An international conference on prevention of money laundering will be the first event organised by the Portuguese Compliance and Regulatory Observatory. The conference takes place at the Geographical Society on 23 May.
The debate will address the challenges of implementing the 4th AML/CTF (Anti-Money Laundering & Counter-Terrorism Financing) Directive; the criteria for effective prevention and detection and “laundering and media”. The will also be a discussion about the prevention system and the implementation of the 4th Directive by a panel if international experts including Jean Paul Duvivier, the director of Counter Terrorism Finance and Valério Val, Anti-Financialc Crime chief at Deutsche Bank Group, Sascha Stojanovic, Senior Regulatory Analyst at Zurich Group, and Felipe Pathé Duarte, a consultant at VisionWare, among others.
The Portuguese Compliance and Regulatory Observatory was created in April and its mission is to promote awareness of compliance and regulatory activities. This new body plans to prepare ethics codes, recommendations and procedural manuals. It also plans to hold conferences and other events, as provided for in its articles of association.
The Observatory will represent specialist from the legal and financial sectors, and its board members are Nuno Moraes Bastos, Miguel Trindade Rocha, Paulo Costa Martins, Pedro Lino, José Costa Pinto, João Medeiros and Rui Patrício.
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