Mrs.Barbara Keller

Barbara I. Keller, CAMS, CFCS, CAFP, is an independent anti-money laundering/financial crime consultant and Principal with BIKConsulting LLC. She provides consulting services on financial institution compliance with anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regulatory requirements. She also conducts independent AML reviews and provides domestic and international training on AML/CFT regulatory compliance.

Ms. Keller retired from U.S. government service in August 2013. She spent the last four years of her federal career as the Deputy Associate Director for Compliance and Enforcement at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). In this position, she worked to help financial institutions improve their AML compliance and also to sanction egregious noncompliance. She also led FinCEN’s efforts to improve regulation of money services businesses by working with the IRS and state regulators to better coordinate and improve the quality of BSA/AML examinations.

Prior to joining FinCEN, Ms. Keller spent 26 years with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’s watchdog agency. For the last 10 years of her GAO career, Ms. Keller managed assignments mostly dealing with AML compliance and enforcement and interagency cooperation and coordination.

Ms. Keller is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, a Certified Financial Crimes Specialist, and a Certified AML and Fraud Professional. She is also on the Board of the US Capital Chapter of ACAMS. She graduated with a B.S. in Languages from Georgetown University and holds an M.A in Public Administration from the University of Virginia.