E*TRADE Financial Corp., including E*TRADE Clearing Corp. and E*TRADE Securities Corp.; the Office of General Counsel at Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith Incorporated, the Division of Enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Bank of New York Mellon’s Legal Division and the Securities Fraud Prosecution division of the Attorney General’s Office for the State of New Jersey.
Sabeena is a licensed attorney with a Juris Doctor from the St. John’s University School of Law. She also completed a visiting year at Fordham University School of Law. In addition to her law degree, she holds a Master of Arts in International Relations from Columbia University and, paying homage to her Canadian roots, a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Political Science from the University of Toronto.
She also serves as a board member and Secretary to Bank of China International’s US holding company, BOCI US Holdings; board member of the Center for Financial Professionals FinTech Advisory Group; Diversity Chair of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Committee – Futures and Derivatives Law Subcommittee, and committee member of the New York City Bar Association’s Foreign and Comparative Law Committee and Derivatives and Futures Committee.
B.J. brings over 35 years of experience in banking, regulatory compliance, and financial crimes investigation. He is a federally designated expert in the BSA and a Certified Global Sanctions Specialist. He served as a Senior Bank Examiner with the OCC specializing in BSA/AML and Sanctions compliance. B.J. served as a Senior Special Agent within the Office of Enforcement at FinCEN and completed a 20-year career with the Secret Service. He served as a Senior Advisor to Senator Alfonse D’Amato, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. He has served as a BSA/AML/Sanctions Compliance Officer for several large complex multi-national financial institutions during his career.
Sudharshan Narva
Director, Data Analytics Internal Audit
TIAA
Carlos Orel
Head of AML Risk, Regulatory Advocacy, Products and Monitoring
TD Bank N.A.
Brandon Reddington
Vice President, Head of Sanctions Advisory, Government Sanctions Group
Goldman Sachs
Sudharshan Narva is a seasoned data analytics leader with more than 22 years of experience in building end to end data driven solutions to combat fraud, waste and abuse. Narva worked in large healthcare organizations such as Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna-CVS, Pfizer etc., where he led and managed risk based proactive data driven initiatives to identify and target fraud, waste and abuse. Among the solutions Narva and his team operationalized were outlier & anomaly detection, behavioral fraud segmentation, control effectiveness measurement and predicting future fraud.
Narva presently leads TIAA’s Internal Audit Data Analytic team to support Internal Audits & Investigations and is leading an initiative to move the division from sample based audits/investigations to risk based full population testing & automation.
Narva is Industrial & Production Engineer, MBA major in Operations Research and Methods and CFE.
I have over 30 years of Compliance experience in the financial services industry. I am the Head of AML Risk, Regulatory Advocacy, Products and Monitoring and champion an amazing team who delivers with pride every time. My team provides leadership to Regulatory Advocacy and Change Management, new Products and Services that the Bank wants to bring to market, objective evaluation of business line compliance to AML requirements, AML Risk Assessment, evaluation of AML surveillance systems and execution against Operational Risk Management requirements.
Charlotte is my base and my team is in NJ, MN, SC and TX.
Brandon Reddington is a Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Government Sanctions Group, where he leads the Sanctions Advisory function. In that role, Brandon provides guidance to the firm’s business lines globally on compliance with economic sanctions laws. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2018, Brandon served as the Global Head of Sanctions Advisory at Credit Suisse. Previously, Brandon was a Senior Sanctions Advisor at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control from 2009-2014, specializing in matters involving the securities industry. He led multiple major OFAC investigations into U.S. sanctions violations by financial institutions in the banking and securities industries that resulted in enforcement actions totaling over $280 million.
Boris Richard
Managing Director
FTI Consulting
Seth Ruden
Sr. Director Fraud Operations
First Tech Federal Credit Union
Rebecca Schauer Robertson
Senior Vice President, Director Financial Investigations Unit
Atlantic Union Bank
Dr. Boris Richard leads the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Litigations & Investigations segment of the Dispute Advisory Services. Dr. Richard has nearly 25 years of market strategy and trading experience in institutional fixed income and derivatives markets, as well as consulting and expert work in complex litigations, arbitrations, and investigations.
He focuses on cryptocurrencies, token offerings, blockchain economics, and token valuation, as well as cryptocurrency-related expert work, virtual asset tracing investigations, and responses to regulatory inquiries and enforcement actions related to digital assets. His clients include major law firms, cryptocurrency exchanges, digital asset issuers, Decentralized Finance platforms, and blockchain foundations.
Seth Ruden is a certified fraud examiner and anti-money laundering specialist, having consulted globally for top national banks and financial institutions for two decades. He is a author for trade publications, has been a featured speaker for the Federal Reserve and been the principal SME for fraud prevention solutions. Presently, he is the head of Fraud Operations for one the nation’s top Credit Unions.
Rebecca “Becky” Schauer Robertson is a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry with extensive experience in risk strategy and mitigation. In her role as Director of the Financial Investigations Unit at Atlantic Union Bank, Robertson serves as the Bank’s BSA and OFAC Officers and is responsible for ensuring the Bank’s compliance with all facets of the Bank Secrecy Act, USA PATRIOT Act, Office of Foreign Assets Control and fraud investigations, while monitoring all other related anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud laws and regulations.
Robertson received her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Milligan University.
She holds the advanced designation of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist – Audit, and designations of Certified AML and Fraud Professional as well as Certified Fraud Examiner. As an industry thought leader, she frequently participates as a subject matter expert panelist and speaker on the topic of BSA/AML. Currently she serves as chair of the ABA’s CAFP Advisory Board, is a member of the ACAMS Virginia Chapter Board, and a past board member of the ACAMS Carolinas Chapter, past president of both the South Carolina InfraGard and FBI Citizens Academy Alumni Association and past treasurer of the Crimestoppers of the Midlands SC Board.
Bharat Sadula
Director, AML/ATF and Sanctions Audit
Scotia Bank
Dalit Stern
Senior Director/ Enterprise Fraud Risk Officer
TIAA
Bharat Sadula will be speaking at Fraud & Financial Crime USA 2021
DALIT STERN is a Senior Director and Enterprise Fraud Risk Officer in TIAA. She leads the oversight of fraud risks and misconduct and drives enhancements to the fraud risk program. She leads assessments of internal and external fraud; monitoring of metrics; development of policies and standards, root-cause analysis and escalation protocols, risk appetite statements.
Ms. Stern is a CPA (Isr.) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). An MBA graduate of Tel Aviv University who holds a certificate in Cybersecurity: Managing Risk from Harvard University. She is an adjunct professor at New York’s Baruch College and is a frequent speaker and author on fraud risk management and investigations.
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