Debbie Ferrara

Biography

​​Deborah Ferrara (Debbie) has extensive compliance experience including working in law enforcement and serving as a financial crimes compliance executive as well as on behalf of regulators to address identified compliance deficiencies. Her experience includes serving as an independent monitor for the New York Department of Financial Services, as well as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Debbie has also worked to address insufficient controls identified by the Office of Comptroller of the Currency.  

​Her expertise includes conducting annual BSA/AML and OFAC Risk Assessments to inventory controls and identify the residual risks not within the institution’s risk appetite and developing action plans to address the risk; developing policies and procedures to address the BSA/AML regulatory requirements on behalf of international financial institutions with a presence in the US; conducting Know Your Customer (KYC) remediations; transaction monitoring, conducting investigations, historical look-backs, as well as Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) writing; investigations and historic analyses/look-backs; working on a joint terrorism task force to identify money laundering schemes to fund terrorist operations; and project management and quality assurance reviews.  

​Debbie’s professional experience includes various multi-national financial institutions, broker dealers, banking as a service, money service businesses, and community banks. Past employers and clients include Guidehouse, Navigant Consulting, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, JPMorgan Chase, Cross River Bank, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered Bank, Wells Fargo, UBS, Bank of Tokyo-Mistibushi UFJ, Interactive Brokers, Intesa Sanpaolo, TD Bank, and Nordea Bank.

Debbie is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). ​