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Recorded Webinar: Navigating a Complex World: Best Data Practices in Sanctions Screening

5 November 2025

As rising geopolitical uncertainty prompts an intensification in the complexity and volume of global economic and financial sanctions, banks and financial institutions are faced with a daunting set of new compliance challenges.

The risk of inadvertently engaging with sanctioned securities has never been higher and the penalties for doing so are harsh.

Traditional sanctions screening processes are unable to properly monitor this new regulatory landscape and while technology is offering many solutions to automate and streamline their screening processes, many fall foul for a lack of good quality data.

In this webinar, experts from the data and compliance sectors will look at how those challenges can be overcome.

This webinar looks at:

  • The changing face of international sanctions
  • The drivers behind the proliferation of sanctions
  • The technological answer to sanctions screening challenges
  • Challenges to automating sanctions-screening processes.

Why attend? Compliance leaders need solutions to their sanctions screening needs as governments and their agencies turn the screws on errant states, companies and individuals. This session will highlight the best practices they can implement to ensure their monitors are up to date and able to adapt to changes to blacklists, watchlists and other regulatory measures.

Speakers:

Gaelle Maquignon ITC and Economic Sanctions Lead
Swiss Re
Harsh Shah Managing Director (Financial Crimes Technology and Analytics) - Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics
Deloitte
Oliver Bodmer Senior Product Manager
SIX
Moderator: Mark McCord Editor, Data Management Insight
A-Team Group

More about our speakers:

Gaelle Maquignon

ITC and Economic Sanctions Lead

Swiss Re

Gaelle Maquignon serves as Sanctions Framework Owner at Swiss Re, overseeing global sanctions governance across business units. With 12 years in the insurance industry, she brings expertise in navigating complex regulatory landscapes, having supported strategic compliance responses through key developments such as the JCPOA, Brexit, and the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.

Harsh Shah

Managing Director (Financial Crimes Technology and Analytics) - Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics

Deloitte

Harsh is a managing director in the Anti-money Laundering (AML) and Sanctions Consulting practice of Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP (DTBA). He has extensive experience in data and technology solutions, with specialization in serving the Financial Services Industry (FSI) and Tech. Industry clients. For more than a decade, Harsh has assisted FSI clients obtain alignment with regulatory and management commitments through targeted compliance initiatives, technology/system transformations, validation of compliance models, and deployment of data analytics strategies.

Harsh has deep experience in risk/compliance technology integration, specializing in business managed implementations of enterprise-scale AML compliance and fraud monitoring systems for commercial banks, US branches of foreign banks, private-banking institutions, broker/dealers, and payment solution providers. He is also a leader and often serves as an advisor to AML compliance technology engagements for DTBA. He has led several engagements involving implementations, upgrades, enhancements, tuning/calibration, and validations of AML and Sanctions technology solutions.

Oliver Bodmer

Senior Product Manager

SIX

Oliver Bodmer is the Product Management Director at SIX Financial Information, based in Switzerland, where he oversees the strategy for KYC, AML and Sanctions and leads customer implementation projects in the above areas in locations across the globe – gaining a deep domain expertise in sanctions landscapes internationally. Prior to SIX, Oliver served in AML and anti-trust capacities in banking groups, large international technology companies, and the Swiss Anti-Trust Department. Oliver has a master’s degree in economics and an Executive MBA from EPFL Switzerland and the University of Texas at Austin, and has served as a subject matter expert on sanctions, compliance, and AML in the Financial Times, Corporate Compliance Insights, Global Banking and Finance, and Compliance Week.

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