Christina Rea, Esq. the founder of RayCor Consulting, LLC. She has over 10 years of experience acting as a senior compliance manager and Chief Compliance Officer/BSA Officer for a variety of financial institutions, with a specialty in Fintechs, cryptocurrency exchangers, and other Money Service Businesses. She utilizes her extensive background in AML and MSB compliance to provide expert witness testimony on complex financial matters involving anti-money laundering, fraud, and cryptocurrency. She also works on international financial litigation cases as an expert witness team lead, including for sensitive anti-money laundering litigation matters that require a great deal of confidentiality.
Ms. Rea provides fractional Chief Compliance Officer services for all manners of fintech startups, RegTech vendors, and local banks and FIs. In addition, she provides AML, Sanctions, fraud, and consumer protection compliance advisory & remediation services, compliance training, and independent AML audits. She has worked with some of the largest cryptocurrency and payments companies in the world, including serving as BSA Officer at Uphold.com, CCO at Binance.US, and advisor to Gate.io, ByBit.io, and CEX.io. She has extensive experience assisting MSBs obtain money transmitter licenses, including the NYDFS BitLicense, and assists banks and Fintechs with bridging the compliance -banking partner gap by assisting with Banking-as-a-Service compliance and due diligence requirements.
She frequently presents on AML issues at national and international conferences and has published multiple articles on financial crime topics. She serves as a content advisor and subject matter expert for a variety of regulatory and financial tech partners.
Co-Founder/CEO. Consulting expert in AML and fraud issues in civil cases in the U.S.
2022 - Present
ORQUID, CCO
2023 - Present
BULL BLOCKCHAIN LAW, AML/Fraud Expert Witness
2023 - Present
STRING, CCO
2022 - Present
ENIGMA MARKETS, CCO
2022 - Present
Law Office of Ross Delston, Team Lead of AML Discovery
2023
ByBit, CCO
2022
AML & Fraud Consultant
Interim CCO
Pro Tem BSA Officer
CCO
Chief Compliance & Legal Officer
AVP, AML Compliance Manager
Senior AML Consultant/Project Leader
Juris Doctor
Bachelor of Science, Finance, Honors
Risk Assessments
Management
Blockchain analytics
Transaction Monitoring
Onboarding
Sanctions Controls
Operationalizing programs
Remediation
Scalability
Governance
Audits
Money Transmission Laws (MTLs)
US & UL Licensure
BitLicense acquisition
Blog Post for Unit21, February 10, 2023. Unit21 Blog Post, "Compliance Officer Resources"
One of six panelists in a 60-minute session discussing women’s contributions to the world of compliance in the fintech industry; watch here: Clausematch Webinar, "Women in Compliance."
Guest speaker for a Unit21 webinar on detecting and preventing fraud for fintech companies; watch here: https://go.unit21.ai/register-5-evolving-fraud-trends-in-bankin
The Importance of Choosing the Right Tech Vendors”, Blog Post for Persona, May 30, 2023.”. https://withpersona.com/blog/sponsor-banks-banking-as-a-service
ne of four panelists in a 60-minute session discussing how to balance KYC and onboarding requirements with a user friendly experience
First guest speaker in the Persona spotlight series; spoke on all things compliance in the Web3 and DeFi fields, as well as the burgeoning field of DeSci; watch here: https://help.withpersona.com/podcasts/6FtcjCouoMruT7PXJe4H3z/episode-1/
Co-hosted a panel titled "The Legal and Compliance Pitfalls of Pilot Programs, Test Cases, and New Products: How to Prioritize Compliance from the Start."