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FinCEN Hires Former Citigroup Official to Run Data Analysis Unit
By Matt Squire
printThe U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has named former Citigroup executive Peter Goodyear as the head of its Bank Secrecy Act data analysis unit. As the agency's associate director for analysis and liaison, Goodyear will oversee FinCEN's analysis of Bank Secrecy Act data for its law enforcement, regulatory and financial intelligence unit customers. He replaces Patrick Conlon who left FinCEN last summer to join the Office of Foreign Asset Control, FinCEN spokesman Steve Hudak said Thursday in an email. "Mr. Goodyear will bring to FinCEN a valuable combination of industry knowledge, management, and extensive organizational leadership, which will contribute...
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