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Sven Stumbauer is a Partner at Forward Global and leads its Americas anti-money laundering and sanctions practice. He has advised more than 150 banks, crypto and fintech companies and other businesses in over sixty countries on financial crime, sanctions and anti-corruption risk.

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Sven Stumbauer is a Partner at Forward Global and leads its Americas anti-money laundering and sanctions practice. Over twenty years he has advised more than 150 banks, crypto and fintech companies and other businesses in over sixty countries, served as an independent monitor and consultant in U.S. enforcement actions, and briefed government bodies, central banks and finance ministries. He has been a guest speaker at Harvard Kennedy School and Tecnológico de Monterrey’s EGADE Business School, and his commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Reuters. He is the author of The Next Wave of Global Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement and Cartels Designated as Terrorists (January 2027).

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Sven Stumbauer is a Partner at Forward Global, a commercial and geopolitical risk management firm, where he leads the Americas anti-money laundering and sanctions practice.

Over more than twenty years in financial crime, regulatory risk and investigations, he has advised more than 150 banks, crypto and fintech companies and other businesses in the United States and over sixty countries on anti-money laundering, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and other sanctions, and anti-corruption under the FCPA and the UK Bribery Act. He has led large regulatory investigations and remediation programs, designed financial crime operating models for major institutions, and served as an independent monitor and consultant in U.S. enforcement actions.

He has worked with regulators and authorities including the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Federal Reserve, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), as well as the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) and Mexico's Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV). He has briefed U.S. and foreign government bodies, central banks and finance ministries on emerging financial crime issues.

Sven has been a guest speaker at Harvard Kennedy School and Tecnológico de Monterrey’s EGADE Business School, and speaks at compliance, banking and governance conferences in the Americas, Europe and Asia, including the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime. His commentary has appeared in the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, Barron's and Politico.

He is the author of The Next Wave of Global Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement (Palgrave Macmillan) and Cartels Designated as Terrorists: Sanctions, Anti-Money Laundering, and Compliance Challenges in Latin America (Verus Consilium, January 2027), and coauthor of Normatividad bancaria 2025 (LID Editorial).