Welcome to our trusted partners and providers page. The AMLA is about serving others and meeting member and industry needs. The AMLA partnership page is a resource to our trusted partners that you may contact to help meet your professional needs. We encourage you to contact Mary Meile for referrals or other assistance.
Website: http://www.bfkn.com/fig
Location: 200 West Madison Street, Suite 3900, Chicago, IL 60606.
Outreach: Domestic & Global
Contact: John Geiringer at john.geiringer@bfkn.com
Phone: +1.312.984.3217
The Barack Ferrazzano Financial Institutions Group has 30 bank lawyers representing over 250 financial institutions around the country, addressing the entire spectrum of industry-related legal issues. Our lawyers devote significant time to BSA/AML/OFAC matters, including defending examinations and enforcement actions, advising on new products and services, and training officers and directors.
We are consistently ranked as a top law firm nationally in bank mergers and regulatory issues, and we formulate creative solutions, emphasizing relationships, service and stability. For more information, see our website at Practices, or contact AMLA Advisory Board member and Midwest Chapter President John Geiringer.
For more credentials, visit John’s Professional Page.
Website: http://www.ferrariassociatespc.com
Location: 1455 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20004
Outreach: Domestic & Global
Contact: Erich Ferrari at ferrari@ferrari-legal.com
Phone: +1.202.280.6370
Ferrari Legal is a boutique law firm specializing in OFAC related representations. Erich Ferrari serves on the AML Advisory Board. The firm handles matters ranging from general counseling, OFAC licensing, defending against OFAC investigations, and penalties. We are one of the few firms who understand OFAC and how they operate. We service clients on five continents in a variety of complex OFAC matters involving high profile clients and high stakes transactions. We have the experience and knowledge to successfully guide you through the increasingly complex web of OFAC administered regulations.
While U.S. persons are required to comply with OFAC regulations, many are taking such efforts without any true understanding of what the regulations say. This is the equivalent of playing in a game where you don’t know the rules. As such, OFAC compliance is often a case of the blind leading the blind. Imagine how much stronger your compliance program will become once you truly understand the regulations you seek to comply with. It’s time to step out of the darkness; we shine the light on OFAC.
In addition to our representations, our firm serves as a thought leader on OFAC related legal issues. Click Sanction Law to read about the latest trends in OFAC administered sanctions.
Website: http://www.tcaregs.com
Location: 2846 North Mildred Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Outreach: Domestic
Contact: Melissa M. Hoeft, CAMS Director at m_hoeft@tcaregs.com
Phone: +1.800.934.7347
Founded more than two decades ago, in 1991, and featuring a staff of professionals who collectively have more than 400 years of bank compliance experience, TCA’s unique approach to compliance and risk management blends bank compliance, operations and budgets.
Although the company’s services cover the ever-growing list of compliance demands, AMLA members likely will relate best to TCA’s BSA Review and Resource Team. Made up of six extremely focused compliance professionals, the TCA BSA Review and Resource Team is a select force of highly skilled compliance authorities that know how to help banks manage BSA, AML and OFAC issues. TCA also specializes in automated monitoring system (AMS) validations.
Overall, TCA’s services include both on-site and virtual reviews of bank compliance programs regular e-publications that (1) provide alerts to client banks when regulatory demands change and (2) feature perspective and insights on rules both new and old topic-specific training for bank staff, management and Directors, toll-free access to the TCA staff and a Visiting Compliance Manager service that helps banks adjust compliance staffing on a cost-effective basis.
Nearly 300 banks across the country use TCA services.
TCA’s compliance professionals are former bankers who know how compliance impacts banking activities and are willing to share their expertise with TCA clients. Many staff gained valuable experience managing bank compliance operations; others held positions as IT specialists, CFOs and in-house counsel. Still other TCA compliance staff joined our team from the regulatory establishment.
Communications and continuing education are an important part of the TCA staff-and-service commitment. Regular TCA University sessions face-to-face whenever possible but enhanced with remote connections when necessary give staff an opportunity to discuss how client banks might best respond to changing regulatory initiatives. TCA founder Tom Thomas often joins these discussions to share insights he has gained as a Director and Audit Committee member at a Chicago-area bank.
Many staff members have earned banking’s most prestigious designations: Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, of course; Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager; Certified Fraud Examiner; Certified Ethical Hacker; Certified Penetration Tester, and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
Kaufman Rossin 
Website: http://kaufmanrossin.com
Location: 2699 S. Bayshore Drive Miami, FL. 33133.
Outreach: Domestic & Global
Contact: Jason Chorlins, CPA, CFE, CAMS, CITP at jchorlins@kaufmanrossin.com
Phone: +1.305.857.6744
Kaufman Rossin’s financial services team includes more than two dozen accounting and risk advisory professionals who specialize in helping domestic and international financial institutions identify, develop, and implement solutions to address operational and regulatory risks. As regulation continues to increase and the landscape gets tougher, it’s more important than ever for financial institutions and other businesses to have consultants they can rely on.
Tough problems? That’s our specialty.
Our services include the following:
Proclaiming Justice To The Nations 
Website: http://www.pjtn.org
Location: P.O. Box 682711 Franklin, TN 37068-2711.
Outreach: Domestic & Global
Phone: +1.615.778.0202
Toll free: +1.877.779.0202
Laurie Cardoza-Moore is a successful leader, businesswoman, wife, mother of five, and founder and President of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN).
Laurie has over 20 years’ experience in private enterprise, grassroots mobilization and community leadership. Laurie’s career faced a turning point on 9/11 when she decided to focus her media and lobbying expertise on American security and Israel. She is an accomplished advocate who has represented issues related to families, women, children, faith and country.
Laurie is currently spearheading the formation of a coalition to expose the anti-Semitic, anti- American, anti-Israel, and anti-Christian content in all K-12 textbooks. The coalition will identify flawed textbook review procedures and recommend methods for local communities to review students’ textbooks and propose corrective legislation.
Laurie is an accomplished media veteran and has been part of over 500 film and video productions as both on-screen talent and producer. Laurie has also been seen and heard by millions of people on Christian television and radio appearing on over 120 TV and radio programs in 2014, including Fox and Friends and the Hannity Show. Her articles have been published on WND.com and FrontPage Magazine.
Through Laurie’s tireless work and leadership, PJTN now has the capacity to reach hundreds of millions of Christians and people of conscience around the globe. Each year that number grows as Laurie has secured PJTN as the world’s only pro-Israel organization with the support of the NRB and access to the United Nations.