Madeleine Garcia is a director at K2 Integrity. A digital compliance strategist and product transformation leader, she advises financial institutions and governments on regulatory compliance, sanctions, and risk management issues. Applying her experience with anti-money laundering (AML), Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Know Your Customer (KYC), and other requirements and regulations, Madeleine helps clients develop and implement effective and comprehensive AML/combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) frameworks, ensuring compliance with national requirements, global standards, and international best practices. She helps clients define and create digital solutions that integrate their business strategies with regulatory compliance requirements, outlining specific solutions that address business needs and goals and align with long-term objectives. Madeleine works within clients’ technological requirements and dependencies, evaluating their current technology infrastructure, potential upgrades, and integration with existing systems and developing implementation plans with timelines, resource allocation, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
Before joining K2 Integrity, Madeleine served as an SVP product manager at PNC Bank with a focus on lending products and risk management, managing development and implementation of risk management features, enhancing customer compliance screening, and increasing platform efficiency. She led cross-functional teams to drive digital transformation initiatives and utilized Agile methodologies to streamline product delivery.
Prior to her time at PNC Bank, Madeleine was an SVP product manager at BBVA Bank in its online and mobile banking and new digital business. She directed compliance-related digital banking operations, launching features that improved regulatory adherence and enhanced risk mitigation. Madeleine transitioned teams from Waterfall to Agile frameworks, improving deployment times and aligning digital solutions with AML and compliance requirements. She also collaborated with technical teams to integrate real-time data analytics tools, enhancing the early detection of financial crimes and improving compliance reporting.
Madeleine has an M.S. in computer science and administration with a focus on security and auditing from Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana “José Antonio Echeverría” (Cuba) and a dual B.S. in systems and electronic engineering from the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (Peru). She is a certified Project Management Professional, a SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). She holds a Cybersecurity: Managing Risk certification from Harvard and a Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence certificate from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.