Ana-Maria Vasile (Codescu), CAMS, has a broad expertise on AML/CTF, Sanctions Compliance and Enterprise Risk Management. She is the Head of AML Trade Finance Monitoring Group (Global) within Commerzbank AG, being involved in development and application of the TBML risk management strategies at the Group level. She was directly involved in the implementation of global policies and internal controls for the prevention of financial crime risks related to Trade Based Money Laundering and participated as subject matter expert in establishing compliance strategies for the Trade Finance business segment, as well as in the development and implementation of the necessary measures for their application.
Prior to joining Commerzbank, Ana was a Manager in the forensic practice of Deloitte, her focus areas and responsibilities being related to delivering projects on the implementation of ML/TF risk management programs in financial institutions, targeted financial sanctions, FATCA implementation, fraud and money laundering investigations, fraud detection, transaction monitoring for various financial products, funds tracking, assessment of AML/CTF compliance activity within financial institutions and implementation and assessment of AFC/Sanctions/Ethics and Compliance programs. Additionally, she also has an extensive experience with the country risk assessment practice, as she was a crucial expert in the ML/TF National Risk Assessments in Lithuania (2015) and Latvia (2016).
As for her educational background in Compliance, Ana is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS – ACAMS), a PhD student focusing on transactional risk management and is also certified in Sanctions Compliance (ACAMS) and AML/CTF for Capital Markets (IFS Romania). Currently, she is in the process of obtaining the International Certificate for Enterprise Risk Management at the Institute of Risk Management in London.