MarketWatch financial investigations reporter, Lukas I. Alpert, is joined by Sven Stumbauer, an expert with consultancy Grant Thornton to discuss developments in international crime, sanctions, money laundering and anti-money laundering regulations around the world.Financial Investigations Reporter, MarketWatch
Lukas I. Alpert covers financial crime for MarketWatch. He was previously a media reporter and a correspondent in Moscow for the Wall Street Journal. In 2019, he was part of a team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for uncovering secret hush-money payoffs to women who claimed to have had affairs with former-President Donald Trump.
Sven Stumbauer is a senior financial crimes compliance professional and leader of Grant Thornton LLP’s Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions practice. Based in Miami, Stumbauer uses his extensive cryptocurrency, AML, sanctions and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act acumen to further bolster and expand Grant Thornton’s financial crimes capabilities.
Stumbauer boasts more than 20 years of financial crimes, AML, sanctions compliance, anti-bribery and anti-corruption experience. He has extensive practice leading complex, high-profile projects and providing advisory services to financial institutions in the United States and more than 60 countries around the world.
Stumbauer has led many of the largest global regulatory investigations and remediation programs in financial crime, as well as the design and delivery of financial-crime operating models for major institutions. He advised some of the world’s most prominent financial institutions and global businesses on strategic initiatives, leading and streamlining processes, and assisting businesses to achieve strategic goals and effective compliance.