AML Compliance Expertise

Teresa Anaya is founder and director of AML Audit and Advisory.  Ms. Anaya has over 25 years of experience in accounting and information technology with most recent 15 years in governance, risk and compliance. She provided investigation services for the FDIC during the financial crisis of 2008, investigating reason for failure of the financial institutions with continuous work in financial crime and compliance for global banks, money services businesses and cryptocurrency native companies.   She has worked on over 1500  fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing related investigations over her career.

Ms. Anaya's background covers traditional financial crime but she specializes in digital asset financial crime and compliance, having worked her first bitcoin case in 2016. After working on projects for Standard Chartered Bank, Bank of America and MoneyGram, she joined Blockchain Intelligence Group where she helped develop tools to track and trace the illicit activity associated with the movement of digital assets. She’s provided training sessions to global regulators in Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada and partnered with law firms to aid in the writing of securities policy for digital assets.

Teresa co-developed the Certified Cryptocurrency Training Certification program with Robert Whitaker, who is a former Supervisory Special Agent, Illicit Finance and Proceeds of Crime Unit, U.S. Homeland Security, a course designed and approved for law enforcement continuing education credits and adapted for compliance professionals. She has worked numerous cryptocurrency investigations, partnering with law enforcement to provide education and assistance in an effort to recover stolen funds.

She has experience building and managing a Bank Secrecy Act Compliance program for a top 5 stablecoin, a decentralized lending marketplace, as well as advisory for digital asset related investment funds in the Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands. She was engaged to be the key-note speaker for the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, including speaking for the ACFE in Abu Dhabi and most recently invited to the CAII – Peru’s leading Anti-Corruption Conference, provided training sessions for the FBI and is a regular guest lecturer for Texas Christian University.

Ms. Anaya maintains the following certifications:

• Certified Cryptocurrency Investigator
• Certified Fraud Examiner
• Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist
• ITIL 3 Certified
• Certified Bitcoin Professional