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BRIEFING: Top speakers line out for this week’s ‘Keeping Up with White-Collar FinCrime’ event to discuss new AML threats and trends from the pandemic

By Elizabeth Hearst for AMLi

SENIOR AFC leaders from the UK, Nordic and Benelux countries are attending the AML IntelligenceKeeping Up with White-Collar FinCrime’ breakfast briefing on Thursday next. (March 31). 

White collar crime and fraud are perennial issues and the pandemic has created new money laundering environments outside the contingency plans many organisations have in place.

This morning conference for senior leaders across Northern Europe will discuss the pressing pinch points in financial crime thrown up by the pandemic and analyse the emerging challenges that AFC and AML leaders face.

Organised in association with BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, the breakfast briefing will hear from the top Northern Europe thought leaders and industry experts around their views trends on fraud, white collar crime and AML.  

The event – being held virtually at 10.00am – 11.30am (GMT) – is aimed at senior AML professionals and decision makers in the Compliance and Risk Management space working across financial services in the Nordics and Benelux countries as well as the UK.  

Among the top echelon of speakers are:

  • Satnam Lehal, Chief Compliance Officer at Danske Bank. Satnam has served in this role since November 2021. Prior to this, he was Danske’s Head of Financial Crime Compliance, and previously served as Managing Director at Morgan Stanley.
  • Jaap van der Molen, Global Head, AML & Sanctions at ABN AMRO. In his previous role at Standard Chartered Bank, Jaap worked in the Financial Crime Surveillance unit, and as Head of Retail Financial Crime Compliance in Singapore. 
  • Charmian Simmons, Financial Crime and Compliance Expert for Financial Services at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. Charmian brings over 20 years of experience in the financial sector across risk management, financial crime, internal controls and IT advisory.

Joining our exciting panel discussion will be:

  • Helène Erftemeijer, KYC Lead at ING who joined ING in May 2019. In her current role, Helène’s activities include interbank partnerships like TMNL and Fintell Alliance, Terrorism Financing and Serious Crime Taskforces. 
  • Riste Kelepurovski, Head of Operations, FinCrime Prevention at Danske Bank, who leads a team of over 2000 employees in six countries on FinCrime operations. Prior to joining Danske, Riste served as Head of KYC Operations Mass Market at Nordea. 

Thursday’s event will be moderated by AML Intelligence Publisher and Co.founder, Stephen Rae.  

If you are a senior leader in Anti-Financial Crime and AML in Scandanvia, the Nordics, Benelux countries or UK register your interest in attending here:

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