Jennifer Ford-Smith (Co-Chair)
is an Independent Financial Crime Consultant and has almost two decades’
experience in financial crime investigations, fraud analysis and anti-money
laundering measures. Her experience has focused on residential mortgage fraud,
enterprise fraud risk assessments and transnational transaction monitoring
projects.
Jennifer has worked with Canada’s
Big Banks and mid-size mortgage lenders performing financial crime
investigations, managing bilingual compliance teams and leading transaction
monitoring projects with more than 100 investigators across Canada.
Further, Jennifer has managed
international fraud investigations involving everything from gold bullion to
standard Canadian and US financial products, confidential corporate security
investigations and extensive organized crime investigations involving the
laundering of funds utilizing residential mortgages as a money laundering tool.
Recently, Jennifer started the
FinCrime Investigator Youtube channel and, during the COVID pandemic, created a
virtual FinCrime meeting space for professionals with global attendance.