Chris
King, MS-ECM, CFE, CAMS
Since 2016, Chris has been a member of the Board of Directors for the Delaware Chapter of ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists). Chris is also on the Board of the Delaware Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, serving as the training director.
Currently, Chris is an adjunct instructor at Widener Law and Wilmington University, teaching on-line and in-person compliance college courses to students. He holds both the Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certifications, earned a Master of Science degree in Economic Crime Management from Utica College in New York, as well as a BA in Communications from Salisbury University in Maryland.
Additionally, Mr. King has been a guest speaker at related industry conferences on topics such as suspicious activity reporting, the Bank Secrecy Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, and anti-money laundering compliance programs.
Previously, Chris served as a director and AML officer in the global financial crime compliance department for PayPal’s two credit businesses. In this capacity, Mr. King led audits, examinations, self-assessments, risk assessments, policy and daily operations with a variety of leaders and team members. Additionally, Chris’ team was responsible for developing policies and training for their programs on credit compliance, sanctions screening, suspicious activity reporting, risk assessments and supporting the bank partnerships with the consumer and commercial credit businesses.
Prior to that, Chris was a vice president in the financial intelligence unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co. for seven years. He had been responsible for managing detailed AML procedures and training for a large team of investigators and a lead instructor teaching AML-related classes to both new hires and experienced teams. In that role, he frequently interfaced with other new hires, analysts, investigators, managers, bank partners, auditors, and regulators. While employed with MBNA / Bank of America, Chris served in many compliance leadership roles. He was the Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) coordinator for the card business, led the policy process of automating SAR filing, USA PATRIOT Act Customer ID and Information Sharing Programs for deposits and business lending programs, bank-wide sanctions processes, as well as an AML/BSA team lead and manager, responsible for creating training and developing policies and procedures.