Kristin Wenske

Kristin Wenske is a director in BRG’s Financial Institution Advisory practice. She brings over fifteen years of experience, specializing in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions compliance. She has worked on financial crime compliance engagements for financial institutions, broker dealers, fintechs/payments processors, money service businesses, and digital asset firms.

Ms. Wenske was previously a director in the Financial Crimes, Risk, and Compliance practice of a management consulting firm. She has particular expertise in developing, managing, and executing large-scale program remediation, including senior management and regulatory reporting. She has collaborated with executive leadership at fintechs to redesign and implement operating models for financial crime programs that maximize effectiveness and efficiency and align with the organization’s current and future needs.

For multiple years, Ms. Wenske served as a key member of the management team overseeing a large transaction monitoring unit on behalf of a global payments processor. She leverages this operational experience to ensure program recommendations are practical and actionable.

Ms. Wenske’s other engagements have included AML/sanctions program assessments, risk assessments, review of customer lifecycle management (CLM) processes, policy and procedure writing, operational effectiveness and efficiency of financial crime programs, lookbacks, and investigations.

Ms. Wenske began her career performing pre-investment investigative due diligence research for private equity firms, hedge funds, and other financial institutions. She is an expert in domestic and international background investigations, enhanced due diligence, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations for commercial clients. She also has experience in litigation support research and asset tracing.