Melissa Babin

Melissa Babin is the Head of Financial Crimes Investigations for Robinhood Markets. In this role, she oversees the investigation and reporting of potentially suspicious activity across Robinhood’s legal entities. She also serves as the AML Compliance Officer for Robinhood Derivatives.

Melissa previously served as an intermittent advisor to the Economic Crimes Team within the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Technical Assistance, where she provided specialized technical assistance to foreign governments focused on strengthening their capacity to prevent, detect, and investigate financial crimes.

Prior to Robinhood, Melissa was a Director in PwC’s Financial Crimes Unit, where she led AML and sanctions program remediation and transformation efforts for financial institutions under remediation by U.S. and foreign regulators. Her work focused on financial crimes program governance, including organizational design, policies and procedures, risk assessments, and operations. She also advised FinTech companies, including several of the world’s largest technology firms in the U.S. and China, on building and maturing their compliance programs.

Earlier in her career, Melissa spent several years supporting the intelligence community. As a Senior Intelligence Investigator at Booz Allen Hamilton, she supported criminal investigations for the Department of Justice’s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Fusion Center, including complex money laundering investigations.

Melissa holds an MA in Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University and a BA in Political Science from the University of San Diego.