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Luiza is a Compliance Manager in MoneyGram International, responsible for customer investigation and regulatory reporting SAR/STR/CTR in over 30 different jurisdictions. 

Prior to joining MoneyGram in 2016, Luiza worked in the banking sector for over 5 years with a track record in various areas of compliance such as correspondent banking, KYC/ECDD, transaction monitoring with special focus in AML and CTF. 

Luiza earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Missouri majoring in Finance and holds a Masters degree in Human Resources. Luiza is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

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Karol Wojtczak joined Citibank in 2004, starting in retail banking, working on all types of products, including the Citigold dedicated service. In 2007 Karol moved to Citibank International PLC Regional AML Operations as a Team Leader for Western European countries. In 2008 he was promoted to the Role of Team Manager for Institutional Clients Group AML Operations, where he managed AML Analysts Team specializing in consumer and institutional client banking, historical remediation and AML process enhancements. In 2011 Karol took on the role of Senior Operations Manager for Europe Middle East and Africa Region and in May 2013 joined Citi’s Global FIU Procedures & Training Team in AML as a Regional Head for EMEA. In this role, Karol is responsible for AML case disposition standards and procedures, together with knowledge development for the AML FIU Analysts.

While working in Citi Karol is also a tutor at Kozminski University, lecturing on Financial Crime Prevention and leading the new postgraduate study initiative: “Compliance and AML Analyst”. Karol is an ACAMS Member and Certified AML Specialist with an ICA diploma in AML.

Aneta Szmidt is current a Compliance Manager at Domanski Zakzewski Palinka, the largest Polish law firm with over 30 years of presence in the market. Aneta has over 15 years of professional experience, mainly in the financial and consulting sector.

Her key competencies include:

• Anti-money laundering
• Sanctions
• Internal control
• Risk assessment
• Compliance
• Designing and implementing trainings (knowledge management)
• Process mapping

Before joining Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka, she was Head of Risk, Fraud, and PCI at Six Payment Services, an international company that provides secure solutions for processing card transactions and interbank payments.

Aneta held various positions in the financial sector: Anti-money laundering operations Manager at Citibank, Credit Control Team Leader at TNT, and Collections Supervisor at Elavon.

Aneta holds a Master’s degree from Warsaw University. She has also completed postgraduate studies in Public Relations at Warsaw University and the Polish Academy of Science and IT Knowledge Management at Warsaw School of Economics. Aneta is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS).

Marcin has 15 year-experience in the financial services sector with focus on Compliance. Marcin joined Western Union in 2007 and has since then held roles in the AML Compliance Organization, most recently as Director AML Compliance for Central Eastern Europe. In that role, he leads a team responsible for full coverage of AML issues, including regulatory relationships in 9 countries of the CEE region.

Prior to joining Western Union Marcin held Compliance roles at Lehman Brothers and Allied Irish Banks and he started his career at Bank of America. Marcin graduated from the Faculty of Management of the Poznan University of Economics in Poland in 1999 and completed a postgraduate course on Companies Law at the Warsaw University in 2017.

He earned his CAMS certification in 2010. Marcin speaks Polish as well as English, Russian and German.

Alicja has 10 year experience in the financial sector. Prior to joining SCB, Alicja worked at Citibank where she led AML Transaction Monitoring teams responsible for investigations of retail banking client transactions. Alicja holds ICA International Advanced Certificate in AML and Specialist Certificate in Money Laundering Risk in Correspondent Banking (ICA).

Alicja graduated from the University of Warsaw, with MA in European studies and MA in English philology. Alicja has also completed Transition Manager Academy postgraduate studies at Kozminski University.

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Since 2016, Todd has been leading the AML Global Investigations Unit, a team of analysts responsible for intelligence led risk mitigating money laundering and terrorist finance investigations.

Prior to Citi, he served as a Senior Detective in the Royal Ulster Constabulary/Police Service of Northern Ireland being focused on counter terrorism, intelligence management and covert organized crime investigation as well as PSNI’s Financial Intelligence Unit’s Head from 2006-2010. As International hostage negotiator he was deployed on behalf of Her Majesty’s Government on hostage situations in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Todd has ssignificant experience of both sides of Public & Private Partnerships with an extensive knowledge of terrorist financing and predicate criminality.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Management and is a Qualified UK Financial Crime and Money Laundering Investigator and a Qualified Senior Investigating Officer Homicide and Major Investigations.

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