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New York, Us
The Mizen Group is a RegTech Services business that develops proprietary technologies to partner with organizations to assist them in developing efficient and sustainable compliance programs. Our objective is to leverage technology to quickly and cost-effectively assess, remediate and validate all aspects of compliance programs. Primarily serve mid-sized financial institutions including banks, insurance companies, broker-dealers and third-party service providers.The breadth of services designed to save clients, money, time and resources in addressing full-range of compliance needs. A holistic approach considers people, processes, data, and technology to aid in the management and reduce complication, work-load, and risks. Additional relationships with strategic partners to provide a full range of innovative solutions to specific needs such as KYC, enhanced due diligence, validation, etc. Additionally, conduct corporate investigations for fraud, litigation and corruption and bribery.Mizen was a part of a DFSNY monitorship team tasked with overseeing certain remediation activities per the terms of the agreement signed. During that time Mizen responsibilities included:Leading the review and remediation teams in examining KYC processes in over 20 international locations covering Investment Banking, Retail, Wealth Management and Private Banking.Overseeing and validating the implementation of Actimize for their Correspondent banking Program in the NY branch to address identified deficiencies in their program. This effort also included establishing a data governance process to improve the quality of payment data flowing through the NY Branch from the global locations.The team has an extensive working knowledge of banking, money service business and regulations including BSA, Patriot Act, Treasury’s AML guidelines, OFAC requirements, as well as SARs. Extensive experience in conducting OSINT investigations.