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Charles Banks is a member of U.S. Bank’s Information Security Services, and as a Vice President, manages Security Briefing Center Operations. His team is responsible for both the day-to-day operations of the bank’s state-of-the-art security facilities, and the information and cybersecurity awareness education delivered in these briefing centers. With a focus on internal and external constituent engagements that raise general user awareness of socially engineered and digitally delivered cyber threats, his team’s mission is to change, or prevent, behaviors that result in digitally compromised, or lost data. His team hosts both virtual and on-site engagements in the Cyber Security Briefing Centers for both internal business lines and external clients of U.S. Bank. They also cultivate & coordinate proactive community outreach and cybersecurity education partnerships. In addition to a focus on educating local communities about digital threats, and responsible, security minded cyber safe practices, the Security Briefing Center Operations team is a STEM & STEAM education driver. Charles has been with U.S. Bank for 16 years with a background in training, training design, communications, and interactive cyber security awareness delivery. He joined the Information Security Services team in 2015.

Chris is the Head of Correspondent Banking for the Americas based in New York. He has been with the bank since 2011 when he joined the Financial Institutions team in Singapore. Prior to Standard Chartered, Chris worked for several start-ups in Toronto and Hong Kong in the fields of asset management and television media. 

Joakim (Jo) Diedrichs is a Managing Director of FX Trading at U.S. Bank. He has 30 years of FX and Interest Rate experience across G10, Latam as well as EM Asia. Before U.S. Bank he spent 5 years trading EM Asia at Standard Chartered, 2 years launching a Hedge Fund in Boston and 21 years trading G10 rates, and Latam FX and Rates at JPMorgan. He holds an MBA from Columbia School of Business and a BA from Yale.

Marlyen Habib is a Program Lead that supports approximately 150 firms across the Large and Foreign Banking Organizations (LFBO) portfolio and Less Complex Foreign Banking Organizations (LCFBO) portfolio, as well as select Financial Market Utility (FMI) firms in Supervision and Regulation at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In this role, Marlyen is responsible for managing a team of examiners that assess compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) laws and regulations, the requirements of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), other Counter-Terrorism Financing (CTF) regulations, and complex BSA/AML and OFAC enforcement actions. Marlyen joined the Bank in 2021. Prior to joining the Bank, Marlyen worked at other institutions in their AML programs and served as an Assistant Prosecutor in New Jersey for several years.

Mike Katergaris is Head of North America Financial Institutions, Payments at JP Morgan. He has been with JP Morgan since 2021. Based in New York, his team manages the Payments relationships of North American Banks, Insurance Companies, Asset Managers, Fintechs and Payments Processors, Broker Dealers, Foreign Banks and Broker Dealers and JP Morgan’s affiliates business. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Mike spent two years in the Investment Banking Coverage group at Société Générale, and 20 years with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in various roles across Global Treasury Services, Commercial Banking and Corporate Banking. During his career, Mike has worked in Singapore, London and New York.

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 and Deputy Chair of the United for Wildlife (UfW) SE Asia and Australasia. 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.

Gagan Singh is Chief Investment Officer of The PNC Financial Services Group, and is responsible for managing the firm’s investment portfolio, balance sheet interest rate risk, mortgage servicing rights acquisitions and hedging, while also serving as chief executive officer of PNC Capital Finance, overseeing PNC’s private equity, mezzanine and alternative investments. In addition, Singh is a member of PNC’s executive committee, asset and liability committee (ALCO), and chairs the pension investment committee. Before joining PNC in 2004, he was Managing Director and Head of North America Derivatives Strategy at JP Morgan. Singh serves on the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee and the University of Maryland Smith School of Business advisory board. He also serves on the board of Pratham USA, an NGO focused on primary education.

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.

Patricia Sullivan is Managing Director and Global Head of Institutional Cash Management (ICM) at Deutsche Bank since January 2024. In this role Patricia oversees the business and teams within the Corporate Bank delivering a wide range of payment, transactional FX, risk management, and liquidity solutions to financial institutions (banks & central banks) and Deutsche Bank affiliates. Patricia has more than 20 years of experience in covering ICM, Criminal Prosecution, Litigation, Financial Crime Compliance and Core Compliance.

Mike Timoney is a Vice President for Secure Payments and has responsibility to understand the payments and fraud landscape and identify areas where security must be improved. Mike is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing key elements of the Federal Reserve’s strategy for payment security with a focus on efforts related to fraud definitions and improving fraud data, as well as research into fraud, cyber threats, and emerging technologies. Mike joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston from Bank of America where he served as head of Global Card and Comprehensive Payables Fraud. Mike brings over 25 years of experience in financial services, treasury management, and fraud prevention and mitigation. While at Bank of America, he held various roles including in commercial and corporate treasury fraud, electronic payments, and program and portfolio management. Mike holds an M.B.A and a B.S. in Finance from the University of North Carolina Charlotte and is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School.

Manuela Veloso is Head of AI Research at JPMorganChase and Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emerita in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Veloso pursues research interests in core AI as AI robot and digital agents with perception, cognition, and action. She further aims at a seamless human-AI symbiotic interaction. Veloso is a member of the National Academy of Engineering for “her contributions to artificial intelligence and its applications to robotics and to the financial domain.” She is a past president of AAAI, and a co-founder of RoboCup. Veloso is a fellow of AAAI, IEEE, ACM, and AAAS. She has a BSc. and MSc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST, an MA in Computer Science from BU, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from CMU. Veloso has doctorate honorary degrees from the Catholic University of Portugal, University of Bordeaux, ISCTE, and University of Orebro. See www.cs.cmu.edu/~mmv for detailed information.

Leonardo Baccala is the Global head of Product Development in Trade & Working Capital Solution organization and takes a horizontal leadership role across Trade Working Capital Loans, Receivables Finance, Payables Finance and Core Trade. Mr Baccala's is responsible for setting the product platform strategy, promote business digitization and infrastructure modernization and improve client experiences, considering the evolution of the industry and clients’ needs globally. Prior to this appointment, Leonardo was the head of Product Development for Trade Americas and Regional Product Manager responsible for Trade Digitization in Latin America. Mr Baccala joined Citi as Senior Project Manager in Brazil starting in 2011, and moved to US as head of Enterprise Services for Latin America in 2014. Ever since, Leonardo has managed the implementation of a variety of projects, driving efficiency product transformation and digitization for the business.

Jeff Billingham is VP of Capital Markets with Chainalysis, the leading provider of anti-money laundering solutions for cryptocurrency businesses, financial institutions, and government agencies. In his role he works with financial market leaders to help them understand the economics of the cryptocurrencies, mitigate their cryptocurrency business risk, and pursue new crypto market opportunities. Prior to joining Chainalysis, Jeff led blockchain and cryptocurrency partnerships at IHS Markit.

Tod Burwell is the President and Chief Executive Officer of BAFT. Prior to being promoted to CEO, he served as the Senior Vice President of Trade Products with oversight of all trade-related initiatives including the Global Trade Industry Council, Trade Committees, and other strategic initiatives of the organization. Mr. Burwell has over 25 years of trade, supply chain and cash management experience as a banking practitioner, as well as serving as a consultant to global corporations and suppliers of strategically integrated trade solutions. Prior to joining BAFT, Mr. Burwell was a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase and held senior global management roles responsible for trade operations, launching the logistics business and managing global product sales for trade finance and logistics management.

Rich Clow is the Emerging Payments & Strategy Executive for Bank of America reporting to the Head of Enterprise Payments. In his role, Rich is responsible for evaluating the payments landscape, defining the strategic roadmap, and delivering solutions to scale Bank of America’s digital payment volumes. He engages across key ecosystem players like Visa, Mastercard, The Clearing House, Early Warning Services and digital payment partnerships ranging from PayPal to Uber. Rich also leads a Payment Innovation Process across Consumer and Small Business evaluating emerging business models and technologies such as Buy Now Pay Later, Zelle International, and Working Capital loans for small businesses with merchant service relationships.

Alison Kao, based in New York, NY, US, is currently a Director, Product Manager at LiquidX. Alison Kao holds a Georgia Institute of Technology.

Kristen Keyes is Head of Strategic Partnerships and Enterprise Sales at Paxos. Previously, she spent 14 years at J.P. Morgan in Equity Derivatives and Sales leadership roles, and holds an MBA from Wharton. With expertise in financial markets and strategic partnerships, she helps shape Paxos’ digital asset infrastructure for the open financial system.

Charles MICHALLET has managed digital assets structuring for Societe Generale since 2020 and co-lead SG-FORGE expansion in the US since July 2022. Recently, Charles lead SG Forge’s stablecoin (EURCV) creation and launch, as well as SG Forge’s EMI license validation. Charles joined Societe Generale in Paris in 2010 as part of the General Inspection where he completed the fast-track program participating in or supervising multiple assignments on a wide variety of activities and entities across Societe Generale Group. In 2016, he conducted his last mission advising Societe Generale CEO office on blockchain technology and related opportunities. He then joined the Global Markets division as Cross-Asset Structurer and sponsor for digital assets activities. Charles graduated from CentraleSupelec engineering school and has a MSc in mathematics from University of Paris-Saclay.

Scott Miller is a senior mentor (non-resident) with the Executive Education, focusing on leadership development programs for public- and private-sector executives. From 2012 until 2017, he held the William M. Scholl Chair in International Business at CSIS. The Scholl Chair focuses on key issues in the global economy, such as international trade, investment, competitiveness, and innovation. From 1997 to 2012, Mr. Miller was director for global trade policy at Procter & Gamble, a leading consumer products company. In that position, he was responsible for the full range of international trade, investment, and business facilitation issues for the company. He led many campaigns supporting U.S. free trade agreements and has been a contributor to U.S. trade and investment policy over many years. Mr. Miller was a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. Earlier in his career, he was a manufacturing, marketing, and government relations executive for Procter & Gamble in the United States and Canada.

Matthew Parker-Jones joined Scotiabank in 2023 and serves as the Global Head of Product Management for Global Transaction Banking. In this capacity, Matthew is the global P&L owner for Scotiabank’s cash management, payments, channels, trade finance, and value-added services offered to clients in 25 countries. Under Matthew’s leadership Scotiabank has significantly grown its transaction banking business and has received numerous industry recognitions including Euromoney’s #1 Cash Management Bank for Corporate Accounts in North America and Euromoney’s #1 Trade Finance Bank in Latin America. Matthew also serves as Scotiabank’s executive representative on external industry bodies for payments, including on the Board of Directors of Payments Canada and Payments 20 (P20), as well as on Scotiabank’s enterprise Innovation Council, where he helps guide the Bank’s transformational investments into cloud, data, and artificial intelligence.

Flav is a seasoned finance professional with over 10 years of experience in Corporate and Commercial Lending, Sales, and Relationship Management. Currently, he leads a team that partners with over 105 financial and non-bank institutions, utilizing multi-bank funding models to drive collaboration and provide risk diversification for clients. He oversees $20 billion in committed capital directed for trade funding and $300 billion in annual trade, ensuring efficient distribution and capital deployment to support diverse trade finance initiatives. His expertise in building strong partnerships and delivering impactful financial solutions makes him a valuable contributor to the trade finance industry. Flav also has three daughters under the age of 4, so he also oversees a lot of capital deployment in his personal life as well.

William Reinsch is senior adviser with the Economics Program and Scholl Chair in International Business at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Previously, he was a senior advisor at the law firm of Kelley, Drye & Warren and served for 15 years as president of the National Foreign Trade Council, which represents multinational companies on international trade and tax policy issues. From 2001 to 2016, he concurrently served as a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is also an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, teaching a course in trade policy and politics. Reinsch also served as the under secretary of commerce for export administration during the Clinton administration. Prior to that, he spent 20 years on Capitol Hill, most of them as senior legislative assistant to the late senator John Heinz (R-PA) and subsequently to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV). He holds a BA and an MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies respectively.

Patrik Zekkar, M.Sc Business Administration & Economics, have held several senior positions in different organization within the financial sector, with focus on develop and operate products, development, sales and services towards the trade and supply chain industry. Additionally, with substantial experience as board member in global commercial block chain platform initiative and from various industry interest organizations. Enigio is the provider of the patented SaaS document centric technology trace:originalTM . trace:originalTM is an open and interoperable solution for digitised original documents, ensuring consistency, integrity, traceability and possession of digital information, and ideal for use of any type of commercial document required in global trade.