Stephanie Ora

Global Lead for Financial Crimes Analytics at SAS Institute

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Stephanie Ora has been fighting financial crime for over a decade and is passionate in this cause as she believes in the wider role this plays, such as in achieving financial inclusion. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and is the Global Lead for Financial Crimes Analytics at SAS Institute.

In her current role, she works with financial institutions globally to adopt and implement artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions to fight financial crime, including rule/scenario tuning, segmentation, predictive modeling, network analytics, text analytics and Generative AI. She also works with Product Management and R&D teams to identify and prioritize financial crimes analytics use cases and requirements to bring to the market.

Prior to her role at SAS, Stephanie worked as a financial crime investigator for global banks where she had first-hand operational experience on transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, customer onboarding & due diligence processes.

She has extensive management consultant experience where she led advisory and project management roles for financial crimes risk assessments, optimization and global AML compliance & fraud management system rollouts and process/policy improvements, working with financial institutions and regulators across APAC, EMEA and US.