Pravin Chandrasekaran- BSA Officer- Varo Bank
Why are there differences to how banks and FinTechs approach diversity? How can an anti-financial crime team of people from different cultures help with analysing customers' financial patterns? What can we do to support socio-economic changes? Gemma Rogers, Co-Founder, FINTRAIL sits down with Pravin to explore his personal and professional journey, especially how it pertains to equality and diversity. Pravin Chandrasekaran currently is serving as the BSA Officer of Varo Bank. Varo is on a mission to revolutionize Banking, and he has been presented with the unique opportunity to build an AML program from scratch. Prior to that, he ran Wells Fargo’s Monitoring and Surveillance Programs, including oversight for developing, implementing, and overseeing monitoring and surveillance programs, tools, and AI strategies. Previously he oversaw the Customer Risk Analytics Team which developed Wells Fargo’s Enterprise View of a Customer as well as its Enterprise Customer Risk Rating. In addition, Pravin is an Intelligence Officer in the United States Army Reserve. He has spent the last 16+ years developing effective, and efficient customer risk, Due Diligence, and monitoring programs leveraging AI tools and technologies to increase program efficiency and effectiveness rates. Pravin is based in San Francisco, California for Varo and has a Masters in Risk Management from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a Bachelor’s in Economics from St. Mary’s College in California.