Conor Stanhope

Conor Stanhope is a Senior Manager in Treliant’s Financial Crimes and Fraud Solutions practice. Conor has over eight years of experience in managing financial crime risks in the financial services industry, including designing and strengthening anti-money laundering (AML) programs for large and mid-sized banks, payment processors, cryptocurrency exchanges, and financial technology (fintech) companies.

At Treliant, Conor performs assessments of AML programs and implements solutions to help mitigate financial crime risk for a variety of different financial institutions. His work includes creating and refining a fraud investigations program for a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) bank, developing and implementing a politically exposed person (PEP) / adverse media screening process for a large, domestic bank, and executing a suspicious activity monitoring lookback across correspondent banking transactions.

Prior to joining Treliant, Conor worked as a Consultant with Berkeley Research Group, advising clients in a variety of financial crimes compliance areas, such as leading the strategic approach to remediation of a formal agreement issued to a fintech-focused bank by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), performing a coverage assessment of suspicious activity monitoring for a digital financial services company to ensure money laundering risks were appropriately addressed, and designing and implementing a customer risk rating model for an international bank. Additionally, he spent over four years with US Bank assisting in the remediation of an OCC consent order and managing teams responsible for performing enhanced due diligence on customers posing increased money laundering risk.

Conor’s subject matter expertise in end-to-end design, management, and implementation of financial crimes programs, combined with his technical skills in SQL and R brings significant value and insights to companies that are facing complex risks across the financial services industry.

Conor graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Economics from Saint John Fisher University, and he is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).