Stephen Lurie

Biography

​​Stephen Lurie is a compliance risk management and internal compliance audit professional with more than 40 years’ experience. He has helped banks, broker-dealers, investment firms, their advisers, and other financial institutions strengthen compliance frameworks and navigate complex regulatory requirements. With deep knowledge of BSA and AML requirements, expertise in sanctions administered and enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and decades of compliance testing experience, Stephen guides clients in achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance.  

​Beginning in 1997 and continuing for more than 20 years, Stephen served as director of AML and sanctions at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he led engagement teams responsible for establishing, enhancing, and remediating BSA/AML and sanctions compliance programs.  

​After PwC, Stephen served as Executive Director and Head of BSA/AML and Sanctions Compliance Testing at UBS, where he established and ran the compliance testing unit and developed a BSA/AML and sanctions testing program covering all U.S. business units. Stephen later re-established the anti-financial crimes practice at Dixon Hughes Goodman, LLP, as the firm’s Director and Anti-Financial Crimes leader for 2 years.  

​Just prior to joining Tölt, Stephen was an international sanctions auditor at Crédit Agricole CIB, where he performed audit validations of BSA/AML remediation efforts of Matters Requiring Attention from the Federal Reserve and the New York State Department of Financial Services.  

​Stephen is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist through the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists and a Certified Cryptocurrency Trader™.​