Samuel Dauphinais is a director with K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Risk Management practice. He specializes in transaction monitoring, enhanced due diligence, and quality assurance within anti-money laundering (AML) transaction lookback projects. Samuel assists financial services clients with financial crimes compliance, investigating cases involving correspondent banking activity, business transactions, and peer-to-peer transactions. He works on the disposition of alerts by providing supporting data and documentation, analysis, and rationale in a timely manner. Using public and internal databases to gather, analyze, and document data, Samuel summarizes and communicates information that can potentially mitigate risk, as well as high-risk findings related to money laundering, fraud, and terrorist financing.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Samuel was a global investigations consultant at Guidehouse (formerly Navigant), where he worked on transaction monitoring identifying both money laundering and fraud. He conducted complex investigations that included transaction analysis, background checks, and external research, and wrote suspicious activity report (SAR) dispositions. In addition, Samuel developed and implemented project-tailored money laundering and fraud typology guidelines, trainings, and best practices.
Samuel also served as a military intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army National Guard. There he was entrusted with top secret clearance and tasked with identifying, analyzing, and disseminating sensitive information.
Samuel also worked at United Bank in its financial intelligence unit (FIU) as an analyst, where he conducted reviews and enhanced due diligence on their high-risk customers. Additionally, he monitored the bank’s completed wires to ensure compliance with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) specially designated nationals (SDN) list. Samuel also updated and enhanced the bank’s high-risk jurisdiction guidelines to better match the guidelines promulgated by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
Samuel holds a B.A. in criminal justice and investigative services from the University of New Haven.