Metkel Asfaha

• Develop and manage AML and CTF policies, ensuring compliance with UK regulatory requirements.
• Enhance financial crime risk management policies and perform annual business risk assessments.
• Oversee suspicious activity report escalations and ensure appropriate actions are taken.

Key Achievements:

• Managed integration of new transaction monitoring and onboarding platforms (HawkAi; Sumsub).
• Established a Compliance Monitoring Program from the ground up.
• Maintained organisational compliance with applicable legislation and regulations.
• Optimised operations and reduced costs by ensuring AML platforms perform optimally through regularl reviewies on the impact of our rules
• Identified and resolved operational issues impacting productivity, performance or profitability.

• Calibrated onboarding and transaction monitoring platforms, ensuring effective risk mitigation.
• Conducted reviews of new product launches to enforce AML controls.

Key Achievements:

• Improved sanctions and PEP screening efficiency, reducing false positives from 34% to less than 5%.
• Implemented automated onboarding process through electronic verification (2+2)
• This allowed the seemless onboarding of over 100k new customers in less than 2 weeks period

• Maintained oversight of 2nd line financial crime operations and advised on regulatory compliance.
• Managed compliance projects, including new product launches and AML platform integrations.

Key Achievements:

• Redesigned and implemented a new FinCrime Compliance Framework with comprehensive policies.
• Successfully managed integration of new transaction monitoring platform (Napier Ai), including the set up of new rules and thresholds from ground up

• Responsible for managing financial crime risks and compliance frameworks.

• Developed and executed a risk-based compliance monitoring program.

Key Achievements:

• Improved the efficiency of the Financial crime framework through regular reviews of transaction monitoring platforms false positive rates, and implementation of fraud risk mitiations process which targeted ID fraud typologies
• Guided the compliance team through a successful FCA Thematic review.

• Developed and executed a risk-based compliance monitoring program.

• Assisted in implementing financial crime management framework

• Managed fraud detection systems, improving false positive ratios and reducing fraud losses.