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Brendan Bald

AML / financial crime · crypto investigations

Alert Monitoring and Screening Director, Morgan Stanley

Now

JD, University of Maryland. Alert Monitoring and Screening Director at Morgan Stanley. L2 Investigations: suspicious activity, fraud, market manipulation, sanctions. On-chain work on top of that – 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 work at Thesis, LALA, and Evmos. Division I basketball, Vermont.