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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.