Sergio Frías

Sergio Frías is Crypto Compliance Officer at Grupo Salinas, a position he has held since January 2024, sitting within the Legal department at specialist level. In this role, he focuses on crypto compliance within the financial services group. Concurrently, he serves as FIU Operations Analysis Coordinator, a title carried over from his prior institutional role.

Before joining Grupo Salinas, Frías spent nearly two years at the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público (Mexico's Ministry of Finance) as FIU Operations Analysis Coordinator, from February 2022 to January 2024. There he coordinated a team of 28 analysts responsible for Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (AML/FT) investigations, leading complex cases involving corruption, fraud, and drug trafficking, and analysing operational trends to detect suspicious activity. His broader career spans 15 years across money laundering analysis, fraud, compliance, investments, and financial analysis. He holds certification from the CNBV as a compliance officer in the prevention of operations with resources of illicit origin and financing of terrorism. Since August 2018, he has also served as a lecturer at Tecnológico de Monterrey, teaching the course "Investigation and Fraud Prevention" to final-semester degree students, using the ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) manual as the basis for instruction on identifying, preventing, and reporting fraud.