Financial Crime / AML / KYC / Sanctions / Compliance / Cryptocurrency professional with over 20 years of international and varied experience of which last 11 years focused on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) / Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) and Know Your Customer (KYC). Recently focused on cryptocurrency tracing / investigations and on identifying, assessing, and mitigating cryptocurrency-related AML, CTF, regulatory compliance risks.Extensive experience with KYC/CDD/EDD for corporations and high-net-worth individual clients. Carried out risk-based due diligence as well as enhanced due diligence (EDD) of clients such as exchanges, banks, trusts, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), casinos, cash intensive businesses and other high-risk customers. Conducted compliance checks on various aspects in clients’ corporate structure, business natures, ultimate beneficial ownership, sources of wealth, constitutional documents, declarations, board resolutions, identity validations, etc. Performed research across companies registrars, various national databases and regulators in Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, USA, UK, France and number of other countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa. Implemented quality assurance controls based on risk drivers. Used risk-based approaches, precedents and personal judgment to make recommendations and decisions. Identified and classified parties for EDD measures.Lead a team of 4-12 analysts and managed performance and workload distribution within the team. Evaluated work of KYC analysts and quality and consistency of KYC documentation against specific compliance standards, provided constructive feedback and acted as the subject matter expert.Provided training to local and offshore KYC analyst teams.Led development and improvement of KYC processes, policies and workflows.