Masha
Shmatova
Masha Shmatova is an Associate Director within Regulatory & Compliance Department in a consulting firm Rethink ME Ltd. She has a broad experience starting from 4 years in retail banking in Russia, 4 years in international tax structuring in KPMG Dubai, 3 years in corporate structuring in M-HQ Ltd (Dubai Branch) and currently more than 3 years in the field of compliance, AML, risk management and governance. In her current role she helps applicant firms to obtain authorisation from the financial services regulators in the financial free zones DIFC and ADGM, acts as an outsourced compliance officer and MLRO in a number of authorised firms, leads a team of compliance experts and provides training on AML and compliance in-house and to clients. She holds 2 master’s degrees (2011 Corporate Finance from Russian Economics University of Plekhanov and 2021 Yoga and Meditation from Yoga Samskrutham University, Florida) and is a member of CISI.