Amal Jayasinghe is a CAMS and CFCS certified AML and financial crime investigator based in Toronto, Canada, with a Certification in Adult Education from the Canadian College of Educators. He also holds a MBA from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and an Associate of the Institute of Bankers (AIB) Diploma from the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka (IBSL).

Over the last 25 years, he has garnered a wealth of global banking experience including commercial banking and financial crime investigation. During this time, he has investigated cases of both individual and corporate clients of banks around the world, including regions such as South Asia, the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC), North America and Europe.

He is an experienced senior AML investigator with expertise in fields such as transaction monitoring (TM), the triage process for wire payments to and from High Risk Geographies (HRGs), KYC and CDD, case investigation write-ups and submission of Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs). Along with this, Amal has also held a Quality Control (QC) Officer role where he built his experience in reviewing case narratives as well as providing constructive feedback for dispositioning and remediation.

To complement his technical background, Amal has also conducted training courses in AML fundamentals and laws as an Adjunct Faculty Member/Visiting Lecturer/Course Instructor at SENECA Polytechnic in Toronto, ON, Canada and the Emirates Institute for Banking and Financial Services (EIBFS) in Dubai, U.A.E, as well as lectures on Law Relating to Banking for banking professionals seeking to obtain the AIB Diploma in Sri Lanka.

In addition, Amal has his own educational platform, Financial Crime Education (FCE), which has various study courses on AML-related topics, covering both the theoretical and practical aspects of the AML and Compliance functions.