MEMBER SPOTLIGHT
Charles Falciglia, CAMS
Bloomfield, N.J., USA
Congratulations to Charles Falciglia! Falciglia is the recipient of the 2008 ACAMS Today
Article of the Year Award.
Charles Falciglia oversees BSA/AML/OFAC compliance for American Bank of New Jersey in
Bloomfield, New Jersey. Previously he was the security and compliance manager for the ADP
Federal Credit Union. He has worked in the banking and credit union industry for 30 years in a
variety of across-the-board positions including lending, collections, compliance and operations.
He has worked for both small community institutions and large regional ones. Falciglia has been
a member of the ACAMS Today editorial task force for two years and has written 11 articles for
the magazine on a wide range of AML issues that include two cover stories. He is a graduate of
Fairleigh Dickinson University with a bachelor’s degree in accounting. In 2005, he authored one
of the most comprehensive books to date on the Electoral College, “Red State Blue State White
House,” a historical statistical analysis of the presidential vote since the Civil War.
Leo Hattenbach
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leo Hattenbach has 17
years’ financial services
experience and has worked
with financial institutions
in the Netherlands and abroad. He is a
registered accountant (CPA equivalent)
and certified fraud examiner (CFE).
Prior to joining Ernst & Young in 2003,
Hattenbach worked as an internal auditor
for Philips and Rabobank, and as a forensic auditor for KPMG.
In his current role as director in the
Fraud Investigations & Dispute Services
of Ernst & Young, Hattenbach specializes
in the areas of anti-money laundering
and OFAC compliance. He has led technical trainings for financial institutions,
regulators and internally within Ernst &
Young on the topics of anti-money laundering, OFAC compliance, and fraud and
corruption.
Hattenbach is a member of the global
Ernst & Young anti-money laundering
network. During the last few years, Leo
has been responsible for assisting financial institutions with OFAC look-backs
and providing OFAC compliance support
to banks in the Netherlands and in the
United Kingdom.
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Michael Kong Jong
Foek, CAMS
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Michael Kong Jong Foek
is the compliance officer
and head of the Compliance
Department of Citco Bank Nederland N.V.,
located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Foek is responsible for the overall
compliance of the Citco Banks’ branches,
i nclud i ng a nt i-money lau nder i ng /
compliance training in the European
region. Starting in the mid-80s in the
head office of Citco Bank Nederland N.V.
in Amsterdam, Foek was involved with
the setup of the domestic and foreign,
internal audit, reconciliation, trading,
controller, front and back office, and
compliance departments.
Appointed compliance officer around
2000, Foek screened, identified and verified new bank customers by using sophisticated compliance applications to detect
sanctioned individuals and companies.
Foek is closely involved with the developments of new databases to comply with
new international and EU AML directives
to protect Citco’s good reputation, and to
combat money laundering and terrorist
financing. He also provides periodical customer due diligence training to all staff.
Before joining Citco, Foek worked
in the financial sector of ING Bank and
Hewlett Packard in Amsterdam.
November / December 2008
Mohamad S. Mansour, CAMS
Doha, Qatar
Head of the AML/CFT
unit at the Commercial Bank
of Qatar, Mansour is responsible for the supervision of the
AML/CFT program at Commercial Bank and
its Diners Club franchises in Qatar, Egypt,
Bahrain and Oman. Mansour is actively
involved in introducing the latest AML/
CFT information technology solutions into
the bank’s operations while enhancing the
monitoring procedures implemented across
the bank’s divisions. Mansour relies on
e-learning courses to deliver the latest AML/
CFT training to staff along with classroom
training, which he believes to be an essential
part of the continuing education process.
Mansour is a frequent trainer and speaker
at regional and international confe ɕ