International Anti-Financial Crime Summit 2026

Aisling has worked in Financial Crime for over a decade. In that time, she has completed KYC for customers in corporate, investment, business and retail banks across multiple products from capital markets and prepaid cards. For the past five years, she has designed controls including customer risk assessments, transaction monitoring rules and CDD processes for some of Britain’s biggest banks and building societies. She has a lot of experience delivering change programmes stemming from regulatory engagement.

Aisling holds two law degrees and before changing career to work in financial crime, she worked in aviation security and for a series of human rights charities. She has delivered human rights education for the Council of Europe in Ireland, Azerbaijan and Hungary. She is currently working on her PhD, which will examine money laundering regulation in the art market.

Hennie Verbeek-Kusters is a member of the Executive Board of AMLA, the new EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism.

She brings more than two decades of experience in the fight against money laundering, terrorism financing and predicate offences. From 2008 until April 2026, she led FIU-the Netherlands. During that time, she also chaired the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units for two terms, helping to strengthen global cooperation between FIUs.

Earlier in her career, she held a series of senior roles in the Netherlands Police, including in the fight against international organised crime.

Beth Harris is Head of Financial Crime Specialist Supervision at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). She leads specialist teams tackling serious and organised financial crime, including the supervision of higher-risk firms and the delivery of complex operational interventions aimed at protecting consumers and the integrity of UK financial markets.

Beth joined the FSA in 2004 and has held senior legal, supervisory and enforcement roles throughout her career. Prior to her current position, she led the FCA's Unauthorised Business Department and Proceeds of Crime teams, overseeing around one-third of the FCA's Enforcement and Market Oversight portfolio. Under her leadership, the FCA significantly increased its use of criminal powers against unauthorised firms and fraudsters, securing charges against more than 50 individuals and firms and leading major domestic and international enforcement operations.

Giles Thomson is President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and Director of the Economic Crime and Sanctions Group at HM Treasury. He is responsible for the UK's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF) policy and leads the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI). With nearly twenty years' experience across government, Giles has worked extensively on economic crime policy. As FATF President, Giles chairs the meetings of the FATF Plenary and supports it to execute its core functions in setting global standards for AML/CTF, and assessing countries against these standards. Giles is also driving forward important work at the FATF on tackling fraud, improving implementation of the risk-based approach, and strengthening information sharing and and public-private partnerships to combat illicit finance globally. Giles as President represents the FATF externally, including at IMF/World Bank and G20 meetings.

Kathryn is the Director of Financial Crime at UK Finance, the trade industry body representing the banking and finance sector.

Prior to joining UK Finance, she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute. She has nearly 20 years’ experience in financial crime having started her career at PwC.

Marc Baran has an experience of more than 20 years in the field of supervision and central banking mostly in French public authorities.

Throughout his career, Mr Baran has taken part to European joint works, both in supervision and in central banking.

He is now heading in the ACPR the French directorate dedicated to AML-CFT and closely follows the development of the new European framework.

In addition, he is alternate member of the AMLA General Board (SUP) and AMLEG co-chair.

Jaap is current the Head of the Detecting Financial Crime (DFC)  unit, which is ABN AMRO Bank’s 1LOD centre of excellence for financial crime risk management.

The DFC unit maintains and executes the standards, systems and operations for all financial crime risk management processes. Jaap joined ABN AMRO Bank as their Global Head, AML & Sanctions in April 2021.

Prior to that he was with Standard Chartered Bank for a over seven years where he worked in the Financial Crime Surveillance (screening & monitoring) unit based out of London, and prior to that as Head of Retail Financial Crime Compliance based in Singapore.

Prior to Standard Chartered, Jaap worked at ING Bank in various financial crime compliance capacities. All in all, Jaap has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, of which over 15 years in the AML / CTF domain.

Adrianna is a purpose-driven Financial Crime Compliance and Technology Risk leader with a proven track record in navigating complex international regulations and driving transformation across traditional and emerging financial ecosystems. She brings deep expertise in geopolitical risk strategy and geoeconomic analysis, enabling organisations to anticipate, interpret, and respond to macroeconomic shifts, sanctions regimes, and cross-border regulatory fragmentation.

She specialises in embedding innovation and integrity into financial systems spanning conventional finance, digital assets, and blockchain, while aligning risk frameworks with evolving global power dynamics and economic security priorities. With nearly two decades of experience, Adrianna combines strategic foresight, regulatory fluency, and cross-functional execution across Investment, Corporate, Private, and Wholesale Banking.

Her global leadership experience spans the UK, EU, MENA, APAC, and the Americas, underpinned by advanced capabilities in AI, blockchain, and quantum-aware risk frameworks, as well as the integration of geopolitical intelligence into enterprise risk management. Adrianna’s ambition is to bridge integrity, innovation, data, trust, risk, and opportunity, translating geopolitical and technological disruption into resilient, forward-looking strategies that deliver sustainable and meaningful impact.

Sebastiano is Head of the Anti-Money Laundering Supervision and Regulation at the Bank of Italy since April 2025. He represents Italy in the EU AMLA Supervisory Board.

He joined Banca d'Italia in 1986. Between 1988 and 2012, he worked in the Supervisory Regulations and Policies Directorate. He became Head of the International Cooperation Division in 2005. Between 1991 and 2012, he chaired several supervisory working groups, including those of CEBS/EBA, the ECB's Banking Supervision Committee, the Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB), and the main subgroups of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Between 2012 and 2019 he negotiated the EU financial services legislation on behalf of Italy, particularly the Banking Union framework. In July-December 2014, he chaired EU Council working groups and represented the Council in trilogues, including on AMLD IV.

Between May 2019 and April 2024, he was a member of the Single Resolution Board (SRB), and in this capacity he chaired the SRB and EBA Resolution Committees, the FSB working group on banks’ cross border crisis management, represented the SRB in the EU Financial Services Committee, the EBA Board of Supervisors and the ESRB General Board. He has published numerous articles and policy discussion papers on prudential banking and resolution regulation.

Rory is currently the Directorate Coordinator for INTERPOL’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre (IFCACC), where he performs a supporting role to the current Director.

Previously he was seconded from the Irish Police (An Garda Sìochàna) to INTERPOL from 2018 to 2023, where he held a number of senior management positions including, Director of INTERPOL’s Financial Crime and Anti-Corruption Centre and Assistant Director of INTERPOL’s Organized and Emerging Crime Directorate, where he led INTERPOL’s Environmental Security and Global Health Crime Programme’s. He has also held the lead role for INTERPOL’s Global Financial Crime Task Force (IGFCTF).

With over 35 years’ experience in Law Enforcement, he served the majority of his career in the Garda Counter Terrorism Unit and most recently as a Detective Inspector in charge of the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau.

He holds a Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution and a Post Graduate Degree in Legal Studies. He also holds academic qualifications in Cyber Crime, Financial Crime Investigations, Environmental Law and Corporate Risk and Governance, from University College Dublin, Ireland.

Ilze Znotiņa is the former Director of FIU Latvia. Prior to joining FIU Latvia she has had a career as a sworn attorney-at-law specializing in dispute resolution. Her main areas of expertise included regulatory issues, insolvency, anti-bribery and anti-money laundering, fraud and white-collar crime.

A former Partner of law firm Deloitte Legal, Ms. Znotina has represented a wide range of local and international clients in courts as well as performed an anti-fraud reviews at many international and local companies where she led investigation of corruption, false accounting, fraud, theft, asset recovery, tax evasion, money laundering and obstruction of justice cases.

Her recent activities before the appointment related to leading the preparation of Latvian National AML/CFT Risk assessment and several sectoral assessments.

Ms. Znotina has submitted her doctoral thesis in the Faculty of Law, University of Latvia. She holds a Master degree in International and European Law from Riga Graduate School of Law and a Bachelor degree in Law from the University of Latvia. She is an author of a number of publications related to law, fraud and corruption as well as a frequent speaker on these topics.

Tony Cahalan is Head of Financial Integrity Division in the Central Bank of Ireland. The Division is tasked with assessing financial crime risks and supervising measures to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud and targeted financial sanctions evasion in the financial sector in Ireland. He is also Ireland’s alternate member of AMLA’s General Board (Supervisory Composition). He worked previously as Lead Counsel on the European Central Bank’s AML Taskforce in the aftermath of the European AML banking scandals and as an AML expert with the International Monetary Fund

Raül works at CAIXABANK, one of Europe's leading financial institutions, leading strategic initiatives across Financial Crime Prevention, Compliance, Security, Fraud Prevention, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation.

During the first five years of my career at CAIXABANK, he was responsible for major Compliance and Financial Crime projects, focusing on Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions Compliance, international trade compliance, financial crime controls, and regulatory transformation. His work included the implementation and enhancement of sanctions screening platforms, compliance monitoring capabilities, and prevention frameworks designed to strengthen the bank's ability to identify, assess, and mitigate increasingly sophisticated financial crime risks.

Over the last five years, he has led Security projects and programs focused on the prevention, detection and investigation of fraud, scams, cyber-enabled crime, identity-related crime, and other emerging threats affecting both customers and financial institutions.

Throughout his career, he has actively participated in international initiatives involving major stakeholders across the anti-financial crime ecosystem, collaborating on projects and working groups connected with the European Payments Council (EPC), the Bank of Europe, Europol, Interpol, the Spanish National Police, and other international organizations and public-private partnerships. These initiatives have focused on financial crime prevention, fraud detection, sanctions compliance, identity verification, intelligence sharing, cross-border investigations, and the use of emerging technologies to support law enforcement and financial institutions.

Prior to joining CAIXABANK, he spent three years with the Catalan Police (Mossos d'Esquadra), where he served as Technical Lead for criminal intelligence databases and advanced crime analytics.

Darren brings over 30 years of experience in Financial Services, with a focus on regulatory remediation, financial crime, and operational transformation.

He has led large-scale delivery teams across insurance and banking, including Financial Crime and Sanctions programmes for some of the UK’s largest institutions. Darren combines strategic oversight with deep hands-on expertise to help Brighter shape and deliver innovative, tech-enabled compliance solutions.

Dr. Shlomit Wagman is a leading expert in AI in the fight against financial crime and fraud. Shlomit Director-General of the Israel Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Prohibition Authority (IMPA), a financial regulator and law enforcement agency, from 2016 to 2022, and Acting Director-General of the Israel Privacy Protection Authority from 2019 to 2021.

She is an expert in the fields of financial regulation, digital assets and crypto-currencies, money laundering and terrorism financing, privacy and data protection, financial intelligence and data analytics.

She holds both JSD and LLM degrees from Yale Law School (2007, 2005) and a joint LLB and BA degree (magna cum laude) in law and business management from the Hebrew University (2001). She clerked for the Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Prof. Aharon Barak.

Dr. Wagman worked in the private sector with leading law firms, including Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in NYC and Gross-Hodak in Israel. She is the co-editor of the book "Cybercrime" (NYU Press, 2007), with Prof. Jack Balkin et al. She served as an adjunct lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Raichman University (2007–2012) and was a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (2003–2007).

Dr. Wagman was the Head of the Israeli delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing watchdog from 2016 to 2022, and also served as a Co-Chair of the FATF operational working group, a member of the Steering Group, and was a nominee for Presidency.

As the head of Israel’s AML authority, she led major national reforms, including regulating cryptocurrencies, and the historic accession of Israel to the FATF as a member country after an evaluation process in which Israel was placed among the top three most effective countries in the world. Under her leadership, IMPA exposed hundreds of money laundering and terrorism financing cases, leading to the crackdown on major criminal organizations and the seizure of billions of illicit funds. IMPA further received various international awards, including the Best Financial Investigation Worldwide by the Egmont (2016, 2021) and recognition by the FATF as one of the three most effective FIUs worldwide.

As the head of Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority, she produced an unprecedented number of regulatory opinions, led innovative enforcement actions, and handled mega national data-leaks and cybersecurity attacks. The Supreme Court adopted her positions in two fundamental national cases: in limiting the Israeli Security Agency (Shin Beit) from monitoring citizens during COVID 19, and in striking down the transfer of citizens’ health data to local municipalities.

In addition to her current affiliation with the BKC, she serves as a Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at Kennedy School of Government and as an Affiliated Fellow at the ISP at Yale Law School.

Aaron leads Wise’s first line risk and compliance teams responsible for supporting the launch and growth of Wise products in a safe, risk-managed and customer-centric way. Prior to Wise Aaron was Head of Financial Crime and Fraud at Revolut, leading product, data science and operations teams to better detect and prevent illicit activity. Aaron has also previously specialised in financial crime and compliance technology matters for financial services and fintech clients at Ernst & Young and led KYC and AML product development at UK regtech vendor Quantexa.

Oonagh is an award winning Compliance Officer and recognised as one of the leading voices and trainers globally in compliance risk management, with over 20+ years’ experience. She has built and led various compliance risk framework developments and teams across the industry for a diverse range of financial entities, including traditional banks, Fintech, and Crypto firms, and is known for her proven expertise in management of complex compliance remediation challenges. She is an advocate for ethical compliance leadership and framework development, with increased automation, including AI and Machine Learning integration.

Matt Donahue is the CEO and co-founder of Kodex, the global standard for public-private data exchanges. He spent his earlier career at the FBI in counterterrorism intelligence, where the data request sat at the center of every case he worked and was the most broken part of the job. He left the Bureau in 2020 to fix the process, founding Kodex in Boston that same year. Today thousands of agencies and many of the world's largest platforms run their legal process through Kodex.

Michael Barrett is Vice President & General Manager of AML Solutions at NICE Actimize. He leads a team responsible for driving the evolution of the company's AML solutions, overseeing the product roadmaps across the AML portfolio and ensuring NICE Actimize continues to deliver industry-leading capabilities. During his 17-year career at NICE Actimize, Michael has led teams across R&D and Professional Services before moving into his current role. He has worked directly with hundreds of customers, partners, analysts, and industry leaders across the AML sector, helping financial institutions strengthen their financial crime compliance and risk management programmes

Vesna McCreery is a global financial crime leader with 30 years’ experience at major institutions, including Goldman Sachs, RBS/NatWest, Santander, Barclays, and now at AML RightSource.
Her leadership at Barclays contributed to the lifting of its Deferred Prosecution Agreement, and she later advised regulators through HSBC’s monitorship.
A long‑standing contributor to JMLSG and the Wolfsberg Group, she has shaped modern AML, sanctions, and financial crime practice.
As Chair of AML RightSource’s International Advisory Board, she works with regulators, banks, fintechs, and crypto firms on emerging and AI‑driven risks.
She serves on supervisory boards, pairing governance expertise with operational credibility.
Vesna is driven by the belief that effective financial crime compliance must focus on what genuinely reduces risk and delivers impact.

James is the Managing Director at AMLi. James is also CEO at StubbsGazette, one of the oldest continuous credit bureaus in the world. He is one of the founders of the International Fraud Prevention Conference (IFPC).

James acquired the Stubbs brand from Dun & Bradstreet in 2008 and built the company’s reach. He was founder and chairman of the Irish Fraud Bureau.

Jordi Aguilà is Head of International Cooperation at CaixaBank Security department and has more than 30 years of experience in cybersecurity, information technology, digital trust, and international cooperation.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), a bachelor’s degree in Geology and Oceanography from the University of Barcelona, and a bachelor’s degree in business administration and management from ESADE Business School (Ramon Llull University). He also holds an Executive MBA from EADA Business School, a Diploma in European Union Studies from the Spanish Diplomatic School (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), has completed CSIRT training at the Software Engineering Institute (Carnegie Mellon University), and is a GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH).

Throughout his career, he has worked in leading research institutions and private sector organizations, including the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and the Catalan Research Foundation, managed different private companies before joining CaixaBank, one of Spain's largest financial institutions.

Mr. Aguilà founded the CaixaBank CSIRT (eLC CSIRT) in 2005 and has led initiatives that have contributed to the response and mitigation of more than 15,000 major cybersecurity incidents affecting the financial sector and its customers.

He has been an Associate Professor at ESADE Business School for over 20 years, teaching and mentoring professionals in technology and management.

Internationally, he served on the Board of Directors and the Steering Committee of FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) for three years and was a member of the Steering Committee of APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) for almost 10 years. He has actively promoted international collaboration among financial institutions, cybersecurity communities, law enforcement agencies, and public authorities, including INTERPOL, EUROPOL, and national cybercrime units.

He is a regular contributor to international cybersecurity initiatives and has authored and co-authored numerous publications in scientific and professional cybersecurity journals.

Vivienne Artz OBE FCSI (Hon) CMgr CCMI AIGP

Vivienne is the CEO of the FTSE Women Leaders Review, the UK’s business-led voluntary framework, supported by Government to improve the representation of women on the Boards and Leadership teams of the FTSE 350 and 50 of the UK’s largest private companies.

Vivienne is also a NED and holds a number of expert advisory roles supporting businesses in their data, privacy and digital strategies, with a focus on AI and new technologies, anti-financial crime and equality & diversity. Vivienne has over twenty five years experience in global financial and professional services sectors, including at the London Stock Exchange Group, Refinitiv, Thomson Reuters and Citibank. Vivienne is the AI and Data Lead at the International Business & Diplomatic Exchange, was co-chair of the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime Data Privacy expert working group, chapter co-lead of the City of London “Vision for Economic Growth” report, and has advised UK government on international data transfer strategies.

Vivienne is an exceptional advocate for gender balance in business, is a Patron of Women in Finance Rwanda, and is the former CEO of Women in Banking and Finance. She was awarded an OBE for services to Financial Services and Gender Diversity in 2021.

Afia is the Founder and Senior Managing Director of CAT Investigators, a global forensic and investigative intelligence firm specializing in criminal defense investigations, financial crime analysis, litigation support, and sophisticated civil fraud matters. Under her leadership, CAT Investigators has developed a reputation for disciplined investigative methodology, evidentiary integrity, and strategic alignment with litigation and regulatory frameworks. Afia personally establishes investigative protocols, compliance safeguards, and quality-control systems that reflect best-in-class professional practice within the criminal and financial crime sector.

Afia is a licensed forensic and private investigator, investigative journalist, and her leadership is reinforced by an extensive legal and academic foundation. She holds a Juris Doctor (JD), a Master of Laws (LLM), and a Master’s degree with specialization in Political Science, providing her with a multidimensional understanding of criminal systems, regulatory structures, governance frameworks, and geopolitical risk. As a former litigating attorney, she brings courtroom fluency to investigative execution — translating complex fact patterns into structured, legally actionable intelligence.

Afia holds multiple certifications in Medical Jurisprudence and is an active member of several professional and specialized associations, including the Association of Women in Crypto, American Bar Association, and Codepink, among others.

She has been listed in Who’s Who in America in recognition of her professional distinction and national impact. She is the recipient of the American Bar Association Outstanding Achievement Award for Pro Bono Work, reflecting her longstanding commitment to justice and access to due process. Further underscoring her global policy engagement, Afia was awarded a competitive scholarship to pursue doctoral research in Counterterrorism and De-Radicalization through programs affiliated with the United Nations and NATO — reinforcing her expertise at the intersection of security policy, financial networks, extremism prevention, and institutional risk.

Her investigative portfolio includes contributions to landmark and high-profile matters, including the Blackwater trial, complex espionage investigations, major real estate and investment fraud cases, and sophisticated financial misconduct schemes. Her leadership has supported multimillion-dollar recoveries, successful post-conviction relief petitions, structured fraud analyses, and investigative findings that have informed regulatory scrutiny and legislative reform discussions.

Afia serves as a Senior Board Member of the Coalition Against Financial Crimes (U.S.), contributing to strategic initiatives addressing global financial crime, sanctions evasion, trade-based money laundering, crypto-enabled fraud, and compliance system vulnerabilities. She is frequently consulted by corporations, legal teams, banking executives, and policy stakeholders on investigative risk assessment, typology development, and enforcement strategy.

Beyond her casework, Afia is a respected public voice on criminal justice reform, financial crime enforcement, sanctions compliance, investigative methodology, and institutional

Justin Cole formerly served on the IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) team as the Director of Communication, a position he began in 2014. He led a staff of Public Affairs Officers and Special Agents stationed across the country who supported CI’s communication efforts and legislative outreach. His office was responsible for national media engagement, internal communication, social media engagement, web content management, speech writing, and congressional outreach.

Justin joined CI from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, where he led communication and outreach efforts for the National Intellectual Property Rights Center, working to educate the public about the dangers of counterfeit goods. Prior to his time at ICE, Justin worked with the global public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, where he specialized in public education campaigns, crisis communication, and media outreach. He also spent 10 years on active duty in the U.S. Navy as a surface warfare officer and public affairs officer.

Justin attended the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2001. He earned his master’s degree in Communication from the University of Oklahoma in 2013 and his master’s degree in Human Relations in 2014.

Anu Ratan is EMEA Head of FCC Regulatory Change and Global Programmes at BNY, Co-Chair of AFME’s Financial Crime Group and active member of UK Finance.

With more than 24 years of international experience across the UK, US and Asia, she provides strategic leadership across financial crime global regulation, policy and transformation.

Prior to joining BNY, Anu worked with HSBC, UBS, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, RBS, Cisco Financial Services, and a FinTech firm.

Camilla is a highly experienced leader in financial crime prevention, compliance, and risk management, with a global track record spanning Asia, the US, Canada and Latin America. She was most recently a Partner at a Big 4 professional services firm in Denmark, where she built and scaled a successful Nordic financial crime practice. Prior to that, she held senior industry roles, including Global Head of Business Deposits & Payments and Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Scotiabank in Canada, and Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer at Export Development Canada.

Now relocated to Dublin, Camilla leads Deloitte’s growing financial crime business across financial services, technology, media & telecommunications, and the public sector.  “This is a space where client needs are evolving fast, and expectations are higher than ever,” explains Camilla Mackenzie, “I’m excited to build something bold and distinctive with Deloitte, and to support clients in protecting their businesses and reputations.”

Stephen is Co Founder and Chair at AML Intelligence based between our Brussels and Dublin offices. Stephen is former Group Editor-in-Chief at INM, Ireland’s largest media group, where he ran the newspaper and online operations, driving digital audiences to 15 million per month.

A member of the Supervisory Board of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), he has also served on the board of the World Editors Forum (WEF) and on the European Commission's High Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Disinformation.

Stephen is Principal at Kobn, a specialist European leadership advisory, with an emphasis on strategic risk and cybersecurity.

Steve is the co-founder of AML Analytics, Global Head of Regulatory Partnerships and Managing Director – Spain, based in Malaga. He is recognised as one of the world’s leading industry experts on anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing issues, legislation and regulation.

He has worked in the financial services industry since 1988 and within financial crime compliance since the inception of the UK Money Laundering Regulations in 1994.

He has previously held roles as the Director of Regulatory and Financial Crime Programmes at Wolters Kluwer Financial Services in London and as Global Head of Money Laundering Prevention for Prudential plc., where for fifteen years he had responsibility across the Group for the development and delivery of the corporate money laundering, counter terrorism and sanctions policy, together with providing advice and guidance on AML/CTF prevention. During this time he worked in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Whilst with Prudential he spent time on secondment to NCIS (now the National Crime Agency) and at the UK National Terrorist Financial Investigation Unit at Scotland Yard.

In 2001 Steve created the UK Institute of Money Laundering Prevention Officers where he was Chairman for seven years and then President until 2012.

Steve holds an ICA Diploma in Anti-Money Laundering with distinction and is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association.

He is an experienced speaker on financial crime issues and has lectured at conferences throughout the UK, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, Australia and the USA.

Mr. Abdullah S. Al-Homaid has been the Deputy Governor for Financial Conduct at the Saudi
Central Bank (SAMA) since October 2025. Before this, he held several key positions, including
Deputy CEO for Market Conduct at Insurance Authority in 2025, Deputy CEO for Supervision at
Insurance Authority from 2023 to 2025, Director General of Insurance Control at SAMA from
2021 to 2023, Director of Insurance Supervision Department from 2019 to 2021.
Mr. Al-Homaid brings around 20 years of experƟse in insurance, banking, risk management,
and policy development. He led the project that spun off insurance supervision from SAMA to
the Insurance Authority. He has represented the Kingdom at national and international forums
and has contributed to a wide range of strategic initiatives and committees supporting the
development of the financial sector and public policy.

Strise is an AI-powered compliance platform built to end manual fincrime work. She founded Strise in 2017 out of a research project at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and holds an engineering degree.

She took the company from Trondheim to Oslo and then international, closing a Series A round backed by Atomico, winning the 2023 Oslo Innovation Award and being named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2024

The Laundry is the podcast connecting AML, compliance, and financial crime to the real world. To date, there are more than 170 episodes featuring experts across banking, fintech, regulation and investigative journalism unpacking what's actually happening in the industry

Martina Cont is Group Head of Processes & Operations at Generali Group, where she leads the definition of the AFC IT strategy and drives technological transformation to strengthen AFC capabilities across the organization. With a background spanning legal, management consulting, and technology, she brings a cross-functional perspective to financial crime risk management.

In recent years, the focus has been on AI-based initiatives designed to enhance both the efficiency and effectiveness of AFC controls activities, delivering tangible results through the recalibration of the Group name screening tool and the application of automation to alert handling and Second Line AFC operations.

Tommas Kaplan started his professional career as a detective inspector with the criminal investigation department, where he gained extensive practical experience in combating terrorism and terrorist financing in the field of national security.

After his time with the police, he moved to von Poll Real Estate, one of Europe's largest real estate agencies, where he built up a modern and effective compliance structure from scratch, focusing on money laundering prevention, internal investigations, corruption and fraud prevention as well as data protection. In his position as money laundering reporting officer, he established a robust AML compliance structure in the real estate sector through numerous presentations and contributions.

He has also been involved as an expert in the development of innovative digital solutions for AML and CFT.

During his employment, he has been actively involved in the PPP Anti-Financial Crime Alliance (AFCA), where he founded and led the ‘Money Laundering in the Real Estate Sector’ working group from 2020 to May 2025. Under his leadership, three internationally recognised typology papers were published, which received with considerable resonance among experts (including FATF, foreign FIUs, EFIPPP, law enforcement and supervisory authorities, UNODC, etc.).

He also heads the ‘Real Estate’ focus group in the ‘Professional Enabler’ workstream of the Europol Financial Intelligence Public-Private Partnership (EFIPPP). Furthermore, he is a recognised expert for the Council of Europe and regularly contributes to regulatory initiatives for the international prevention and combating of money laundering and terrorist financing (for example in Austria, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and many other countries).

Alongside this, he provides training to law enforcement and supervisory authorities in the financial and non-financial sectors, teaching them how to implement an effective risk-based approach to supervision. He also covers special money laundering typologies, including professional money laundering as a service, hawala, chinese and criminal underground banking, clan crime and evironmental crime.

In 2019, Eduardo took on the role of coordinator for the I-Checkit program. He led the expansion of the I-Checkit program into the financial sector, a move that was approved by INTERPOL Member Countries during the annual General Assembly. Under his leadership, he forged collaborative partnerships with CaixaBank and PONANT Cruises.

Eduardo has been working in the INTERPOL General Secretariat since 2003, holding various positions focused on database management and facilitating the exchange of police information among INTERPOL Member Countries. Notably, he successfully spearheaded the implementation of an automated system that enables all Member Countries to seamlessly insert and manage information on individuals subject to request for international police cooperation, including INTERPOL Notices. This innovative system substantially reduced the timeframe required for law enforcement authorities worldwide to access and act on critical information.

Jeffrey Greenbaum is Head of the Financial Services Regulatory practice in Italy and is widely recognised as a leading practitioner in European and Italian financial regulation. He advises clients across a broad range of regulatory matters, including anti-money laundering (AML), fintech, digital assets, payment services, investment services, investment funds, banking regulation and insurance. Leveraging his extensive international regulatory experience, Jeffrey works closely with financial institutions and regulators, helping clients navigate evolving regulatory frameworks and engage effectively in legislative and policy developments. He is consistently ranked among the leading lawyers in his field by major legal directories, including Chambers & Partners and Legal500.

Darren B. McCormack currently serves as a Deputy Special Agent
in Charge of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York
Field Office. In this executive-level position, Mr. McCormack
provides operational oversight of all investigative and administrative functions of the HSI personnel operating within the El Dorado Task Force (EDTF). The EDTF is an HSI NY led elite, multinational law enforcement coalition dedicated to combating complex financial crimes, high-value fraud, and the illicit financial networks of narcotics cartels and other transnational criminal organizations (TCOs). By harnessing cutting-edge artificial intelligence, blockchain analytics, and cyber forensic capabilities, the EDTF systematically disrupts illicit financial ecosystems and ensures justice for victims through asset recovery and repatriation. In addition to the operational aspects of the EDTF, Mr. McCormack oversees the HSI New York Intelligence program as well as all operational functions of the Special Response Team (SRT) and Tactics Program.

Mr. McCormack has served in numerous executive leadership positions in HSI headquarters in Washington D.C. to include Deputy Assistant Director of Cyber and Operational Technology, HSI’s enterprise foundational technology division and Deputy Assistant Director of HSI’s National Security Division, both assisting in the management of a workforce of over 9,000 in 50+ countries.

Mr. McCormack was the Assistant Attaché for HSI Attaché Vienna, Austria. He was the lead diplomatic and law enforcement representative for the U.S. Government on all DHS equities related to multi-lateral international cooperation, criminal investigations, and U.S. national security in over twenty European countries.

Mr. McCormack has been presented with multiple DHS Director’s Awards and has received numerous foreign and domestic awards and commendations.

Additionally, Mr. McCormack sits on the advisory board for Facing Fentanyl where he developed and designed initiatives that offer resources, education, and support to families affected by substance abuse and fentanyl poisoning, and Wonder Girls USA, a not-for-profit empowerment program for middle, high school, and college girls with a mission to build confidence, leadership, community, and business skills.

Mr. McCormack is regularly requested for domestic/international speaking engagements and has taught numerous classes at Columbia’s School of International & Public Affairs and George Mason University.

Linda started her career as a commercial litigator in an international law firm in Edinburgh.  Since joining the civil service, she has had a range of interesting and challenging roles, including Private Secretary to the First Minister of Scotland; Head of Civil Asset Forfeiture for Scotland; Deputy Director of Defence, Security and Cyber Resilience; and Senior Responsible Officer for EU Exit in the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland.

Linda joined the Fraud Investigation Service in HMRC in April 2021 and originally led Offshore, Corporate and Wealthy, managing white collar civil and criminal investigations into wealthy individuals and large corporates.

Since September 2022, Linda has been Head of Organised Crime, leading complex international investigations to disrupt and dismantle Organised Crime Groups. Linda leads a team of 1500 civil and criminal investigators across 15 sites and 3 legal jurisdictions in the UK. She specialises in all elements of economic crime, including money laundering, bribery and corruption and fraud and has concluded a number of Deferred Prosecution Agreements. Linda is committed to  collaborating with domestic and international partners to maximise impact against financial crime.

Pat who is originally from Drimoleague, West Cork, joined An Garda Síochána in 1986 and has served mainly in the Dublin Region but also worked in the South Eastern and Eastern Garda Regions. Pat has worked in Community Policing, Drugs, Prostitution Investigations, Serious Crime Investigations, Fraud and Financial Investigations, Financial Intelligence and Cybercrime. He has held the position of Detective in all ranks and has been at the forefront of the investigation of serious crime for many years. Pat is a Senior Investigating Officer (S.I.O.) and holds a B.Sc in Management Law from Trinity College Dublin.

In 2015, Pat took up his current position as Head of the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau. The Garda National Economic Crime Bureau is involved in many high profile investigations and is supported by Gardaí throughout the country trained in Fraud Investigation. Pat and his team have developed a Post Graduate Certificate in Fraud and E-Crime Investigation in association with University College Dublin. Pat was also the lead representative from An Garda Síochána in the 2017 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Review of Ireland. Pat sees education and crime prevention as being the most beneficial ways of reducing fraud into the future.

Sara Paradisi is a Partner and Co-Head of International Arbitration at Rosenblatt in London. She has more than 18 years’ experience advising on complex, high-value and sensitive international disputes across Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia.

Sara acts as counsel and advocate in international arbitrations under major institutional and ad hoc rules, including ICC, LCIA, SIAC, HKIAC, LMAA and UNCITRAL. Her practice spans a range of sectors, including defence, construction, infrastructure, energy and maritime, and she has extensive experience of complex cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters.

Sara is a Solicitor Advocate with rights of audience in the higher courts and is also called to the Bar of England and Wales. Prior to joining Rosenblatt, she spent 15 years at BCLP, practising in London and Singapore.

Markus Schulz is Chair of the Advisory Board at Reform and Founder and Principal of Corvistra Partners, advising banks, payment institutions, fintechs and public authorities on financial crime, compliance and regulatory transformation. Formerly Group MLRO and Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance at ING, Global Head of FCC Controls at Standard Chartered Bank, among other senior roles, and CTO for RegTech at K2 Integrity, he has taken five global regulatory orders and monitorships through to closure. He also co-chairs the GCFFC Technology Group.

Elan Faidel is a seasoned professional in the field of financial crime compliance, currently serving as the MLRO (Money Laundering Reporting Officer) at Revolut Branch Germany. With over 9 years of experience in FinCrime within the financial services sector, Elan has navigated both traditional banking institutions and dynamic FinTech environments. Elan thrives in fast-paced settings, adept at managing complex projects and fostering collaboration among internal teams and external stakeholders. Holding a European Certified Compliance Professional designation from the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Elan brings a robust understanding of regulatory frameworks and a commitment to upholding the highest standards of compliance and integrity.

Stephen Piccinino is a Deputy Head of Due Diligence at the Malta Financial Services Authority, with over fifteen years of experience in anti-money laundering, financial crime and regulatory work. His experience spans AML and financial crime reviews, risk-based due diligence, regulatory cooperation and leadership of specialist teams. Stephen previously held managerial roles within EY’s Financial Crime practice in Malta and London, including work on UK Section 166 Skilled Person reviews and major international engagements. Stephen is a member of the International Compliance Association and lectures at the University of Malta on the postgraduate course in the Prevention of Money Laundering and Funding of Terrorism.

Mark is the Director of Customer Solutions for the NEMEA region, having been at Chainalysis for five years. His focus is on financial compliance and criminal investigation in the cryptocurrency space, and works equally with government agencies and private sector organisations across Europe. Prior to Chainalysis, Mark was a serving police detective for almost twenty years, specialising in digital investigation and cybercrime.

Francis Marinier represents Moody's in the Data and Technology for Compliance (DT4C) Alliance. The Alliance is a coalition of AML data and technology providers. Its aim is to support an effective, future-proof EU AML/CFT framework. It also argues that rulemaking should properly account for KYC data providers, to avoid unintended consequences. Since its 2023 launch, DT4C has published an EU Manifesto (2024). It has responded to the EBA's draft RTS in 2025 and to AMLA's 2026 consultations on customer due diligence and business relationships. It has also called for risk-based rules and better data access. Francis has contributed to this work, including as a DT4C speaker on FATF Recommendation 16. He is Industry Practice Lead for Financial Crime Compliance at Moody's and a former head of compliance, with more than 17 years of experience.

Former IBM Promontory Partner & ex-COO BNP Paribas

Larry has 25+ years in global banking and regulatory consulting. He led major remediation programs in the U.S. and Europe, advising top-tier banks on AML strategy and governance. He brings Reform unmatched regulatory insight and institutional credibility.

Adilah Holivay is an award-winning blockchain strategist, financial services executive, global speaker, and advocate for inclusive innovation in emerging technology. With 15+ years of experience across financial services, compliance, technology, and digital transformation, she specializes in blockchain, digital asset strategy, crypto compliance, investigations, and institutional readiness.

She is CEO of the Association for Women in Cryptocurrency (AWIC) and Founder & Chief Blockchain & Digital Assets Officer of DNA Legacy Blockchain Brokerage LLC (DLBB). Adilah is a recognized voice in Web3 and digital assets, helping organizations navigate the intersection of finance, technology, risk, and innovation.

Devon J. Euring is a risk strategist, author, and advisor with over 15 years of enterprise risk experience across major financial and media institutions, including iHeartMedia, Nordstrom, Fannie Mae, Citigroup, Capital One, and Bank of America. He is the Founder & Chief Risk Officer of Asterisk Defense, a risk strategy and intelligence firm specializing in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), AI governance, and crypto/blockchain risk management, and the author of Risk Rewritten™: Enterprise Risk as Proactive Leadership.

As Senior Advisor to CAT Investigations, Devon works alongside Founder & Managing Director Afia Sengupta to advance the firm's mission in financial crime investigations and risk leadership. He also brings three board advisory roles to his work — serving as In-House Risk Strategist for the Association for Women in Cryptocurrency (AWIC), a 26-country nonprofit; Board Advisor to the Coalition Against Financial Crimes (CAFC); and an advisory role with Blockchain Lex Group.

Devon holds the Certified Anti-Financial Crime Professional (CAPFC) credential and has spent his career building governance frameworks that move organizations beyond compliance and toward genuine, proactive risk leadership — a philosophy captured in his guiding principle: "Compliance is the floor. Survival is the ceiling."