Bryan Matos is a senior director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Risk Management practice. He specializes in anti-money laundering (AML) compliance by monitoring for and identifying potentially suspicious transactional activity that warrants a suspicious activity report (SAR) to be filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Bryan conducts transaction monitoring for domestic and international...
K2 Integrity’s strategic advisory services help clients meet evolving global standards and align with local jurisdictional requirements, enabling clients to satisfy elevated risk management expectations, protect their reputations, and safeguard national, regional, and global security effectively and efficiently.
Asking questions is the simplest thing to do, but the hardest thing to do well. Last week, a jury in San Jose, California, found Elizabeth Holmes guilty of conspiracy and wire fraud following her breath-taking scheme to accept investors’ capital based on a business that proved to be smoke and mirrors. Though there will likely...
On 9 October 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published its first ever unilateral guidance specifically addressed to financial institutions (FIs).[1] The Guidance to Financial Institutions on Best Practices for Compliance with the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) (the Guidance) outlines BIS’s expectations on the increasing responsibility of FIs to...
Katherine (Kate) Bauer is a managing director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Risk Management practice. With more than 15 years of experience in public policy, national security, and financial sector development across government, academia, and the private sector, Kate works with FinTech firms, financial institutions, and jurisdictional authorities to improve their financial crimes and sanctions...
ESTE WEBINAR SERÁ PRESENTADO EN ESPAÑOL Due Diligence Reputacional para Empresas y Firmas de Inversión La due diligence investigativa o reputacional se ha convertido en un componente clave para el éxito de cualquier transacción corporativa. El entendimiento de los riesgos asociados a las partes y la elaboración de planes para mitigarlos incrementa las posibilidades de...
The evolving U.S.-Mexico geopolitical relationship is now fundamentally burdened by the growing regulatory, enforcement, and real risks tied to cartel activity, drug trafficking and the fentanyl trade, immigration, and a rapidly changing tariff environment. Financial institutions and companies on both sides of the border are now having to address more complicated compliance risk management as...
Join us for a roundtable discussion moderated by Dr. Michele Malvesti with Juan Zarate and Chip Poncy, part of the team that spearheaded the post-9/11 counter-illicit finance regime. Juan and Chip will share their experiences over the past two decades with a focus on: How 9/11 was a catalyst for the creation of a new brand...
