Bo Qian is a managing director at K2 Integrity. With almost two decades of experience in model risk management, market and credit risk modeling, financial crimes analytics, and digital asset blockchain analytics, Bo helps domestic and foreign financial institutions assess and enhance transaction monitoring, know your customer (KYC), enhanced due diligence (EDD), and sanctions programs and remediate identified gaps.

Bo’s work spans mandated transaction monitoring lookbacks, testing, quality assurance, and regulatory reporting to support Bank Secrecy Act compliance. He helps clients implement transaction monitoring and screening technology, strengthen sanctions policies and controls, and develop related training.

Before joining K2 Integrity, Bo was a senior managing strategy consultant at IBM Promontory, where he led model validations and advised on model governance, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. His engagements include validating the Chainalysis Know-Your-Transaction model for a U.S. digital asset brokerage firm, reviewing a blockchain intelligence firm’s transaction monitoring solution, and validating Verafin fraud and anti-money laundering transaction monitoring modules for a multinational bank. He also helped develop an AI risk management framework for a U.S. central counterparty for derivatives, following the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s AI Risk Management Framework. For a U.S. regional bank, he managed an onshore and offshore team supporting model validations, reviews, and governance across its model and tool inventory. Bo also has extensive experience validating market risk and credit risk models for various clients.

Bo holds a Ph.D. in statistics from Columbia University. He is a native Mandarin Chinese speaker and has full professional proficiency in English.