Devesh Desai

Partner @PwC

Devesh Desai is currently a Partner at PwC within Financial Services Advisory group, where he leads Financial Crime Technology team which helps Banking, Capital Markets, Assets Management, Insurance and Fin Tech clients in implementing advance technology solutions related to fraud, anti-money laundering, sanctions screening, trade compliance and regulatory reporting. Devesh has held multiple internal and client serving roles in technology consulting services. Devesh has experience in helping several large global institutions achieve the confidence needed for strong three lines of defense on risk by building and fortifying internal risk controls, developing and strengthening risk and compliance programs. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and authored several white papers on risk and compliance topics. Specialties: Financial Crime (AML, OFAC, KYC, FCPA, Fraud, FIU, Enterprise Case Management, Risk Assessment Analytics), Compliance Testing, Consumer Compliance (UDAP, Fair Lending), Dodd-Frank/Volker, Internal Audit Analytics, Continuous Monitoring, Continuous Auditing, CCAR, Insider Trading, Trade Survellience (FX, SWAPS, Deravatives, Equity), Actimize, Mantas, Detica, Net Reveal, Compliance Strategy and Organizational design, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big data