Barbara
Foertsch, CAMS
Barbara works as a Senior Compliance Manager at Solarisbank that offers a banking-as -a-service platform enabling the integration of digital banking into multiple products and services. Her focus is on MaRisk Compliance and data protection for Solaris Digital Assets, a daughter company of Solarisbank offering crypto custody. She also provides advice as a subject matter expert to the AML team.
Prior to that she was working as an AML officer for a future neo-bank in Munich that was applying for a German banking license where she built up the AML framework from scratch and as a CAMLO (Chief Anti Money Laundering Officer) for a Forex Trader in Vancouver, Canada.
She has more than 10 years of experience in AML and Compliance, experience in working with German, Canadian, UK and US regulators and is a certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a certified Data Protection Officer (Bitkom).
She speaks several languages and has lived and/or worked in Romania, Spain, Poland, France and Canada. In Canada she has served for three years as board member of the ACAMS Vancouver Chapter.