Trusted expertise in preventing Financial Economic Crime

Experience Matters

Over 20 years helping banks in 50+ countries to build strong Financial Economic Crime defence through tailored transaction monitoring, name screening and data driven risk assessment solutions.

Global approach

Defining Global strategy of large financial institutions and guiding solution teams to achieve the objective by taking a bottom-up approach – from products/customer base/services to defining suspicious behavioural patterns

From Risk to Controls

Mapping risks (e.g. SIRA: Systematic Integrity Risk Analysis) to AML scenarios in a standardized manner across the organization

Trainer

Training on AML topics as per the audience requirement (Board members; Alert Handlers/First Line; Compliance; Rule/Scenario developers etc.)

Stakeholder management

Bridging the gap and finding better co-ordination between what is required and how to deliver. Win-win for stakeholders!

Timeline

Rabobank ( 2025 - )

Responsible for delivering a dynamic and data driven SIRA solution for Rabobank Risk Managers.

Norinchukin Bank Europe (2022 - 2024)

• Responsible for setting up the Target Operating Model for Name Screening service

• Prepared a roadmap and implement for a structured and future proof sanction screening

• Introducing segregation of lists to align screening based on policy requirements.

• Setting up the organization and delegating roles and responsibilities for resources around name screening service.

Regxsa ( 2020 - 2022 )

• Launched a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, Alexis from my startup.

• The platform allows deep dive in AML/CFT investigations by breaking investigation silos across Financial Institutions.

• With a core team of 5 (4 additional resources from an IT development partner) to execute this vision.

  For more information visit https://www.regxsa.com/alexis/

Rabobank (2013 - 2020)

• Consolidated 20 Rabobank locations to one single central solution (AML service in Norkom/Detica), from different solutions (automated, semi- automated, manual).

• Continually enhanced this AML service with right balance between global and local regulatory requirements as well as sharing best practices across regions.

• Improved Transaction Monitoring behaviors / scenarios, taking SIRA risks into account and propose appropriate scenarios for relevant business lines.

• Conducted SIRA to Scenario gap assessment workshops in 2019/20 across the Rabobank network and delivered relevant scenarios which should help in covering the gaps.

• Defining AML scenario threshold tuning methodology and use it to fine-tune thresholds.

• Provided regular training to AML investigators (on content) as well as AML scenario rule builders (on content and technology).

ING Bank (2011- 2014)

ABN AMRO Bank (2006 - 2011)

• Prepared a holistic vision on AML Transaction Monitoring and got approval from Board members at ING Bank N.V.

• Planned the approach and executed consolidation of 29 countries (WRR network; Europe, Asia and US regions) to a single location.

• Standardizing and optimizing the AML solution which further improved the alert quality.

• In addition, introduced Corresponding Banking monitoring for the complete ING network, where the bank was either the originator, beneficiary or intermediary bank

• Implemented Oracle Mantas (AML tool) for 15 EMEA countries, helping ABN AMRO to come out of Cease-and-Desist order.

• Identify requirements and provide desired compliance scenarios and alerts.

• Tune thresholds, design scoring algorithms based on client segments, reducing false positives.

• Assisted in separation exercise of ABN AMRO after split, to ABN/RBS/Santander

GlobalLogic / Mantas India (2004 - 2006)

• Data Miner for Mantas AML solution set.

• Analyzing requirements, developing and optimizing design and finally implementation of the solution.

• Standardization and implementation of hotfix/bugfix releases across regions.