FinCEN Names Peter Goodyear as Associate Director for Analysis and Liaison

VIENNA, Va. - James H. Freis, Jr., Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), this week welcomed Peter Goodyear as FinCEN's Associate Director for Analysis and Liaison.

Mr. Goodyear - formerly a senior vice president at Citigroup - will oversee FinCEN's analysis of Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data in support of its law enforcement, regulatory and financial intelligence unit customers.

"Mr. Goodyear will bring to FinCEN a valuable combination of industry knowledge, management, and extensive organizational leadership, which will contribute not only to the work of the Analysis and Liaison Division, but to the overall FinCEN team," Director Freis said.

While at Citigroup, Mr. Goodyear led a business unit providing global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing monitoring operations that was responsible for the analysis, management, and protection of financial data from transactions in the United States, Europe, Japan and Latin America. He is experienced in developing information technology systems and analyst training for monitoring financial transactions, the anti-money laundering examination process, and working with consumer credit/debit card products.

Prior to his employment at Citigroup, Mr. Goodyear was a trial attorney in San Antonio, Texas. He is a graduate of West Point and after assignments across the nation and in Europe he retired as a Major from the U.S. Army.