Measures against money laundering and terrorist financing

Un­nur Gun­narsdót­tir is Deputy Gov­ernor at the Cent­ral Bank of Ice­land for Fin­an­cial Su­per­vi­sion. She is the chair of the Fin­an­cial Su­per­vi­sion Com­mit­tee and a mem­ber of the Fin­an­cial Sta­bil­ity Com­mit­tee. From 2012, un­til the mer­ger with the Cent­ral Bank of Ice­land in 2020, she was Dir­ector Gen­eral of the Fin­an­cial Su­per­vis­ory Au­thor­ity.

Un­nur has ex­tens­ive ex­per­i­ence of legal work in the fin­an­cial sphere, in­clud­ing pub­lic ad­min­is­tra­tion and ju­di­cial func­tions. She worked for a num­ber of years in the bank in­spect­or­ate of the Cent­ral Bank of Iceland. After that she was a fin­an­cial ser­vices ex­pert with re­gard to the EEA Agree­ment at the EFTA Sec­ret­ariat in Brus­sels. She also served as man­aging dir­ector of the pay­ment me­di­ation com­pany Fjöl­greiðslu­miðlun. In pub­lic ad­min­is­tra­tion, Un­nur was a dir­ector in the Min­istry of Com­mu­nic­a­tions and Mu­ni­cip­al­it­ies for seven years, act­ing Dis­trict Court judge at the Reyk­javík Dis­trict Court and Chief Legal Coun­sel at the Fin­an­cial Su­per­vis­ory Au­thor­ity.

Un­nur Gun­narsdót­tir is a law gradu­ate of the Uni­versity of Iceland. Un­nur has pur­sued post-­gradu­ate stud­ies in Toron­to, Lon­don and Bar­celona.

Present­a­tion - Un­nur Gun­narsdót­tir

Olena is a policy of­ficer at the European Com­mis­sion, cur­rently work­ing in the Fin­an­cial Crime unit of DG FIS­MA, with 10 years of ex­per­i­ence and ex­pert­ise in European reg­u­lat­ory and policy frame­work in the fin­an­cial sec­tor. Over the last 3 years, Olena has been in­volved in all Com­mis­sion’s ini­ti­at­ives the area of an­ti­-­money laun­der­ing and coun­ter­ing the fin­an­cing of ter­ror­ism re­lat­ing to the fin­an­cial sec­tor, in­clud­ing the re­cent le­gis­lat­ive pro­pos­als. Pre­vi­ously, Olena has worked in the Bank­ing unit of DG FIS­MA, in the area of pruden­tial reg­u­la­tion for banks.
Be­fore join­ing the European Com­mis­sion in 2017, Olena has worked at De Neder­land­sche Bank (Dutch Cent­ral Bank) in the area of pruden­tial su­per­vis­ory policy for over 5 years. Olena re­ceived her LLM in European Union law (cum laude) from Erasmus Uni­versity of Rot­ter­dam in 2011, and is an MBA can­did­ate at Bayes Busi­ness School, City Uni­versity of Lon­don.
Present­a­tion - Olena Loboiko

Mrs En­dija Springe joined the European Bank­ing Au­thor­ity 5.5 years ago as a Policy Ex­pert in an­ti­-­money laun­der­ing and coun­ter­ing the fin­an­cing of ter­ror­ism.
Since join­ing the EBA, Mrs Springe, among other things, has es­tab­lished the frame­work for su­per­vis­ory co­oper­a­tion in the EU through AM­L/CFT col­leges. She has also led work on im­prov­ing su­per­vis­ory con­ver­gence through the re­vi­sion of the ESAs Risk Based Su­per­vi­sion Guidelines and by car­ry­ing out re­views of com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies’ ap­proaches to AM­L/CFT su­per­vi­sion. She has also worked on rais­ing aware­ness of money laun­der­ing and ter­ror­ist fin­an­cing risks in the EU through vari­ous train­ing events and other ini­ti­at­ives.
Be­fore join­ing the EBA, Mrs Springe worked as an AM­L/CFT su­per­visor at the Cent­ral Bank of Ire­land and in vari­ous com­pli­ance roles in the Ir­ish fin­an­cial ser­vices sec­tor.
Present­a­tion - En­dija Springe

Petra Vriend is Head of De­part­ment, Su­per­vi­sion Fin­an­cial Crime, at the Dutch Cent­ral Bank (D­N­B). Petra had a long ca­reer in com­mer­cial bank­ing at ING Bank be­fore join­ing DNB in 2017. After 3 years in bank­ing su­per­vi­sion in the area of AM­L/CFT she took on the role of de­part­ment head, fo­cus­ing on in­tel­li­gence, data driven su­per­vi­sion and strategy as well as on su­per­vi­sion of the crypto sec­tor.
Her main in­terest is in the area of im­prov­ing pro­cesses and us­ing data and new tech­no­logy to im­prove the ef­fect­ive­ness of the cur­rent AML prac­tice. Her ex­tens­ive ex­per­i­ence with AM­L/CFT pro­cesses at ING gives her a thor­ough un­der­stand­ing of the chal­lenges banks and other fin­an­cial in­sti­tu­tions face try­ing to com­ply with na­tional and in­ter­na­tional le­gis­la­tion. At the same time her role at DNB af­fords her a broad view of all stake­hold­ers in­volved, private as well as pub­lic. 
Petra holds a de­gree in busi­ness eco­nom­ics. 
Present­a­tion - Petra Vriend

Mr Grímur Gríms­son is a Chief Su­per­in­tend­ent at The Reyk­javík Met­ro­pol­itan Po­lice. He is the head of Crim­inal In­vest­ig­a­tion Di­vi­sion and re­spons­ible for Ser­i­ous and Or­gan­ized Crime, Sexual of­fences and In­vest­ig­a­tion Sup­port ser­vices.

Mr Gríms­son joined the Po­lice in 1987. In his ca­reer, he has held vari­ous po­s­i­tions within the po­lice, in­clud­ing in uni­form Po­lice, in crim­inal in­vest­ig­a­tions and as a li­aison of­ficer at Euro­pol.
Present­a­tion - Grímur Gríms­son