L LISS ADVISORY

FINANCIAL CRIMES · PRODUCT STRATEGY · AI & AUTOMATION

Turn complex regulatory risk challenges into decisive action.

Senior Level Advisory for Fintechs and Financial Institutions Navigating the Financial Crimes Landscape.

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31years in technology leadership
10+years focused on financial crimes
VPproduct leadership experience

THE LISS ADVISORY LENS

StrategytoExecution
Risk Product Technology Operations

Connecting the business, product, risk, and technology perspectives required to move from idea to measurable outcome.

Financial crimes transformation rarely fails because the problem is unclear. It fails when operations, product, and technology are not aligned on the vision and strategy.

CORE EXPERTISE

Practical guidance at the intersection of risk and innovation.

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Financial Crimes Platform Modernization

Bring recent, hands-on experience from a multi-year, multi-market financial-crimes transformation at American Express—from vision, strategy, roadmap, make-vs.-buy analysis, leadership alignment, and funding through development, fintech integration, implementation, and operations. Apply practical lessons learned from delivering an international solution within a complex regulatory environment.

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Product and Platform Leadership

Take products and platforms from early vision and strategy through development, implementation, and ongoing operations. Apply extensive product-management and executive product-leadership experience to establish effective product organizations, operating models, governance, and execution disciplines.

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Responsible AI and Human Judgment

Determine where AI can genuinely improve financial-crimes outcomes across markets with different regulatory expectations. Define the appropriate roles for AI agents, automation, and human judgment—using AI where it creates measurable value while preserving the controls, explainability, and oversight the environment requires.

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Value Realization and Outcome Measurement

Set measurable transformation goals, develop credible investment cases, and define the efficiency and effectiveness gains technology can realistically deliver. Ground expected outcomes and ROI in 31 years of technology leadership experience and a practical understanding of what technology can—and cannot—accomplish.

WHO I HELP

Two sides of the market. One experienced perspective.

FOR FINTECHS & TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS

Bring the Voice of the Bank into the room.

Strengthen your financial-crimes product, customer engagement, and implementation strategy with the perspective of an experienced financial-institution product leader.

  • Product Offering AssessmentEvaluate how your product capabilities align with the operational, technology, regulatory, and risk-management needs of financial institutions—and identify gaps that may affect adoption.
  • AI and Automation EnablementIdentify practical opportunities to strengthen your solution through AI and automation, improve investigator effectiveness, and create a more compelling and differentiated customer value proposition.
  • Pre-Sales AdvisoryParticipate in customer discovery and sales discussions, interpret what the bank is really communicating, and help shape the solution, messaging, and engagement strategy around the institution’s priorities.
  • Post-Sales and Implementation SupportBring the bank’s perspective into early implementation and change-management activities, identify emerging concerns, and translate customer feedback into actions that support adoption and measurable results.
  • Model Risk and Governance ReadinessAssess model documentation and governance materials, help prepare for bank model-risk reviews, and support discussions with model governance teams to create a clearer and more efficient path to approval.

FOR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

Make high-stakes technology decisions with confidence.

Modernize your financial-crimes capabilities with independent, operator-led guidance grounded in the realities of bank technology, regulatory expectations, product delivery, and organizational change.

  • Current-State and Gap AssessmentAssess your existing financial-crimes capabilities against business needs, market developments, regulatory expectations, and industry practices—then identify material gaps and provide prioritized recommendations.
  • Make-vs.-Buy and Vendor SelectionDetermine whether building internally or purchasing a third-party solution offers the strongest strategic and economic fit. When buying is the right choice, evaluate fintech providers against the institution’s unique requirements and support a disciplined vendor-selection process.
  • Product Vision and Strategic RoadmapTranslate the selected make-or-buy strategy into a clear product vision and actionable roadmap, defining the capabilities, priorities, dependencies, sequencing, and decisions needed to launch and guide the program.
  • Pilot Design and Success MeasurementDesign and conduct structured vendor pilots that test the most important business, technology, operational, and risk requirements. Establish measurable success criteria and use the results to support an evidence-based decision.
  • Early Integration and Change-Management SupportSupport early integration activities by facilitating communication between the financial institution and its technology provider, identifying emerging issues, and helping ensure that implementation and change-management needs are addressed from the outset.

HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER

Senior expertise, shaped to the problem.

Engagements are scoped around the outcome—not a predetermined consulting package.

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Focused Advisory

Targeted executive guidance for a specific decision, market question, or strategic challenge.

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Project Engagement

A defined assessment, roadmap, business case, vendor evaluation, or pilot design with concrete deliverables.

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Fractional Leadership

Ongoing senior support that extends your team’s domain depth, product leadership, and customer credibility.

Greg Liss, founder of Liss Advisory

ABOUT GREG LISS

Financial Crimes Product Leadership Experience with an Executive Perspective. No learning curve.

Greg Liss brings 31 years of Technology Leadership experience, with 12 years serving financial services, including Vice President level leadership at American Express, with more than a decade focused on Financial Crimes. His work has spanned AML investigations, transaction monitoring, KYC, customer risk, sanctions screening, media triage, and AI-enabled automation.

He is known for translating across business, risk, product, and technology teams—bringing practical insight to complex decisions and keeping the work anchored in customer, investigator, and enterprise outcomes.

Product LeadershipFinancial CrimesCustomer DiscoveryAI Strategy

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What challenge are you trying to solve?

Whether you are refining a fintech product, preparing for a critical customer discussion, evaluating a platform, or shaping a financial-crimes transformation, let’s discuss where focused executive experience can help.

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