Whitney Buey is a senior director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice. She helps financial institution clients maintain anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, including with know your customer (KYC) and transaction monitoring requirements. She has experience with correspondent banking lookback projects, enhanced due diligence (EDD) reviews, independent monitorships for sanctions, transaction monitoring programs, and transaction monitoring investigations and analysis. She has also supported these types of engagements in a project management capacity.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Whitney worked at JP Morgan Chase within its KYC/AML practices. Her experience in EDD reviews 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, in which she would review 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 the EDD and transaction monitoring teams, focusing primarily on AML technology systems and robotics automation. She developed user stories, wrote test scripts, coordinated testing by end users, and worked 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 organized and analyzed a network of more than 100 accounts believed to be tied to organized crime and terror financing. She was also a research assistant in the Investigative Psychology Research Unit at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she collected data on the use of profiling in the courtroom and active shooter incidents.
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) and a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM).
