Introducing 2021 Associate - Pratyaksh Agrawal

Prat Agrawal is an AML enthusiast working as AML investigator in Financial Intelligence Unit at Scotiabank. His area of interest includes complex investigations comprising of public private initiatives like human trafficking, organ trafficking, drug trafficking, unregistered money service businesses and cryptocurrency.

He graduated with Master of Applied Sciences degree from University of Toronto before started working as Fraud Analyst, Credit Cards at CIBC. During his time at CIBC, Prat worked on mitigating loss to bank by providing real time support in the reporting of fraudulent transactions and assisting clients with initiating dispute claims through visa and mastercard.

Prat holds Financial Intelligence Specialist, FIS designation from Manchestercf and University of New Haven. He has also completed AML certifications by Alberta Liquor and Gaming Commission and Combatting modern slavery by ACAMS and is now working towards his ACAMS certification. In his free time, he enjoys watching movies and TV series based on real life incidents.