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DreamQuark develops software (Brain) to increase the sales and customer engagement in banking and insurance with explainable and trusted deep learning AI. In 2017, DreamQuark has won the Fintech of the Year price by Finance Innovation as well as the Best Cognitive Platform award by Bank & Innovation. The multi-award winning company has been given 5 out of 5 s...

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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...

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Rūta Merkevičiūtė is a Head of Division for E-money and Payment institution supervision at Bank of Lithuania, responsible for supervising over 100 E-money and Payment institutions. She is also a member of Lithuanian’s Payment council group, which is dedicated to investigate to further implementation of Open Banking in Lithuania. She has professional legal qualification as an attorney-at law and for the past 10 years has been...

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Sara Öhrvall is Chief Transformation Officer at SEB. She is responsible for the digital and sustainability transformation agenda and is a member of the Executive Management Team. Prior to joining SEB, Sara was a Board Director of SEB as well as one of the major owners of the bank, Investor. She has a background in media, as Senior Vice President, R&D at Bonnier, the leading...

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Prior to working at Lloyds, Angela worked At Deutsche Bank in the Cloud, Anti-Financial Crime Analytics, Data Quality and Finance Risk and Regulatory Reporting change and transformation teams. Before joining Deutsche Bank, Angela worked as a Senior Manager at EY across Asia Pacific and EMEIA within the Financial Services Organisation focusing on Corporate Banking and Capital Markets transformation and advisory programmes. Angela started her career...

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Stefan is a Fellow of the International Compliance Association (FICA) and a seasoned compliance expert with nearly 20 years of experience. He has covered all major and many less common products, worked on the buy side, sell side, in traditional banking, payments, Fintech, in wholesale and retail. On four occasions so far he has been registered as head of compliance (and MLRO) of banks/brokers for a...

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Prior to joining QOMPLX, he served as Chief Underwriting Officer at Qatar Re. He began his career as a graduate trainee at Jardine Matheson (JIB) and worked for ten years at Aon Re UK as COO. He also held the position of Chief Executive Officer at JLT Towers from 2012–2015, and has held board-level appointments in reinsurance and banking subsidiaries.  ...

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Anna is a Global Head of Anti-Financial Crime for the International Private Bank Division of Deutsche Bank. Anna is responsible for a portfolio of 3 million clients and covers all anti-financial crime related topics including KYC, optimisation of processes related to client on-boarding and transaction monitoring. Anna’s focus is on developing AI and machine learning tools to prevent and detect financial crime. Anna...

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With 20-plus years in Financial Services, Kate Bohn is a leader, strategist, and innovator for the global finance industry. She has worked across a range of roles and areas, including Markets, Finance, Strategy, Technology, and Operations within a software house, Deutsche Bank, Citi, and Lloyds Banking Group: at all times, the common thread has been a clear focus on innovation and transformation, and she...

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Michael Berger is the head of Munich Re’s AI insurance unit, which structures insurance solutions for risks around AI implementation, including performance shortfall and discrimination risks. He and his team predominantly work with AI start-ups. Michael has been based in Palo Alto, California, USA since 2016. Prior to his current role in Silicon Valley, he worked for Munich Re in Munich, Germany, and London, UK,...

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