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Fabrice Borsello
Vice President, Anti-Money Llaundering, EU and CIS, The Western
Union Company
Fabrice Borsello has over 55 countries and territories under his direct responsibility. Among other tasks, Fabrice heads a regional team of 25 AML experts which role is to supervise the implementation of AML programs developed by Western Union for the daily control of its products and agent distribution networks. He also supervises the AML programs specifically developed for the licensed subsidiaries created by Western Union in Europe and in the CIS region for its business needs including the new payment institution WUPSIL established in Ireland to leverage the business opportunities offered by the European Directive on Payment Services. He is a natural interlocutor for the regulatory authorities which control the MSB industry and promote the necessary AML & CFT legislation within the region. In direct contact with the Western Union AML Headquarters based in Denver (CO), USA, Fabrice also contributes to the development of compliance global strategies at the WU group level.
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Jan Bornebusch
COO AML, Compliance / AML
Deutsche Bank AG
Jan is the COO and Chief of Staff of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) at Deutsche Bank. In this role he supports the Group Head of AML in further developing a strong AML function and he coordinates a wide range of programme and project management activities, incl. the design and implementation of a strategic roadmap for AML related technology and operational processes. Jan initially joined Deutsche Bank in New York in 2004, prior to which he had spend several years in management consulting with a focus on process reengineering and risk management, including numerous assignments in the Compliance and AML area.
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Jamie L. Boucher
Partner, Financial Institutions Regulation and Enforcement, Skadden Arps
Jamie Boucher’s principal focus is on financial institution mergers and acquisitions, regulatory and enforcement matters—her clients include U.S. and non-U.S. banks, thrifts, mortgage lenders, insurance, securities, money service businesses and investment companies. She represented clients on various aspects of federal lending, capital and liquidity support programs, including those established pursuant to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
Ms. Boucher regularly represents financial institutions on compliance and enforcement matters including examinations, internal investigations, voluntary disclosures and the resolution of administrative and enforcement proceedings involving federal and state regulatory agencies. With extensive experience in anti-money laundering and economic sanctions compliance matters, Ms. Boucher has counseled domestic and foreign clients on numerous issues arising under the BSA, OFAC and related laws. She has worked extensively with clients to design and implement compliance programs and monitor and improve corporate compliance posture.
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Heather Brown
Analyst, United States Government
Ms. Brown is employed as an analyst with the United States Government based in central England. She began her career as an analyst in the Investigations Bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s Office and followed with a position as a Senior Investigator at Bank of America within their Global Compliance & Operational Risk Division. In 2009, she completed her Master of Science degree in Justice, Law & Society at American University, Washington, D.C. and is currently pursuing a Master of Science degree in Strategic Intelligence at the National Defense Intelligence College, Washington, D.C. with her thesis focusing on emerging banking technologies and terrorist financing. She previously served as the secretary of the ACAMS US Capital Chapter, and her articles, “Free Trade Zones: Havens for Terrorist Financing and Money Laundering?” and "Virtual Worlds: A Tool for Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing?" have been published in ACAMSToday.
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René Brülhart, LL.M.
Director, Financial Intelligence Unit, Principality of Liechtenstein
René BRÜLHART, Director of the Liechtenstein Financial Intelligence Unit, has a degree in Law from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and a Master of Laws in European Business Law from the Catholic University of Nijmegen (NL). After a career in international Law firms in Brussels and Zurich, he became Deputy Director of the Liechtenstein FIU in 2001. In 2004, he became Director of this authority. As a Chairman of the Operational Working Group of the Egmont Group, he is also a member of the Egmont Group Committee. He is the coordinator of the Task Force on Countering Terrorist Financing in Liechtenstein and Head of the Liechtenstein Delegation to MONEYVAL.
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John J. Byrne, CAMS
Executive Vice President, Association of Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS)
John recently joined ACAMS as Executive Vice President. John is an internationally-recognised regulatory and legislative attorney with over 25 years of experience in financial services issues, with expertise in regulatory oversight, policy and management, anti-money laundering, privacy and consumer compliance. He was most recently President of Condor Consulting LLC and prior to that the Global Regulatory Relations Executive for Bank of America and the Director of the American Bankers Association's Center for Regulatory Compliance. John has received a number of awards, including the Director's Medal for Exceptional Service from the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the ABA's Distinguished Service Award for his career work in the compliance field.
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Jos de Wit , RA, CFE, CAMS
Partner, Anti-Corruption Network/IMAGOS and Lecturer, University of Maaastricht
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Simon Dilloway
Principal, Lopham Consultancy
During a 30 year career with the London Metropolitan Police Simon was employed as a National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit team leader conducting financial investigations of high priority terrorist targets in conjunction with the British intelligence agencies and the anti-terrorist branch. He was the author of the definitive report on the costing and funding of the London Bombings on 7th July 2005, the findings of which were used in the UK Home Office Narrative Report on the attack, and was actively involved in successfully investigating and preventing the biggest terrorist threat ever to be faced by the UK, leading the financial intelligence gathering operation.
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- Henrique Dominguez
Audit Manager, Vice President, EFG Bank Luxembourg S.A.
Prior to join EFG - Luxembourg, Henrique managed the Compliance and Internal Controls department at Unibanco in Latin America for 9 years. He was responsible for the supervision of the adherence with local regulation and internal policies of 18 branches, fraud risk prevention, KYC / AML Training for the bankers and the implementation of a High Risk Transactions Monitoring System.
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- Cher Durst
Supervisory Special Agent, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Ms. Cher Durst is currently assigned as a Supervisory Special Agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in San Diego, California. Ms. Durst has recently served as a National Program Manager in the Financial Programs & Cornerstone Unit (FPCU) at ICE Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The FPCU is responsible for the development and implementation of special operations and initiatives designed to target systemic vulnerabilities in America’s financial and trade sectors that could be exploited by terrorist or other criminal organizations. In addition, Ms. Durst was the coordinator for Training and International Affairs for the FPCU, Program Manager for Kleptocracy and Foreign Corruption issues, and served as the onsite ICE Liaison to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Ms. Durst’s previous assignments include an Assistant Attaché position within the Office of the ICE Attaché in Rome, Italy, and Special Agent positions within the New York City and Newark, New Jersey Offices. Ms. Durst began her law enforcement career with U.S. Customs in 1995.
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- Jurgen Egberink
Group AML Compliance Officer, Zurich Insurance Company Ltd
Group AML Compliance Officer at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd Jurgen has joined Zurich Insurance Company beginning of 2010 where he will be responsible for strengthening and further developing a global AML framework. Prior to joining this multi-national insurance company he was Chief Operating Officer within ABN AMRO Compliance, which included programme/project management responsibilities. Since 2005 Jurgen has gained extensive experience in developing and implementing (global) AML-related processes and procedures (Filtering and Monitoring, Sanctions-/List Management and AML advisory). In 2006 he has been managing Transaction Surveillance Europe, which included offshoring of operational activities.
Jurgen is also working as instructor for ACAMS within Europe.
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- Pierre Gouarin
Global Head of Money Laundering Prevention, BNP Paribas Group
Pierre Gouarin is the Global Head of Money Laundering Prevention for the BNP Paribas Group. He has been working with BNP Paribas for 18 years of which 8 years as a Compliance Officer in Luxembourg, Jersey and Paris.
He graduated in Compliance from the Manchester University and holds a Postgraduate in Finance and Accounting.
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- Thomas Grahn
Senior Advisor, AML Consulting
Thomas has worked at the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen) during 1989-2006 and has in that capacity been responsible for AML issues. Thomas has also been a member of the Swedish FATF delegation for twelve years and participated in various FATF working groups through the years as well being member of country evaluation teams for FATF and the Council of Europe. Thomas has also been doing work for the European Commission as part of their technical assistance programmes on AML and related areas for many years. Since 2006 Thomas has been working as a consultant in the AML/CFT area and has been involved in many AML projects as well as running training programmes, seminars and workshops in this area. Thomas has a legal background and he has been working in the field of anti-money laundering (AML) for more than fifteen years. He has also worked on issues regarding countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) for a number of years.
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- Theodore S. Greenberg
TG Global
Theodore Greenberg joined the World Bank in 2003 as Senior Counsel in the Legal Vice Presidency and served in Financial Market Integrity (Financial Sector Vice Presidency) where he helped design and implement the Bank’s global technical assistance program to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Mr. Greenberg helped create and implement the World Bank/UNODC Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative to help countries recover the proceeds of corruption. He led the project teams for, and is an author of, Stolen Asset Recovery: A Good Practices Guide For Non-Conviction Based Asset Forfeiture (World Bank, April 2009), and Politically Exposed Persons: Preventive Measures For The Banking Sector (World Bank, April 2010). Mr. Greenberg retired from the World Bank in September 2009 and runs the consulting firm, TG Global.
Before joining the Bank Mr. Greenberg served in the U.S. Department of Justice for 30 years in both managerial and prosecutorial positions and specialized in fighting money laundering, white collar crime including (procurement fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act) and transnational organized crime.
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- Stephen M. Hancock, CAMS
Head of Group Money
Laundering Prevention, Prudential
Steve is currently the Head of Group Money Laundering Prevention and Counter Terrorist Financing’ for Prudential plc, based in London. Prudential is a financial services provider in 23 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, South Africa, Asia and the USA. In this role he has responsibility for Group policy and procedures in the prevention of money laundering crime and counter terrorist financing, in addition to being an FSA Approved Person (CF11) for Prudential UK and M&G Investment Managers.
Steve sits on a number of industry working groups at a national and International level, including the ‘Financial Skills Council’ Anti-Money Laundering Working Group, the Large Groups AML Forum, the ABI Financial Crime Committee and the ‘Serious Organised Crime Agency’ Terrorist Financing Team Liaison Group.
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- Ben Hur
UK Compliance Officer — UK Money Laundering
Reporting Officer Associate Director, NIBC Bank N.V.
Ben Hur joined the financial services industry in 1977, moving in to Compliance in 1988. He has worked for several major companies including:
11 years at Abbey Life, 2 years as a Group Compliance Officer at The Royal Bank of Scotland, Compliance Manager for a large IFA network and as an Insurance Ombudsman's Assistant at the IOB. Ben is currently the MLRO and CO for NIBC Bank N.V. where he has been for over 9 years. Ben currently works in the UK and in Holland where he occasionally works for NIBC's Group Compliance. Additionally, Ben’s remit also means he has Compliance reporting responsibility to Group Compliance for NIBC's New York Office. NIBC promoted Ben to Associate Director in 2007.
Ben started MLROs.com in December 2005 with 140 members. MLROs.com has seen a tremendous surge in membership since 2005, as Ben's enthusiasm to bring practising MLRO’s together in a fee free environment for networking, benchmarking and learning. Ben is a well-known conference speaker having given presentations for several institutions, including: The Financial Times, The Securities Institute, Anti-Money Laundering Master class, British Bankers Association, The European Financial Crime Conference, The Compliance Register and many more including several major International events.
Ben was industry voted (The UK Compliance Register Awards) "Best MLRO of the Year 2004" and was a final nominees in 2005. He was also one of the two runners up in the Annual Complinet Compliance Awards in 2007 and 2008. Ben was also the runner up in 2008 (Compliance Register Awards) for Best UK Compliance Officer.
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- Vladimír Jízdný
Second Officer, Criminal Finances & Technology Unit, Europol
Vladimír Jízdný joined the Police of the Czech Republic in March 1999 and worked with the Protection Services. In September 2000, Mr. Jízdný moved to the Unit for Combating Corruption and Major Economic Crimes, Service of Criminal Police and Investigation where he stayed until August 2005. Whilst there, he was responsible for operative investigation and documentation and was eventually promoted to deputy Head of Pilsen branch of the Unit. During his post at EUROPOL, Vladimír Jízdný has dealt with financial crimes, namely money laundering and criminal assets tracing as a member of Criminal Finances and Technologies Unit and concurrently as a specialist assigned to Europol's anti-money laundering operational project called AWF SUSTRANS.
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- Drs. Angelique Keijsers, RA
Partner, Fraud Investigations & Dispute Services, Ernst & Young
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- Thomas Kerscher
Consultant and Managing Director, IMAGOS Governance Solutions
For the past 15 years, Thomas has developed and managed governance and anti-corruption initiatives in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe, on behalf of the United Nations, and the European Union. His main professional interest is in helping public agencies to strengthen their capacity for facilitating effective democratic governance, through modernizing leadership and management practice. In order to maximize the effectiveness of such assistance, Thomas co-founded IMAGOS Governance Solutions, an establishment that promotes networks of senior anti-corruption specialists from around the world, with the aim to allocate existing solutions, innovate new approaches, and build project teams. Thomas currently works as a consultant with the newly established Judicial Academy in Serbia on introducing pre-service training for judges and prosecutors.
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- Armand J Kersten
Senior Manager Ernst & Young
doctorate researcher Erasmus School of Law Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
Armand was in the Wolfsberg Group of banks working party defining the Wolfsberg AML Principles for International Private Banking. He is the author of Financing Terrorism - a predicate offence to money laundering?, in Mark Pieth et al, Financing Terrorism, Kluwer Acad, Publishing, 2002. Armand was the global head of compliance for ABN AMRO Private Banking through 2005. Beyond his career with ABN AMRO Armand has extensive exposure to the world of academia, especially in the area of corporate governance.
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- Scott D. Michel
President, Caplin & Drysdale.
Scott D. Michel is a member of Caplin & Drysdale, has been at the firm since 1981, and currently serves as the firm’s President. He is internationally recognized for his extensive experience in handling voluntary disclosures, audits and investigations involving undeclared foreign bank accounts, including those with undisclosed corporate or foundation structures and unfiled Treasury “FBAR” forms. He is currently representing numerous clients worldwide in all phases of the IRS Settlement Initiative and other voluntary disclosures, as well as a number of clients under audit or investigation arising out of undeclared foreign accounts. Mr. Michel has made frequent appearances throughout the U.S., and in Singapore, Hong Kong, Zurich and Geneva, Switzerland, for presentations on voluntary disclosures and IRS enforcement regarding foreign accounts to multiple law firms, bankers, and tax and financial advisors, including presentations before the National University of Singapore, the Tax Academy of Singapore, Hong Kong University, and the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce.
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- Peter Oakes
Managing Director & Company Solicitor, Compliance Ireland | City Compliance
Peter Oakes is a Solicitor admitted in Ireland, United Kingdom and Australia. He is the Managing Director of City Compliance and Compliance Ireland and he advises and trains banks and other financial/insurance firms on regulatory compliance and financial crime issues in Ireland, UK, South Africa, UAE and Australia. Peter also consults to accountants, law firms and casinos. He serves as the independent non-executive director of an international funds management company (specialising in Sharia law investments) and also of a reinsurance company. In a private capacity Peter is appointed to the Panel of Assessors under the Market Abuse, Transparency and Prospectus Directives in Ireland by the Irish Financial Regulator (IFSRA). Peter has worked as in-house counsel, compliance officer and MLRO at firms regulated by the SEC, FSA, OSC and IFSRA. He is a former enforcement regulator with the UK FSA and the Australian Securities and Investment Commission. Peter is a member of ACAMS.
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- Denis O’Connor
Director, Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME)
Denis is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment. After performing a number of Finance roles at a major London stockbroker, Denis focused on wholesale Conduct of Business issues at major international banks. Prior to joining the Association of Financial Markets in Europe ("AFME") in 2010, where he leads on Financial Crime issues, Denis was responsible for AML issues at the London branch of a major European bank for almost a decade. Between 2003 and 2010 Denis was a member of the British Bankers' Association's Money Laundering Committee, where he participated in a number of lobby initiatives with the UK government and European Commission.
Denis is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on a variety of AML topics and currently represents AFME on the Board of the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group, who produce the official Guidance, endorsed by HM Treasury and the Financial Services Authority, to assist financial services firms comply with UK AML laws and regulations.
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- Miriam Ratkovicova
Senior Manager, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP.
Miriam Ratkovicova is a senior manager in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Economic and Trade Sanctions (ETS) practice of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP. She has extensive AML/ETS experience both in the U.S. as well as in Europe with a focus on large financial institutions with global operations. Specifically, Miriam has led multiple large and complex projects involving historical transaction investigations, KYC remediation, AML and OFAC risk assessments, and customer risk rating. Miriam has delivered AML/ETS engagements in numerous countries throughout Europe, including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, and Slovakia.
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- Markus E. Schulz
Chief Compliance Officer Global Life &
Banking, Group Financial Crime Officer,
Zurich Insurance Company.
Markus is the chief compliance officer
for Global Life & Banking and global
head of financial crime for Zurich
Insurance. Markus joined Zurich in
January 2008 after 13 years at ABN
AMRO Bank, where he held various
senior global compliance positions, including global
head of the Compliance Service Center and COO of
AML Compliance. Prior to his time in compliance
Markus served for almost a decade in a variety of
senior in-country, regional and global management
positions in Germany, UK and the Netherlands.
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- Charles P. Rettig, Esq.
Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez, P.C.
Charles Rettig has a tremendous reputation for his work and is regarded by market sources as having a superb reputation. He is a partner in the renowned tax boutique, Hochman, Salkin, Rettig, Toscher & Perez, P.C., regarded as the go-to firm for tax controversy, particularly for criminal tax cases.
Mr. Rettig is Vice-Chair, IRS Advisory Council (IRSAC); an Advisory Board Member - California Franchise Tax Board; a Regent and Elected Fellow - American College of Tax Counsel; Institute Chair - UCLA Annual Tax Controversy Institute; Institute Chair- Ethics, Compliance and Enforcement, USC Annual Institute on Federal Taxation; “Tax Controversies” Chair - NYU Institute on Federal Taxation; Co-Chair - ABA National Institute on Criminal Tax Fraud; and a Trustee - California CPA Education Foundation. He was selected as one of the “Top 50 IRS Representation Practitioners" by CPA Magazine and Most Influential Tax Person of the Year (Top 10; 2009) by Tax Notes / Tax Analysts. He co-authors the Tax Practice Column for the CCH Journal of Tax Practice and Procedure and authors the Tax Controversy and Litigation Report for Tax Notes.
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Carolyn E. Vick
Partner, iKYC
With experience in international banking in the US and Europe, Carolyn most recently was the Global Risk Officer for AML Operations within ABN Amro, focusing on: AML and Customer Due Diligence; Stakeholder Management (Audit, Compliance, Global Transaction Services); Business Continuity Planning; Operational Risk Management (Key Man Risk, e.g.); and Transaction Filtering and Monitoring. She also developed and created an informal AML Benchmarking study involving input and cooperation with a number of other global banks on their approach to AML and Customer Due Diligence (CDD). Prior to this role, she led a team of 10 professionals responsible for all phases of customer Due Diligence in 10 countries in Europe. This role included liaising with Compliance and Business Heads in each country, as well as coordinating with Group Compliance and Global Business Units.
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- Grahame White
Terrorist Financing Investigator,
New Scotland Yard
Grahame has been at New Scotland Yard since 1983. He was a Detective on the Company Fraud Department for 6 years before transferring over to the Counter Terrorism Command in 2002. He has substantial experience and success in dealing with Terrorist Cells. In 2003, Grahame broke up and convicted a cell of HAMAS fundraisers carrying out bank fraud in the UK to send back to the Middle East. Grahame was the dedicated financial investigator on Op Crevice in 2004-05 the fertilizer plot whereby a cell of UK born Pakistani males were conspiring to commit a terrorist attack on a major target in the South East of England. The trial concluded in 2007 and the defendants received in total 225 years in prison--the trial was the longest running at the Old Bailey in UK Criminal history.
On Saturday 9th July 2005 2 days after the attack by the suicide cell on the transport network in London referred to as 7/7 Grahame was able to inform the Commissioner that the attack had been carried out by suicide bombers. The deduction was based entirely on the financial material obtained by Grahame. Grahame remains the dedicated Financial Investigator for that still on going enquiry, which is now in its fifth year.
Since 2009, Grahame has been the lead on a Commercial partnership training programme and partnership to the Regulated Financial Sector with a commercial partner Govsec. The training programme is designed to empower the financial sector around better quality of SAR reporting.
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