Play Beyond the Rules: How Financial Institutions Can Fight Money Laundering with Graph Analytics

Play Beyond the Rules: How Financial Institutions Can Fight Money Laundering with Graph Analytics Essential Guidance for Chief Compliance Officers

May 28, 2020
8:30 am - 9:15 am PDT | 11:30 am - 12:15 pm EDT | 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm GMT

Graph analytics is dramatically reshaping how financial institutions fight money laundering. Watch this webinar to learn how:

Graph analytics uncovers hidden criminal networks by harnessing the power of data, relationships and intuitive visualizations
How AML investigators can use graph analytics to be more efficient and accurate, and how Chief Compliance Officers can leverage it to maximize the long-term success of their anti-money laundering programs.
Oracle has embedded this powerful technology into our Financial Crime and Compliance Management platform—and what the future holds.

Featured Speakers

Jason Somrak
CAMS
Chief of Graph Product and Strategy
Oracle Financial Services

Biography: Jason Somrak is Chief of Graph Product and Strategy for Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance Management. In this role, Jason is responsible for products that use advanced technologies such as graph analytics to help financial institutions better fight money laundering and other financial crimes. Previously he worked in various roles at PNC and KeyBank, where he managed teams responsible for compliance. He has designed solutions to identify human and labor trafficking, among other crimes. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Tiffin University.

Sungpack Hong
PhD
Research Director, Oracle Labs
Oracle

Biography: Sungpack Hong is a Research Director at Oracle Labs, where he leads projects related to large-scale graph analytics, data analysis and related business applications. Earlier in his career, he held positions at Microsoft, NVIDIA and Samsung Electronics. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

Michael Lammie

Director, Financial Crime Technology & Analytics

PwC

Biography: Michael Lammie is a Director in PwC’s Financial Crimes Technology and Analytics Practice with a focus on anti-money laundering, fraud, and sanctions. Michael supports financial institutions in designing monitoring programs and optimizing the value of their systems and data to improve monitoring, risk assessment, risk mitigation, and related controls.

Michael specializes in the adoption of advanced analytics within Financial Crime surveillance, with experience in piloting and implementing machine learning and graph or network-based monitoring solutions.

Sandeep Dwarakanath

CAMS
Director
PwC

Biography: Sandeep has 15 years of experience assisting Financial Services clients execute enterprise transformation programs in the Anti-Money Laundering, Know Your Customer, Sanctions and Broker/Dealer Compliance space. He has led several implementations of leading vendor solutions including Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance Management. He has assisted large financial institutions optimize case investigation processes from both an operational and technology standpoint. More recently, his focus has been in transforming surveillance programs from detection through investigation, integrating emerging technologies with existing platforms to create value and better user experiences.

Sandeep received his Engineering degree in Electronics and Computer Science and is CAMS certified. He is a certified Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance Management implementation specialist.