Christina
Rea
Christina Rea, Esq. is the CEO & founder of RayCor Consulting, a compliance consulting firm specializing in financial service compliance. She has over 10 years of experience acting as a Chief Compliance Officer/Global BSA Officer for a variety of financial institutions. Ms. Rea also utilizes her extensive background in AML and MSB compliance to provide expert witness testimony on complex financial matters involving anti-money laundering, fraud, and cryptocurrency. She has also worked on international financial litigation cases as an expert witness team lead, including for sensitive anti-money laundering litigation matters that require a great deal of confidentiality.
Ms. Rea provides fractional Chief Compliance Officer services for all manner of fintech startups, regtech vendors, and local banks and FIs. In addition, she provides AML, Sanctions, fraud, and consumer protection compliance advisory & remediation services, compliance training, and independent AML audits. She has worked with some of the largest cryptocurrency and payments companies in the world, including serving as BSA Officer at Uphold.com, CCO at Binance.US, and advisor to Gate.us, ByBit.us, and CEX.io. She has extensive experience assisting MSBs obtain money transmitter licenses, including the NYDFS BitLicense, and also assists banks and Fintechs with bridging the compliance - banking partner gap by assisting with Banking-as-a-Service compliance and due diligence requirements.
She frequently presents on AML issues at national and international conferences and has published multiple articles on financial crime topics. She also serves as a content advisor and subject matter expert for a variety of regulatory and financial tech partners.