About

Cynthia joined HSBC in 2014 and is currently the Head of Financial Crime Investigations, providing professional investigative services for all financial crime matters across all geographies and businesses of the HSBC Group. Matrix management responsibility for over 3,700 investigators. Provides oversight on continuous optimisation projects, including development and deployment of new transaction monitoring and investigative tools. Close partnership with internal business risk owners to enhance timely identification and mitigation of financial crime risk, disrupting criminal activity and continually evolving the control framework to meet the external environment.

Prior to HSBC, Cynthia was the Organized Crime Strike Force Chief at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida where she supervised attorneys tasked with prosecutions of organized crime groups as well as served as a member of the SAR Review Team which consisted of prosecutors and law enforcement agents tasked with the review of and initiation of criminal cases based upon suspicious activity reports filed by financial institutions.

During the course of her career as a criminal prosecutor, Cynthia was a visiting law professor at European Humanities University, Minsk, Belarus and spent one year as the U.S. Department of Justice Resident Legal Advisor at the U.S. Embassy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.