Victoria Howard, a Director in Stratis Advisory, has over 17 years of experience in the financial services with experience in regulatory compliance, process improvement, and implementation for payments and money transfer firms to large financial institutions.
At Stratis, she leads process design and implementation of scalable regulatory compliance programs, including risk management infrastructure, the underlying technology suite, and ongoing regulatory strategy and reporting. Previously, Victoria led regulatory examinations and quality assurance at OFX, a globally licensed online international payments firm. At OFX, she was responsible for multiple aspects of the BSA/AML/OFAC compliance program, including regulatory reporting, examination management, governance, quality assurance, training, and policy and procedures. Victoria also served as an Investigation Manager for Nexxo Financial’s Financial Intelligence Unit, a kiosk-based money transfer business serving Latin America that was acquired by MoneyGram, as well as Bank Of America’s Global Financial Crimes Compliance division. She started her career in 2002 at Wells Fargo working in multiple loss mitigation and loan processing management roles.
Victoria holds a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) certification with experience in the industries of banking, financial services, MSB’s, FinTech startups, lending in the US, LATAM, APAC, Canada, and the UK.