Italy Chapter

Alberto has been involved in the past 10 years in compliance, with specialization in Anti-Money Laundering/Anti Financial Crime, assuming different roles and levels of responsibility. He currently is Senior Director at Intesa Sanpaolo, with responsibility for the Know Your Customer- AML department, reporting directly to the Anti-Financial Crime Direction. The organizational structure adopted identifies in the KYC-AML department the reference for the management of advisory and clearing activities to the network and internal structures of the bank in the context of adequate Anti-money laundering verification, supervision of customer at greater risk and design of processes and controls. The activities are divided into three directly reporting offices which have a total of 115 resources.

Alberto started his professional career in anti-money laundering as Group Head of Anti-Money Laundering Manager at UBI Bank, reporting hierarchically to the CEO and functionally to the Board of Directors, as well as participating as a permanent member of the bank’s management committee. Before that he held the role of Head of the Group Compliance Coordination Unit, within the CCO Area also with UBI Bank.

Before banking, Alberto worked in management consulting at KPMG Advisory dealing with both business performance improvement projects and the formulation and implementation of strategic and industrial plans in the Financial Services business. As Senior Manager, he was included in the Risk & Compliance practice with a focus on regulatory compliance projects, development of methodologies and assessment and quality review plans in the banking and insurance sector.

Sabrina Emilia di Feo is Internal Audit Senior Manager in the Holding of UniCredit Group.

She has been working in this function for more than a decade, mainly focusing on compliance risks. Currently she is overseeing audit activities in the compliance process at group level, while she is coordinating the audit activities of the Central and Eastern European countries. In her role she has the chance to support the bank in reinforcing its AML processes, while also dealing as audit topic leader for the US Authorities monitorship activities.

She is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Sanctions Specialist (CGSS).

Francesco Monini is a Managing Director at Protiviti’s Milan office. In Protiviti Italy since 2005, he enhanced his previous professional experience in Risk & Controls activities in Citigroup, by coordinating Compliance, Audit and Organization projects in the Financial Services area.

With a solid experience in consulting services, he supports numerous Italian and international realities in the management of projects concerning the analysis, design and implementation of organization, management and control models, set up of Compliance, Anti Financial Crima, Internal Audit and Risk Management functions, as well as the design and delivery of numerous classroom training on Compliance and Anti Financial Crime:

• Assessment of the Anti Financial Crime Framework at leading companies operating in the financial sector, to identify gaps with respect to external regulations and market best practices, and suggest areas for improvement
• Design of innovative AML frameworks in the context of digital transformation projects aimed at rationalizing and making operational processes of banks, insurance and asset management companies more efficient, also through the implementation of high-tech services, by supporting the choice of adequate IT support tools, the IT system integration (Front to Back Office), and the definition of the underlying logics (and algorithms), in compliance with current regulations
• Analysis, design and implementation of organization, management and control models for the purposes of compliance with Legislative Decree no. 231/2001 for investment banks, companies of one of the main Italian banking groups, and for some financial intermediaries and asset management companies
• Support to national banks and payment institutions in carrying out audits (AML, Market Abuse, SOX, Law 231/2001); in particular review of the requirements of specific processes (credit management, cash pooling and FSCP processes) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for a leading Italian bank
• Analysis of the organizational and operational impacts generated by the introduction of new regulatory requirements, as well as analysis and evaluation of the internal control system (for example, with a focus on credit processes and investment services of structured financial products), and of the internal regulatory framework (for example, in the anti-corruption area)
• Support in the set-up of Compliance, Internal Audit and Risk Management functions

Nicola Passariello is a Financial Crime Practice Lead at Moody’s Analytics covering the EMEA region. Nicola is a deep subject matter expert in financial crime prevention, and throughout his international career, he has gained extensive industry experience having worked for different global information providers and corporate governance advisors. Nicola also brings valuable regulatory experience having participated to the AMF – the French Market Regulator Commission. Nicola holds an Executive MBA from the French business school ESCP Europe, both the Post-Graduate and International Diploma in Financial Crime Prevention awarded by the International Compliance Association (ICA) in association with the UK Alliance Manchester Business School, and he is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists by ACAMS.

Since September 2020 Arianna is Group Head of AML at BANCOBPM Group. Previously, as a Police Officer of the Guardia di Finanza, the Italian Financial Police, Arianna was Head of several operational units responsible for investigating tax and financial crimes. From 2012 to 2019 Arianna worked as a Police Officer at the Milan Public Prosecutor's Office. As member of a Joint Investigation Team for EUROJUST, Arianna has developed extensive experience in cross-border investigations by collaborating with various judicial authorities and police departments. She’s licensed to practice as a lawyer and constantly attends webinars and events as a speaker on AML issues and regulatory changes and ongoing challenges against money laundering.

Marco currently holds the role of Anti-Money Laundering Officer (AMLO) and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for the subsidiaries of Mediolanum Fiduciaria S.p.A., Prexta S.p.A. and Flowe S.p.A at the Anti-Money Laundering Department of the Parent Company Banca Mediolanum S.p.A. Within the Mediolanum Banking Group, he also follows the cross-functional project activities relating to new technologies and FinTech experiments (regulatory sandbox area).

Marco has twenty years of experience in the Mediolanum Banking Group having first followed the start of the Bank itself dealing with the telephone channel (Call Center Supervisor) and then moved to the Organization Division for several years before, thanks to the experience gained, being transferred within the control structure responsible for the compliance checks of the sales network as responsible until 2011, when he arrived in the Anti-Money Laundering Function as coordinator of the Anti-Money Laundering Office.

Marco was able to participate in numerous training initiatives within the Mediolanum Banking Group including the "Certificate in Banking & Finance" course (period 2019/2021) with MIP and SDA Bocconi professors and, lastly, the CAMS certification as Anti-Money Laundering Specialist obtained in course of 2022.

Michele Valeriani, is the Group Chief Anti Financial Crime Officer of Generali Group, appointed by the Board and directly reporting to it. Michele is also a member of the Generali Group Risk and Control Committee and of the Generali Global Leadership Group. He is also the Group AML Officer & Group MLRO; Group International Sanctions Officer and Group Head of ABC. 

He started his career in 2004 in the Investment Banking division of Deutsche Bank AG; after an experience at Bain & Company within the M&A and Restructuring unit, he then moved to UniCredit, specifically in the Control Functions. He worked several years in Compliance at UniCredit, directly reporting to the Group Chief Compliance Officer, where he covered many senior managerial roles, being the Global Head of Risk Assessment, Controls, Training & Culture for Financial and non Financial Crime Risks and previously Global Head of Compliance Governance, Oversight and Special Projects. At UniCredit he managed the interaction with Authorities, also in several onsite inspections. In 2019 he was appointed Global Head of Anti Financial Crime of the UniCredit Group, and was responsible for the reshaping of the Function and for the definition and implementation of the Group Remedial Program for the US Authorities for international sanctions matters. 

He graduated in Economics from Bocconi University and studied also at the New York Leonard Stern Business School and at the Copenhagen Business School. 

He holds an MBA in Finance and Management, with honor, from the IE Business School in Madrid and completed Senior Executive Programs at Insead, IMD and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.