Anne-Christine Wegener
Head of AFC/Deupty MLRO, n26
Past Main Stage Discussion Leaders
Anti-corruption, financial crime, transparency and compliance strategy specialist. Experienced in setting up compliance management frameworks including ABC global Risk Assessment, governance and implementation of Business Partner due diligence. Policy work, research management and external representation of organisations. Passionate about compliance, sustainability and ESG.
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.
Jennifer is a co-founder and managing partner of ALL AML GmbH. She has been working in investigations and anti-financial crime for twenty yearsand supports organisations as an external MLRO.
Jennifer is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and a Certified Fraud Examinerand was awarded the CAMS Audit Certificate in 2019.
She has worked on a wide range of complex investigations world-wide as well as managed anti-financial crime advisory projects seeking to implement best practice standards. She has contributed to the RegTech Book as an expert on technology and anti-financial crime with particular focus on KYC and has been involved in various risk assessment and remediation projects.
Jennifer has a track record in developing industry standards and methods in the area of customer due diligence as well as tools for risk analysis and the assessment of reputational and integrity issues. She is also a member of the Deutsches Institut für Compliance (DICO) working group for AML in the non-financial sector and also for the development of integrity due diligence and KYC compliance standards.
Since 2008, Jennifer has been a regular contributor and steering group member at ACAMS Today and a designated ACAMS instructor. She is a founding member and board member of the ACAMS Germany Chapter (https://www.acams.org/). Since 2008 Jennifer has published widely on compliance topics relating to financial crime issues. Jennifer speaks fluent English, Italian, German, and has a good understanding of French and Spanish.
Klaus Xhaxhiu is currently holding the MLRO function for Germany at Aion Bank with over six years of experience in compliance / AML for banks and other financial institutions. Additionally Klaus is serving as senior compliance and legal expert for the German market. He holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Hannover in cooperation with the University of Lisbon. Klaus is responsible for all compliance and AML related matters at Aion Bank German branch.
Klaus has created the fundamentals for a compliance and AML organisation at Aion Bank in Germany and is serving as point of contact for the regulators. Prior to this, Klaus was serving as Compliance manager for Germany at Vistra where he created the team from scratch including a number of compliance monitoring systems. He was also responsible for all client onboardings and AML matters.
During the weekends and holidays, Klaus likes to travel and visit new countries to explore their cultures and traditions. Of course, exploring local food is one of his hobbies while traveling as well.
Lora von Ploetz is the Head of Global Financial Crime Unit at Commerzbank, where she is overseeing the cross-border evaluation of significant financial crime events by, tracking, investigating, analysing and reporting of such on a global scale and information sharing within Commerzbank group-wide. Before taking this position, Lora von Ploetz was Senior Sanctions Officer overseeing New York, London and Dubai sanctions operations. Lora von Ploetz has held various compliance and legal regulatory management roles at Western Union, UniCredit, etc. She holds a LL.M Law and Finance from the Goethe University in Frankfurt and a Master of Law from the University of St. Kliment Ohridski.
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.
Matthias has over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services industry in Switzerland and abroad. He worked as a permanent employee and management consultant for Swiss international Private Banks as well as a Partner for a consulting company in Switzerland and Luxembourg, focusing on Regulatory Compliance topics. Being passionate about Anti Financial Crime and in particular AML/CFT, Matthias specialized in this area and holds various certificates e.g. from ACFCS and ACAMS. Since end of 2022, Matthias is a member of the ACAMS faculty acting as an instructor for AML and Crypto AML classes. In 2021, Matthias joined BITCOIN SUISSE AG, the Swiss crypto-native pioneer and trusted gateway to crypto asset investing and is their Head Anti Financial Crime and MLRO.
Nico has a 24 year professional experience in the banking sector gained at both commercial banks and supervisory authorities at national and European level.
He has been dealing with compliance and internal governance matters for most of his careers with assignments spanning from policy drafting to off/on site supervision as well as internal audit. He has gained extensive expertise in KYC methodology development and financial analysis.
His experience in both prudential and AML/CFT supervision has been key to find ways for bridging the two supervisory perspectives. He holds a master degree in business administration and has a solid background in accounting and corporate criminal law.
Director – AML Legal Advisory & Enforcement at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt
Working in AML for 10 years with previous tenures as AML Officer at DenizBank Frankfurt and the Agricultural Bank of China, Frankfurt Branch.
Trained lawyer in Germany and Romania, working for a number of years as partner in a law firm in corporate law and international law.
Enrico Aresu is Director for Compliance Industry Practice Lead DACH & BeNeLux at Moody’s Analytics.
Prior to joining Moody’s, he spent 15 years in the Risk and Compliance field, most of which in the consulting industry, where he advised major organizations in their compliance and AFC technology journeys.
His focus is on the development and implementation of new technologies in the fight against money laundering, fraud and sanction violations.
Enrico holds an MBA and a Master of Engineering.