Michael Startsev
Director, BSA AML Officer & Risk Operations
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Startsev is an ACAMS-certified financial crime compliance leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating BSA/AML, OFAC, and transaction monitoring programs at fintechs and global banks. Currently Director and BSA/AML Officer at Dave, he has led end-to-end FCC program design, vendor and sponsor-bank management, and the technical tuning of AML models and alert-scoring with data and engineering partners. His background spans transaction monitoring model development, Actimize implementations, KYC/CDD/EDD program design, and regulatory exam and audit management across N26, BBH, Oppenheimer, HBL, and PNC. Known for translating complex regulatory requirements into pragmatic, testable controls, he combines quantitative model calibration (clustering, regression, SQL-based validations) with practical operational playbooks. He routinely bridges compliance, product, and engineering to enable compliant product innovation in fast-moving FinTech environments. Based in New York, he brings a rare blend of deep AML subject-matter expertise and hands-on systems delivery.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at City University of New York-Brooklyn College
English, RussianProgramming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MStartsev/MStartsev.github.io
Oct 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
MStartsev/goit-cs-hw-06
Sep 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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