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Stephen Alsace has over 20 years’ experience providing advice on financial crime, AML and sanctions issues. He recently assumed the role of Global Head of Sanctions at RBC in May of last year. Prior to joining RBC, Stephen was a Director in the Global Investigations and Compliance practice of Guidehouse consulting since 2018. While at Guidehouse, Stephen led projects relating to AML and sanctions gap assessments for global financial services and digital asset clients, and was embedded as a Senior Leader on the Compliance Team for a global payments service provider. Stephen also spent over 18 years at CIBC, starting in the Legal Department as the lead lawyer on AML and Sanctions, then as the Global Head of Sanctions and Terrorist Financing. Stephen has spoken at numerous conferences in Canada, the US and UK on sanctions matters, provided sanctions and terrorist financing instruction to the RCMP, FBI and MI-5, and has testified as an industry expert on sanctions matters Canadian Parliamentary and Senate Subcommittees in 2017 and 2022. Stephen has law degrees from the University of Windsor and University of Detroit Mercy and a Master’s degree on European Integration from the University of Strasbourg.

Aleksandra Bobylkova, Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Terrorism Financing Advisor in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Main portfolios include capacity building for Financial Intelligence Units, technology and innovation in AML/CFT, disruption of professional money laundering networks and criminal use of virtual assets. 15 years of experience in the area.

Chris leads the Deloitte Forum for Tackling Illicit Finance, coordinating the Firm’s thought leadership on key financial crime issues including asset recovery, transparency of beneficial ownership and improving the effectiveness of the financial crime framework through innovations including public private partnership and information sharing utilities. He has published numerous papers including with the Institute of International Finance and as rapporteur for the Global Coalition to Fight Financial Crime. He also works extensively with public sector clients on national AML reform programmes. Chris joined Deloitte after 17 years with the UK National Crime Agency, where he was national Threat Lead for Money Laundering and where he established and led the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce.

Bahar is a Partner in Deloitte’s Financial Crime Practice with 13+ years of experience assisting financial institutions with assessing and transforming their AML programs and controls from design to implementation. She leads complex, cross-functional programs to enhance risk detection and transaction monitoring capabilities, including risk assessments, control effectiveness and TM model reviews, large-scale KYC remediation programs, transaction monitoring reviews/lookbacks, and multifaceted business investigations.

Deepa Sinha is the new Vice President of Payments and Financial Crime at BAFT, and will work to advance the goals of the payments and cash management industry through standardization, defining best practices and developing usable industry data. She will also be responsible for formulating policy recommendations and educating industry stakeholders including practitioners, regulators, policymakers and the broader business community. Prior to joining BAFT, Sinha accumulated more than 25 years of treasury and cash management experience at both corporations and banks. She formerly served as Treasurer at Caliburn International, now Acuity International, where she oversaw cash forecasting, working capital and debt management, and implemented policies and banking technology to support all core treasury functions. As the Associate Vice President of Banking Operations and Relationships at the Carlyle Group, she developed the cash management, FX and banking platforms, and built and managed the infrastructure for multicurrency cash management across 5,000+ bank accounts at more than 100 global banks. She also served on both the JPMorgan Chase Treasury and Wells Fargo Treasury Advisory Councils.