Fight FinCrime Forum is an annual event that aims to connect AML and financial crime prevention professionals so they can build networks and synergy, to provide an opportunity for exchange of experiences and to share the knowledge and best practices.
This year’s edition will be part of the Warsaw Finance Week and will take place on November 20th, at the Warsaw Stock Exchange
The Forum is designed for regulated financial institutions and FinCrime prevention professionals, representatives of regulatory authorities, industry associations, fintech companies, and everyone interested in the AML agenda
This year, the focus will be on EU AML packages, which are crucial to the transformation and continued advancement of the anti-money laundering efforts. Our goal is to identify challenges, good practices and new opportunities for synergy between obligated institutions, regulators and service providers present on the Polish market, positioning Warsaw as a modern financial hub.
Fight FinCrime Forum brings together academic, ESG, Fintech and Financial Crime Prevention communities aiming at knowledge and best practice sharing. Students and financial industry professionals with variety of expertise and background will navigate one another through the complexity of innovations shaping the future of Resilient Financial System.
Attending Fight FinCrime Forum is a valuable investment in your professional development. You will gain new knowledge, skills and perspectives that can help you advance in your career and make a difference in the fight against financial crime. Get ready to learn from experts, connect with peers, and stay ahead of the curve.
FFC Forum aims to connect all AML and FinCrime Professionals to build network, exchange experience and share the knowledge.
Our mission is providing the awareness and knowledge to detect and prevent Financial Crime to protect people, families and businesses.
Our vision is to create first polish financial crime prevention think tank leveraging over 40k professionals present on the market.
Group Head Financial Crime Risk, NatWest Group
Group Head Financial Crime Risk, NatWest Group
Marcus has over 20-years of experience in financial crime and compliance oversight, having worked at HSBC, Barclays, UBS and Lloyds. He has extensive knowledge of the UK and international financial services markets with a strong breadth of product and franchise knowledge across retail, wealth, corporate and investment banking. Marcus has held senior roles across all key financial crime disciplines.
He has worked with UK, US and other key global regulators as well as key bodies including the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT), the European Commission as well as the IMF. Marcus was until recently co-chair of the Wolfsberg Group and is currently the Chair of the Economic Crime Product & Service Board at UK Finance.
He is currently Director of Non-Financial Risk and responsible for Compliance, Operational Risk and Financial Crime for NatWest Group.
Chief Commercial Officer, Blackdot Solutions
Chief Commercial Officer, Blackdot Solutions
Antonia has over 15 years' experience helping enterprises across Europe and Asia draw actionable insights from online and behavioural data. In her current role leading commercial operations at Blackdot Solutions, she works with financial institutions and government agencies to use Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to identify and prevent risk.
Founder & CEO, Confide
Founder & CEO, Confide
Pav Gill is an experienced general counsel who is probably best known for being the whistleblower that exposed Europe's largest fintech scandal - Wirecard.
Pav is now the Founder & CEO of Confide™, a technology-driven whistleblowing and risk management platform. Pav is a recognized expert and thought leader in topics involving whistleblowing, ethical corporate governance and regulatory compliance. He is regularly invited by global institutions, regulators and multinational corporations as a keynote speaker and executive trainer.
For his role in exposing the Wirecard scandal, Pav was awarded the 2021 Blueprint for Free Speech “Special Recognition Award” for integrity and bravery in the public interest, and the 2022 ACFE “Cliff Robertson Sentinel Award”. His contributions served as the focal point of the documentary "Wirecard – The Billion Euro Lie" by Sky Studios.
Vice President of Business Development, Mastercard
Vice President of Business Development, Mastercard
Richard is a Vice President within the Financial Crime Solutions division of Mastercard C&I – focused on Account to Account Payment insights and intelligence in the fight against Fraud, Scams, ML and Financial Crime. He has ten years experience within the analytics division helping develop next generation network based solutions in conjunction with the UK banking industry. Prior to Mastercard, Richard worked in various payment services business over the last 20 years, including ATM, cash and online payment services.
Chief Macroeconomic Advisor, PwC Poland
Chief Macroeconomic Advisor, PwC Poland
Witold M.Orłowski, economist, professor at the Business School of the Warsaw University of Technology and the Vistula University, chief economic advisor to PwC Polska. Former economic advisor to the president Aleksander Kwaśniewski, member of the National Development Council of the President and the Economic Council of the Government, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum in Warsaw, Special Advisor to the European Commission. Lecturer in many academic institutions in Poland and abroad. Author of 16 books and 200 scientific publications, popular economic commentator and columnist of major Polish newspapers.
Chair of MONEYVAL, Interim Chair of the Egmont Group and Deputy Director of Financial Information Department
Chair of MONEYVAL, Interim Chair of the Egmont Group and Deputy Director of Financial Information Department
Ms Franków-Jaśkiewicz has 21 years of experience in the field of anti-money laundering (AML) and combatting the financing of terrorism (CFT). She has held various positions within the Polish government and FIU, and she represented the FIU in many international fora for combatting economic crime, including MONEYVAL, FATF, EAG, the Egmont Group and the UNODC. Since September 2023, Mrs Franków-Jaśkiewicz performes the function of the Interim Chair of the Egmont Group. In 2009 she was appointed as the Head of the Polish delegation to MONEYVAL.
Between 2011 and 2015 she was a Member of the MONEYVAL Bureau and between 2015 and 2019 she was elected Vice-Chair of the Bureau. Besides, she works as a technical assistance expert to numerous European and non-European countries in the framework of projects organised by the European Union and the UNODC. In this capacity, she advises foreign jurisdictions in the development of their AML/CFT institutional system.
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