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Sam Bawtree is a Technology Enabled Money Laundering subject matter expert, working for HM Revenue & Customs’ Fraud Investigation Service.  He has spent the last three years working to enhance knowledge and awareness of the threat of technology enabled money laundering and building capability not only within HMRC but across UK Law Enforcement, other Government Departments, and the private sector.Sam works collaboratively with National and International partners, sharing best practices, assisting in the development of the UK’s response to this threat and ensuring operational readiness to investigate and recover assets where exploitation has been identified.More recently Sam has been focussed on developing HMRC’s strategic and tactical response to this threat, promoting awareness, strengthening capability, and responding to its utilisation in fiscal fraud, to defend the UK against economic crime.

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Chloe Cina is a Director at Deutsche Bank and Head of the Global Sanctions Advisory Team. She is a barrister of 17 years Call, an international lawyer and financial sanctions expert. She was the former UK Head of Sanctions at HSBC. She worked for the United Nations, practiced at the Criminal Bar and joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as a legal adviser in 2014, advising on financial sanctions and security policy in the EU and UN. She led the Iran nuclear legal team for the UK and continues to practice in the field of international financial sanctions.

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Gareth Dothie is Interim Head of Fraud Operations for the City of London Police. He has a national lead role for major fraud investigation as well as collaboration and peer review across policing and partner agencies. Gareth has been in policing and investigation since 2006. He has experience that includes murder investigations, counter terrorism, and vulnerability crime before moving to the Economic Crime Directorate and specialising in investment fraud, romance fraud and money laundering investigations.

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Ela Emmett has recently been appointed as a Senior Manager, Financial Crime Controls, Risks and Policy & Advisory within the Compliance function at ICBC Standard Bank.

In her previous role with Commerzbank AG London, she led the AML Monitoring and Investigation team and acted as Fraud Officer for the London Branch, leading the Anti-Fraud Programme and ensuring oversight and implementation of the respective local and global governance. She was responsible for managing complex investigations across different business platforms and critical input in developing anti-financial crime policies, procedures, measures, and controls. While at Commerzbank, Ela closely interacted with the Joint Money Laundering Task Force (JMLIT), enabling the Bank to contribute to live investigations.

Before joining Commerzbank in 2018, Ela served in a similar investigative role at Citibank NA for over ten years, gaining experience in financial crime, including fraud investigations and AML.

Ela holds a Master`s degree in Criminal Studies from the University of Portsmouth, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies and achieved several other financial crime-related certifications, i.e., ACAMS, ACFE and ECCP.

At the beginning of her career, Ela had the opportunity to train with the Analysis Training Unit at Greater Manchester Police and attended several training courses with the City of London Police to develop knowledge on a comprehensive range of financial crime topics across the spectrum from foundation level to industry experts.

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With over 20 years of experience, Liliya has worked across the financial crime space in different roles and capacity and across different business segments. She has managed teams, due diligence projects in challenging environments, and led major investigations and litigation support cases. In the late 1990s she joined Bulgaria’s Financial Intelligence Unit where she headed the International Contacts and Legal Coordination department. Her experience also includes Transparency International in Berlin, several London-based investigative consultancy firms and the Royal Bank of Canada in London. In 2016 she joined Commerzbank London where she managed the AML Advisory and EDD Team until her appointment as head of Transactions Monitoring and Investigations/UK FIU and deputy MLRO. In 2020 she joined Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank as Head of UK Financial Security; she is also the MLRO. She holds a doctorate in AML policies from Tilburg University in the Netherlands and gives lectures at the University of Manchester. A speaker at industry events, Liliya has delivered presentations on behalf of Stop the Traffik, a London-based non-profit organisation that fights human trafficking and slavery.

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Nick worked in UK law enforcement for over 30 years and led several significant operations with partner agencies around the world into organised crime threats against the UK. He has significant experience in leading complex multi-national investigations and working with public and private bodies to develop effective strategies to reduce and tackle the harm caused by organised crime activity – in particular building effective public-private partnerships and taskforce models.In 2008, Nick was posted to the British Embassy, Washington DC. As well as leading the UK’s strategic engagement on organised crime with the US government, Nick led an extensive team of embedded UK liaison officers across the US and the Caribbean, tackling organised crime groups operating at a global level.In March 2013, Nick was awarded the National Intelligence Medallion by the US Government, and in 2014 was awarded an OBE for “services to international law and order” by Her Majesty the Queen.Nick joined Standard Chartered in 2016. He is an adviser to the RUSI “Future of Financial Information Sharing” Programme, a member of the UK Finance Information and Intelligence Committee, represents industry on a number of UK Economic Crime reform programmes and is a board member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime.

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Yuan Li is a senior model validator at Data Science Model Validation of ING Bank, where he leads the validation of models being used in KYC domain, from traditional rule basedmodels to advanced analytic models.

Before model validation, Yuan has worked over ten years in credit risk model development for major Dutch banks such as ABN AMRO and ING. The focus was developing AIRB models (PD, LGD, EAD) for obtaining and maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements from EBA/ECB. Yuan lives in the Netherlands with his wife and two daughters.

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Alexandra “Zandi” is a counsel in the Washington, DC office of Davis Wright Tremaine. She focuses her practice on the defense of corporations and individuals in white-collar criminal matters, including the FCPA, tax, accounting and securities fraud, healthcare fraud and market manipulation. She also represents clients in regulatory investigations and enforcement actions initiated by the SEC, FINRA, CFTC, FTC, and state regulators. Zandi uses her twelve years of experience to help clients reach the most favorable outcome possible in what can often be very challenging circumstances.

Kevin has more than 13 years’ experience in various illicit finance roles, including both operational and strategy positions.  He has led financial teams delivering multi-million pound confiscations, cash forfeitures and developing HMRC’s award winning Offender Management Enforcement Team.Kevin’s recent role is overseeing HMRC’s response to priority threats, such as tech-enabled, cash-based and trade-based money laundering.  He is also a FATF assessor.  Kevin has been awarded for his IF work, including the 2022 Keith Hughes Award for Outstanding Contribution to Excellence and Innovation in Financial Investigation.

Rob’s practice emphasizes white-collar criminal matters, enforcement investigations, internal corporate investigations, and tailored compliance counseling. He has particular experience in foreign bribery statutes (the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and U.K. Bribery Act), in addition to areas including financial services fraud, securities fraud, and commodities fraud. Rob re-entered private practice in 2012 after 20 years of service in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, where he led several significant prosecutions, investigations, and initiatives. At the DOJ, Rob also served as the Criminal Division liaison to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and had coordination responsibilities with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. One of the signature results of his work at the DOJ resulted in the Fraud Section’s lead role in the Libor investigation, in partnership with the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, the CFTC, and other international enforcement authorities. Rob was a shareholder and founding member of the White-Collar Defense, Investigations, and Compliance Counseling practice at McGonigle, P.C., before it combined with Davis Wright Tremaine.

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Riley Peterson is the regional head of Strategy and Governance, reporting directly to the MLRO. Mr Peterson leads a number of teams which provide oversight and support to the offices across the EMEA region. These teams provide policy guidance, regulatory change, audit and regulatory exam support and all MI reported to Group. Additionally, he oversees the global roll out of financial crime policies and procedures a key transformation project across the Group.
Prior to joining MUFG Bank in 2017, Mr Peterson worked for KPMG for 11 years specializing in financial crime compliance. He is a 2001 graduate of the University of Nebraska (Bachelor of Arts) and a 2005 graduate of the Vermont Law School (Juris Doctorate).

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Raj currently is the Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer at Santander UK, and is also responsible for the oversight of Financial Crime Controls, Models and the use of Analytics. He previously held roles within Financial Crime Compliance having built and run compliance programmes at a number of banks and insurers including prior leadership roles in investigations, assurance, risk assessments and transformation.

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As a Head of Financial Crime Advisory and DMLRO for CCB London Branch, Igor is responsible for the implementation and delivery of an effective risk management strategy and policy framework. He obtained his Master’s in Financial Regulation, International Corporate Governance and Economic Law at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London and is an ICA-qualified financial crime professional with project management experience gained within some of the largest UK and EU banks. Igor also has an interest in AI and machine learning, and is committed to continuously exploring opportunities to use new technologies for greater effectiveness in combating financial crime.

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Mona Vaswani is a partner in the London office of Milbank LLP and a member of the firm’s Litigation & Arbitration Group. Mona advises on a variety of complex, cross-border, disputes and investigations, with an emphasis on banking litigation, fraud and asset tracing claims as well as trust litigation. She has acted for a number of leading international and investment banks on a wide range of large, high-stakes and complex banking and regulatory disputes and investigations in England. She also has substantial experience of advising banks and trustees and in particular offshore trustees, in the conduct of trust litigation in several jurisdictions.

Mona has acted in various claims in the High Court, in the finance sector, including those involving allegations of fraud, constructive trust and breach of fiduciary duty and has also acted in international arbitrations concerning derivatives disputes and has experience of conducting internal inquiries and investigations for a number of corporate and banking clients.

Svetlana Zarubina-Thomas is Head of Sanctions Compliance, Nordea. Prior to joining Nordea, Svetlana headed the EMEA Sanctions Compliance function at UBS and worked at Deutsche Bank in their UK&I Sanctions Team. Earlier, Svetlana held a number of financial crime compliance roles within global financial institutions.

Davis Wright Tremaine will be sponsoring Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Milbank will be sponsoring Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

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