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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.

Tauane has 21 years’ experience gained in complex global and multi-region programmes across Compliance, Assurance and Internal Audit working on AML/CFT, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, Fraud, Unauthorised Trading, Sales & Suitability and Conduct consent orders’ remediation programmes at HSBC, Citibank, Deutsch Bank and National Bank of Egypt UK. Led several key change initiatives, including:

• Development of the HSBC Global Commercial Banking Volcker compliance framework
• Risk-based compliance assurance to the HSBC Global Standards workstreams
• Development and implementation of Financial Crime Risk Governance Frameworks
• Development and implementation of Business Wide Financial Crime Risk Assessment (BWRA) and methodologies
• Revision of AML/CFT and Sanctions IT systems
• Development and implementation of Financial Crime Compliance Monitoring and Testing frameworks and Annual Plans

Tauane is a Financial Crime Compliance Associate Director at British Arab Commercial Bank. Tauane has just completed a LLM (Master of Laws) in International Banking and Finance Law (major in Money Laundering Law).

Since being appointed Chief Executive at Cifas in May 2018, Mike has actively worked to grow the community of stakeholders sharing data, intelligence and insight in the pursuit of preventing fraud and financial crime. Mike is passionate about Cifas becoming the driving force behind fraud prevention in the UK and with over 30 years’ experience of tackling and preventing fraud across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, he is determined to bring together a strong cross-sectoral collaborative approach to tackling fraud. With a Master’s Degree in Criminology, Mike has led counter fraud efforts in the National Health Service, Ministry of Defence, Office of Fair Trading, HM Revenue and Customs and the Solicitors Regulation Authority. He also worked at the National Fraud Authority directing cross sector fraud prevention strategies. Mike believes that the battle against fraud is one that cannot be won alone and that only by collaborating as a community can turn the tide on fraud and not only protect each other but also make the UK a safer place to live and do business.

Founder of Electroneum Ltd and the ETN-Network; one of the world’s fastest growing cryptocurrencies. Owner of two other successful digital businesses; SiteWizard Ltd (digital agency) and Retortal Ltd (social media scheduler).

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.

Tony is currently carrying out financial crime and compliance investigations at a corporate bank with additional responsibilities for conducting proactive work and producing MI. Providing support and stand in cover for the Head of Investigations as well as guidance to internal stakeholders, clients and external agencies including liaison with regulatory bodies concerning AML/CTF and ABC issues. Responsible for the submission of SAR and STR, transaction compliance reporting and AML monitoring. Conducting AML, KYC/DD and Market Abuse reviews as well as liaison with national and international colleagues and law enforcement.

He has enjoyed a successful 25-year career within the police force, more recently as a Detective and Financial Investigator for the City of London Police in the Asset Recovery Unit.

As an NCA-Accredited Financial Intelligence Officer, Confiscator and Financial Investigator, Tony has a proven track record within high-value organised fraud, money laundering and asset recovery.

Arianna Rovetto. Since September 2020 Arianna is Group Head of AML at BANCOBPM Group. Previously, as a Police Officer of the Guardia di Finanza, the Italian Financial Police, Arianna was Head of several operational units responsible for investigating tax and financial crimes. From 2012 to 2019 Arianna worked as a Police Officer at the Milan Public Prosecutor’s Office. As member of a Joint Investigation Team for EUROJUST, Arianna has developed extensive experience in cross-border investigations by collaborating with various judicial authorities and police departments. She’s licensed to practice as a lawyer and constantly attends webinars and events as a speaker on AML issues and regulatory changes and ongoing challenges against money laundering.

Gulli is a financial crime compliance specialist with over 8 years of experience gained from large financial institutions and banks primarily focusing on sanctions. She has been working at UBS as EMEA & UK sanctions advisory specialist for 4 years. Prior to that Gulli worked in sanctions departments at HSBC and JPMorgan and held a financial crimes monitoring role at Mizuho bank.

Gulli is CAMS certified. She has a first class honours degree in law earned in Russia and Masters with Merit in international business management gained in the UK.

Leven Li is the UK Head of Compliance and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (“MLRO”) for Crypto.com. Prior to Crypto.com, Leven started her compliance career at Amazon Payment, and was one of the early team members and MLRO at the leading global BaaS platform Railsbank. She leads the Compliance team and is responsible for regulatory licensing, building and implementing the financial crime control framework and infrastructure in order to support other Fintechs to succeed. She is passionate about creating agile regtech compliance solutions to provide frictionless customer experiences while meeting the regulatory framework and reducing exposure to financial crime.

Tracy is passionate and business aligned compliance and risk professional with over 20 years of experience across all aspects of compliance, fraud and financial crime risk management, policy, advisory and oversight.

Throughout her career she has worked in institutions spanning the breadth of financial services, including Retail, Wealth, Insurance & Investments, Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, Intermediaries, Joint Venture Partners and Independent Financial Advisers – with experience including:

• Extensive experience leading teams across different jurisdictions
• Solid demonstrable engagement with senior stakeholders, regulators and supervisory boards across top tier global organisations
• Proven ability to negotiate solutions with key stakeholders by working collaboratively and building strong partnerships
• A professional history grounded in partnership across the organisation, a tenacious focus on operational effectiveness and proactive share of knowledge, experiences and best practices to inspire and lead change
• ICA Professional Diplomas in Financial Crime Compliance and AML