Threat Finance Academy

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Section 2 Financial Intelligence Solutions, LLC Announces Debut of Threat Finance Academy, LLC

Washington, D.C. – 09/14/2020 – Section 2 Financial Intelligence Solutions, LLC (referred to as “Section 2” or “S2”) announced the debut of it’s new Threat Finance Academy. (referred to as “TFA”). S2 has named Suzanne Lynch and Robert Bacon as Directors to lead the new program.   

TFA Background

Threat Finance Academy (TFA) will offer cross-functional training, professional development, and certifications for financial crime professionals in the pubic and private sector industries, to include:

• Financial Services Industry: compliance (Risk, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Fraud, Know Your Customer (KYC), Vendor Vetting, Sanctions, Counter the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), and legal professionals.
• Public Sector: Federal, State and Local law enforcement, Prosecutors Offices, Intelligence Community (IC) members, military, diplomatic, export, and financial agencies.

TFA will provide solutions designed to standardize and professionalize the financial crimes investigation field at the practitioner’s level, offering training and professional certifications. These course offerings are designed to help investigators identify, investigate, characterize, escalate, and develop corporate and criminal case investigations related to organized crime. Examples of the types of case development include criminal trafficking, fraud, sanctions and sanctions evasion, terrorism financing, corruption, and white-collar crime.  This program will offer skills training for both new and seasoned investigators. 

TFA Leadership

Suzanne Lynch has been announced as a Threat Finance Academy Director.  Ms. Lynch is a Professor of Economic Crime at Utica College, where she developed financial crime focused Bachelor and Master degree programs and courses.  Ms. Lynch is also a veteran of financial services and financial crime risk mitigation with experience in cross-functional global fraud detection and investigations management positions at market leaders such as MasterCard Worldwide, Goldman Sachs, and Comerica Bank.  She has worked extensively with the U.S. government inter-agency community on complex financial crime matters and training solutions.

Robert Bacon has been announced as a Threat Finance Academy Director.  Mr. Bacon is a retired United States Army First Sergeant and Police Special Operations Commander from Costa Rica.  Mr. Bacon is a seasoned expert in Counter Threat Finance (CTF), with public sector assignments as Team Leader at the NY Counterdrug Task Force – Counter Threat Finance (CTF) Team for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Financial Investigations Team (DEA-FIT).  He also served within the NY-NJ HIDTA on the NYPD Narcotics Intelligence Unit and was the lead for CTF and Counter Narcotics programs at the National Guard Bureau (NGB).  Mr. Bacon is a seasoned AML/CTF practitioner, curriculum developer, and instructor.

Initial Product Offering

TFA’s first training offering is the “Hybrid Threat Finance” Webinar Series, beginning on Wednesday, October 14, 2020.  This series will provide hands-on learning content and expert financial crimes instructors covering a wide range of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Threat Finance (CTF) related subjects. The featured guest instructors for each session will be high-profile public and private sector keynote speakers.  The series is open to the public.  Participants can sign up at www.S2fis.com/tfa-webinar.

About Section 2 Financial Intelligence Solutions, LLC

Section 2 is a financial services industry risk and compliance consultancy focused on mitigating the risks associated with of hybrid threat state and non-state actor financialization networks.  S2 provides original data and technology products and implementation/optimization services around transaction monitoring detection programs for regulated financial institutions.  This includes original detection models and rules, detection model optimization, original data, and advisory services.  Learn more at www.s2fis.com.

For More Information, please contact:

PR Contact Name: Jordan Geister; Jordan.Geister@s2fis.com

Phone number: 1-833-733-4700 ext. 5

Email: info@s2fis.com

S2 Website: www.s2fis.com

TFA Webinar Sign-up: https://s2fis.com/TFA-webinar