Bio

Vikas is a Partner in PwC’s US Financial Services Advisory Practice. With over 18 years of experience, Vikas helps clients develop integrated technology solutions that create, test and monitor risk and regulatory controls effectively and efficiently. He currently serves as the Leader for the Financial Crime Unit which focuses on helping clients deal with matters related to money laundering, fraud, sanctions, know your customer and trade surveillance. His deep industry insights on the business, technology, data and regulatory dimensions of Financial Services assists clients in reducing costs through using sustainable analytics solutions that allow for better testing, insights, monitoring and metrics based indicators that reduce risk. Vikas has experience in leading many of the largest regulatory remediation's in the banking and capital markets and asset management industry. He frequently works with his clients and regulators globally across the America’s, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Specialties: Financial Crime (AML, OFAC, KYC, FCPA, Human Trafficking, Fraud, FIU, Enterprise Case Management, Risk Assessment Analytics), Compliance Testing, Consumer Compliance (UDAP, Fair Lending), Energy Trading, Dodd-Frank/Volker, Internal Audit Analytics, Continuous Monitoring, Continuous Auditing, Conflict Minerals, CCAR, Insider Trading, Trade Survellience (FX, SWAPS, Deravatives, Equity), Culture Analytics, Actimize, Mantas, Detica, Net Reveal, Compliance Strategy and Organizational design, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big data, robotics process automation, intelligence process automation, blockchain