Richard Somade

Senior Manager, Sanctions and Anti-Bribery Compliance at Marqeta

Speaker

Richard Somade is a sanctions compliance leader with over ten years of experience designing and operationalizing sanctions programs across complex, multi-jurisdictional financial services environments. He currently oversees the Sanctions Compliance program at Marqeta. His earlier roles at Bank of New York Mellon, Natixis, and J.P. Morgan Chase spanned KYC system design, AML program transformation, and financial crimes case leadership, including building BNY Mellon's first internally developed KYC system and automating its sanctions screening process. A licensed attorney in two U.S. jurisdictions with an LL.M. from NYU School of Law in Business Crime, Governance, Compliance and Risk Management, Richard brings a legal and regulatory lens to the intersection of technology and sanctions compliance, advising senior leadership on emerging geopolitical risk, screening architecture, and program design in an era of AI-driven compliance.