Valerie
James
Valerie has over 10 years of experience in financial crime investigations and compliance. She currently works as an AML Investigator for CitiGroup’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).
Her prior experience consists of investigating money laundering, fraud, identity theft, elder abuse, terrorist financing, fraud rings, and trade-based money laundering. She has worked on correspondent banking, retail banking, private banking, and government institutional banking investigations and on subpoenas.
She also has experience in training and quality assurance.
Valerie was part of a group of compliance professionals who developed the Compliance certificate program at Wilmington University and she has worked as an adjunct instructor there. She created courses, selected textbooks, wrote syllabi, and prepared assignments for students.
Valerie has a Master’s degree in Business Management with a concentration in Homeland Security and a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Wilmington University.
She received her CAMS designation in 2015.