The Europe Express column features anti-financial crime-related content with a regional focus in Europe from subject-matter experts. If you would like to contribute to this column or have any topics you would like to suggest, please email editor@acams.org.
Our regular contributor is Stefano Siggia, CAMS, senior consultant at the Brussels-based regulatory and compliance consultancy firm Pideeco.
Siggia was born in Italy but grew up in Bangladesh, China, Germany and Belgium, where he currently resides. After earning his bachelor’s degree in international affairs from Vesalius College and a master’s degree in international relations from the Brussels School of International Studies (University of Kent), he worked at Banca Monte Paschi Belgio.
On June 20, 2019, students of the compliance officer degree program presented their final assignments. For the third consecutive year, the accreditation has been offered by the University of Law at Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Versailles, France with the support of the Association...
For the last two decades, financial institutions (FIs) and governments worked on different sides of the spectrum to combat financial crime. Governments imposed rules that sometimes curtailed FIs in the fight of such crimes. Now both parties are looking for ways to work closer together...
The urbanity of the regulatory world obscures the financial industry’s geopolitical side. Beneath the boardrooms, behind the conferences and between the lines of regulation lies the reality of the banking industry’s existence as an economic terrain. The recent drone attack and bombing of Saudi Arabia’s...
In February 2018, the shocking case of Zamira Hajiyeva and her wealth caused upheaval in British tabloids. She is the wife of Jahangir Hajiyev, the prominent jailed Azerbaijani chairman of the state-controlled International Bank of Azerbaijan from 2001 to 2015. Hajiyeva was said to...
Our regular contributor is Stefano Siggia, CAMS, senior consultant at the Brussels-based regulatory and compliance consultancy firm Pideeco.
