ACI’s 5th Advanced OFAC Enforcement & Compliance Conference

Feb. 14, 2012 - PRLog -- American Conference Institute’s 5th Advanced Forum on OFAC Enforcement & Compliance is widely regarded as the premier benchmarking and networking event for sanctions professionals.  The highly advanced program focuses on how to resolve the most pressing, hot button issues impacting global transactions by financial institutions and exporters.  The sophisticated agenda is fully updated, and, unlike other conferences, includes a new speaker line-up of senior government officials, industry professionals and private practice experts from the U.S. and UK.
2012 Government Keynote Speakers from OFAC, OCC, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of State and Federal Reserve Bank of New York:
•   Adam J. Szubin (Director, OFAC)
•   Mikael Down (Deputy Director, Sanctions and Illicit Finance Team, HM Treasury) (London, UK)
•   Linda Specht (Director, Office of Terrorism Finance and Sanctions Policy, U.S. Department of State)
•   Jonathan Thomas (Chief, Regulated Industries Oversight & Evaluation, OFAC)
•   Lorraine Lawlor (Chief of Compliance Outreach, OFAC)
•   Alexandre Manfull (Chief, Blocked Assets Administration and Analysis, OFAC)
•   Adam Kaufmann (Executive Assistant District Attorney, The New York County District Attorney’s Office)
•   Sean O’Malley (Vice President and Deputy Chief Investigator for Enforcement, Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
•   Dennis Wood (Assistant Director, Sanctions Compliance & Evaluation, OFAC)
•   Michael Geffroy  (Assistant Director for Enforcement, OFAC)
•   Steven W. Pelak (National Export Coordinator, U.S. Department of Justice)
•   Andrea Gacki (Assistant Director for Licensing, OFAC)
•   Indira Crum (Compliance Specialist, BSA/AML Compliance Policy Division, OCC)
•   Beverly Jules (Supervising Examiner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York)

Attendees will also have the benefit of networking and benchmarking with experts from UBS, HSBC, Prudential Financial, Citigroup, BP America, Deutsche Bank, Zurich Financial, Cameron International, Flowserve, IBM, GE, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Tyco International and Pfizer.

Based on the past success of this event, seats will likely sell out quickly.  For further details and to register, please call 1-888-224-2480 or visit www.americanconference.com/OFAC.

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