Alexis Peter Francis

Director Digital Product Management at American Express

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Alexis Peter Francis is a Product and Data Executive with over two decades of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade financial crimes, risk, data, and regulatory platforms within highly regulated financial services environments. His work spans Financial Crimes Management, anti-money laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Due Diligence (CDD), sanctions compliance, fraud prevention, Customer 360, Master Data Management, regulatory reporting, and responsible AI—delivering platforms that strengthen compliance, protect customers, and enable business growth. He currently leads Financial Crimes Product Management at American Express, driving the strategy, modernization, and delivery of critical capabilities that support financial crimes detection, prevention, investigation, and regulatory compliance across global consumer and commercial businesses. His portfolio includes platforms and data products that help identify illicit activity, enhance customer risk assessment, improve operational effectiveness, and support evolving regulatory requirements.

Prior to leading Financial Crimes Product Management, Alexis led Customer 360, Master Data Management, and counterparty data platforms, enabling authoritative customer and legal-entity views across the enterprise. These platforms supported SCCL-compliant counterparty hierarchies, enterprise exposure aggregation, regulatory reporting, and foundational data capabilities leveraged across risk, compliance, and financial crimes functions. Alexis has been an early adopter of Agentic AI and AI-assisted decision support to improve ongoing risk assessment of customers, counterparty hierarchy validation and customer data remediation. By automating evidence collection from regulatory filings, company disclosures, and external data sources while maintaining robust human-in-the-loop controls, these solutions strengthen auditability, regulatory confidence, and operational efficiency.

Throughout his career, Alexis has delivered meaningful business impact by strengthening financial crimes controls, improving credit risk assessment, accelerating regulatory reporting, enhancing enterprise data quality, and modernizing customer and corporate application journeys. He has also led the launch of new regulated financial products and supported large-scale post-acquisition integrations. Alexis is recognized for building durable product organizations and modern platforms in audit-intensive environments, partnering closely with leaders across Financial Crimes, Compliance, Risk, Legal, Finance, Operations, and Technology. He is particularly focused on applying AI responsibly to enhance detection capabilities, improve investigator productivity, strengthen governance, and deliver better outcomes for customers and regulators alike.