Frank Lawrence

Frank Lawrence, Vice President, Governance, Risk & Compliance, Global Integrity; former Chief Compliance Officer/AML Officer Facebook Payments, was previously the Chief Compliance Officer Google Payments and Head of Global Compliance Operations for Google. Prior to Google, Frank was Global Head of Legal, Compliance, & Operations for Coinstar Money Transfer; Vice President; Officer; Treasurer; Board Member and COO for GroupEx Financial Corp. Frank is currently responsible for a number of global teams that manages critical Legal/Compliance pillars for Facebook, many at a multi-billion level, such as the Financial Services Compliance Team, Trade Operations, Product Integrations & Compliance, Legal Risk Management, and Legal Central Services. His scope includes all international and domestic regulatory relationships as a licensed financial service as well Compliance by design for new product introductions, requiring deep relationships with Product and Engineering teams. He also leads specialist teams to design processes, and technical solutions for other high-scale back end tools across the Legal and Compliance orgs, such as knowledge management, case management, investigative tools, and training, which all increasing use automated machine learning for enhancements, quality and efficiencies. Frank has also previously managed Trust & Safety Teams, Law Enforcement Response Teams and Incident Response teams for Facebook. His greatest successes have come in facilitating the design, launch, and scaling of new growth enterprises or new products such as Google Play, Google Wallet, Android Pay, FB Pay, and FB Charitable Giving. Prior to Facebook and Google he launched international wire transfers and international money orders, which accounted for more than 90% of the total GroupEx Financial TPV. He was a lead negotiator for the the sale of the Groupex Financial to Coinstar in 2008. He was also responsible for leading the Credit and Collections Department, Call Center operations, Customer Service, and FX trading and settlement operations for GroupEx and Coinstar. Specialties: Team-Based Approach to People Management Financial Crime Management BSA, Financial Code, and FFIEC Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) Global Sanctions Program Management FAA/TSA Certified Security Training