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Christiane Fritsch
Head of Digital Leadership, ING
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Christiane Fritsch (44) has been heading the Digital Leadership department at ING Germany since June 2019. She is responsible for the bank’s digital strategy and, amongst others, the expansion of digital contact points with customers.
Previously, Mrs. Fritsch held various positions in the digital division of ING Deutschland since 2012. Before joining ING Deutschland, she worked for around 10 years in various advertising agencies, most recently as Digital Account Director at the international communications agency Leo Burnett.
In addition to her work at ING Deutschland, Mrs. Fritsch has been a board member of Initiative D21, Germany’s largest non-profit network for the digital society, since May 2020. In this role, she has contributed to various publications, including on the topics of the working world of the future as well as digital identities.
Dorota is currently working as the Head of Risk, at State Street Bank International GmbH, Poland branch. Dorota has 20 years working experience within 3 global banks (State Street, Bank of New York Mellon, Millennium BCP) in corporate and custody banking, treasury, middle-office, operations, process reengineering and risk management
Dorota’s background includes an MBA in Economics and International Management, from Warsaw School of Economics and Milan Bocconi University
Dorota can speak (or used to speak) fluently 8 different languages.
Gregory Coleman is the FBI Special Agent responsible for the criminal investigation of Jordan Belfort. Belfort’s rise to power and subsequent arrest and conviction were chronicled in the movie, “The Wolf of Wall Street.” The movie was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Leonardo DiCaprio. Mr. Coleman was portrayed by Kyle Chandler.
Mr. Coleman retired from the FBI with over 25 years of experience investigating financial crimes, money laundering, and asset forfeiture. Many of his investigations involved stock market manipulations where the proceeds were laundered through offshore shell corporations and offshore bank accounts. Mr. Coleman was able to obtain banking records from numerous offshore jurisdictions by piercing the veil of secrecy. Coleman Worldwide Advisors provides litigation support, funds recovery assistance, and other financial consultancy services involving financial transactions and systems.
Konstantinos is a predictive analytics expert with a background in consumer-focused data analytics and strategy, his career expands over several industries including Retail Banking, Telecommunications, Media and Advertising, Supply Chain and Manufacturing. He has worked mostly in Fortune 500 companies promoting innovation in data informed decisioning and optimization modelling. He earned an MSc in computational modelling from Liverpool University and an MPhil in Statistical Modelling from Strathclyde University in UK. He had contributed to several best practice papers in analytics, from public policy and advertising effectiveness to IFRS9 financial regulatory reporting in EU. A unique journey with credit risk analytics his passion for the last 10 years focusing on API based ecosystems, utilising innovative approaches to Statistical and ML Modelling for Consumer Credit Risk
Markus Schulz is the Deputy Global Head FCC & Head Change Management for Financial Crimes Compliance (FCC) at ING.
In his current role he looks after the transformation of the Bank’s financial crime control and organisational framework with a special focus on RegTech. He is a trained banker by trade and has over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and since the early 2000s dedicated to the fight against financial crime working for a number of global Financial Institutions.
He is passionate about modernising and developing the Financial Crime Compliance industry especially the future of Surveillance. For this he is a very active member with a number of instrumental groups like the Wolfsberg Group, Egmont Group, Madison Group, Basel Institute on Governance, Insurance Europe, FATF, IACA and the European Commission just to mention some. He has initiated and lead various successful collective industry action groups around topics like Trade & Economic Sanctions, AML and FATCA as well as Ethics in Business.
Markus is the co-chair of the ACAMS® Advisory Board, the leading global Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists®. He is a very frequent speaker and chair at Compliance, and Anti-Financial Crime conferences and summits around the world and has co-authored numerous publications in this field.
He lived and worked in a number of countries and benefits from the business and cultural experience he has been able to gain through all his global roles.
Mário de Castro is a lawyer specialized in WTO and EU Economic Law. He is Authorised Manager and Chief Compliance and Risk Officer at Alfa Asset Management (Europe) S.A.. In this role, he leads the two internal control functions covering all the EU and Luxembourgish regulatory framework and directly deals with the supervising authorities.
Over the last 13 years, he exercised a calculated and methodical approach to Compliance-related problem solving. He has created, developed, and implemented compliance strategies encompassing AML/KYC processes, MiFID, tax (CRS/FATCA/DAC 6) and regulatory reporting and overall Compliance Monitoring Plans that withstood audit and regulator’s assessments. During the same period, he worked closely with Managers and those responsible for business development, offering them advice and practical solutions focused on commercial results
Nicolas has worked in biotech start-ups for over 4 years before joining Echangeur BNP Paribas Personal Finance. He is in charge of decoding the latest technologies and digital trends that will impact retail, banking and mobility. He has been covering the Web3 trends for the last 2 years. He has published many articles and reports about the future of Internet. He’s also an international speaker for the retail industry.
Nikolaos Gitonidis is currently the Head of Compliance at DZ Privatbank Zurich AG. In this role, Nikos oversees the operational management of the compliance and AML Team. Furthermore Nikos is currently Deputy Group Leader Compliance in the DZ Privatbank Group.
Nikos has been in the banking sector for over 10 years, and he previously has worked at KPMG, IHAG Privatbank and Clariden Privatbank.
During his professional career Nikos achieved a BFE Certificate,Swiss Banking Association and obtained his Bachelor of Law, and a Master of Law at the University of Lucern.
Ralph Ebert is a German lawyer with long term legal and Compliance experience for universal and private banks with 15 years of experience in an international environment. He worked in France, Canada, South Korea and Switzerland as well as short term assignments to Hong Kong and Singapore.
Ralph works currently as Head of Compliance at Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (Suisse) in Switzerland. He also focuses on the integration of regtech solutions, consequences for Compliance and the modern compliance culture
Stéphanie is Senior Financial Crime Data Scientist at Société Générale, where she contributes to the enhancement of transactions monitoring for AML by leveraging on data and analytics. Over the last years, she had created and developed machine learning models the enhance detection on Private Banking area. She also contributes to the set-up of a standard methodology to monitor and calibrate AML algorithms . On the top of her academical background in Data Science, she had a recognized certification in AML.
Tassilo Amtage is a lecturer at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and a Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer at UBS in Frankfurt. With twenty years of experience working at large European banks in various financial crime-related roles, he has contributed to the creation of two compliance certification programs at the Frankfurt School as well as several publications on financial crime topics. His academic background is in German law and he lives in Frankfurt with this family.
