USA Financial Crime Risk Assessment Roundtable

Henry is a financial crime researcher in the Themis Insight team, with a general focus on illicit finance threats to the private and public sectors, in the UK and globally. At Themis, he has been involved in research projects for the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, focusing on private sector risk exposure to environmental crime and related financial crimes, and for the National Crime Agency, focusing on the use of artificial intelligence in money laundering and anti-money laundering. In previous roles, he specialised in research focused on single- and multi-family offices, establishing the source of wealth, portfolio, and strategy of European family-owned investment companies.

Freddie is responsible for the leadership and management of the International Relations and Trade teams and sits on the departments Senior Management Team. This includes the development and implementation of the Government’s international relations and trade strategies and coordinating the Island’s political, diplomatic, and economic links to priority jurisdictions across the globe to maximise positive visibility, access to key decision makers and enhance its international treaty network. Freddie has been with Government for just under eight years and prior to joining the Government of Jersey, he had a ten-year career in Financial Services as both a Charted Wealth Manager and Investment Risk Manager including roles at Deutch Bank, SG Kleinwort Hambros, UBS and most recently Standard Bank Group.

For over 20 years, Himamauli Das has helped clients in the public and private sector navigate legal and policy challenges on geoeconomic matters, including sanctions and financial crimes, international trade and export controls, foreign inward and outbound investment review regimes, climate finance, sovereign debt, and other matters arising from the intersection of economic and national security. Him most recently served as the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (acting), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury charged with safeguarding the financial system from illicit use and to combat money laundering. Prior to serving as FinCEN Director, Him served as the Senior Director for International Trade and Investment at the White House, National Security Council and National Economic Council, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Trade and Investment (acting) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Victoria is the Public-Private Partnership & International Lead at the Financial Intelligence Unit – Jersey (FIUJ). In her primary capacity, is responsible for the co-ordination and collaboration between public and private sectors, both from a domestic and international perspective. Victoria joined the FIU in October 2022 as a Financial Intelligence Officer. Prior to this, she came from the Trust and Corporate sector, where she has nearly twenty years of experience delivering corporate, administration and governance products to a range of clients with a mixed underlying asset base. She is also a member of the Chartered Governance Institute.

Jim counsels financial institutions and other clients on all matters involving examination processes, corporate activities, and regulatory compliance with Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) requirements. James Vivenzio also provides guidance on newly implemented and proposed regulations and those resulting from the enactment of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA), including the recent final rule on beneficial ownership reporting requirements and the upcoming revisions to the BSA/AML compliance program rules. He draws on his extensive experience to advise all types of financial institutions and other clients on examination findings (including violations of law and matters requiring attention), examination appeal processes, and the ongoing revisions to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) BSA/AML Examination Manual.

Olivia is the Associate Director of Insight at Themis, an anti-financial crime provider, where she leads financial and environmental crime research projects for the private and public sector, including for a number of governments across the world. She specialises in projects involving modern slavery and human trafficking, wildlife trafficking and other environmental crimes, especially through the lens of serious organised transnational crime. She has 13 years’ varied experience across the public and private sectors in a fulltime and freelance capacity, including in research, finance, sustainability, policy and strategy for organisations like the Natural History Museum, Kew Gardens and Client Earth.

Jonathan Fishman is a sanctions compliance officer at Citibank, focusing on Global Trade and Working Capital Solutions. Previously, he was the Assistant Director of financial transparency in the US Treasury Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, where he oversaw issues related to correspondent banking, cross-border payments, derisking, MSBs, and remittances, as well as virtual assets, cyber, and fintech. Previously, he worked for Western Union on the Global Risk Assessment team, for the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of the Army, and at Booz Allen and Hamilton. Mr. Fishman has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Virginia and a Master’s Degree from Georgetown University.