Deloitte's Fred Curry Named to Board of Transparency International-USA

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Dec 07, 2011, 03:05 ET

NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Transparency International-USA (TI-USA) has named Fredrick E. Curry III, principal, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, to its board of directors.

TI-USA is the United States chapter of Transparency International, the anti-corruption civil society organization which has more than 90 chapters worldwide. Founded in 1993 as a non-profit organization, TI-USA works domestically and abroad for greater transparency, accountability and integrity in business, government and development assistance. Curry will serve a three-year term.

"We look forward to Fred joining our board. His continued work in preventing and detecting corruption will help to establish an equal playing field globally and to eradicate corruption in the United States and abroad," said Claudia J. Dumas, president and CEO of TI-USA.

Curry is a member of Deloitte's anti-money laundering and economic trade sanctions practice in Washington, D.C. He specializes in advising senior executives and board directors of global financial institutions on compliance programs and responses to regulatory enforcement actions, and criminal investigations in the anti-money laundering, anti-corruption and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) areas.

Earlier in his career, Curry served as examiner-in-charge at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He was responsible for planning, supervising and conducting comprehensive safety and soundness and anti-money laundering examinations of domestic and international banks. A certified anti-money laundering specialist, Curry has instructed federal and state bank examiners on advanced anti-money laundering examination techniques at the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council and the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.

In 2001, Curry founded The Sirius Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization that has awarded annual scholarships to high-achieving African American women aspiring to careers in business since its inception.

Curry resides in Washington, D.C. He earned a bachelor's degree from Adelphi University, a master's degree in business administration from Fordham University and a juris doctor from Brooklyn School of Law.

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