Michel Perez is a consultant and professor of Financial Compliance. he is Director of the Compliance program (Masters program) at Financia Business School in Paris and has published many articles in his field of research. He is also involved in business development and training activitiesFrom 2007 to 2019 he worked with Promontory Financial Group as a consultant and was assigned to various projects for large international financial institutions. He became the US Representative of Labex ReFi, a European Research Center on Financial Regulation in September 2016 and was named a Senior Fellow at NYU School of Law, Program on Corporate Compliance & Enforcement in February 2018. In 2001, when Bank One, his former employer, was acquired by JP Morgan Chase, he created his own consulting company, MAPI LLC, which specializes in cross border financial and compliance matters. He thus worked on assignments including risk management and controls, AML (Anti Money Laundering), KYC (Know Your Customer), and compliance implementation and verification projects, for clients from the United States as well as French and Portuguese speaking countries.Specialties: Compliance for financial institutions.Areas of expertise include AML/BSA, Controls and Quality Assurance, Correspondent Banking, Due Diligence and Enhanced Due Diligence, Diamonds & Jewelry, Investigations, KYC, "Look Back", Monitoring, PEPs, PIC entities, Private Banking, Sanctions Controls, Suspicious Activity Reporting, Testing, Training, Validation.Fluent in French, Portuguese and English.