Deb Bonosconi

Deb Bonosconi is a managing director and a leader of BRG’s Financial Institution Advisory practice, with more than twenty-five  years of experience as a financial services practitioner and regulator.

She advises clients on a variety of regulatory, enforcement, and compliance matters, with an emphasis on Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/anti-money laundering (AML), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and risk-focused services. She has conducted numerous reviews of financial institutions’ AML, sanctions, and fraud programs to identify and implement risk-based operational efficiencies to improve quality and effectiveness.

Ms. Bonosconi previously served as a director at a global consulting firm, a director for the forensics practice of a Big Four firm, and as director of AML advisory practices at another Big Four firm. She has held AML leadership roles at GE Money, HSBC, eBay/PayPal, and Citigroup.

Ms. Bonosconi was a federal bank examiner for ten years, first at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as a compliance examiner, and then in the Federal Reserve Board’s Investigations and Enforcement Section. While employed at the Federal Reserve Board, she also served as a delegate to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for two years. She was routinely assigned to the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) on matters related to country risk ratings and assistance with establishment of Financial Intelligence Units in the Caribbean.