With more than 21 years of experience, Mr. Kwan has primarily focused on the financial services industry (including cryptocurrency exchanges, retail and commercial banks, brokerages, insurers, and casinos) with work related to AML/CTF, economic sanctions compliance, and associated regulatory compliance-centered technologies. Mr. Kwan has worked across the U.S. and for clients based in Mexico, Canada, Japan, Iceland, and Chile. He has also contributed to the ongoing development of AML/CTF regulation in Hong Kong relating to virtual asset service providers.

Mr. Kwan’s notable assignments include forensic data preservation and analysis for the estate of FTX Trading Ltd., Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers International (Europe), and Health Republic Insurance of New York. Mr. Kwan has supported banks based in the U.S., Latin America, and Asia, as well as embassy banking operations, with AML and sanctions-related transactional lookbacks and remediations of suspicious activity reports. He has led the reporting of high-risk transactions (entity/jurisdiction) and end-to-end data validations for commercial and retail banks facing federal and state scrutiny. Mr. Kwan has also managed customer data segmentation and risk ranking for multiple regional banks and he has developed financial forecasting repositories and tools for hedge fund and private equity clients.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Kwan spent six years with PwC’s Advisory practice in New York working with the Forensic Analysis and Data Management groups, where he led projects and managed teams for client engagements in New York, Miami, Chicago, and Tokyo.

Mr. Kwan earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is an active Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS), Certified Cryptoasset Anti-Financial Crime Specialist (CCAS), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).