API COMPLIANCE - Key Persons
Archana has worked in the financial services and banking industries for 15 years, acquiring extensive knowledge and skills in financial crime prevention including, on-boarding/KYC, policy writing, AML remediation, AML training and compliance functions.
Archana's passion to learn and ambition to become a subject matter expert has taken her through a journey of working for Worldpay, PaySafe and CashFlows in the payment sector. She also worked as an AML Technical Specialist at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
She graduated in Commerce from Madras University in India before she moved to the UK. She is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist with an active membership of ACAMS and a qualified PRINCE2 Practitioner with active membership with AXELOS. She has also completed other Certification courses in compliance, psychology, and Visa Fundamentals of Transaction Processing.
David is a senior IT professional with over 21 years' experience in the IT and technical consulting space.
With a background in enterprise IT support and information security, he brings a wealth of experience and expertise to the clients of API Compliance and advises payment and e-money institutions, assisting with their applications for authorisation, REP018 operational and security risk reports, as well as providing technical advisory services around PSD2, the EBA guidelines, strong customer authentication.
Georgeta is a professional with significant legal, regulatory and compliance knowledge, skills and experience in the EU and UK. She has a tenacious attitude that helps in her outstanding analysis and reporting skills, combined with the ability to deal with complex issues in a sensitive yet firm manner. She is great at communicating at all levels to understand and manage customers' needs and objectives.
Georgeta qualified as a lawyer in Romania, in 2009. She worked as an associate in a reputable law firm in Romania, specialising in European Union Law and Commercial Law including both consultancy and litigation.
In 2016, after relocating to the UK, she started a new career in the financial services industry, applying her outstanding analytical skills to compliance consulting. She is now specialised in regulatory licensing, regulatory reporting and compliance consulting.
She holds a law degree and has completed certification courses from the ICA in Anti-Money Laundering regulations (ICA Certificate in Anti -Money Laundering; ICA Certificate in KYC and CDD; ICA Certificate in Understanding Inside Threat).
Lee is a senior compliance professional and entrepreneur with over 16 years' experience in the payments and e-money space.
He founded API Compliance in 2014 after a successful career as the global Head of Compliance and MLRO for a multinational payment services group, gaining broad experience of the regulatory regimes of the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand.
His background in mathematics at the outset of his career provided him with a firm foundation in the systematic and analytical approach to problem solving that specialisation in AML/CTF and regulatory compliance demands.
In recent years he has, along with his team of experts, grown API Compliance into a leading provider of compliance services to the payments and electronic money industry with an outstanding track record, including a 100% approval rate for its regulatory applications and helping companies from over twenty countries worldwide establish their regulated operations in the UK.
Job Titles:
- Compliance Consultant
- Deputy Chairman of the Financial Crime Working Group of the Association of Professional Compliance Consultants
Spyros has over 14 years' experience working in the compliance functions of Electronic Money and Authorised Payment Institutions, specialising in financial crime compliance, AML/CTF risk assessments/management and regulatory compliance.
Spyros was formerly MLRO/Head of Compliance for two global e- money and Payment institutions. He has also headed the onboarding and compliance teams for major institutions like Worldpay, Cashflows and Kantox.
Spyros has an active interest in regulatory and financial crime compliance. Whilst holding a BSc in Economics, he has also graduated from the International Compliance Association's Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance and the Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Crime Compliance.
Spyros is deputy chairman of the Financial Crime working group of the Association of Professional Compliance Consultants (APCC) which aims to examine the existing and upcoming legislation with a focus on the UK Money Laundering Regulations and the FCA's approach to EMIs and APIs.