The Future of Transaction Monitoring

Donna Weiss is the Head of Product Strategy and Marketing, responsible for product strategy, vision, and global business plans. Ms. Weiss has 25 years of experience leading and managing development, product management and marketing teams from strategy to solution definition and new product launch.  Prior to joining NICE Actimize, Donna served as Director of Product Management at Oracle-Hyperion, as an independent marketing and strategy consultant for technology start-ups and worked in the financial services industry.

Nima Ghorbani is the head of technology for the Anti-Financial Crime, Cyber Security, and Applied AI area across Swedbank Group. Nima is a passionate people developer and curious technologist with extensive experience in digital space and hands-on transformation journeys leveraging exponential thinking and disruptive technologies, especially data science, machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. Nima has been involved in Swedbank’s analytics journey for the past seven years and today, Swedbank AI team is supporting the business with various application of AI solutions digitalizing and automating manual processes and rule-based systems to increase efficiency as well as fighting financial crime and cyber security threats.

Jason Holt is a seasoned Financial Crimes Compliance professional, with more than 25 years experience, gained in senior leadership roles at many of the world’s most complex financial institutions including: JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Barclays. More recently Jason headed up a financial crime consulting and Reg Tech business in EMEA, before moving back in house in 2022. He is currently the Global Head of Financial Crimes Compliance at abrdn.

Adam McLaughlin is the Global Head of AML Strategy and Marketing and the AML Subject Matter Expert at NICE Actimize. Adam possesses several years of operational experience in identifying and mitigating financial crime risks. Prior to joining the company, he spent a number of years managing financial crime teams and mitigating financial crime risk in financial institutions. Before that, he spent 10 years as a Police Detective in the UK, with the last three years managing a Financial Crime investigation team in the City of London Police, the UK’s national lead force for Economic Crime.

Adam was also an operational member of the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT) in the UK and on the Money Laundering through Capital Markets experts working group.

Adam is passionate about fighting financial crime, possessing extensive operational knowledge and expertise in identifying, managing, and mitigating financial crime risks in a fully compliant way.