William Mason, Former Senior Special Agent

About

Senior financial crimes and risk management expert with 20 plus years in the public and private sector. Subject matter expertise in financial crimes prevention and detection, fraud investigations, market abuse, global sanctions, complex financial transactions, payment systems, and assisting firms with significant regulatory enforcement actions.

Roles

Aug 2022–Sep 2024

Former role

Director - Financial Crimes Compliance

Credit Suisse

New York, New York

Compliance

Served as the Americas Head of Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) Surveillance and Investigations for the Investment Bank.

Managed multiple teams responsible for Screening, Surveillance, AML Transaction Monitoring, and FCC Investigations.
Ensured that all potential financial crimes such as insider trading, fraud and other types of market abuse behaviors were investigated and reported to FinCEN.
Served as the Chair of the SAR Review Committee and actively participated in various other global surveillance and investigative governance committees.

Aug 2010–Aug 2022

Former role

Senior Special Agent

Federal Reserve System, Office of Inspector General

District of Columbia

InvestigationsCriminal Investigation

Office of Inspector General

Office of Investigations

Washington, DC Headquarters (2010-2015)

New York Regional Office (2015-2022)

Conducted and led complex federal investigations involving financial crimes such as bank and wire fraud, insider trading, bribery, corruption, money laundering, terrorist financing , cybercrime, and other types of large scale financial fraud that threatens the integrity of the U.S. financial system.
Provided banking and financial crimes subject matter expertise to the Department of Justice and other investigative partners on global financial investigations.
Coordinated with financial regulatory agencies and other government agencies such as FinCEN on intelligence and global financial crimes.