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Financial Crime Veterans Join Arachnys Board

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Arachnys, a provider of customer risk intelligence in the areas of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti Money Laundering (AML) and Due Diligence (DD), has selected four new members to join its executive board in a bid to support the company’s growth strategy.

The new members are Nigel Broda, previously vice president of sales at NICE Actimize; Lynne Federman, former global head of AML compliance for State Street Bank; Wendy Conway Schmidt, a former litigator and global leader of the Business Intelligence Services practice at Deloitte Advisory until 2017; and M. Babar Shameen, formerly the global head of AML, KYC, sanctions screening and anti-bribery and corruption technology at Citigroup and currently managing partner at Sanctions Advisory.

Ed Sander, Arachnys’ president, comments: “I’m delighted to welcome such renowned and experienced senior advisors to Arachnys and am confident their insights will deliver significant enhancements to the company’s growth strategy.”

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