Date of Publication:
03/17/2009
March 17, 2009, New York, NY & Wilmington, Del. - Kevin J. Ford, formerly a senior attorney and compliance manager for Goldman Sachs, has joined Regulatory DataCorp (RDC) as Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer. RDC is the world’s leading source of enhanced due diligence risk relevant data for the financial services sector.
Mr. Ford spent 10 years with Goldman Sachs, most recently as Associate General Counsel in the Business Intelligence Group. Mr. Ford is an expert in legal, regulatory and reputational risks associated with the financial services industry including money laundering and terrorist financing, bribery, fraud, sanctions & embargoes and enhanced due diligence. While resident in Goldman Sachs’ London office, Mr. Ford was named Goldman’s first U.K. Money Laundering Reporting Officer, responsible for a range of legal, regulatory and reputational risk matters.
Prior to Goldman Sachs, Mr. Ford enjoyed a career in law enforcement, including Deputy Commissioner of Investigation for the City of New York for five years and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for more than a decade. Mr. Ford also served as the Inspector General for the New York City Department of Environmental protection for five years.
Mr. Ford is a member of the Board of Transparency International USA, the U.S. chapter of the international anti-corruption NGO and a member of Interpol’s Group of Experts on Corruption. While with Goldman Sachs, he served on the Wolfsburg Group, an association of 11 leading global banks that have developed financial services industry standards, and related products, for Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering, Counter Terrorist Financing and Anti-Corruption.
“Kevin Ford is an acknowledged anti-corruption and anti-money laundering expert and a global leader in our industry,” said Mark Parsells, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RDC. “His stature, reputation and experience will be tremendous assets to RDC.”
Mr. Ford said, “RDC is the world’s leading provider of enhanced due diligence risk relevant data solutions. I am proud and excited to be joining an organization whose product set, database and management team are the best in the world. I look forward to applying my experience to help advance RDC to new levels of success.”
About Regulatory DataCorp
Regulatory DataCorp. (www.rdc.com) was founded by Goldman Sachs and 19 other leading financial institutions in the wake of 9/11 and is the only enhanced due diligence vendor built by the financial services industry for the financial services industry. In 2007, Bain Capital, LLC, a Boston-based private equity firm, made a substantial investment in RDC to ensure technological advancements that now allow RDC to serve a broader group of clients. Today RDC offers the world’s largest database of open-source, risk-relevant records and an array of due diligence products and services that enable compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws, Know Your Customer (KYC) rules, and Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD) to meet the USA PATRIOT Act, BSA and FCPA regulatory requirements.
