Suvadeep is a Senior Model Validator who is part of Business & Operational Analytics Tribe, ING Bank, Netherlands. He is responsible for validating different non-regulatory models for the bank. This includes validating models across Data Science & Analytics, KYC, Fraud, and Loan Pricing, Operational Risk domains.  Prior to this Suvadeep spent several years in Data Science model development area. He has had the opportunity to gain 15 Years of experience in the Data Science domain spanning across Retail, Media, and Banking.  By education, Suvadeep holds a masters degree in economics from JNU, India.

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Allen is the Head of Financial Crime and Compliance Management at Nest. His background is Audit with EY and then Engineering Consultancy including working on the London Olympics. He joined Nest when it was a start up to support the introduction of Automatic Enrolment legislation in the UK and worked in a variety of roles during its development. The Scheme currently stands as one of the biggest in the UK by membership with over 11 million members and circa £25 bn AUM.

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.

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.

Mauriceo Castanheiro (CFE, CAMS) is a Product and Industry Expert at Verafin with over 20 years’ experience fighting fraud in the financial industry. Having held key positions in fraud management at two of Canada’s largest banks, including roles in business intelligence, operations, analytics and strategy, Mauriceo brings a wealth of experience to Verafin and his work informing the development of innovative solutions to fight financial crime.

Nick Clark heads the Fraud Prevention analytics and data science area covering payment fraud and card fraud at Danske Bank in Copenhagen. He has previously worked in quantitative asset management functions in London with previous consulting and core banking experience from both the UK and Denmark. Nick holds separate master’s degrees in Economics (2003) and Bioinformatics (2014). He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. He joined Danske Bank in Copenhagen in 2019 as a chief data scientist and has over the past 18 months help mature the data science area in collaboration with his wonderful team.

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.

Winner of the inaugural 2015 Allianz Claims High Flyer Award for Continuous Improvement and double winner of the 2022 TECAs for Outstanding Manager and Outstanding Young Professional. Gareth is currently, the Head of Fraud at Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty where he has overall responsibility for, and oversight of, the implementation of the global anti-fraud strategy.

Recognized as an expert by the industry on matters of insurance fraud, Gareth regularly speaks at anti-fraud conferences and has participated in expert panel discussions.

In 2021, the team that Gareth leads was awarded the accolade of Counter-Fraud Team of the Year at the Insurance Claims and Fraud Awards in recognition of the work done to detect and prevent instances of international fraud in the complex global specialty market.

Gareth is an experienced manager who nurtures talent and who has a proven track record in changing professional cultures. The teams under his leadership are characterised by their focus on winning and their desire to be the best in their field.

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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.

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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Alicja is Compliance Office in Commerzbank AG, London Branch focusing on Compliance Review. Alicja and her team asses design and effectiveness of AML, Sanction, Fraud, ABC and Market Compliance controls in London Branch. Alicja provide assurance to Commerzbank AG senior management that the all risks has been identified and there are appropriate control to mitigate them and that London Branch is compliant with regulatory requirements.

Alicja has vast experience across all three lines of deference gained by working in number of large financial institutions.

Sebastian Hetzler joined IMTF as a Co-CEO in December 2022 with the acquisition of the Siron business from FICO. At FICO he has been a VP Product Management for FICO’s Compliance Solutions. Before the acquisition of TONBELLER AG in 2015 Sebastian has been the managing director of this company. With more than 15 years experience in the Anti-Financial Crime sector he is one of the leading domain experts in this space. Previously, Sebastian worked in top-management consulting companies focused on strategy and organization for many years.  Sebastian holds a doctorate in System Theory and Cybernetics from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Robert heads Mishcon’s Fraud Group and Co-heads Mishcon’s Investigations Group. He specialises in civil fraud, asset tracing, and injunctions.

In recent years, As Head of the firm’s NPL Group, Robert has worked on numerous very substantial non-performing loan matters for some of the world’s preeminent financial institutions. These matters involve claims in the tens of millions, hundreds of millions and billions of pounds and require complex multi-jurisdictional investigations.

As a key member of the Mishcon Crypto Fraud Team, Robert leads in crypto fraud cases and cyber/data theft recovery using civil fraud tools.

Robert has also been involved in a substantial number of cyber and data theft/recovery cases using these civil fraud injunctive procedures. Such cases often involve allegations of breaches of restrictive covenants.

Robert is a member of The International Fraud Group.

Hee Jung is currently Vice President of EMEA Financial Crime team at Nomura International PLC and she provides wide range of advisory to stakeholders on financial crime policies and procedures, and leads financial crime trainings delivery and development for the firm.

She previously worked in a number of large global financial institutions in financial crime teams including policy implementations, enhancement & maintenance of financial crime frame work and also worked as a Financial Crime specialist at FCA.

She currently holds MICA and ACAMS.

Louise Marshall is Head of Strategy and Capability at OFSI. She has worked on financial sanctions for over 7 years and was instrumental in setting up OFSI in 2016. Prior to this, she held various posts within government including at HM Treasury, Cabinet Office and the Department for International Development.

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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Behrouz is a senior model validator, with a strong educational background in mathematics. With expertise in mathematical modeling and numerical analysis, he brings a unique blend of technical proficiency and analytical acumen to his role. He possesses a deep understanding of complex financial models and their validation requirements, ensuring accuracy, reliability, and regulatory compliance. He is adept at applying rigorous validation techniques, identifying model limitations, and providing actionable recommendations for improvement. His strong mathematical foundation and expertise enable him to effectively assess model performance, risk management frameworks, and control processes. With a meticulous approach and a keen eye for detail, Behrouz consistently ensures the integrity and robustness of models used for business and operational purposes.

Svetlana joined Brown Shipley in December 2020 and is responsible for overseeing the firm’s Financial Crime Compliance function. Svetlana joined the business from Close Brothers Asset Management where she was the Head of Financial Crime Compliance. Prior to joining Close Brothers Asset Management, Svetlana held a number of Financial Crime Compliance roles at Barclays Wealth, HSBC Asset Management, Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management. Svetlana holds a BA in Business Management (Finance) from the University of Westminster.

Natalie is a dual qualified New York Attorney, Barrister and Solicitor-Advocate of England and Wales, specialising in Banking and Financial Services Regulatory Investigations and Whistleblowing Law.
She started her career as a litigation lawyer in private practice before moving in-house. She is currently employed at Credit Suisse, where she is responsible for managing and directing regulatory investigations and advising on relevant remediation actions pertaining to the bank’s procedures, systems and controls. Natalie is also part of the Anti-Fraud team at Credit Suisse and provides support in an advisory capacity for the EMEA region.
Natalie is currently completing her postgraduate degree at Harvard University where her research interests focus on Financial Institutions, Corporate Governance, Organisational Misbehaviour, Securities and Whistleblowing Law.

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.

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.

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.

Verafin will be sponsoring Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Experian will be sponsoring Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Milbank will be sponsoring Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Mishcon de Reya is an independent law firm, which now employs over 1300 people with more than 630 lawyers offering a wide range of legal services to companies and individuals. The firm has grown rapidly in recent years, showing more than 40% revenue growth in the past five years alone.

With presence in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore and Hong Kong (through its association with Karas So LLP), the firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply.

The work the firm undertakes is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas: Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Innovation; Private; and Real Estate.

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