The Central and Eastern European Chapter is dedicated to enhancing anti-financial crime knowledge and delivering engaging events to the compliance community. Through its activity, the Chapter seeks to promote RegTech innovation, information sharing, collaboration, and bring together experts with diverse backgrounds and international experience.
Central and Eastern Europe
Your passion for fighting financial crime starts here
Central and Eastern Europe
Your passion for fighting financial crime starts here
OUR MISSION
“To provide information and resources to help industry professionals detect and prevent financial crime.”
- The Chapter Board
- Events
- Resources
Denitsa Rebaine
Chair
Attila Takács
Programming Director & Treasurer
Daniel Mazurek
Programming Director
Jan Indra
Programming Director
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Jan Indra (Programming Director, CZECH REPUBLIC) is a young professional with over 7 years of experience in the fields of OSINT, investigations and data visualizations.
Currently working as a Business Intelligence Consultant at a Czech private consulting firm Screening Solutions, Jan`s work primarily entails research, analysis and reporting of various due diligence and investigation projects, with specialization on identification of potential conflicts of interests or corruption indicators.
Before coming to Screening Solutions, Jan spent 4 years working as an investigative reporter at a Czech non-profit investigative newsroom Czech Center for Investigative Journalism, where he had the opportunity to collaborate on some of the biggest cross-border global investigations including projects such as the Panama Papers or the Russian Laundromat.
Aside from research and analysis, Jan`s work also includes content management, creation and marketing, mostly for an educational organization Compliance Academy (articles, podcast, handbooks, infographics etc.) which strives for bringing together GRC professionals in the Czech Republic.
Over the years, Jan has also professionally collaborated with the Poynter Institute`s International Fact-Checking Network as an External Assessor or with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) as an Investigative Reporter and Fact-Checker.
Field-wise, Jan is a data analytics & visualization enthusiast interested in how visual representation of data can help uncover hidden patterns and connections between various entities or individuals. He has attended numerous international workshops focused on investigative journalism and hosted his own workshop on OSINT & data visualization.
Anna Woszczyk
Event Manager & Membership Director
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Anna Woszczyk (Event Manager & Membership Director, POLAND) is Global KYC Learning and Development Business Trainer at Independent Compliance Risk Management Department in CitiBank. In her role, Anna manages the learning environment of various KYC functions, develops, maintains and delivers procedures/process, systems and skill-based training related to AML, CFT and KYC areas globally. Additionally Anna delivers lectures in Warsaw University in the frameworks of Introduction to Anti Money Laundering course. Before taking on her role as Business Trainer, Anna has obtained extensive experience in AML FIU by serving as Transaction Monitoring Compliance Analyst and investigating financial behavior of the customer to detect and prevent activities related to money laundering or any other illegal actions. Anna possesses extensive knowledge in KYC processes, FIU AML operations as well as specific products risks (Foreign Correspondent Banking, Payment Intermediaries etc) and is certified AML Specialist (ACAMS) and holder of International Compliance Association (ICA) Advanced Certificate.
Kinga Szukalska-Preisner
Communications Director & Secretary
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Kinga Szukalska-Preisner (Communications Director & Secretary, POLAND) has more than 10 years’ experience in the AML environment in Citibank. Currently, she is part of the Independent Compliance Risk Management Department. In her role of Global KYC Senior QC Analyst in the Global KYC Assurance team Kinga is responsible for quality controls on risk processes and risk evaluation reviews performed by compliance teams to make sure that KYC is conducted in line with the requirements and law regulations. She also participates in the risk management and oversight activities that together with quality control measure the effectiveness of the KYC program. Before joining KYC Department, she spent a couple of years in the Financial Intelligence Unit in Citibank being responsible for transaction monitoring mostly for private banking clients in the EMEA region. As a Subject Matter Expert she supported migration projects from Switzerland and Czech Republic.
Before joining Citibank, Kinga worked for ExpaTax Advisory where she was involved in the Personal Income Tax and Social Security’s matters of clients.
Prior that, Kinga worked as an Assistant and then Consultant at Deloitte Tax Advisory Sp. Z o.o. As a Consultant she gathered her knowledge on Personal Income Tax and Social Security, supporting core team members. As an Assistant she was part of a projects risk management assessment.
Olha Taran
Marketing / Communications Director
Rostyslav Dyuk
Chapter Advisor
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Rostyslav Dyuk (Board Member) is Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Fintech and Innovation Companies.
Rostyslav has over 15 years of experience in the financial and banking sector, including C-level positions at banks.
Now he’s heading the board of the Ukrainian Association of Fintech and Innovation Companies. Before founding the Association, he has been working as Team Lead for the USAID project “Financial Sector Transformation” for two years and was responsible for Digital Finance.
Also, he is a member of the Social Council and the chairman of the Committee on Fintech of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the author of the first Ukrainian Fintech Catalogue and Map of the ecosystem, ideologist of UAFIN.TECH – the largest Fintech conference in Eastern Europe and the CIS region, an expert of the Ukrainian Startup Fund.
Ruslan Kostetsky
Board Member
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Ruslan Kostetsky (Board Member) is the Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Fintech and Innovation Companies (UAFIC).
Ruslan Kostetsky has more than 15 years’ experience in IT including AML solutions implementation and consultancy. Currently he is leading AML and KYC at UAFIC’s committee on RegTech along with B2B integration of startups. Before joining UAFIC he worked at SAS Institute Ukraine where he was responsible for Risk Management solutions for banking and insurance, Data management, Segmentation, Data mining and Text Analytics.
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