James Pusz is a director with K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Risk Management practice. He specializes in anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance, transactional monitoring, historical transaction reviews, and investigations.
James conducts monthly reviews of prepaid debit card activity, performing ongoing transactional monitoring, conducting due diligence, and writing auspicious activity reports (SARs). Recent engagements include an 18-month look-back review of prepaid debit card activity for a national private-label banking provider. James was responsible for initial case creation, quality assurance of cases, and writing SARs. He also conducted training for personnel on this project.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, James was an analyst at the Center for Analytics, formerly known as Institute for the Study of Violent Groups, tracking the movements of terrorist organizations in Africa. He helped track groups such as Al Shabaab in Somalia and Kenya through the use of publicly available information.
In a previous role, James worked as an analyst in the corporate safety department of United Airlines, where he performed data analysis and visualization. He helped to create new dashboard visualizations to provide a quick, interactive, and easy-to-understand view of complex and highly populated data sets.
James received a B.S. in criminal justice from the University of New Haven and is currently pursuing an M.B.A. in finance at Quinnipiac University. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).