Luke Cushing is a senior director with the Financial Crimes Compliance practice at K2 Integrity. He has experience with transaction monitoring, enhanced due diligence (EDD), the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) writing process, and look-back reviews.
At K2 Integrity, Luke provides third-party financial intelligence unit (FIU) services to mid-sized financial services institutions. He analyzes alerted transactions, identifies patterns signaling potentially suspicious behavior, and coordinates requests for information, SAR preparation, and monthly client reporting. He works closely with clients’ compliance staff to review SAR filing recommendations, transaction monitoring threshold and/or detection scenario enhancements, and to identify and resolve data issues observed throughout the review process. Luke has also assisted on annual account risk assessments for a mid-sized financial services institution as well as on an extensive prepaid card transaction lookback investigation as an investigative analyst.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Luke was a senior chargeback analyst at Diesel USA, where he evaluated potential customers’ creditworthiness, collateral, and overall risk; investigated causes of repeated chargebacks; and implemented procedures to prevent future claims.
Luke holds an M.B.A. with specializations in finance and global business from Rutgers University, and a B.S. in accountancy from Providence College.
