Eric Ellis is the Director for Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) Policy in the Bank Supervision Policy Division of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).  In this role, Eric directs policy related to BSA/AML and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) for OCC examiners and supervised banks and manages the BSA/AML Policy staff.  Before serving in this role, he was a BSA/AML Policy Specialist, primarily focused on the AML Act of 2020, and previously served as a BSA/AML Compliance Examiner in the OCC’s Large Bank Supervision Division, which includes the largest and most complex national banking companies and federal savings associations, as well as federal branches and agencies of foreign banks.

Before joining the OCC in 2016, Eric worked in private industry in various BSA/AML-related roles.  Eric received his master’s degree in business administration (business law) from Suffolk University, Sawyer Business School and is a summa cum laude graduate of Baker College with a bachelor’s degree in business administration (finance).  He is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).