The Financial Crime Digital Landscape Webinar
Virtual Event | 6th April 2022

Andrew Bud CBE is the founder and CEO of iProov, the London-based provider of large-scale face-based authentication services to the private and public sectors worldwide. iProov has pioneered the delivery of Genuine Presence Assurance, providing strong verification that an online user is the right person, a real person, authenticating right now.

iProov customers include the Department of Homeland Security, the UK Home Office, the NHS, GovTech Singapore, ING, Rabobank, and Eurostar. Before starting iProov in 2012, Andrew was at mBlox Inc. which he founded in London in 2000 and led to become the world’s largest provider of commercial text messaging.

Previously, Andrew led innovations in the mobile communications industry in Britain and Italy. He is Fellow of the IET and a graduate in Engineering from Cambridge University.

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

Ana-Maria Vasile, CAMS-RM, IRMCert, has a broad expertise on Anti-Financial Crime and Enterprise Risk Management, with 15 years of practical experience in the financial services industry and bringing a specialized educational background in this respect. Currently, she is the Chief Compliance Officer at CEC Bank Romania, coordinating the overall Regulatory, Compliance Risk Management, AML/CTF and Sanctions Compliance activities within the bank.

As part of her experience, Ana was involved in the implementation of global policies and internal controls for the prevention of financial crime risks related to TBML, including the development of a one-of-its-kind in-house monitoring application for Trade Finance transaction monitoring within Commerzbank AG. Prior to joining Commerzbank, Ana was a Manager in the forensic practice of Deloitte, her focus areas and responsibilities being related to delivering projects on the implementation of ML/TF risk management programs in financial institutions, targeted financial sanctions, FATCA implementation, fraud and money laundering investigations, fraud detection, transaction monitoring for various financial products, funds tracking, assessment of AML/CTF compliance activity within financial institutions and implementation and assessment of AFC/Sanctions/Ethics and Compliance programs. Additionally, she also has an extensive experience with the country risk assessment practice, as she was a subject matter expert in the ML/TF National Risk Assessments of Lithuania (2015) and Latvia (2016).