Sean is a financial crime risk management expert with over 15 years of experience advising on the more complex areas of compliance in relation to correspondent banking, payments, regulatory matters and reporting, sanctions, fraud and anti bribery and corruption. Sean has worked for in compliance for HSBC Bank Canada, now Royal Bank of Canada. He was hired by HSBC Bank Canada, at the beginning of the implementation of the deferred prosecution agreement by the US Department of Justice. He was instrumental in rolling out the Global Standards Program for HSBC Bank Canada for the Global Banking and Global Markets division of the bank. He also worked as a risk steward for fraud within the Global Banking and Commercial Banking space, advising on the variety of fraud schemes and potential controls. He was the Director of Transaction Monitoring for Correspondent Banking for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, looking at the international payment flows coming into the bank from a financial crime risk and KYC/CDD consistency perspective.

Sean regularly assists financial institutions, securities dealers, mortgage professionals, payment infrastructure providers, money service businesses, virtual asset service providers and other reporting entity types with various aspects of their compliance program. Sean’s work has focused on policy and procedure development/updates, risk assessments, delivery of training sessions, effectiveness review reporting, regulatory reporting, regulatory response and assistance, and assisting clients in the selection of technology relationships.

Sean frequently writes and is a regular contributor to the MacDonald Laurier Institute, often connecting social issues with financial crime risk management. He has extensively written articles on fentanyl and drug trafficking on financial institutions and has delivered training and sessions on this topic.