A Not-So-Remote Risk: Detecting and Mitigating Insider Threats and Fraud

Amanda currently serves as the Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at Atlantic Bay. In this role Amanda has oversight of the organization’s enterprise risk management, regulatory and operational compliance, financial intelligence, and human capital functions.

Prior to joining Atlantic Bay, Amanda served as the Chief Operating and Risk Officer of Old Dominion National Bank.

Amanda has an extensive background in community financial institutions, having held a wide range of leadering, risk, and compliance roles. She has previously served as Senior Vice President & Operational Risk Manager for Union Bankshares where she was responsible for the development and implementation of the operational risk management framework. Amanda joined Union through their acquisition of StellarOne Corporation where she served as the Director of AML & Fraud. Prior to joining StellarOne, Amanda served as the Vice President of Compliance for Community Bank where she managed the enterprise compliance management program.

Amanda began her Banking career as a Senior Bank Examiner with the Massachusetts Division of Banks where she participated in the safety and soundness examinations of state-chartered banks with a focus on BSA/AML and IT FFIEC examinations.

Amanda is a graduate of Hartwick College in New York and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She is also a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager (CRCM), a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), and a Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA).

Amanda currently serves as a Director on the BSA Coalition’s Advisory Board, and as the Executive Director on the ACAMS Virginia Board.

Wes is responsible for Loan Quality, Fraud Identification and Education, and serves as the BSA/AML Officer at AnnieMac Home Mortgage.   He is a member of the Senior Leadership Team and Risk Management Committee, and guides Appraisal Policy for the company. Wes’s teams direct Appraisal Administration, Condominium Project Approval, Cash Offer programs, and Counterparty Risk.

An enterprise-wide culture of quality, real-time trend reporting, highly discretionary and targeted pre-close quality control, and confidential fraud reporting are tools that Wes sees as essential to effective risk management.

Wes is a member of the Risk Management Committee of the MBA and developed the Cash2Keys home-buying platform in 2021.  Wes has been a speaker for the BSA Coalition, The Mortgage Collaborative, Valuation Expo, and has authored articles in appraisal industry publications.

A graduate of the University of Richmond, Wes started out in the mortgage industry as an originator before shifting to loan quality and strategic risk disciplines.   Wes lives in the Philadelphia area with his wife Michala and two children.

Steven D. Trigili, MBA, CAMS is the Chief Compliance and AML Officer of Garden State Securities, Inc., and Garden State Investment Advisory Services, LLC, an independent broker-dealer and SEC registered investment advisor headquartered in Red Bank, New Jersey. Presently serving his second term to the FINRA North Region Committee, Steve has 31 years of experience in financial services and is responsible for the oversight of all regulatory exams, risk assessments, compliance testing, and anti-money laundering policies and procedures within the firm. He also heads the firm’s cybersecurity and safeguarding program.  Before joining Garden State in 2010, Steve served as the CCO for a boutique firm on Wall Street for nine years, and prior to that served as a branch compliance manager for the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. 

A recurring speaker and panelist at national industry conferences and webinars for over 20 years, Steve also provides independent consulting and expert witness services for securities arbitrations and litigation matters.

Steve holds his Series 7, 24, 55, 63, 65 and 79, is an adjunct professor of business and management at Southern New Hampshire University Graduate School of Business, Ocean County College in Toms River, New Jersey and Bloomfield College of New Jersey. He’s an editor of the Journal of Financial Compliance, a member of the National Society of Compliance Professionals, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics.

Eugene is a senior compliance manager, currently serving as Head of Transaction Monitoring in Mashreqbank,  experienced in building risk-based BSA/AML programs and managing regulatory remediation projects in a number of global financial institutions. He’s an expert in building highly effective operational mitigation controls for high risk products, including foreign correspondent banking, institutional and corporate banking, global trade finance and SWIFT/FED/CHIPS payments.

Eugene designs and implements BSA/AML compliance framework, including Transaction Monitoring Unit (TMU) and Financial Investigation Unit (FIU) operational management, risk coverage assessment reviews, BSA/AML model development and validation, detection scenarios tuning methodology, and AML Coverage Assessment, comprising the pillars of successful BSA/AML risk management enterprise, in collaboration with principal stakeholders and executive management.

Prior to entering banking industry, Eugene served as a criminal investigator for 14 years, investigating and supervising cases of money laundering, organized crime, domestic terrorism, financial and insurance fraud.