Stig Nielsen

Commissioner, Division for Anti Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terror (AML Division) at Danish Financial Supervisory Authority

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Stig worked in the Ministry of Business and Competitiveness from 1986 to 1989.

Stig has since 1989 been employed in the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority.

From 1993 to 1999 Stig was responsible for DFSA’s market risk supervision.

In 1999 Stig was appointed as Director for the Securities Markets Division and from 2007 to 2017 Stig was Director for the Division for Operational Risk Supervision, which a.o. included supervision of financial infrastructure, market risk in large banks, supervision of securities firms and winding up of banks.

Since June 2017, Stig has been Director for and later Commissioner in the DFSA’s Division for Anti Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terror (AML Division). In the AML Division, Stig is heading the supervision and AML/CTF in financial companies and he is coordinating the international work in the Division.

Over the years, Stig has had a number of different tasks at the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority, including supervision and international work, such as in IOSCO, during the Danish EU presidencies as Danish Head of Delegation to FATF and he is now the Danish Member of the two Internal Committees in AMLA.

Stig has through the year given presentations at many conferences and seminars in Denmark and abroad.