Whitney Buey is a senior director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice. Whitney focuses on helping financial institutions maintain anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, including compliance with know your customer (KYC) and transaction monitoring requirements. She leads correspondent banking lookback projects, performing enhanced due diligence reviews (EDD), independent monitorships for sanctions and transaction monitoring programs, and transaction monitoring investigations and analysis. She also supports these types of engagements in a project management capacity, including working with client project management teams; tracking project scope, cost, and schedules; and reporting on project progress regularly to both clients and regulatory institutions.
At K2 Integrity, Whitney has worked with international client and regulatory bodies, including performing skilled persons reviews of UAE financial institutions on behalf of UAE regulators, and both managing and performing transaction reviews of Iraqi financial institutions while reporting to Iraqi-based regulators.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Whitney worked at JP Morgan Chase, holding various roles within its KYC/AML practices. Her experience in enhanced due diligence (EDD) involved performing research on high-net worth (HNW) and ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) Latin American clients to identify politically exposed persons (PEPs) and negative media. Additionally, she performed transaction monitoring for foreign and domestic correspondent banks, reviewing client accounts for nested activity, high-risk products, sanctions violations, PEPs, and indicators of money laundering. She later worked as a project manager for both JP Morgan Chase’s EDD and transaction monitoring teams, focusing primarily on AML technology systems and robotics automation. As a project manager, she worked to develop user stories, write test scripts, coordinate testing by end-users, and work with development teams to validate systems in sandbox environments prior to deployment.
Before JP Morgan Chase, Whitney interned with the New York City Business Integrity Commission, where she was assigned to a special project organizing and analyzing a network of more than 100 accounts that were believed to be tied to organized crime and terror financing.
Whitney has an M.A. in forensic psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a B.A. in criminology from the University of Florida, with a minor in anthropology. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Project Management Professional (PMP), and a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM).