Ahmed Ghazwan is a director in the Financial Crimes Risk Management practice at K2 Integrity. He supports anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regulatory compliance and financial-crime advisory work relating to Iraqi financial institutions and the wider Iraqi market, bringing regulatory, market, and operational insight to compliance program assessments, policies and procedures, client deliverables, transaction-monitoring reviews, compliance-related research, and investigations.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Ahmed served as AML/CFT head of the Due Diligence division at the Trade Bank of Iraq, where he oversaw the bank’s suspicious activity monitoring (SAM) system, sanctions screening, currency transaction report preparation and submission, compliance investigations, and regulatory reporting. He led the bank’s transition from the legacy SAM system to the Napier AI AML platform, working closely with IT and the system provider on sandbox testing, rule tuning, scenario coverage, and alert workflow design. He also collaborated with international advisory firms on reviews of outbound and inbound cross-border payments, requests for information (RFIs), and know your customer (KYC) portal performance, supporting alignment with U.S. Treasury and Central Bank of Iraq compliance frameworks.
Earlier in his career, Ahmed was an AML/CFT compliance officer at International Development Bank, where he supported AML/CFT regulatory compliance, transaction monitoring reviews, investigations, suspicious activity reporting, AML/CFT and KYC policy administration, OFAC and World-Check reviews, client risk scoring, KYC/CDD/EDD processes, periodic reviews, high-risk customer recordkeeping, and reporting to senior management on internal AML/CFT compliance policies and procedures.
Ahmed holds a B.Sc. in political science from the University of Baghdad and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). He is fluent in Arabic and English.