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.

Dr. Barbara Roth, LL.M. is Chief Compliance Officer and AML Officer at UniCredit Bank AG. After her studies of law and economic sciences, Barbara worked as a lawyer in several international law firms based in Munich, Duesseldorf and New York, advising multinational clients in the areas of M&A, Corporate law and Capital markets law. In 2005, she transferred to in-house practice and first worked for KfW Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau in Frankfurt where she advised Treasury and Bond issuance departments for capital markets and securities laws.

Barbara started at UniCredit Bank AG in 2007, and took over the new department “Compliance Corporate and Investment Banking Division“ (CIB) advising the senior management of the Bank in all compliance-relevant matters in 2011. In April 2016, Barbara was appointed Chief Compliance Officer and Anti-Money Laundering Officer of UniCredit Bank, including Foreign Branches covering ten jurisdictions. She reports to the CEO of the Bank directly and to the Group Chief Compliance Officer of UniCredit SpA functionally.

Moritz is chief compliance officer, corporate secretary and heading legal services at Bank of Communications (Luxembourg) S.A. and Bank of Communications, Co., Ltd., Luxembourg Branch. He is also a permanent member of the European credit committee. He joined in 2015 when the Shanghai based banking group opened its subsidiary and branch in his current roles and two branches in France and Italy were added since.

He joined his previous bank, Banque LBLux S.A., a former Luxembourg subsidiary of Bayerische Landesbank, in 2007. He was legal counsel in corporate banking covering the Benelux market. After several years of negotiating and implementing the restructuring of company and project loans, Moritz was appointed general counsel and later chief compliance officer. As such, he oversaw the sell-off and rundown of banking operations, before joining his current employer.

Moritz is a German qualified lawyer, having read law in Göttingen and Berlin, as well as holding a LL.M. from Nottingham Law School. Having recently completed the ILA/INSEAD Aspiring Directors Program, he is an active member of Institut Luxembourgeois des Adminstrateurs, Association Luxembourgeoise des Juristes de droit Bancaire and Association Luxembourgeoise des Compliance Officers and is keen on digital transformation, governance and sustainable business.

Torbjörn Jacobsson, M.Sc, is affiliated scholar to The School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, vice-chairman in the board of one of Swedens largest local savings banks, Sörmlands Sparbank and runs his own consultancy firm. He has previously held positions as CRO, CGO (Chief Governance Officer), CFO and CIO within different Swedish banks.

Torbjörn has 25 years of experience in the banking and insurance industry. Working mainly with building and developing small Swedish/Nordic financial institutions. His work has been focused on risk, compliance, finance and IT. He has also been a very active member in several committees within the Swedish Bankers´ Association with a focus on consultation paper reviews. This has given him a broad knowledge about the banking industry, its regulations and how an efficient risk management and good banking governance can give a competitive advantage and improved customer experience. Torbjörn performs a yearly survey program within the Nordic banking industry on the effects of increased regulation. He started this survey when he got his Executive MBA from Stockholm Business School in 2015. In November 2019 he was one of the authors to a book on Financial regulation and supervision. The first PhD paper based on the surveys was published in June 2019. He is also speaking at conferences and giving guest lectures at several universities. In February 2017 Torbjörn was a finalist for the Swedish award: GRC profile of the year.

Nicolas has been Chief Compliance Officer at EWUB in Luxembourg (www.ewub.lu) since 2014.

He has over 15 years of international work experience in Luxembourg and Singapore in the financial sector, including Private Banking, Transfer Agent, Investment Funds, ManCos, Wealth Management, Family Office and Domiciliation.

Nicolas is in charge of designing, implementation and promoting the Compliance controls within the EWUB (12/552), including Compliance reporting to Management and Board of Directors, Money Laundering Reporting Officer, and being the single point of contact for Compliance matter for Regulator, and Authorities.

Joakim Gustafson is Head of Customer Due Diligence Analytics for Banks & Payment Intermediaries in Group Financial Crime Prevention. In this role he is leading the teams conducting KYC and managing the financial crime risk for Nordea’s correspondent banks and payment intermediaries (PSPs, MSBs, etc) around the world. He is also responsible for the team handling all inbound KYC requests, when other banks and counterparties are conducting KYC on Nordea.

Joakim has 25 years’ experience within the custody and securities industry. Before joining the Financial Crime Compliance area 3 years ago, he joined Nordea in 1996 and has held senior management positions in product, network management operations as well as sales and client relations over the years. Prior to joining Nordea, he worked as network manager for Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. In his early career he also worked for SEB and Svenska Handelsbanken.

Dr. Iris Liliana Bleck is the deputy General Manager of Silicon Valley Bank Germany Branch and heads the Credit, Risk and Compliance functions.

Iris started her professional career as a German attorney with Clifford Chance in its banking and finance department in 2011 and thereafter joined the Boston Consulting Group and consulted several European and global banks on strategic and regulatory change projects. In 2014, Iris joined Deutsche Bank to work on strategic cross-divisional projects, where she managed the Regulatory Management Board committee and lead one of DB’s Top 10 change projects.

Iris is a fully qualified German attorney, earned a master-equivalent diploma in Business Administration and holds a doctorate in banking law.

Dr Michael Meissner, LLM is Head of Compliance at L-Bank, Rechtsanwalt in Frankfurt, Germany and Attorney at Law in New York, United States.  Prior to joining L-Bank, he was a partner at international law and accounting firms.

Michael has taught banking and finance law as well as compliance at London Business School, the University of St. Gallen and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law.

Francis Gross is Senior Adviser in the Directorate General Statistics of the European Central Bank.

Francis’ work pursues one goal: effective measurement of the economic and financial system as technology keeps growing exponentially, a necessary condition for control and stability – name it “sustainable digitalisation”.

He focuses on two interfaces: (1) globally integrated, fast, tightly coupled economic system vs. fragmented, slow regulatory system, (2) “real” world vs. data world, the core of digitalisation. His method: (1) identify constraints and specifications dictated by technology, (2) develop conceptual systemic design that can work and (3) propose migration paths and concrete, feasible measures with transformational power that deliver.

Proposals include a global, public-good, digital infrastructure (possibly a technical, international institution) making the system adequately measurable, safer, and more efficient, building on the Global LEI System.

2006 he initiated the movement that led to the G20-backed Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) System, where he served on the Regulatory Oversight Committee. Before joining the ECB in 2001, Francis spent fifteen years in automotive, eight at Mercedes, working on globalisation.

He holds an engineering degree from École Centrale, Paris, and an MBA from Henley Management College, UK

In his free time, Francis coaches athletes for javelin throwing, including the former World and current European champion in the decathlon.  

Adriana specialises in financial regulatory policy issues covering all Digital and Innovation topics, PSD2, Cyber-Security, Operational Resilience, Data protection, Tax and issues affecting fixed income including securitisation, margin and shadow banking reforms. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Ms. Ennab was a Repo trader and Global Product Manager for Merrill Lynch, Tradition Government Securities and Goldman Sachs in Asia, London and New York. Additionally, she ran various private ventures in Asia and London.

Ms. Ennab holds a BS in Management and Marketing and Finance from New York University and an MBA from Fordham School of Business Management.

Adriana is on the Women in Fintech Powerlist 2018 and shortlisted for the Policy Makers and Regulatory Experts group.

As the Head of Fund Reporting and Regulatory Change, Deon is responsible for reporting fund data to clients, and for building client solutions around European and UK regulatory developments.

Deon believes that asset managers need to focus on cleaning their data and making it available to clients online. Clients want to see the underlying data that drives everything asset managers create for them – and providing this in a transparent and timely way, especially in the regulatory space, will be a winning strategy for any firm. He is also no 3 on the 2019 Empower Yahoo Finance ethnic minority future leaders list. Deon is chair of the LGBT+ Allies network which represents and brings together their LGBT community and allies.

Jacqui is an international web scientist recognised as one of the 100 most powerful UK entrepreneurs and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science in recognition of her international futurist work.

She is recognised as one of the Top Ten global IoT innovators and an independent industry analyst for the Internet of Things (IoT). She is one of 4 IoT leaders advising the European Commission on their citizen strategy in an IoT enabled Europe.

She is personally recognised as one of the UK’s most influential Women in Tech, one of the 34 IoT Influencers on Twitter, one of the 20 global entrepreneurs to watch, and a UK Smart City Leader. She was shortlisted for a Cyber Security industry award based on her European work and was invited to a speak in Davos on the future of the Cyber Security Industry.

She is globally recognised as a Smart City Tzar, smart cities are the future hubs of democracy in an IoT world. She is a Strategic Advisor to the UK Government on Smart Cities, Cities lead on Digital Built Britain and a Principal UK Expert lead for the British Standards Institute (BSI) international team for Smart Cities and AI.

She is one of the International Smart City experts advising the Chinese Government on their Smart City Programme.

Janthana is the CEO and Founder of Tapoly, the first on-demand insurance platform for the gig economy in Europe, and winner of Insurance Provider of the Year at the British Small Business Awards 2018. She is listed by Forbes as number 6 of the Top 100 Women Founders to watch, and is among the Top Ten Insurtech Female Influencers according to The Insurance Institute. Janthana is a chartered accountant and former internal audit director at top-tier investment banks.

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.