Amanda Peterson, CAMS

Amanda Peterson, CAMS has held various roles in the financial and compliance industries since 2014. Amanda began their career as a Department Tutor and Grader, Research Assistant, and Senior Student Assistant at Rochester Institute of Technology. In 2016, they were a Human Rights Undergraduate Legal Intern at the NYS Division of Human Rights and an Honors Business Intern, Division of Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. From 2017 to 2020, they held various roles at M&T Bank, including Banking Officer, Senior Project Analyst, and Management Trainee, Financial Crimes Management. In their role as Management Trainee, they served as the Financial Crimes SME for the Real Time Payments and Amazon Alexa Skill implementation and initiated and led analysis on behavioral analytics for fraud prevention. Since 2020, they have been a Senior Compliance & Risk Manager, Financial Crimes Compliance and Compliance & Risk Manager, Financial Crimes Compliance at Amazon. In their current role, they are the Program Manager for Suspicious Activity Monitoring and has managed complex, concurrent technology projects across multiple geographies with consistent delivery.

Amanda Peterson, CAMS, obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from the Rochester Institute of Technology between 2013 and 2017. In 2021, they obtained the Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist certification from ACAMS. In 2020, they obtained the Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking Certification from ACAMS. In 2019, they obtained the Level 2 Award in Wine and Spirits, Pass with Distinction from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust.