Amir Thapa
Risk Strategy Leader
- Role
- Risk Strategy & Analytics Lead at Yapstone
- Location
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Amir Thapa
Customer-focused, results oriented risk leader with 15+ years’ experience in consumer and payment processing industry with expertise in managing credit and fraud risk. Drives policies and strategies using statistical and data analysis to evaluate risk and reward scenarios while enforcing process efficiencies and rules and regulation compliance. Passion for guiding teams to achieve common goals by cultivating strong relationships across matrixed teams and functions in dynamic, unpredictable environments. Areas of Expertise · Payment Processing · Credit & Fraud Risk Management · ACH & Card Fraud · SAS / SQL · Power BI (Tableau / Looker) · Underwriting Strategy · Data Driven Solution · Statistical Analysis · Portfolio Performance · Cross-functional Partnerships · Customer-focused Solutions Accomplishments • Managed credit and fraud strategies for a payment fin-tech in travel business and moving into digital wallets and crypto in new markets (LatAM). • Delivered strategies to recognize and stop fraudulent merchants and transactions saving $10M in annual losses for JPM Chase. • Successfully built and implemented Bank of America’s Merchant Service risk strategy and platform from the ground up as part of strategy to build merchant processing business that will support $1B transactions and $40B per month by 2022.
Experience
Risk Strategy & Analytics Lead
Dec 2021 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
Education
University of Bath
BEng, Industrial Engineering
1993 — 1997
The University of Texas at Austin
Master of Science (MS), Operations Research
2000 — 2002
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