Jennifer Shasky Calvery

Jennifer Shasky Calvery is an American attorney. She is the global head of financial crime threat mitigation for HSBC.^[1] She served as director of the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) from September 2012 to May 2016.^[2]

Jennifer Shasky Calvery
7th Director of the United States Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
In office September 2012 – May 2016
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	James Freis
Personal details
Education	George Washington University (BA), University of Arizona College of Law (JD)
Occupation	Attorney

Education

Calvery holds a JD from the University of Arizona College of Law. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in international affairs from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, where she was also an All-American basketball player.^[3]

Career

Working to prosecute money-laundering and related crimes,^[4] she spent 15 years at the U.S. Department of Justice, including as an Organized Crime and Racketeering Section prosecutor, and two years as senior counsel with the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, through two federal administrations.^[2]

She was director of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) from September 22, 2012, until May 27, 2016.^[2][4][5][6]

During her tenure at FinCEN, while representing the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section of the Department of Justice, had been "considering seeking a guilty plea from HSBC" as early as September 2012.^[1]

On April 16, 2016, she announced she would be leaving the position effective on May 27, 2016,^[7][8] to join banking group HSBC.^[9]

References

1. "HSBC brings in AI to help spot money laundering" Martin Arnold, Financial Times, April 8, 2018. Retrieved October 18, 20222.
2. "Jennifer Shasky Calvery Named as Director of The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network". Treasury.gov. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
3. Govt. Bio Archived 2016-05-13 at the Wayback Machine
4. Louise, Rachel (2016-04-26). "Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Director Calvery to Depart". WSJ. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 13, 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. Wolf, Brett (2016-04-26). "U.S. Treasury anti-laundering head to join HSBC: sources". Reuters. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
7. "Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Director Calvery to Depart". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2023-03-31.
8. "Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery Departing the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network". Archived from the original on 2016-05-12. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
9. U.S. Treasury anti-laundering head to join HSBC: sources

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• HSBC article