Tessa
Kits
Tessa has over 23 years’ experience in banking and is in her current role responsible for financial economic crime related topics across the bank’s global business lines (i.e. Markets, Trade and Commodity Finance, Project Finance, M&A, Value Chain Finance).
Her role spans Sanctions, AML, CTF, fraud and corruption from a first line of defence perspective. This includes client committees, SIRA, global models and standards on FEC related topics and regulatory requests. Tessa is also involved in special investigations i.e. different laundromats, thematic research, (Russian) sanctions, U-turn analysis, etc. Furthermore, she is a certified fraud examiner and sits in the banks' external and internal fraud committees.
Prior to her current position, Tessa has worked as Expert Geographic Risk with many corporate clients on compliance to AML, CTF and sanctions legislation. She has held several positions varying from strategy roles to relationship management, having lived and worked in India, the United Kingdom and Romania.
Tessa holds a MSc Business Economic degree from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands and lives with her husband and three children in Amsterdam.
Tessa previously was Treasurer and Board member of Transparency International Netherlands and Board Member of the Netherlands British Chamber of Commerce.