Jennifer Shasky Calvery is the global head of financial crime threat mitigation for

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"HSBC brings in AI to help spot money laundering"
Martin Arnold, ''Financial Times'', April 8, 2018. Retrieved October 18, 20222. and a former director of the U.S. Treasury

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is a bureau of the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions in order to combat domestic and international money laundering, terr ...

(FinCEN).

Education

Shasky Calvery holds a law degree from the

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. She graduated summa cum laude with an undergraduate degree in international affairs from The

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, where she was also an All-American basketball player.

Career

Working to prosecute

money-laundering Money laundering is the process of concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source. It is a crime in many jurisdictions ...

and related crimes, she spent 15 years at the

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, including as an Organized Crime and Racketeering Section prosecutor, and two years as senior counsel with the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, through two federal administrations. She was director of the

(FinCEN) of the

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from September 22, 2012, until May 27, 2016. During her tenure at FinCEN, while representing the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section of the

, had been "considering seeking a guilty plea from HSBC" as early as September 2012. On April 16, 2016, she announced she would be leaving the position effective on May 27, 2016, to join banking group HSBC.U.S. Treasury anti-laundering head to join HSBC: sources
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