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Anne Archer joined Atlantic Union Bank with their acquisition of Xenith Bankshares in 2018, and currently serves as the VP, Director Enterprise Fraud Strategy. She oversees the Bank’s enterprise fraud risk strategy, including risk assessments, education and awareness, program governance, fraud investigations, and threat intelligence. Since joining Atlantic Union Bank, Anne has held positions of increasing responsibility serving as the FIU Enterprise Quality...

Enrico leads the Modelling team for the Corporate Security department at Banco Bradesco S.A., managing the full model lifecycle for Application Fraud, Transactional Fraud and AML. His duties include Model Risk governance, reporting to senior executives and committees, and engaging with suppliers for external models and solutions. Past responsibilities include Analytics, MIS, and fraud risk evaluation/mitigation in new product launches. Further past experiences include Credit Risk...

Francisco Rivadeneyra in the Director for CBDC & FinTech Policy and Research at the Bank of Canada. In this role he leads a team developing policy advice in areas of central bank digital currency, electronic money and payments, and the implications for central banks of broader financial innovations. He also is an active researcher working in the intersection of technology, payments infrastructures and finance. His...

PhD in Computer Science by Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) with projects in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Gustavo Botelho is currently Senior Advisor in Artificial Intelligence at Banco do Brasil, one of the major public Brazilian banks and also Graduate Professor in Artificial Intelligence at IESB. He has also an MBA degree in People Management and was a Short-Term Scholar at Michigan State...

Zsolt Sapi, Senior Vice President, Global Independent Fraud Risk Management, Citibank Zsolt has 10 years of experience in credit and fraud risk analytics and modeling in Europe and the US. Currently he is working in Citi’s Global Fraud Analytics Oversight Team and leading analytics oversight for North America. He is located in New York, USA and hasbeen in his current role for over 5 years....

The Vice President in Citi Bank's Model Risk Management Division. He was invited as a Keynote speaker to present on Fraud Analytics using Machine Learning at the International Automation in Banking Summit in New York in November 2019. Vishal has experiences in quantitative risk modeling using advanced engineering, statistical and machine learning technologies. His academic qualifications in combination with a PhD in Chemical Engineering and...

Nitesh Soni is a Director at Scotiabank where he is leading end-to-end advanced analytics and AI projects for Business Functions areas. His career spans over 15 years across top tier banks, consulting firm and world leading research institutes with a core expertise in Predictive modeling, Machine Learning, AI and Big Data. He is a regular speaker at the various national and international conferences. While as...

Venediktos Iroidis is a Manager at Be Shaping the Future | UK, a London management consultancy for financial services organisations. He has several years experience in the financial services consultancy as prior to joining Be Shaping the Future in 2017, he was a Business and Integration Consultant at Accenture and Business Design Analyst within Barclaycard Regulatory and Compliance team. Venediktos developed a benchmarking report on Identity...

Masha Cilliers is a senior professional with over 25 years’ experience in payments across online and customer present channels, fraud and identity management, payment and related regulation compliance. With a special passion for payment innovation, new payment models such as marketplaces and fintechs and growth and expansion strategy. Masha is a Specialist Partner at the consultancy firm Be | Shaping the Future, as well as...