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Experienced Financial Compliance Professionals

Principal, Risk and Compliance Consulting

Darena Merdzhanova

Darena  has  more than 20+ years of compliance, risk management, testing and monitoring, reporting and data analytic in the highly regulated U.S. financial industry. She served as a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) for regulated institutions and Advisory Director with KPMG for top U.S banks, financial institutions, mortgage companies, FinTech, technology companies and credit unions.

She has a strong background working with regulators, auditors, various business lines to build out their compliance management program along with the program components required by the regulators. Darena also has a great deal of experience in identifying gaps within existing compliance programs and business operations and providing practical recommendations for enhancements.

Darena has worked with financial institutions of all sizes to implement compliance risk mitigation plan to address findings by internal auditors or by the regulators, specifically the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”), and state agencies. She has served as the subject matter professional for multiple compliance focus areas (e.g., HMDA, ECOA, Fair Lending, TILA, RESPA, TRID, FCRA, SCRA, Regs. E, D an DD, State-specific regulations, among others).