Amelie Bossard
Head of Internal Audit, Santander
AML Discussion Leaders
After having held various roles in 1LoD (Product Conduct, Market Risk) and 2LoD (Advisory compliance) in HSBC in France, Amelie joined the Internal Audit function almost 10 years ago. She is now a Managing Director and Head of Internal Audit in Santander Corporate Investment Bank in the UK (SCIB UK) covering Conduct, Regulatory and Financial Crime risks.
Eve Whittaker joined SymphonyAI Sensa as a Solutions Consultant in October 2022 and has spent the past 5 years holding various roles with Anti-Financial Crime software vendors, supporting banks and financial institutions with the deployment of strategic AML and KYC technology platforms. In 2021 she qualified as a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist with ACAMS. In her spare time, Eve is pursuing an MBA at Imperial College London.
Euan has an established track record of leading and delivering change, whilst also holding significant financial crime experience. He is currently leading Monzo’s financial crime change programme, having previously being Head of Financial Crime for Barclays Business Banking.
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.
Meredith is an experienced financial crime compliance professional who specialises in designing, enhancing and conducting oversight on AML/CTF and sanctions systems and control frameworks. At ClearBank, Meredith works within the 2nd line to provide advisory on the implementation of anti-financial crime controls and to help drive control evolution to support the bank’s strategic initiatives. Prior to her role at ClearBank, Meredith worked at FINTRAIL as an anti-financial crime consultant, where she led and supported on client engagements across the banking, FinTech, virtual asset and investment sectors, helping firms to build, scale and modernise their financial crime risk management programmes.
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
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.
After a career in management consulting, Noemi has specialized in AML regulatory compliance and in AML best-practices while leading highly complex and strategic fincrime projects.
In 2022, Noemi has joined Banco BPM as a Senior AML Specialist and Program Manager. In this role, Noemi is responsible for managing key AML-related initiatives and projects, including coordinating with business and IT stakeholders and senior management.
