2016 CMSBA Spring Training – Montreal

Amber D. Scott - Founder & Chief AML Ninja, Outlier Solutions

Amber has broad-based financial compliance experience that includes insurance, mutual funds and banking. In addition to being a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) Amber is also a Certified Privacy Professional (CIPP). She also holds a mutual fund sales designation from the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC) and a first level Fellow, Life Management Institute (FLMI). She is also a Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP).

Amber completed her undergraduate studies at the university of Waterloo. Her academic interests have always included law and criminology. As a teaching assistant she assisted in the development of the university’s first applied psychology course on criminal profiling. She has also received an MBA from the University of Aspen.

The first memory that Amber has about financial crime is hearing her father and a friend of the family discussing the dilemma faced by a local union that had fallen under the influence of an organized crime group. Pension monies had allegedly been deferred into investments that benefitted the crime organization, but not the union membership. Many discussions with her father followed on the structures that could allow a criminal organization to circumvent the controls in an established organization for their own purposes without suffering any consequences. It was all very confusing and fascinating for a ten year old.

While her confusion has faded, her fascination never has. Amber is passionate about ethical and legal compliance. Her obsession with understanding the risks and devising actionable solutions has lead her to work in the financial services industry and with Canadian consulting firms. In 2013, she founded Outlier Solutions Inc. to provide anti-money laundering (AML) solutions to Canadian reporting entities.

Carinta Mannarelli, President, Global Currency Services Inc.

Carinta Mannarelli founded Global Currency Services Inc. in the year 2000. In her role as president, she has been honoured with several awards and recognitions including Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2002 (Guelph Business Enterprise Centre), has been nominated for the YMCA’s Women of Distinction award, has received several Employers awards and has been listed on Canada’s Top 100 Female Business Owners numerous times (published by Profit Magazine).

Dr. Vanessa Iafolla, (Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS) & University of Alberta)

Vanessa Iafolla is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta. Her work examines social and legal dimensions of economic activity and personal finance. She is particularlyinterested in financial risk management practices. Vanessa has conducting research into the detection of money laundering and terrorist financing in retail banking, and into the sociolegal dimensions of financial literacy and kinship caregiving. She is currently researching the detection of terrorist financing in Alberta and British Columbia real estate markets, funded by the Terrorism, Security, and Society Network (TSAS) and is collecting data on aftermarket lending practices in Toronto.