Past Speakers

With over 15 years of expertise in digital transformation and product management, Tanja is at the forefront of shaping the future of the banking industry. Her journey began in
Digital banking, and after pioneering the first Digital Banking Competence Center in Bosnia & Herzegovina, she is joining Raiffeisen Bank International leading the
transformation of the PSD2 regulations into a thriving Open API ecosystem. Tanja’s passion lies in exploring cutting-edge technologies and foreseeing the future impact on
the banking industry. In her roles as a Digital Transformation Strategist and Strategic Partnerships and Ecosystem Manager, Tanja is committed to navigating the evolving
landscape of banking with holistic and pragmatic approach.

Martijn de Jong is a seasoned Digital Transformation Leader and an independent consultant with a passion for creating value in the global financial services industry. With expertise in FinTech, Banking, Insurance, Payments, Asset Management, Private Equity, and Venture Capital, Martijn combines his digital and technology proficiency with a deep understanding of customer needs and business acumen. He has a particular focus on driving global digital transformation initiatives across the Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East regions.

As a strategic C-level executive, e excels in building successful long-term business and delivery teams from the ground up. He has a proven track record of setting long-term digital directions, leading change management, and managing complex multimillion-dollar projects. He leverages his skills in consultative sales and marketing to capitalize on opportunities and achieve breakthrough results. He thrives in multidimensional roles where he can contribute directly to an organization’s growth and development, finding personal satisfaction and a sense of achievement in leading strategic growth and team-building efforts.

Martin Koderisch has 20 years of experience as adviser and operator within the financial technology industry with a focus on payments. He specialises in accelerating digital transformation of client businesses through industry expertise, data analytics, and fintech enablement. His approach seeks to bridge the gap between strategy and execution with hands-on delivery of value creation initiatives to achieve growth, control or operational efficiency outcomes. He previously held senior leadership roles within industry at Mastercard and Citibank covering digital product innovation, operations, and commercial partnership development. He also hosts and produces the popular podcast ‘Leaders in Payments and Fintech’ available on major podcast platforms.

Kirsty has spent the last 15 years working across the public and private sector in various intelligence and security roles, ensuring businesses have the information they need to make intelligence driven decisions around security, impacting and improving wider business operations in the process.

Group Head of Data and AI Ethics at Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) within their Chief Data and Analytics Office. Responsible for creating robust and repeatable processes and technology components which combine to ensure trustworthy and responsible outcomes for our customers. Supporting LBG’s Generative AI strategy, to help deploy AI at scale, under ethical guard-rails across the bank. Working with a cross-functional team charged with building technology infrastructure, platform enablement and commercialization opportunities across the bank.Previously involved in cutting-edge research to create technologies that ensure AI systems generate fair and unbiased predictions. I have helped to shape AI policies, principles, and regulations through participation in international forums. Expertise in leading complex enterprise-wide IT programs involving changes to multiple inter-operating IT systems in various banking functions: Front Office, Market risk, Credit Risk, Product Control and Finance.

Peter May is an accomplished Risk and Control professional with a wealth of experience in financial crime and fraud within the banking and markets industry. Currently serving as the Global Head of Wholesale and Markets Fraud at HSBC since April 2020, he oversees the second line of defense (2LOD) coverage for commercial and corporate banking as well as global markets.

Prior to this role, he held the position of Head of Governance and Controls at Barclays from November 2018 to April 2020, where he served as the UK Chief Controls Officer covering Cards and Payments. With a career spanning over several years at HSBC, Peter has held various significant positions, including Head of Oversight for HSBC’s International Businesses across continental Europe, South Africa, and Bermuda. He also led operational risk oversight for HSBC’s Ring-fencing Programme and the establishment of HSBC UK as Head of Risk Oversight – Structural Reform Programme.

Throughout his career, Peter has demonstrated expertise in financial crime risk transformation, operational risk oversight, and trade and receivables finance oversight. With a strong track record and a deep understanding of the industry.

Ana-Maria Vasile, CAMS-RM, IRMCert, has a broad expertise on Anti-Financial Crime and Enterprise Risk Management, with 15 years of practical experience in the financial services industry and bringing a specialized educational background in this respect. Currently, she is the Chief Compliance Officer at CEC Bank Romania, coordinating the overall Regulatory, Compliance Risk Management, AML/CTF and Sanctions Compliance activities within the bank.

As part of her experience, Ana was involved in the implementation of global policies and internal controls for the prevention of financial crime risks related to TBML, including the development of a one-of-its-kind in-house monitoring application for Trade Finance transaction monitoring within Commerzbank AG.

Prior to joining Commerzbank, Ana was a Manager in the forensic practice of Deloitte, her focus areas and responsibilities being related to delivering projects on the implementation of ML/TF risk management programs in financial institutions, targeted financial sanctions, FATCA implementation, fraud and money laundering investigations, fraud detection, transaction monitoring for various financial products, funds tracking, assessment of AML/CTF compliance activity within financial institutions and implementation and assessment of AFC/Sanctions/Ethics and Compliance programs.

Additionally, she also has extensive experience in the country risk assessment practice, as she was a subject matter expert in the ML/TF National Risk Assessments projects for Lithuania (2015) and Latvia (2016).