Ehsan Valipay, Cams, Crms, Css, Mcp Email & Phone Number

Mahwah, NJ, US

• In charge of i) Policies and Procedure updates and oversight bank wide ii) Risk Assessment iii) Training iv) RFI oversight iv) PMO Oversight and part of the bank's leadership team.
• Program oversight and support the bank’s Regulatory Compliance and CCO’s responsibilities relating to ensuring an effective Bank Secrecy Act/Anti- Money Laundering/OFAC Compliance Program that is following industry.
• Ensure the guidance, relevant policies, procedures, and processes to comply with all applicable BSA/AML/OFAC rules, regulations, and regulatory guidance; is effectively being implemented.
• Monitor the performance of the BSA/AML/OFAC Compliance Program and related activities on a continuing basis, providing guidance to senior management /BoD on appropriate steps to improve its effectiveness and keeping.
• Facilitate remediation of BSA/AML/OFAC audit and examination findings and ensure relevant processes are updated and staffs are trained to prevent future violations.
• Establish project governance Structure.

Mclean, Virginia, US

AML and Sanctions lead and project manager (PMO) within the firm’s Financial Crime, Fraud & Investigative Services advisory practice providing financial crimes subject matter expertise and services for multiple types of financial institutions including MSBs, Banks, FinTech/Payment & Virtual currency companies. Advisory services provided include: FC-Risk.

Beijing, CN

• Sr. BSA Officer, Commodities Business Center 12/2018- PresentResponsible for all compliance matters regarding Bank of China’s US Commodities Business Center including:
• Managing & approving all aspects of on boarding new corporate accounts..
• Complete CIP and KYC requirements coverage.
• Managing CBC Associates & interns regarding the entire KYC refresh process and life cycle.
• Training and expressing new requirements to the department.
• Main point of contact for all requirements regarding FircoSoft Trust relationship management screening.

Chicago, IL, US

AML/BSA/Sanctions MIS Project leader & Architect 10/01/2016 – 2/28/2017 Responsible to assess AML/BSA/OFAC MIS reports & infrastructure of this institution’s foreign US based agency in NY under regulatory examination Assess & make recommendations to improve bank’s customer risk assessment methodology & reports Recommended the immediate implementation of.

New York, NY, US

Trade Finance AML & OFAC Program Director Oct, 2013 – Apr, 2016 Introduced a comprehensive AML & Sanctions Trade Finance transaction monitoring frame-work ever developed for commercial banks, providing full coverage of regulatory requirements in Trade programs Chief architect, providing 25 Trade finance-based AML monitoring scenario rules and 52.

New York, NY, US

Not an employee of BAFT, but contributed towards the 16 published Trade red flags.

London, GB

New York, New York, US

• Analysis of AML-KYC business requirements and conversion into technical solutions utilizing MS Access database and Metrics for bank’s GTS
• Preparation of Management Information reports and /or automation of the production of reports regarding KYC & SAR cases utilizing Access database queries, reports and MS Excel (Matrices)
• Performing data auditing and validation on bank’s global transactions including Correspondent Banking
• Analysis and manipulation of large data sets to prevent risk under Accounts Intelligence Unit (AIU)
• Updating database with ad-hoc information received
• Managing two consultants and a team in Mumbai regarding exception reports

London, England, GB

• Responsible for drafting SARs as well as 1st and 2nd supplemental SARs in accordance with Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) procedures.
• Utilization of Norkom system to perform transactions surveillance of wire transactions.
• Trained Case managers in SAR drafting & utilizing Norkom.
• Use of search utilities such as Lexis Nexis, Westlaw, Google, and World check to identify entities and derogatory information.
• Drafting and submitting 314B Request for Information (RFI) to the correspondent banks if deemed necessary.
• Performing a pull-down from GIFTS, and formatting the extracted spreadsheet, with separate tabs and grouping the Counter-parties and sub-total percentage for better assessing the case.

Anti Money Laundering (AML) responsibilities mandated by the USA PATRIOT Act and the US Department of Treasury, consist of analyzing transactions, escalating suspicious transactions and ultimately submitting a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR\STR) to the U.S. Treasury.Lead technologist to assist the Director of AML Surveillance unit on any Technology issues.

London, GB

Supervised directly under private bank's risk manager & compliance vice president.Analyzed, researched and involvement in the remediation process of several SCC (Special Category Clients) and PEP cases with major real estate involvements in NY.Using Bank's AML\KYC system to update SCC entities' crucial information, and to comply with 'Wolfsberg Group'.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, DE

Investigation - SAR Drafter

Supervised a group of 20 staff members to meet their quarterly quotas.Trained them on weekly basis to prepare financial applications, board packages and how to read tax forms and general ledgers from KYC perspective.Validating Customer funds, investments, net worth, net operating values and debt. Generated over $12M in sales in the first two (2) years.

Ms, Telecommunications & Network Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Associate'S Degree, Computer Programming