
Brendan Bald
AML / financial crime · crypto investigations
Alert Monitoring and Screening Director, Morgan Stanley
Now
JD, University of Maryland. CAMS. Chainalysis CDAF. Alert Monitoring and Screening Director at Morgan Stanley. L2 transaction monitoring reviews for suspicious activity, fraud, market manipulation, and sanctions. Independent on-chain analysis (explorers, cluster OSINT, DEX and bridge hops, mixer exposure). Wrote and delivered crypto training to the AML investigations team ahead of the firm’s spot-crypto launch. Work sample (L2 + SAR draft) on request.
Before that
Attorney in Maryland. Crypto-native content marketing and video work at Thesis, LALA, and Evmos. Contract work with MARA Foundation, BitcoinOS, and Bitcoin Rails Podcast. Division I basketball, Vermont.