Joseph Catarcio is a director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Risk Management practice. With experience in transaction monitoring, enhanced due diligence, and suspicious activity report (SAR) writing, he provides anti-money laundering (AML) advisory services to K2 Integrity’s multinational financial institution clients. He analyzes transactions identified by monitoring software for potentially suspicious activity, conducts full due diligence on alerted parties, coordinates requests for information, and writes and prepares SARs for filing to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
Prior to joining K2 Intelligence, Joseph was a compliance investigator at JPMorgan Chase. He was responsible for conducting full due diligence on retail banking clients, which included, but was not limited to, performing negative media searches, verifying if the client was a politically exposed person (PEP), transaction monitoring, and writing and filing SARs when necessary. He worked in various retail banking channels with JPMorgan Chase including negative media, branch referrals, and systematically generated alerts. He later worked as a quality assurance (QA) reviewer, reviewing cases worked by analysts and investigators to ensure cases were correctly dispositioned based on the due diligence conducted as well as ensuring precision and accuracy.
Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Joseph was an accounting clerk with Robert Chia & Co., CPA, where he managed and maintained banking records for 10 different companies, along with booking and calculating sales tax for those companies.
Joseph holds a B.B.A. in finance, with a minor in economics, from Baruch College.