This week on Privacy Please, we are joined by two very good friends and business partners helping fight against financial crime, Dr. Gary M. Shiffman – Economist and CEO of Giant Oak and Consilient and Juan C. Zarate – co-founder of Consilient. 

-We hope you enjoy this fun and interesting conversation! 

 Backstory: 

Dr. Gary M. Shiffman is an economist and CEO of two machine learning companies, Giant Oak and Consilient. Together, he and Juan C. Zarate co-founded Consilient. They both have really impressive backgrounds as Gary was a former Chief of Staff at U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Juan was also a former national security advisor for combating terrorism. The two have now joined forces to combat financial crime with data privacy-preserving technology. 

 Topics: 

The importance of data privacy within financial institutions and how banks can work together to combat financial crime. 

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