AML & KYC Banking Summit
29th & 30th June 2022 | De Vere Wokefield, Berkshire, UK

Sam is a financial crime prevention professional with over 15 years of practical experience in compliance. Sam holds a number of qualifications and is recognised as a subject matter expert in the field of financial crime.

Sam’s previous work experience includes working as MLRO, Data Protection Officer and CCO and Group Head of AML for various financial institutions, both offshore and in Europe. Sam also worked offshore for several years as the first legal counsel to the financial regulator in Guernsey and subsequently set up the financial crime division, overseeing the examination of a variety of financial institutions. She continues to maintain ongoing engagement with other regulators on financial crime matters.

Sam has extensive training experience in the field of financial crime prevention and corporate governance matters. She has most recently been involved in projects related to FenTech businesses, the use of RegTech to mitigate financial crime and list management relating to the screening of customers and third parties. Sam most recently worked with ACAMS Europe as its AML Director. Sam is recognised by ACAMS as a subject matter expert in sanctions and has co-authored a number of online certificate courses, facilitated working groups on 4/5AMLD in Europe and assistance in the development of white papers. Originally from Montreal, Quebec Canada, Sam holds a Bachelors of Public Administration, Law Degree, qualified as a barrister and solicitor and holds her Masters in Business, specialising in risk management.

Nitzan Solomon is Head of Transaction Monitoring, AML & Fraud at Revolut. She is passionate about Financial Crime and Regtech and has won several awards for her work including 2020 best Regtech practitioner, and being named one of the UK Top 100 Women In Tech.

Mark is the Director, Fraud & Financial Crime for the c£5bn Commercial Banking Division at Lloyds Bank and the CB Money Laundering Reporting Officer. He leads a team of  specialists across Fraud, Financial Crime, (including PEPs & Correspondent Banks), Sanctions and Anti-Bribery & Corruption and is also responsible for a number of large related Transformation Programmes with  an emphasis on automation, on-boarding and transaction monitoring.  

He has been the Group’s Accountable Executive for the SWIFT KYC Registry for the past c.6 years. 

Mark was previously the COO for Financial Institutions (FIG) where he had a diverse range of accountabilities incl. client service, risk, change, cost management and data. He also had Executive Management oversight  for the FIG businesses in Asia and Europe  

Previously, he was COO for the Group’s North American business based in New York.

Chloe Cina joined Deutsche Bank as Director in the Global Sanctions & Embargoes Team in 2018. She is a barrister of 15 years Call and international financial sanctions expert. She started her career at the United Nations and went onto to practice at the criminal bar before joining the UK Treasury Solicitor’s Department in 2008 where she worked in the National Security team on terrorism and sanctions related litigation. She joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as a legal adviser in 2014, advising on financial sanctions and security policy in the EU and UN. She led the Iran nuclear legal team for the UK before joining HSBC in 2016 as the UK Head of Sanctions. She regularly speaks at international conferences and has been a key contributor to the ACAMS and ICA international courses on sanctions.

Matt is the current Head of Financial Crime at Tide Platform Limited. Tide provides banking services for SMEs and has a current member base of over 400,00 members with a 7% UK market share.

Prior to Tide, Matt managed Santander’s Financial Crime Apprenticeship programme, focusing on developing future leaders within the world of Financial Crime. Matt has also held roles at multiple other international organisations such as Barclays and Amazon.

Matt has a passion for building Financial Crime teams in a new and innovative way by training them in a way that allows them to engage both the technical and creative parts of their brains..

Head of Sanctions and Anti Bribery and Corruption for the EMEA region. Credit Suisse. Colin joined Credit Suisse in April 2014 prior to becoming the Head of Sanctions for UK and EMEA, a position he held from September 2014 to January 2021, at which point he took on the role of Head of Sanctions and Anti Bribery and Corruption for the EMEA region. Colin’s move to the Sanctions desk coincided with the expansion of sectoral sanctions under the EU and US Russian/Ukrainian sanctions regimes.

With over 20 years of experience, Liliya has worked across the financial crime space in different roles and capacity and across different business segments. She has managed teams, due diligence projects in challenging environments, and led major investigations and litigation support cases. In the late 1990s she joined Bulgaria’s Financial Intelligence Unit where she headed the International Contacts and Legal Coordination department. Her experience also includes Transparency International in Berlin, several London-based investigative consultancy firms and the Royal Bank of Canada in London. In 2016 she joined Commerzbank London where she managed the AML Advisory and EDD Team until her appointment as head of Transactions Monitoring and Investigations/UK FIU and deputy MLRO. At the end of 2020 she joined Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank as Head of UK Financial Security. She holds a doctorate in AML policies from Tilburg University in the Netherlands and gives lectures at the University of Manchester. A speaker at industry events, Liliya has delivered presentations on behalf of Stop the Traffik, a London-based non-profit organisation that fights human trafficking and slavery.

Paul brings to Solidi a wealth of experience in investigation, intelligence, compliance audit and regulatory affairs, gained during his 20 year career in organisations including Circle Financial, Electronic Money Association, Financial Conduct Authority, Serious Fraud Office and HM Revenue & Customs.

Financial Services professional experience with accountabilities as Head of Audit for over 10 years across Investment, Private and Retail Banking, and Insurance businesses. Leading global teams to provide assurance over Financial Crime, Fraud, Technology, Compliance, and Legal risk. Highly effective at senior stakeholder management, regulatory engagement and in establishing strong assurance capability to support the Board Audit Committee.

Richard is the EMEA Head of Sanctions at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) and is responsible for overseeing sanctions compliance within the region. Richard joined SMBC in February 2013 and has led efforts to enhance the sanctions systems and controls framework. During his time at SMBC Richard has led in responding to the implementation of EU/U.S. sanctions targeting Russian interests, the implementation of the JCPOA and subsequent U.S. withdrawal. Working closely with deals teams at SMBC, Richard has substantial experience in sanctions risk mitigation with respect to corporate banking products. Richard is currently a Co-Chair of the UK Finance Sanctions Panel.

Prior to SMBC, Richard worked in an AML and Sanctions function at Credit Suisse during a period when the bank was under a Deferred Prosecution Agreement for sanctions violations and had to go through the challenges presented by the Arab Spring. Prior to Credit Suisse, Richard began his career working on a KYC remediation project at Goldman Sachs.

With over 25 years of experience in data, Hany Choueiri is a passionate advocate of ESG and data standards and currently board member, vice-chair and chair of the Business Strategy Advisory Committee at the Global Legal Entity Foundation (GLEIF). GLEIF is a supra-national organization created to support the implementation and use of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). The foundation is overseen by the LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee, which is made up of representatives of public authorities from across the globe. GLEIF is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Previously, he has lead advanced analytics, data governance and digital marketing at a variety of organisations such as HSBC and State Street. He has also consulted on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for Central Eastern Europe at AON. Prior to AON, he worked as the Bank of England’s first Chief Data Officer leading the strategic One Bank Data initiative while also representing the Bank of England at the LEI Regulatory Oversight Committee and at State Street as the Head of Data Governance and Strategy for the EMEA region.

Between 2009 and 2014, he worked in various roles at HSBC most recently as the GBM Chief Data Officer, Europe & Head of Data Quality Services. Having pioneered one of the first Data Warehouses, his career has been centered around data and its management resulting in unique insights on the opposing perspectives of data as a risk versus data as a benefit.