Steve Alsace has over 21 years experience working in financial crime compliance. He spent 18 of those years working in the legal and then compliance departments of a big-5 Canadian bank, where he was last the Global Head of Sanctions and Anti-Terrorist Financing. While in this role Steve had the opportunity to work closely with the FBI Terrorist Financing Operations Section, CSIS and RCMP, including delivering specialized training on terrorist financing in banking. Steve currently is employed by Guidehouse consulting, where he provides advice on anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions risks for banks, money-services businesses, payment facilitators and digital asset firms. Steve is regularly a speaker at industry conferences and seminars, speaking on AML and sanctions issues.