Tif Chesnos
Financial Crimes Compliance
- Role
- Chief Aml Officer at WebBank
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tif Chesnos
Attorney and Certified Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Specialist (CAMS) serving as the Chief AML Officer at FinWise Bank. Oversees execution of regulatory requirements, develops and strengthens AML, counter-terrorism and sanctions compliance initiatives, customizes solutions to combat novel financial crime risks (domestic and foreign), drives efficiency, production and quality using lean strategies. Served as the Head of Onshore Operations/Advisory Lead - Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC), leading large-scale (400+ operations) in fintech and crypto (Retail/Institutional Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), AML Investigations, Fraud), people-centric leader with insights-driven operations. Additional skill sets in risk assessment, program design, target operating models, model validation and tuning, data management, technology and training. Served as the Vice President, Product, at The Data Initiative; a software as a service company that unified domestic and international financial crime data, supporting financial crime risk management.Served as a leader in multiple functions across FCC including as the Director of Economic Sanctions & Anti- Corruption. Developed and built the enterprise-wide Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) risk assessment and training program, oversaw multiple system implementations, managed investigations within the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) during a period of transformative growth and compliance-culture shift, played a key role in the development of the program framework for the FIU as well designed and developed the operating model for Currency Transaction Reporting (CTR).Specialties: FCC, BSA/AML, CTR, OFAC, KYC, CDD, EDD, FCPA, fraud, crypto, blockchain, sanctions, screening, PEP, adverse media, fintech, domestic and foreign correspondent banking, retail banking, product management, product design, product development, startup, reg tech, criminal law, litigation and Social Security Disability Law.
Experience
Chief Aml Officer
Apr 2025 — Present
Education
California State University - East Bay
Bachelor of Science, Organizational Psychology
California Western School of Law
Juris Doctor, Law
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