Rajeev Ahya will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Dr Philip Bonhard is the Head of Customer Experience for Fraud & Security at Llloyds Banking Group. He who has worked in academia, big consulting firms firms, banks and run his own design agency. He holds a PhD in Human Computer Interaction from University College London. Most importantly he’s passionate about designing products / services that make people’s lives better. Other than that he likes to build stuff for his two daughters and tinker with his raspberry pie / arduino boards with the occasional Lego thrown in. He strongly believes that building stuff is more important than describing it

Nicholas Clark will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Paul Coady has over 20-years’ experience in global financial services.  He has worked in Dublin, London and New York and has led significant compliance and financial crime operations and transformation across the U.K., North America, Europe, Asia and Africa.  His particular focus over the last 15 years has been on influencing compliance, conduct and culture and he has held senior roles as the Business Ethics, Policies & Training Manager for Allied Irish Bank, Global Chief Compliance Officer for DBRS Credit Rating Agency and Group Head of Compliance Policy & Learning for Barclays. Paul is currently Head of Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Development for Deutsche Bank in New York having previously established their Global Conduct, Organisation & Regulatory Education (CORE) and Global Anti-Financial Crime Education programs.

Richard da Silva will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

With over 10 years of experience in the financial crime field including fraud investigations and AML, Ionela is currently a leading the Compliance Investigation team and acts as a Financial Crime Advisor at Commerzbank, managing complex investigations across different business platforms. She previously worked in a similar role at Citibank NA. Ionela is a Certified Fraud Examiner and has also trained with the Analysis Training Unit at Greater Manchester Police. Ionela’s particular specialty is investigations into the utilisation of complex corporate networks for financial crime purposes.

Alexander Fisher will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Mikolay Gaubitch will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Kyle Gibbons will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Gary Kalish will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

John Keogan will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

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 based models 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. Please email yuan.li@ing.com to contact Yuan.

Dhanush Lodha will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Francisco Mainez will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Ayan Mukherjee is a Senior Product Owner within Model Risk Management department at ING bank and is the project, stakeholder and backlog manager for model validation team. As a Product Owner, Ayan has been involved in numerous discussions with KYC and Fraud business and First Line of Defence and is playing a key role in implementation of Model Risk Management throughout the bank as part of Second Line of Defence.

Prior to joining ING, Ayan was a Senior Manager at Genpact and was based out of Boston, USA where his primary responsibility was stakeholder and project management along with leading the credit risk model validation team which was based out of India. Ayan has a Masters in Economics and has in total, 12 years of experience in the banking and financial services industry.

Kevin joined HMRC in 2006 and has been working on illicit finances since 2008, mixing policy, strategy and operational roles, including responsibility for approximately 90 financial investigators and financial intelligence officers, delivering multi-million pound confiscations, cash forfeitures and overseeing HMRC’s award winning Offender Management Enforcement Team.

In his current role, Kevin is the Illicit Finances Threat lead in the Economic Crime Strategy Unit, tasked with overseeing multi-faceted threat mitigation strategies, including engagement with domestic and international partners, and through multi-lateral forums such as the Financial Action Taskforce. Kevin was the law enforcement assessor for the UAE’s FATF Mutual Evaluation Review and recently co-authored a report, alongside The Netherlands, about trends in trade-based money laundering.”

Chiz Nwokonkor will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Vinaya is the Global Head of Fraud Risk Oversight for the Institutional Clients Group and Citi Commercial Bank at Citi, and also has regional oversight responsibility for EMEA & APAC across the enterprise. She is responsible for assessing the current strategy and execution of the Fraud Risk Management discipline across the businesses globally; and agreeing the necessary actions with the 1^st line partners to ensure adherence to the policy and framework. Her team works closely with risk colleagues in the regional and business risk teams and other key stakeholders in Corporate Security & Investigative Services, and Information / Cyber Security in maintaining a robust management of fraud risk through policy compliance, improvements in technical infrastructure and operational excellence.

Prior to this role, she was the Operational Risk Management for Citi South Asia, working closely with business and functional heads in proactively managing operational risk and further strengthening the internal controls of our franchise. Vinaya was also responsible for establishing and leading ORM oversight across Asia Regional Enterprise Operations & Technology.

Vinaya has 24 years of experience in financial services. Before her current role in Operational Risk, Vinaya was the ICG Asia Regional Head for Customer Acquisition Due Diligence (CADD) Business Support Unit. In this role, she led a team responsible for supporting bankers in Asia and Japan to fulfill KYC requirements, ensuring full compliance with high quality. Prior to that assignment, she was based in London, driving governance for Global TTS Operations. In this role, she implemented minimum operating standards for 7000+ staff carrying out TTS Operations across 90+ countries to reduce Operational risk and prevent losses.

Vinaya has also worked in Internal Audit (IA), where she led end-to-end reviews of Citi businesses in various countries across the CEEMEA region. She was also part of the EMEA Corporate Finance & Credit team within IA, where she led and participated in strategic reviews on credit risk reporting, credit documentation and loan loss reserve. Prior to IA, Vinaya was part of the Risk Management function for Citi South Asia, heading the Credit Risk Management Services team.

Vinaya is part of the Steering committee of the Citi London Pride Network, acting as Secretary and Treasurer. When based in India, she was the co-sponsor of the first Citi Women’s network in Asia and a member of the India Diversity Council. Over the years, she has been mentoring young professionals, both in and outside Citi. She regularly volunteers with charities working in the financial education sector, and in creating greater opportunities for children from inner-city schools.

Vinaya holds an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor’s degree from SNDT University, Mumbai.

Mr Peterson is the Head of EMEA Strategy and Governance team, reporting directly to the MLRO. Riley leads the financial crime contact, providing all oversight of opening new branches in the EMEA region, as well as oversees the global roll out of financial crime policies and procedures. He manages EMEA wide MI and issues management teams, too, Mr Peterson leads the regional technology on strategic implementation of an enterprise wide financial crime system and he’s the regional head of financial crime data governance.

He had previous roles at KPMG and Bear Stearns. He attended the University of Nebraska and Vermont Law School.

Alex has 30yrs policing experience with the Metropolitan and City of London Police. As Head of Fraud Operations he leads the coordination of national economic crime investigation for policing in England and Wales. He has had a varied and fulfilling career performing investigative, intelligence gathering and strategic roles targeting a wide variety of crime types, particularly organised crime. He has previously performed secondments with Customs and Excise, SOCA and the NCA. In addition to his day to day responsibilities Alex is an active hostage and crisis negotiator and has considerable experience in the investigation and management of kidnap, blackmail and extortion.

Louie Vargas will be presenting at Fraud & Financial Crime Europe.

Social and forensic psychologist with a passion for ethics and integrity
Head of Conduct & Ethics @ ABN AMRO Compliance, with a global responsibility for
– measuring, monitoring and managing conduct risk
– inspiring employees to do the right thing, and doing things right
– advice on ethical banking, ethical product- and service development