Christine Duhaime
Christine Duhaime is a financial crime expert and a certified anti-money laundering specialist. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Digital Finance Institute, a fintech think tank. She also serves as an Expert Consultant for Fusion Intelligence, a financial crime intelligence consultancy composed of former intelligence and law enforcement personnel. Duhaime advises on financial crime compliance, sanctions compliance for financial institutions, money services businesses, securities brokerages, casinos, law firms, and digital financial services. Previously, she was an Adjunct Professor of Law and also a moot coach for international arbitration law.
DIGITAL FINANCE INSTITUTE
Duhaime is responsible for setting policy direction, fundraising and building partnerships with the private and public sector for digital finance goals and initiatives.
She drives regulatory reform, financial inclusion and women in FinTech policy initiatives for the Institute.
EXPERTISE
She is a prominent lawyer specializing in counter-terrorist financing and anti-money laundering law practice.
She has consulted for large law firms and government agencies on various legal, regulatory and investigation matters and consulted as a foreign expert in civil and commercial matters in China.
She has been involved in significant financial crime work particularly in Guernsey, China and Canada.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
She frequently speaks at international conferences on issues of financial crime compliance and regulation of digital finance.
She has appeared on Al Jazeera, CBC News, Global News and in the The Wall Street Journal, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star and in the financial regulatory press.
She is the legal columnist for Corporate Risk Magazine and has written for Financier Worldwide and American Banker.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Member, ACAMS
Member, International Association of Financial Crime Investigators
Member, Association of Chiefs of Police
Member, Human Rights Lawyers Association
Member, Toronto Lawyers’ Association