James
Sayko
James Sayko is the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Financial Crimes Leader and head of the CIB Financial Crimes (CIBFC) team. James has front line responsibility for financial crimes risk across CIB, including Banking, Markets, Commercial Real Estate, and International.
Prior to his current role, James was the head of Financial Crimes Control for Institutional Banking and Payments at Wells Fargo, where he oversaw execution of the financial crimes program for a variety of coverage groups within CIB, as well as the Global Payments Services business.
Previously James was based in Hong Kong, where he served as the Asia Pacific Head of Financial Crimes Risk Management for Wells Fargo, where he oversaw Anti- Money laundering, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Economic Sanctions and Fraud for fifteen (15) jurisdictions across the region.
Before joining Wells Fargo, James worked at JPMorgan in Legal & Compliance, where he was responsible for a number of topics including financial crimes, securities regulation, conflicts, and lobbying/pay-to-play, and in the Financial Institutions Group, where he served as a relationship executive covering bank and non-bank financial institutions. James earned a B.A. from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the George Washington University School of Law.