Mary Lozada joins SightSpan Inc

MOORESVILLE, N.C. - Aug. 19, 2014 - PRLog -- SightSpan, a leading risk management and security solutions firm, announces that payments and digital transmitter expert Mary Lozada has joined the firm to help financial institutions grow their business while navigating regulatory risks and requirements.  SightSpan employs risk management leaders globally, helping both public and private organizations manage risk and security.

"I am excited to join a leading risk management firm in the payments and prepaid world,” said Mary Lozada.  “I am eager to work side by side with industry leaders and most of all I am looking forward to helping companies succeed in this dynamic and growing field."

Mary’s fifteen year background combines traditional Money Service Business BSA/AML/OFAC expertise with digital online money transmitter knowledge. Part of her experience includes the management of 50 money transmitter state licenses, examination management and oversight, transaction monitoring and analysis, suspicious activity reporting, AML/BSA policy drafting and training program management.  Mary has worked with e-wallet, prepaid, cash management and agency compliance. In addition, she has managed the successful implementation of Know Your Customer and Automated AML solutions for international payment processors and remittance providers.  Mary is an Association of Certified Anti- Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS) member, a member of the Association of Certified Financial Crimes Specialist (ACFCS) and Electronic Transaction Associations (ETA).

“We are very pleased that Mary choose to join the SightSpan team and our clients look forward to partnering with her. SightSpan industry experts, like Mary Lozada, are the top people within the industry, they understand the payments business, regulatory requirements, data and cyber security issues. They also understand Reg. E and consumer regulations and assist CCOs, CROs and CEOs manage and grow their business,” said John Walsh, CEO of SightSpan.

About SightSpan

SightSpan is a multinational advisory group with local and international expertise focused on risk management and security matters. Some of the largest financial institutions in the world rely on SightSpan experts and solutions to mitigate compliance risk and uncover financial crime around the globe.  SightSpan also assists governments in keeping people safe in dangerous or higher risk situations, deals with threat financing, money laundering and general illicit financial activities and designs communications and training programs to better assist citizens.

SightSpan is headquartered in Mooresville, North Carolina, with additional offices in New York, Miami, Montreal, New Zealand and in the Middle East. For more information, go to www.sightspan.com.