A Fireside Chat on International Sanctions, Anti-Bribery, and AML Compliance Priorities in the New Administration

Harold Adams Crawford, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Financial Crimes and Bank Secrecy Act Officer -  Harold "Hal" has recently joined State Street as its Global Head of Financial Crimes and serves as the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act Officer. Prior to joining the bank, Hal was a Senior Managing Director with PwC's Financial Crimes Unit based in New York. Mr. Crawford's experience includes three decades of AML, risk, advisory, and National Bank supervision. Key positions in his career include serving as the Global Head of Financial Crimes and Fiduciary Risk at Brown Brothers Harriman, Wells Fargo's Internation Risk & Control lead, the Deputy Regional Money Laundering Prevention Officer and Head of Financial Intelligence at UBS Investment Bank, and as a Senior AML Officer at the U.S. Trust Company of New York. Hal started his career as a National Bank Examiner with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and office of the U.S. Treasury Department, where he led or participated in many high-profile money laundering cases. 

Mr. Crawford, as a volunteer citizen, has advised the United States Mission at the United Nations on multiple international money laundering matters and served on the U.S. Treasury's Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations Industry Advisory Board.

Hal is a well-known international speaker on financial crimes and risk management and has been published in numerous banking trade publications throughout his career. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and served as a founding board member of the ACAMS NY Chapter. 

Hal is a member of the Union League Club of New York, The Burns Society of the City of New York, an executive board member of the Theodore Roosevelt Council, BSA, sits on the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island's Finance Advisory Committee, and is Board Member of the St. Andrews Society of the State of New York, New York State's oldest charity.

Laura Martino, Associate General Counsel, Compliance & Privacy at Global Jet Capital - Laura Martino heads up compliance.  In this role, Laura provides strategic advice to the leadership team and deal originations teams on critical issues including international sanctions, anti-bribery, data privacy and anti-money laundering.  Laura designs corporate policies and programs, overseas employee training, manages third party risks and collaborates with multi-disciplinary teams to elevate the organization’s compliance posture and minimize its risk profile.  

Prior to joining Global Jet Capital, Laura spent over five years as in-house counsel with a global patent renewals firm with 2,000 employees across 26 offices worldwide.  In this role, she advised the organization and its external clients on anti-bribery and international sanctions matters and spent six months living and working in Gurgaon to ramp-up the company’s legal operations in India.    

In her earlier career in law firm practice, Laura represented clients in matters related to customs, importation, export controls and economic sanctions.  She drafted motions in federal court proceedings and presented oral arguments before the Court of International Trade in litigation over tariffs and trade disputes. She also prepared briefs and presented arguments on behalf of clients in regulatory tribunals before the U.S. International Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Commerce, and Customs and Border Protection. Her legal journey began with internships at the White House in the Office of U.S. Trade Representative, where she drafted talking points to prepare the U.S. for bilateral trade negotiations, as well as at the U.S. House of Representatives to support NAFTA debates.  Laura has authored numerous articles over the years on sanctions, export controls and anti-bribery topics. She is actively involved in her community, serving as Chair on school PTO boards and on the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Compliance and Ethics Network.