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Marie Lundberg, CFE
CEO, ACRONYM Consulting AB
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Marie Lundberg is the founder and CEO of Acronym Consulting AB, based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a financial crime specialist with more than two decades of experience within the financial sector, including investment firms, large internet banks, payment service providers, traditional and private banking. Her area of expertise includes anti-bribery and corruption, fraud, anti-money laundering, customer due diligence, sanctions and counter terrorism financing.
Marie is a firm believer of using analytics and the importance of knowing and understanding your data, as well as your customers. Awareness, a solid risk management program and education is in her opinion a few of the keys to combat financial crime.
She has extensive international experience, working mainly in the Nordics and Europe including the UK. She is a founding member and co-chair of the ACAMS Nordics Chapter and a Certified Fraud Examiner by ACFE as well as a public speaker and thought leader in this area.
Vinaya is the Global Head of Fraud Risk Oversight for the Institutional Clients Group and Citi Commercial Bank at Citi, and also has regional oversight responsibility for EMEA & APAC across the enterprise. She is responsible for assessing the current strategy and execution of the Fraud Risk Management discipline across the businesses globally; and agreeing the necessary actions with the 1st line partners to ensure adherence to the policy and framework. Her team works closely with risk colleagues in the regional and business risk teams and other key stakeholders in Corporate Security & Investigative Services, and Information / Cyber Security in maintaining a robust management of fraud risk through policy compliance, improvements in technical infrastructure and operational excellence.
Vinaya has 25 years of experience in financial services across Risk, Compliance and Internal audit areas. Prior to the current role, she was the Operational Risk Management for Citi South Asia, working closely with business and functional heads in proactively managing operational risk and providing oversight across Asia Regional Enterprise Operations & Technology.
Vinaya is part of the Steering committee of the Citi London Pride Network, acting as Secretary and Treasurer. When based in India, she was the co-sponsor of the first Citi Women’s network in Asia and a member of the India Diversity Council. Over the years, she has been mentoring young professionals, both in and outside Citi. She supports multiple charities working in the UK and India on creating greater opportunities for children from under privileged backgrounds.
Vinaya holds an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor’s degree from SNDT University, Mumbai.
Anna Issel is Head of Anti-Financial Crime International Private Bank. Her responsibilities include advising WM on all financial crime related topics, including high risk KYC files as well as optimisation of processes related to client on-boarding and client monitoring
Anna spent almost her entire career at DB, joining as an analyst c. 15 years ago. She has held leadership positions in Group Strategy, focusing on Principal M&A as well as Integration and Transformation. Subsequently, Anna joined Group Audit as a Chief Auditor for Anti-Financial Crime, building out dedicated AML and Sanctions teams, and working closely with key regulators such as FRBNY, BaFin, and ECB.
Anna was educated at European Business School in Germany and got an MBA degree at James Madison University in USA.
Aamir Hanif is the UK Money Laundering Reporting Officer (“MLRO”) for Stripe. Prior to joining Stripe, Aamir was the Head of Financial Crimes for Middle East and North Africa (excluding UAE) and the MLRO for Bahrain for Standard Chartered Bank. Aamir has worked on financial crime issues for over 14 years in the private and public sectors including with the US government. Aamir has a Bachelors in Finance and Management Information Systems from Washington State University, an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Johns Hopkins University and a Masters in International Policy from George Washington University.
Bernadette Smith has been compliance director and MLRO at Cynergy Bank since 2019. In this position, Bernadette is responsible for the Bank’s efforts to detect and prevent all aspects of financial crime and fraud, as well as its obligations to comply with all tenets of regulation and law applicable to a financial services firm. Bernadette joined Cynergy Bank in 2018 as Head of Enterprise Risk Management. Bernadette previously worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a Risk & Compliance Manager and prior to this she spent over 5 years as a Senior Risk Manager at Nationwide Building Society.
De Quincey Bailey is a senior investigation officer in HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS), Organised Crime Operations. He is a forensic subject matter expert in national and international money laundering systems, with expertise in the criminal exploitation of informal value transfer systems (IVTS). He has been a member of the Proceeds of Crime Lawyers Association and an accredited member of the National Crime Agency (NCA) Expert Laundering Evidence Cadre since 2016. In December 2020, he was commended by the Director National Economic Crime Centre of the NCA for his outstanding contribution in providing expert evidence in support of complex economic crime prosecutions and investigations.
He has spent more than ten years investigating and prosecuting professional Money laundering networks exploiting the financial sector internationally, giving him continued exposure to a wide range of criminality, and the techniques used by those involved in serious and organised crime to acquire, move and dispose of criminal proceeds.
He provides expert level technical support concerning Money laundering, Terrorist Financing, or the application of the Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs) to HMRC’s senior leadership team who are responsible for delivering HMRC’s response to the most serious attacks on HMRC core functions. He regularly gives presentations to domestic and overseas government officials, lawyers and private sector on ML risk, the application of the MLRs and SOC exploitation of the global financial system.
Spent twenty years in UK law enforcement (City of London Police) investigating economic crime. Specialised in the pro-active investigation of Banking Fraud, Money laundering and Bribery & Corruption. Worked internationally with multiple law enforcement agencies in the US, Europe and Asia. This was followed by six years as Citigroup EMEA Regional Director of Investigations, and eight years as Barclays Global Head of Investigations for Investment Banking & Wealth Management. Managed a team of investigators who worked globally on all aspects of internal and external economic crime, whistleblowing investigations, regulatory investigations and litigation support. Currently Head of Fraud & Investigations at Lombard Odier & Co Ltd, based in Geneva. To date, forty years of international economic crime experience in both a law enforcement and corporate environment. Speaks frequently on economic crime investigations at corporate and law enforcement events. Is co-founder and CEO of the Association of Corporate Investigators a new start up association formed for the benefit of the corporate investigations community.
Seun Oshinusi is the Lead, Financial Crime Operations Unit, Mettle. With expertise working as a fraud and financial crime professional previously working at Curve, Wonga and Jaja, Seun is highly skilled in Analytics, Financial Crime, Dispute Resolution and Anti Money Laundering. Seun has a Bachelor’s Degree focused in Criminology from University of Roehampton, before moving into financial services.
Erik Vynckier is board member of Foresters Friendly Society and chair of the Investment Committee, following a career in investment banking, insurance, asset management and the petrochemical industry. He has been Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer and frequently consults in investment management, quantitative risk management and derivatives.
He co-founded EU initiatives on high performance computing and big data in finance and co-authored “High-Performance Computing in Finance” and “Tercentenary Essays on the Philosophy and Science of Leibniz”. Erik graduated as MBA at London Business School and as chemical engineer at Universiteit Gent.
Prior to joining Hastings Direct in April 2015, David was the Founder and Head of the Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED), which was hosted by the City of London Police. As the Detective Chief Inspector, he was responsible for the strategic and tactical direction of the privately-funded unit of 39 police and support staff. The unit, supported by both Lloyds of London and the membership of the Association of British Insurers (ABI), investigated all types of insurance fraud across England and Wales
In an effort to promote the good work of the Unit and promulgate the “don’t commit insurance fraud” message, David appeared on numerous television and radio programmes, and also utilised social media.
The initial three year pilot was deemed to be such a success that the ABI agreed a further three years of funding, with an additional boost of an extra £750,000 per annum.
Upon joining Hastings Direct, David set up the new Special Investigations Unit (SIU), which he now leads.
The team has expanded significantly since its formation. The SIU comprises:-Claims Fraud and Policy Fraud sections; an Intelligence Unit with its own analyst; a team of Field Force agents who cover hotspot areas across the country. The SIU is responsible for managing all special investigations and since the summer of 2018, all instances of internal fraud.
David also chair the CIFAS Internal Fraud Working Group which shares best practice amongst its various Financial Services members.
