About

Lora v. Ploetz is AML Supervision of Payment Institutions, Agents and Crypto-Asset Service Providers, at BaFin with more than 18 years of financial crime experience with focus on mitigation of significant financial crime risks related to high-risk and sensitive customers, proactive investigations, analytics, and technology. She is a founding member of the Anti- Financial Crime Alliance (AFCA) – Germany and served as a member of the Steering Committee of EFIPPP (Europol). Before working at her current position, von Ploetz was a Head of Global Financial Crime Unit at Commerzbank AG. She held various compliance and legal roles at Western Union and UniCredit among others. She holds a Master of Law degree from Kliment Ohridsky and a Master of Finance degree from Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.