Adrienne Kosta

Head of Financial Crimes Compliance Program Office/Deputy Chief AML Officer, Fidelity Investments

Adrienne Kosta is Head of Financial Crimes Programs and Deputy Chief AML Officer at Fidelity Investments. Ms. Kosta has management responsibilities for the teams that provide Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing of Terrorism, Sanctions, and Anti-Corruption advice and oversight for Fidelity Investments, including the AML Officers for the Fidelity financial institutions and the Heads of Global Sanctions and Anti-Corruption. The team has responsibilities which include retail and clearing broker-dealers, prime brokerage, institutional trading, securities lending, foreign exchange, asset management, trust companies, and digital asset entities. Ms. Kosta initially joined Fidelity in January 2016 as AML Officer for Fidelity Forex LLC and National Financial Services LLC and upon their establishment, became AML Officer for Digital Brokerage Services LLC and Fidelity Prime Financing LLC.

Prior to joining Fidelity Investments, Ms. Kosta was a Vice President in Global Financial Crimes Compliance at JPMorgan Chase & Co., where she served as Program Manager, developing, training, and overseeing the review of higher risk clients by a team of AML professionals. Before JPMorgan Chase, Ms. Kosta was a Vice President at Pershing, LLC, a BNY Mellon company, in AML Compliance, where she had senior level responsibilities for numerous aspects of the AML program for the clearing and prime brokerage businesses.

Ms. Kosta is the immediate past Co-Chair and current conference planning member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Anti-Money Laundering Committee. She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Ms. Kosta received her B.A. from the University of Maryland and her J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law. She is a member of both the New York and New Jersey bars and holds Series 7 and Series 24 licenses.