Fraud & Financial Crime Europe 2022

Jane leads a third line of defence MUFG Internal Audit team based in London and Amsterdam, responsible for all Financial Crime, Fraud and ESG audits across the region, with a focus on the securities and wholesale banking sector. She is also a working mum and acts as a pioneer for four-day working. With over 17 years audit experience, she has held similar internal audit roles in HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group and started out as an External/Internal Auditor at consultants PwC. Jane is a chartered account and fellow of the ICAEW, ACAMS certified sanctions specialist and a prize winner of the International Compliance Association, Financial Crime Prevention diploma. MUFG is Japan’s largest bank, ranked as the 4th largest bank in the world operating in 40 offices across the globe. Outside of work, Jane volunteers for the NHS as a Covid-19 vaccine champion and enjoys fitness and crime films.

Dr Philip Bonhard is the Head of Design – Security, Authentication and Identity at LBG.  In a nutshell he makes sure security / fraud projects consider human needs before jumping to solutions and then helps getting the right designers on-board, like UX, Service, Visual, Conversation. Before that he looked after the customer experience of LBG’s mortgages business.  Prior to joining Lloyds, he worked in academia, big consulting firms and ran 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.

Gion-Andri Büsser is the CEO of IMTF. He holds a MSc from the ETH, Federal Institute of Technology of Zürich, and an MBA from Columbia University. His previous experiences include founding a startup and working at Google and McKinsey, where he gained extensive experience in the digital transformation of financial institutions and strategic topics. As a product-oriented CEO, Gion-Andri is deeply engaged with product vision and execution and a strong advocate of leveraging modern technology to further advance the fight against fraud and financial 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.

Paul Coady has nearly 25-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 area of focus as a practitioner and a speaker is on how organisations can pragmatically influence compliance, conduct and culture.  Paul 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 and is currently the Global Head of AFC People, Education & Culture for Deustche Bank.

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.

Alex’s current responsibilities include leading the financial crime intelligence and data development strategies for Standard Chartered Bank’s High Risk Client Unit. With the support of HRCU colleagues, he leads intelligence projects and proactive investigations to build bank-wide understanding of the financial crime threats. This work supports our colleagues and clients to manage financial crime risks and to protect our customers and the bank. Alex has spent his career collaborating with and within a range of cross-sector organisations and law enforcement, on initiatives that support our collective ability to access the right information and infrastructure to minimise the harmful impact of crime on economies and societies. In addition to pursuing a geeky personal interest in Cyberpsychology, he is a member of the Institute of Leadership, holds a master’s degree in Intelligence and International Security and a diploma in Anti-Money Laundering, and is currently working towards a diploma in Data Analytics.

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.

Across her career Serpil has held Fraud roles with many globally recognised brands including American Express, Visa, FICO, BAE Systems and EY. Serpil joined D4T4 Solutions to lead Fraud Prevention in August 2021 when to head up Product Management for the award winning Celebrus Fraud Data Platform and Celebrus’ development of solutions in the Fraud Area.

John has spent his career fighting fraud across multiple sectors, working within both Fraud Investigations and Fraud Risk Advisory. An active member of the Anti-Fraud community, John supports Fraud Risk Reduction via his drive for greater collaboration between risk professionals, enhanced awareness of emerging risks, and the  blended use of digital and analogue tools. John is currently the Head of Internal Fraud Risk Prevention at Standard Chartered Bank.

Basima is speaking at Fraud and Financial Crime Europe 2022

Validate statistical models and machine learning models in a wide range of domains covering fraud detection, early warn signals of financial and economic crime, KYC, as well as Customer Interactions, NLP and customer dialogue analytics.

Futhermore, I have the following responsibility and experience:

Model Factory expert, supervising model factory validations, creating standards and leading validations of model factories.

Part of the MoRM Ethics working group to make sure models within ING are used ethically.

Doing several Product Owner responsibilities such as the PO Stand up, retrospective sessions and stakeholder management.

Experienced presenter on the field of neural networks, model factories, Explainability & fairness in AI, NLP, and Wellbeing.

Guy Mettrick is Appian’s Global Industry Manager for Financial Services

Responsible for driving Appian’s go to market strategy for Financial Services globally. Working with our customers and partners to ensure our solutions support their revenues goals, manage risk effectively and optimise processes across their enterprise.

Support the ongoing development of Appian’s platform and solutions by working with our customers, partners and industry associations as the landscape of Financial Services, regulation and technology evolves.

Prior to Appian, he was Head of European Fund Business at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank. He has also held management positions at BNP Paribas and Royal Bank of Canada. Guy Mettrick has an BA degree in Business Studies (Finance & Marketing) from the University of Portsmouth.

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.

Jacobo is a senior compliance leader highly experienced in managing and coaching compliance teams with proven ability to work collaboratively within an international context and to effect compliance change. He has an International MBA from IE Business School, and a Master’s Degree in Law from the Universidad S. Pablo, Madrid. He has over 15 years’ compliance experience within the financial industry. Jacobo joined Rabobank in the Netherlands in 2014 as the Head of Wholesale, Rural and Retail Compliance Network, then moved to London to join the UK Management Team and become the Head of Compliance Region Europe in 2017. Prior to Rabobank, Jacobo was part of the Risk & Compliance team of Pricewaterhouse Coopers in the Netherlands and also worked in Compliance at ABN AMRO. Jacobo is a member of the Policy & Regulatory Network and the Compliance Expert Panel of the Association of Foreign Banks in the UK.

Faizal Nunes is the Deputy Global Head of Anti-Fraud for Credit Suisse based in Zurich where he is responsible for the global 2LoD Anti-Fraud Programme, Framework and Standards covering Investment Banking, Wealth management, Asset Management divisions as well as Corporate functions.
He has significant experience in multi-jurisdictional forensic investigations, enforcement/monitor led compliance remediation projects, regulatory driven initiatives in various industries as well as hands-on experience in emerging markets.
In addition, Faizal has been working on various initiatives related to reviewing the effectiveness of compliance programmes, identifying risk mitigation measures whilst considering business risk appetite, client engagement and process/control simplification. Faizal’s interests also include proactive identification of new and emerging risks such as Crypto as an Asset class, ESG/climate change and Cyber Fraud.
Prior to Credit Suisse, Faizal was an Assistant Director within EY’s forensic practice where he led a wide range of large-scale investigations in fraud, bribery and corruption as well as compliance projects for EY’s global clients.

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).

Natalie Sookhoo is speaking at Fraud and Financial Crime Europe 2022

Amit Lakhani has varied experiences in managing operational risks at organisations of all sizes. He started his career working as a consultant with Accenture where he developed and deployed multi-million dollar programmes involving compliance and risk elements, especially information security and cyber risks. Further, Amit worked at large multinational organisations in his role at KPMG driving strategic decision-making, investments and risk reduction programmes.

In his current role, Amit looks after IT risks, third party/vendor risk management and fraud risks across the Corporate and Institutional Banking division for BNP Paribas. Increasingly, he is converging the management of all such transversal operational risk topics into Operational Resilience and therefore OpRes is becoming a key priority for him. He has been a key contributor to the CIB OpRes programme and provided oversight and supervision on the topic through his second line of defence role.