Victoria
Makin
Victoria Makin is an AML compliance professional with over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry, the last 15 years having been spent working in Financial Crime Compliance.
Victoria joined Bank of Queensland Group in March 2023 as Head of Financial Crime Compliance, leading a team of specialists who oversee the AML/CTF Program at BOQ Group. Victoria was previously with Westpac as the Head of Financial Crime, Business Controls and Monitoring, Consumer and Business Banking. Prior to joining Westpac, Victoria held roles with Citi in both Hong Kong and Australia, worked for Macquarie Bank in Sydney and worked for HSBC in both London and Sydney. While in Hong Kong, Victoria was most recently Citi’s Regional Head of AML Compliance Risk Management for Treasury and Trade Services and Commercial Banking, where her remit included oversight for the Foreign Correspondent Banking and the Payment Intermediaries AML functions.
While in Hong Kong, Victoria was the co-chair of the APAC Wolfsberg Group, for more than two years and in this role helped develop the Wolfsberg Group Transaction Monitoring Request for Information (RFI) Best Practice Guidance.