19th Annual

European AML/CTF
& Financial Crime Conference
A Global Outlook


10/11 November 2025

Held hybrid - Merchant Taylor's Hall, City of London

 

We are pleased to share the high-level keynote line-up in progress:

🗓️ Day 1: We are honoured to confirm Elisa de Anda Madrazo, FATF President 2024-2026, for Special Opening Keynote Address – setting the stage for two days of high-level strategic insight, dialogue, and collaboration.

We’re also delighted to welcome Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewic, Chair of the Egmont Group, who will give a keynote as the network marks its 30th anniversary.

🗓️ Day 2: We are proud to also host Ugo Bassi, Director of Banking, Insurance and Financial Crime, FISMA, European Commission as a Special Keynote speaker.

We are equally thrilled to have Bruna Szego, Chair of the EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) to deliver a high-level keynote address, where she will outline AMLA’s strategic priorities and share her vision for the Authority’s pivotal role in shaping the future of the EU’s AML/CFT framework.

 

 

 

 

Elisa de Anda
Madrazo
President
2024-2026
FATF

 

 

 

 

Ugo Bassi
Director of Banking, Insurance and Financial Crime, FISMA
European Commission

 

 

 

 

Bruna Szego
Chair, EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority
(AMLA)

 

 

 

 

Elżbieta Franków-Jaśkiewicz
Chair of the
Egmont Group

Government & Enforcement

 

 

 

 

Alice Boulton
Illicit Finance Lead National Economic Crime Centre
ML
UK National Crime Agency

 

 

 

 

Burkhard Mühl
Head of Department European Financial & Economic Crime Centre
Europol 

 

 

 

 

Daniel-Marius Staicu
AML/CFT/SAN
Director
CEC Bank
SA

 

 

 

 

Daniel Vazquez
Head of the Asset Tracing
Office
National Police
Spain

 

 

 

 

David Hotte 
Team
Leader
EU AML/CTF Global
Facility

 

 

 

 

Debbie Price
Deputy Head of Proceeds
of Crime Division
UK Crown Prosecution Service CPS

 

 

 

 

Giles Thomson
Director of Economic Crime & Sanctions 
HM Treasury
 

 

 

 

 

Hennie Verbeek‑Kusters
Head of the FIU Netherlands, Former Chair of the Egmont Group of FIU’s 2017-2019 and 2020-2022

 

 

 

 

John Ringguth
Scientific Expert
MONEYVAL

 

 

 

 

Kristaps Markovskis
Director of AML &
Sanctions Department
Bank of Latvia

 

 

 

 

Lora von Ploetz
Head of Division AML Supervision of Payment Institutions
BaFin Germany

 

 

 

 

Mark Francis
Director, Markets, FCA
& Co-Sponsor of the FCA’s Financial Crime Public Commitment

 

 

 

 

Mohamed Al Katheeri
Director of National Coordination & Follow-Up
General Secretariat of NAMLCTFC

 

 

 

 

Nicola Muccioli
Chairperson of
Moneyval
& Director of
San Marino’s FIU

 

 

 

 

Philippe de Koster
Advocate General,
Supreme Court & Director CTIF-CFI
FIU Belgium

 

 

 

 

Rachel Bezzina
Head of AML
Malta Gaming
Authority

 

 

 

 

Raffaele Cosimo
Group Head of Anti-Financial Crime
& MLRO
Intesa Sanpaolo

 

 

 

 

Tarana Baghirova
Lead, Human Trafficking Financial Investigations
OSCE

 

 

 

 

T. Raja Kumar
former President FATF 22-24
& Senior Advisor, Global Threats – Risks, Consequences and Responses
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore

 

 

 

 

Toyin Salako
Deputy National Coordinator, Office of Strategic Action On Illicit Finance,
(Ministry of Financial Services and Commerce), Cayman Islands

 

 

 

 

 

Vanessa Perree
Director General
Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets
France

Cross-Industry Expert Speakers

 

 

 

 

Adrian Searle
Board Advisory,
& until recently Director at
the
National Economic Crime Centre
(NECC)

 

 

 

 

Anu Ratan
EMEA Head of FCC Regulatory Change Global Programmes, BNY and & Co-Chair AFME FCC Working Group

 

 

 

 

Bernd Träxler
Founder & Managing Director of Compliance Networks, former Chief Compliance Officer at EBRD & Erste Group Bank

 

 

 

 

Bouchra El Osri
Group Head International Sanctions & Corporate
Generali

 

 

 

 

CJ Rinaldi
Chief Compliance
Officer
Kraken

 

 

 

 

Clara Johansson Dinesen
Business Development Manager & Operations
AVOS Tech 

 

 

 

 

Clay Roberts
Group MLRO
& BSA Officer
Western Union

 

 

 

 

Chloe Cina
Senior Associate RUSI & previously Deutsche Bank Head of Global Sanctions Advisory

 

 

 

 

Cynthia Stone 
Group Head of Financial Crime Investigations
HSBC

 

 

 

 

David Pope
Chief Operating
Officer
DeepDive

 

 

 

 

Dafydd Davies
Group Head of Financial Crime Compliance
Barclays

 

 

 

 

Danielle Kelly
Flutter International Head of Financial Crime & MLRO
Flutter Entertainment Plc

 

 

 

 

Dara Fernandez
General Counsel for Sanctions
Honeywell

 

 

 

 

Darren Temple
Financial Crime Director
Brighter Consultancy Limited

 

 

 

 

Dr. Ekaterina Hartmann
Director of Legal
and Regulatory Affairs
EGBA

 

 

 

 

Dr. Firas Nadim Habach
Central Europe MLRO
& Swiss Head of Financial Crime Compliance
Revolut

 

 

 

 

Dries Cools
Head of AML/CFT Policy
& Off-Site Supervision
National Bank of
Belgium

 

 

 

 

Dr. Thorsten Güldner-Bervoets
Group Head Financial Sanctions, Executive Director
Raiffeisen Bank International AG

 

 

 

 

Edel Brophy
Lifecycle, Regulatory
& Policy Affairs
Fidelity National Information Services (FIS)

 

 

 

 

Emil Vik
Head of AML and Fraud Investigations
Skandiabanken

 

 

 

 

Emma Brophy
Global Head of Financial Crime Prevention UBS & Co-Chair of the Wolfsberg Group

 

 

 

 

Freya Page
Director Global Outreach
Kharon
& previously at 
HMT

 

 

 

 

Gregory Dellas
Group Chief Compliance
and
Risk Officer
Ecommbx

 

 

 

 

Howard Rawstron
Head of Economic Crime Risk Management Framework Team
Lloyds Banking

 

 

 

 

Ignacio Hagelstrom
Associate Managing Director, Kroll
& previously Member of the FATF Secretariat

 

 

 

 

Jeroen Amsalem
Global Compliance AML
&
Sanctions Expert

Rabobank

 

 

 

 

Johan Sekora
Global Head of
Financial Crime
Prevention

SEB Bank, Sweden

 

 

 

 

Jonathan Benton
Chief Executive
Officer

iSanctuary

 

 

 

 

Karen Briggs
Non-executive Director, Audit & Risk Committee chair, Financial Services
Chubb European Group SE

 

 

 

 

Lana Schwartzman
VP of Global Regulatory
&
Compliance Strategy
Notabene

 

 

 

 

Leanard Phillip
Head of Financial Crime Compliance (MLRO)
Knight Frank LLP

 

 

 

 

Lia van Broekhoven
Executive Director, Human Security Collective
Global NPO Coalition

 

 

 

 

Dr. Liliya Gelemerova
Head of UK Financial Security & MLRO
Credit Agricole CIB

 

 

 

 

Luke Gribbon
Associate Director,
Project Integrity
EBRD

 

 

 

 

Marc Fungard
Global Head of Financial Crime, Compliance and Risk Oversight (FinCRO)
Stripe

 

 

 

 

Marcus Wogart
Group Head of Non-Financial
Risk
NatWest

 

 

 

 

Mark Sully
Managing Director of EMEA
&
APAC
AML RightSource

 

 

 

 

Martin Nordh
Board Director, Acuminor
&
previously at Ministry of Justice Sweden

 

 

 

 

Matthew Scicluna
Head Financial Crime
Compliance
Malta FSA

 

 

 

 

Michaela Arndt
Head CFCC, Sanctions Compliance, Europe & Americas
Standard Chartered Bank

 

 

 

 

James Clark
EMEA & MENA Regional Director
Kodex

 

 

 

 

Miriam Ratkovicova
Forensic & Financial
Crime
Deloitte

 

 

 

 

Nadine Kari
Director AFC & Group
MLRO
N26

 

 

 

 

Neil Isherwood
Compliance SME
& Strategy Leader
Dun & Bradstreet

 

 

 

 

Neil Whiley
Head of Sanctions Compliance
Bank ABC

 

 

 

 

Nick Lewis OBE
Managing Director, High
Risk Client Unit, Conduct,
FCC
Standard Chartered Bank

 

 

 

 

Nick Maxwell
Head of the Future
FFIS Research
Programme

 

 

 

 

Niclas-Andreas Mueller
Director, Risk
&
Regulatory Advisory
KPMG

 

 

 

 

Nina Ihl
Director AML
&
Fraud Prevention
Commerzbank AG

 

 

 

 

Peter Green
AMLP Advisor & Former Chief MLRO and Deputy Global Head of Financial Security at
BNP Paribas Group Paris

 

 

 

 

Phale McMillian-To Van
Head FC Risk Management and Deputy Group Head FC Risk Officer
NatWest

 

 

 

 

Philip Bugeja
Chief Executive
Officer
ArriTech

 

 

 

 

Rachel Sexton
Independent Member
– Audit & Risk
Committee
Gambling Commission

 

 

 

 

Roberto Garcia Piriz
Group Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy Director General European Investment Bank EIB

 

 

 

 

Robert Schmuck
Vice President Product
AML
HAWK

 

 

 

 

Ryan Caruana
Group Chief AFC Officer
& MLRO
Bank of Valletta

 

 

 

 

Shahanaz Müller
Partner, Forensic – AML
& Sanctions Compliance
Deloitte Austria

 

 

 

 

Simran Bharaj
Senior Financial Crime Prevention Advisor, GKSB
& previously at the FCA

 

 

 

 

Tom Devlin
Chief Commercial
Officer
KYC360

 

 

 

 

Tony Dixon
EMEA Head of Financial Crimes Compliance & MLRO
BNY

 

 

 

 

Valerie-Leila Jaber
until recently Global Head of AML Coinbase
& previously at Credit Suisse & JP Morgan

 

 

 

 

Vesna McCreery
Chair, International Advisory Board, AML RightSource & previously Global Head of FinCrime at NatWest & Barclays

 

 

 

 

Victoria Ibezim-
Ohaeri

Executive Director
Spaces for Change
Nigeria

 

 

 

 

Valentina Quadri
Managing Director,
Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance Audit
Goldman Sachs

 

 

 

 

William McDevitt
MLRO & Head of
Anti-Money Laundering
Gemini

 

 

 

 

Yaron Hazan
Vice President of Regulatory Affairs
ThetaRay

 

 

 

 

Zia Ullah
Partner – Head of Corporate Crime & Investigations
Eversheds Sutherland

Registration

Please complete the registration form to confirm your place. For enquiries, including PO. numbers and multiple bookings, contact us at fc@amlpforum.com

This event is held in hybrid format – delegates are able to attend in person or virtually.

Special Offer

Book both Main European Conference & 14th ABC Forum (Day 3) and receive a 13% discount – can be shared with a colleague

Discounts

  • Member discount applies to academics, charities, law enforcement & Government.
  • 10% discount applies to members of Banking Associations in Central & Eastern Europe including Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Slovakia & Sweden (please contact us if your country is not listed).
  • Bring 3 or more delegates – please contact us for enterprise discounts.
  • Book both the Conference and Masterclass – receive a 10% discount
    *Discount offers cannot be combined.

CPD Points

Certificate of Attendance will be provided to claim your CPD Points.

  • Eligibility: Sign-in required
  • Records: Retained for 5 years
  • CPD Points: 9.5 for Main Conference and 3.5 for each Masterclass Stream