Dorota Mank
Head of Risk, State Street Bank International Poland
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.
Ralph Ebert is a German lawyer with long term legal and Compliance experience for universal and private banks with more than 25 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 mainly for global banks as well as Swiss Private banks.
Ralph works currently as Chief Compliance Officer at Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (Suisse) in Switzerland. He also focuses on the integration of fin and regtech solutions including the consequences for the Compliance culture in digital transformation processes.
Ralf Inderwies has a degree in banking business administration and as Certified Compliance Officer. Since the end of 2000, he has gained experience as a money laundering officer and compliance officer in various companies and in different sectors. He has experience in the implementation of money laundering regulations in the following sectors, among others:
✓ banks and financial service providers
✓ payment service providers
✓ goods trade
✓ real estate agent
✓ gambling
Mr. Inderwies specializes in supporting companies in the financial sector (banks, financial service providers) and medium-sized companies with regard to all issues relating to the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing as well as the practical implementation of legal requirements in the compliance environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thomas is the AFC Group Officer for the N26 Bank GmbH and has been building up the AFC Structure at the challenger bank, N26. On a day-to-day he is managing the growth of the overall team and establishing processes to combat financial crime effectively and efficiently.
From a strategic perspective this has been led by the basic premise of doing things better than traditional banks and using the endless possibilities of combating money laundering and fraud, by continuously using advanced data points and finding innovative new measures.
Rob is a leadership KYC expert who delivers high-energy keynotes presentations that challenge audiences.
Rob earned his MSc from the University of Amsterdam.
With a strong background in product management, development and managing large strategic programs, his career expands over several banking sectors including Correspondent Banking, PSPs and Virtual Asset Service Providers.
Additionally, Rob is a triathlete who recently finished his first Iron Man.
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.
Dr. Anastasia Kotovskaia, LL.M. is Head of Department Financial Markets and Information Technologies at the Centre for European Policy in Berlin, Germany. As a legal expert at the European policy think tank, she provides comprehensive background knowledge about policy proposals of the EU and evaluates them as well as drafts practicable policy options for Europe.
She had previously worked as a policy expert at the Policy Center of the Leibniz Institute for Financial Market Research SAFE in Frankfurt am Main with a focus on digitalization of finance, sustainable finance, and capital market integration in the EU.
She holds a Ph.D. in Law from Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She is author of articles and policy papers in law, finance, and information technology.
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.
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.
Johannes Matschiner is Senior Manager in the Forensic, Risk & Compliance team of BDO Hamburg and holds a diploma in Business Administration with focus on Finance and Risk Management. He has about 14 years of experiences in advising and auditing a wide range of different national and international companies of various size regarding Governance, Risk and Compliance Management Systems, focusing on international financial institutions and insurance companies.
Johannes is experienced in the national and international regulatory environment of national and international financial institutions and insurance companies and the related requirements regarding their governance structure, compliance related matters and risk analysis as well as their operating processes and internal control systems (e.g. BaFin requirements, EU and Basel requirement, etc.).
He supported international clients by performing internal audits with the focus on compliance and internal controls, considering legal and local requirements of subsidiaries abroad. Furthermore, he conducted several investigation and performed yearly fraud and risk analysis with regard to supervisory requirements for a strong regulated German Bad Bank.
One of his additional key areas is to provide support to national and international financial institutions by performing their risk analyses regarding AML, CTF, AFC and Fraud, with respect to the German banking act, the German anti money laundering act and national and international supervisory requirements as well as sanctions and embargos.
Johannes Matschiner is Senior Manager in the Forensic, Risk & Compliance team of BDO Hamburg and holds a diploma in Business Administration with focus on Finance and Risk Management. He has about 14 years of experiences in advising and auditing a wide range of different national and international companies of various size regarding Governance, Risk and Compliance Management Systems, focusing on international financial institutions and insurance companies.
Johannes is experienced in the national and international regulatory environment of national and international financial institutions and insurance companies and the related requirements regarding their governance structure, compliance related matters and risk analysis as well as their operating processes and internal control systems (e.g. BaFin requirements, EU and Basel requirement, etc.).
He supported international clients by performing internal audits with the focus on compliance and internal controls, considering legal and local requirements of subsidiaries abroad. Furthermore, he conducted several investigation and performed yearly fraud and risk analysis with regard to supervisory requirements for a strong regulated German Bad Bank.
One of his additional key areas is to provide support to national and international financial institutions by performing their risk analyses regarding AML, CTF, AFC and Fraud, with respect to the German banking act, the German anti money laundering act and national and international supervisory requirements as well as sanctions and embargos.
Nikolaos Gitonidis is currently the Head of Compliance at DZ PRIVATBANK Schweiz AG. In this role, Nikos oversees management of the Compliance and AML Team.
Nikos has been in the banking sector for 15 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.
Comprehensive knowledge of European and Global regulatory landscape, banking business and products.
Proven record in design, strategy and implementation of global and local regulatory requirements, governance and Anti Financial Crime compliance frameworks with strong stakeholder engagement and leadership of global virtual working groups.
Multilingual, multicultural AFC expert with strong IT and digital assets/ crypto currency background Co heading the Global AFC Crypto Currency and Digital Asset Virtual Team.
I advise of impact and implementation of regulations, risk and control frameworks, regulatory adherence integration for a diverse range of risk types. I am specialised subject matter expert for crypto currencies / digital asset related Anti Financial Crime risk issues. In Addition I work in collaboration with colleagues on legislative and regulatory proposals in connection with advocacy efforts on financial crime/cryptocurrency and digital assets related topics as well as on proactive identification of new risks, regulatory impacts or enhancements of existing controls and risk framework. Besides my AFC and technical skills I also have a strong background in financial and forensic accounting. I am a Certified Anti Financial Crime Expert graduated Diplômé Kauffrau specialised in Infomation Sytems Designs and have been researching extensively in financial crisis management for decades.
I am Alexis Luque, an authorised managing director at Unzer, a Luxembourgish entity approved by the CSSF, with a specialization in anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance. With more than 14 years in the field, I am an industry-recognized expert in compliance, AML, and combating financial crime.
I have successfully led and managed various teams and projects across diverse sectors and countries. My hands-on experience ranges from implementing AML programs to resolving complex compliance issues that meet the highest standards of quality, ethics, and regulation.
My academic achievements include a PhD in Criminal Law, focusing on applying behavioural statistics to proactively prevent criminal behaviour, specifically in the area of financial crimes. This unique intersection of law and data analytics has been invaluable in formulating and implementing AML strategies.
In my career, I have gained recognition for my role in unravelling major financial scandals in Spain, leveraging my deep understanding of compliance and AML to bring about transparency and justice.
Previously a compliance manager at Amazon and currently a professor at UNIR Universidad International de La Rioja, I am passionate about learning and imparting my expertise. I frequently speak at industry events and round tables on emerging trends, challenges, and best practices in AML and compliance.
The best watched documentary in 2022 on Netflix is the controversial documentary ‘The Tinder Swindler’. In it, the makers speak with three victims of Simon Leviev. The 33-year-old fake billionaire cheated women of hundreds of thousands of dollars via Tinder. One of them is the Dutch Ayleen Charlotte. Ayleen Charlotte hesitated for a long time about participating in the documentary ‘The Tinder Swindler’. With her contribution to the Netflix documentary and sharing her story as a speaker at events, she wants to warn people about scams because it can also happen to you. She also wants to inspire and motivate victims of fraud and give them the strength to regain trust.
Charmian Simmons is a Financial Crime and Compliance Expert covering the EMEA region at SymphonyAI Sensa-NetReveal. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector across risk management, financial crime, internal controls and IT advisory. She is responsible for providing practitioner expertise, thought leadership and analysing key policy / regulatory / cultural / technology drivers transforming and compliance market. Prior to joining Symphony AI Sensa-NetReveal, Charmian was a Fincrime Expert with BAE Systems, a Regional Director of Strategy and Performance for the Risk business at Refinitiv, the Head of Audit in North America at Lloyds Banking Group USA and a Vice President at Morgan Stanley covering Institutional Securities and Capital Markets. Charmian is CAMS, CRMA, CDPSE and CISA certified.
Aoife Doyle is VP of Product Marketing at Fenergo and is based in Dublin, Ireland. Aoife has over 12 years’ experience in the Financial Services industry, having worked in Central Bank of Ireland, Citi and First Derivatives prior to joining Fenergo. She has a strong background in compliance and consultancy, particularly in the areas of anti-money laundering and digital transformation programmes.
Pascal is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Neterium. As a business technologist with 20 years of experience in Financial Crime Compliance, he is recognized as an authority in this field. He is a regular speaker at industry events such as ACAMS or SIBOS. Pascal has been closely involved in developing four screening solutions, allowing him to work with the largest financial institutions in the world and giving him a unique perspective on the FCC market. He founded Telovia in 2008 and sold it to Fircosoft in 2012. After heading Product and Innovation at Fircosoft and Accuity, he co-founded Neterium, an API-native scalable watchlist screening solution, in 2017.
Christopher is a Global Account Manager at Neterium. After completing a Juris Doctor at Arizona State University in 2010, he has spent the last ten years working as a compliance expert in the first and second lines of defence and as a consultant. His particular expertise is the use of open-source information to conduct due diligence.
Jochen is a financial data scientist with a degree and doctorate from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He has spent the last 20+ years in various roles on AI/ML, data science, risk management and IT in enterprises – especially financial services – as a researcher, data scientist, coder, business/management consultant, entrepreneur, editor, (keynote) speaker, panelist, thought leader and ecosystem shaper. Projects involved investment and insurance companies, banks, central banks, hedge funds, trade associations and the European Commission.
At NVIDIA he also heads up the FSI topics for Trustworthy, Explainable AI and Sustainable Finance / Environmental Risk / ESG.
Jochen is a former executive board member of the EU Horizon 2020 project ‘FIN-TECH’, specialty chief co-editor at Frontiers Journal ‘AI in Finance’, project leader in GAIA-X and member of the core team of the finance & insurance data space. He frequently publishes in leading scientific journals and in industry white papers.
John manages teams supporting Enterprise & Global accounts based in Germany. With 25+ years of experience working in country, subregion, EMEA HQ and global functions. He has worked in various product management, business development, technology consulting, sales and presales leadership positions supporting customer transformations with market leading Data Center, “Big Data”, IOT/Edge, Private & (Multi-) Public Cloud Solutions.
John’s passion is helping customers understand how to maximize people, process, and technologies to realize their own transformation to become more agile and achieve their own “Next ” – with a focus on supporting that major culture shift.
He is leading the FSI vertical solution practice for Germany, serving previously as Telco VSP lead and is an AI evangelist at Dell Technologies, to help customers deliver secure, trusted generative and traditional AI solutions in the new age of Data and Model driven outcomes.
Dr Roland Kunz serves as the DCS divines CTO and Principal Systems engineer for EMEA. He is directly involved in developing localized strategies to expand the team’s client portfolio. He uses his expertise to provide essential coaching on technical topics that enable the team to become more specialized and develop their understanding of the cutting-edge developments in their industry. He is an evangelist for technologies such as AI, Deep Learning, Cloud Computing and DevOps, providing his expertise to Dell’s global clients. Dr Roland also speaks and represents Dell at external conferences broadening the Dell Technologies message across the industry. His unique knowledge and experience have ensured the readiness and adaptability of the DCCS division to challenging business situations and is an invaluable part of the Dell Technologies family.
Dr. Kjell Carlsson is the head of data science strategy and evangelism at Domino Data Lab where he advises organizations on scaling impact with AI. Previously, he covered AI, ML, and data science as a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research where he wrote reports on topics ranging from computer vision, MLOps, AutoML, and conversation intelligence to next-generation AI technologies. He has spoken in countless keynotes, panels, and webinars, and is frequently quoted in the media. Carlsson is also the host of the Data Science Leaders podcast and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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.
Wiebe is part of BioCatch’s Global Advisory Team that advises on the use of behavioral insights to find new attack methodologies and use cases. He has worked in and for banks since 1999, with the last 12 years were in the fraud and AML area. He first-hand experienced the sharp rise of online banking fraud in the Netherlands from 2010, seeing the attack evolution from trojans injecting transactions to phishing to social engineering. He developed controls from simple effective rules to AI models to tackle the fraud, whilst swapping from being inside a bank to international consultancy for fraud and later AML. Recognizing that a transactional AI model now requires client side behaviour to fed into it due to current threats, he joined BioCatch to further develop their capabilities.
Martin Hirtreiter is a Partner in the FSI Forensic practice of Deloitte based in Frankfurt, Germany. He brings more than 15 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, focusing on white-collar crime, regulatory and compliance.
Martin advises both national and international Financial Institutions on all issues concerning Anti-Financial Crime and Non-Financial Risk Management (e.g. AML, KYC, Sanctions, ABC, Fraud). He has led regulatory investigations and remediation programs in Germany and abroad, and was responsible for the design, implementation and review of measures and technologies to combat money laundering and financing of terrorism. Martin helps clients strengthen aspects of their compliance processes, performing risk assessments, designing policies and procedures.