Speakers

Helle Poulsen Mikkelsen is an experienced AML/CFT expert from the private sector. She has worked in the banking sector for more than 25 years and during the past 10 years she has dedicated her professional career to fighting financial crime.

As a senior and chief expert compliance officer in correspondent banking she has conducted in depth compliance gap analyses of guidelines and tools, participated in design and development of COBA financial crime compliance framework and transaction monitoring. She has experience with writing internal COBA guidelines and related tools, and she is an experienced trainer, having developed and conducted internal trainings in most aspects of AML/CFT including COBA and SAR/STR reporting.

Helle has represented banks in AML/CFT work groups in DFSA and DFIU, she has actively participated in cooperation with DFSA during and after their inspections and has held internal positions in COBA decision fora at national and Nordic level, including a position as steering group member in a large COBA remediation project. She has years of experience as a team leader, including heading MLRO teams.

Since 2022 she has been working as an independent AML/CFT expert consultant.

Michal Szermer is the COBA project’s FIU expert. He is the Head of the Foreign Information Exchange Division at the Polish financial intelligence unit (GIFI - FIU Poland). His responsibilities focus on the operational analysis of information received from foreign financial intelligence units, with the aim of identifying potential cases of money laundering and terrorism financing.

As a MONEYVAL assessor, he actively participates in the evaluation of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing systems of other countries. He represents the Polish FIU in international fora, both in the role of trainer and expert in projects aimed at combatting money laundering and terrorism financing.

Maud Bökkerink is an anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) and Sanctions expert with more than 27 years’ experience in that area. From 2008 until 2017 she worked at the De Nederlandsche Bank, where she was the coordinator for AML/CFT and Sanctions supervision of banks and other institutions. From 2002 until 2008 she worked for the International Monetary Fund as an AML/CFT financial sector expert. Earlier, she held positions at the Dutch Ministry of Finance, dealing with AML policy and legislation, the Dutch Financial Intelligence Unit, working as a financial analyst and in the National Criminal Investigation Service where she was a financial investigator on financial fraud and money laundering. Maud was also a member of the Dutch delegation to the FATF and participated in several country assessments against the FATF Recommendations.

For the past 6 years, Maud is an AML/CFT and Sanctions consultant and advises financial and non-financial institutions as well as supervisory authorities, both in the Netherlands and internationally. She also lectures regularly on AML/CFT and Sanctions at international workshops and conferences.

Her earlier experience has been in the international financial sector. Maud Bökkerink received a master’s degree in fiscal law and a master’s degree in Japanese from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.