Jennifer Shasky Calvery is an American attorney. She is the global head of financial crime threat mitigation for

HSBC HSBC Holdings plc ( zh, t_hk=滙豐; initialism from its founding member The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) is a British universal bank and financial services group headquartered in London, England, with historical and business li ...

."HSBC brings in AI to help spot money laundering"
Martin Arnold, ''Financial Times'', April 8, 2018. Retrieved October 18, 20222. She served as director of the U.S. Treasury Department's

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is a bureau within the United States Department of the Treasury that collects and analyzes information about financial transactions to combat domestic and international money laundering, terrori ...

(FinCEN) from September 2012 to May 2016.

Education

Calvery holds a JD from the

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College of Law. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in international affairs from

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, where she was also an All-American basketball player.

Career

Working to prosecute

money-laundering Money laundering is the process of illegally concealing the origin of money obtained from illicit activities (often known as dirty money) such as drug trafficking, sex work, terrorism, corruption, and embezzlement, and converting the funds into ...

and related crimes, she spent 15 years at the

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, including as an Organized Crime and Racketeering Section prosecutor, and two years as senior counsel with the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, through two federal administrations. She was director of Treasury's

(FinCEN) from September 22, 2012, until May 27, 2016. During her tenure at FinCEN, while representing the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section of the

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, had been "considering seeking a guilty plea from HSBC" as early as September 2012. On April 16, 2016, she announced she would be leaving the position effective on May 27, 2016, to join banking group HSBC.U.S. Treasury anti-laundering head to join HSBC: sources
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Calvery, Jennifer Living people American women civil servants Elliott School of International Affairs alumni James E. Rogers College of Law alumni United States Department of the Treasury officials Year of birth missing (living people) HSBC people 21st-century American women lawyers American prosecutors