Henrik Koch

Head of Transaction Monitoring at Nordea

Speaker

Henrik is Senior Vice President within Financial Anti-Crime area in Nordea. He has more than 14 years anti-money laundering (AML) & sanction compliance experience; over 5 years of online fraud prevention experience and over 20 years of transaction banking experience.

As head of the Transaction Monitoring Value Chain the current responsibility cover both detection and investigation of money laundering, terrorist financing and tax evasion. The detection side includes designing, developing, and running of group-wide system support for AML Transaction Monitoring and the subsequent product management of the new and existing solutions. Furthermore, the investigation side includes investigating alerts, cases and SARs from all our automated solutions and manual sources.

This means leading an organisation in 7 countries with more than 1200+ highly skilled, competent and driven people.

On a daily basis this means Henrik is leading or being involved in majority of Nordea's strategic initiatives within the Financial Crime Compliance area. Latest remarkable achievements are implementation of AI and Quantexa.

The educational background is credentials from major European business schools including a Master of Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School.