The Human Toll of Financial Crime: The Role We All Play
We all have a role to play in preventing financial crime. As Financial Crime professionals, we are in a critical position to prevent human suffering and hinder a criminal’s ability to benefit from their crimes by detecting and reporting any suspicious accounts and transactions.
If you see something unusual or if something doesn’t feel right, trust your intuition. Why? Because if something is wrong, you just might stop human suffering.
Are you armed with the knowledge you need to identify common behaviors associated with human crimes or want to explore how fraud and AML teams can work together to stop human trafficking, child exploitation, elder abuse, and more?
Join us for an expert panel discussion exploring the human toll of financial crime and your role in the fight against these crimes.
Agenda:
- What are human exploitation crimes and some common misconceptions about them?
- What financial behaviors and red flags are associated with human exploitation crimes? What trends are law enforcement officers seeing?
- How can FIs help in the fight against human trafficking, child exploitation, and elder abuse?
- What can FIs do to impede criminal efforts?
Moderator
Erica Brackman, AML Product Team, NICE Actimize
Erica Brackman is an Anti-Money Laundering (AML)-focused Product Marketing Manager at NICE Actimize. In this role, she educates FinCrime professionals about AML red flags and emerging industry solutions related to machine learning, correspondent banking, and transaction monitoring. Erica joined Actimize in 2021 after working in roles across several industries and functions, with multiple years of experience specifically in product marketing. As an engineer, Erica is passionate about encouraging girls and young women to pursue Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields, including careers in financial industries. She also enjoys promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Panelists
Ian Mitchell, Founder and Executive Director, The Knoble; Co-founder, Omega FinCrime
Ian Mitchell is the Founder of The Knoble, a non-profit with the mission to unite the financial crimes industry to protect vulnerable populations and fight Human Crime (trafficking, scams, child exploitation and elder abuse). Ian has been fighting fraud and financial crime for almost 25 years in over 14 countries. Ian’s breadth of fraud experience covers consumer and commercial banking products and channels, merchant fraud, and insurance products. Ian has held fraud management leadership positions at 5/3, Ally, USAA, and GE. Most recently Ian served as a Principal (Partner) leading PwC’s Financial Crimes Unit (FCU) Fraud Management Practice.
Tracy Raggs, Acting Unit Chief, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Center for Countering Human Trafficking
Tracy Raggs serves as the Acting Unit Chief for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Center for Countering Human Trafficking (CCHT) Operations Unit in Washington, DC. He has over 25 years of distinguished government service, with more than 15 years combating human trafficking and child sexual exploitation. Mr. Raggs was the chief architect in the creation of the DHS Center for Countering Human Trafficking, which operates the whole of DHS’s approach to combatting human trafficking. In his current position at CCHT, Mr. Raggs oversees and supports the human trafficking mission for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Nirupama Suryanarayanan, Principal, Financial Crime Unit Practice, PwC
Nirupama is a Principal in PwC’s Financial Crime Unit practice with over 14 years of experience in compliance, risk management and analytics. As the Data & Insights Leader, she has worked with clients in financial institutions, fintechs, and asset and wealth management firms, assisting them with their remediation, optimization and compliance transformation strategy leveraging machine learning and advanced analytics. Prior to joining PwC, Nirupama has assisted financial institutions with their pricing strategy and leverage analytics and technology to define product strategy.