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Magali is a managing director in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) & Sanctions practice in Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. She has nearly 20 years of industry experience and advises her clients on complex Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML compliance matters, regulatory expectations, large-scale remediations, and leading practices. Prior to joining Deloitte, Magali served as BSA/AML Officer in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s (FRBNY) Supervision Group where she supervised examinations of 180+ banks and remediations of enforcement actions (EA). Magali has presented at many domestic/international conferences, covering strategic program/EA management leading practices and delivered AML training to C-suite and central banking officials globally. Magali previously held AML positions at various large banks in NYC. Magali holds a BA from Boston University and a JD from Washington & Lee University School of Law. She is a native English/French speaker.

Eduardo Nieves works as a Special Agent at US Fish and Wildlife Service, which is a Federal company with an estimated 8,000 employees; and founded in 1940. They are part of the Physical Security team within the Operations Department Eduardo is currently based in United States.

As founder of Barrack Hill Research, Curran provides bespoke investigative research services to financial and corporate clients. He brings over a decade of experience in investigative due diligence and financial crime compliance, having performed thousands of risk assessments across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia during his tenure at Goldman Sachs and Kroll. Curran holds an MBA from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and is based in Washington D.C.

Hemanshu Parekh LLB, EMBA, CA, CAMS, is a leader, investigator and speaker. He is a member of the INTERPOL Wildlife Crimes Working Group. He is the Product Owner of industry leading Machine Learning models to fight various financial crimes. He is a global expert of financial investigations on wildlife crimes and an expert on ESG & Sanctions Investigations. Hemanshu has led successful industry-leading breakthrough investigations on human and wildlife trafficking, shell companies, sanctions circumvention, corruption, money mules, pandemic typologies, tax evasion and more. He has spread awareness on financial crimes and techniques and system to combat financial crimes to thousands of crime fighters through dozens of industry presentations and also collaborated connecting wildlife crime fighters across the world. With over 25 years of experience in Financial Crimes Compliance across Banking, FinTech, Insurance, Telecom and Advertising, Hemanshu is a thought leader using technology for end-to-end threat-based investigation from crime to typologies to red flags to touch points with bank to investigations using internal and external sources.

Miriam Ratkovicova is a Managing Director in the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions practice of Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. She has more than 20 years of experience advising US, Canadian, European and Asian large financial institutions on various Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)/AML, Sanctions, Anti-Bribery & Corruption and other Financial Crime compliance matters. Specifically, Miriam has led multiple large and complex projects involving historical transaction investigations, Know Your Customer (KYC) remediations, AML and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) risk assessments, and customer risk ratings. Miriam has delivered AML/Sanctions engagements in numerous countries throughout Europe, including Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, Cyprus and Slovakia. Currently, Miriam is serving several large financial institutions based in China, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia.

Elizabeth Rosenberg leads public policy and emerging risk work related to financial crimes and economic sanctions for Bank of America. She is responsible for industry and policymaker engagement related to illicit finance, and engagement in various Public Policy Partnerships. She also coordinates the Bank’s global team that oversees financial threat assessment and strategy for emerging illicit finance risks. Previously, Rosenberg served as the Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the U.S. Department of the Treasury where she led anti-money laundering policy, counter-terrorist financing and -proliferation financing efforts, and the use of sanctions to advance U.S. national security.

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.