10 KYC and AML operations experts
Europe is home base for nine of the ten KYC and AML operations heads below, three of them in Poland, and their KYC, AML and financial crime titles sit at Citi, Swedbank, ING Americas and Deutsche Bank Italia as well as N26, Revolut, Wise, SumUp, Worldline and Airbus Bank GmbH. Teams scaling onboarding and periodic reviews, planning a KYC remediation program, or preparing first-line financial crime operations for a regulator can compare how each setting handled it.
Professionals to explore
Anna Mokrzyk
LinkedInExperience: Head of KYC & Client Due Diligence (CDD) · Worldline
Anna Mokrzyk has been Head of KYC & Client Due Diligence (CDD) at Worldline since 2026 and was Risk Management Team Lead there (2024-2025). Compliance Operations Lead (AML CTF) at Accenture (2023-2024) and Compliance Operations roles at Klarna (2022-2023) round out Anna's record, with periodic reviews named on Anna's LinkedIn profile.
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Debbie van Heel
LinkedInExperience: Former Global Head of KYC and KYB Operations · N26
Debbie van Heel became Global Head of KYC and KYB Operations at N26 in 2025 after Global Senior Operations Manager there (2021-2025), and held Global Operations Manager (2019-2021) and Global Operations Team Lead (2018-2019) titles at N26. Debbie describes leading the teams that safeguard customer integrity, a fit for questions on running KYC and KYB operations together at one bank.
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Deepti Mahoney
LinkedInExperience: Global Head of KYC · SumUp
Global Head of KYC at SumUp since 2021, Deepti Mahoney was Head of KYC MLRO at Iban (2019), Head of KYC at Tide (2018-2019) and CDD Analyst at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (2016-2018). Deepti was also Business Assurance Lead at Shell (2019-2021), and the SumUp role suits questions on KYC for businesses that accept card payments.
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Emanuele Ranghetti
LinkedInExperience: Former Head of KYC · Deutsche Bank Italia
Emanuele Ranghetti was Head of KYC at Deutsche Bank Italia from 2019 to 2022, then Group Head of AML Advisory at UniCredit (2022-2024) and Head of AML at Mooney (2024-2026). Holding CAMS and CAFS certifications and a law degree, with earlier Head of Legal Recovery (2011-2019) at Deutsche Bank Italia, Emanuele fits questions on the legal and advisory side of AML.
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Katarzyna Said Nagy
LinkedInExperience: Former Head of FinCrime Operations Europe Bank · Revolut
Katarzyna Said Nagy was Head of FinCrime Operations Europe Bank at Revolut from 2022 to 2026, and held Revolut titles from Risk and Compliance Analyst (2017) through Senior Financial Crime Compliance Manager (2021-2022). Katarzyna describes building and scaling EU FinCrime functions across fraud, AML, outsourcing and governance, and being board and regulator-facing.
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Liis Allikof
LinkedInExperience: Head of Global KYC Function · Wise
Liis Allikof has been Head of Global KYC Function at Wise since 2022, after KYC Europe Area Lead there (2018-2022), a role held in Tallinn. Resource & Planning Manager at Evander (2013-2016) and Help Desk Line Manager at BNP Paribas Cardif (2011-2013) add planning and team management, a fit for questions on scaling a KYC team across regions.
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Patrick Schmid
LinkedInExperience: Head of KYC & CSO · Airbus Bank GmbH
Head of KYC & CSO at Airbus Bank GmbH since 2024, a role combining Know Your Customer with Customer Sales Operations, Patrick Schmid was Head of KYC there (2023-2024). Team Lead - Market Control at Fidor Bank AG (2021-2023) and Manager Merchant Compliance titles at Getnet (2021) and Wirecard (2019-2021) add merchant compliance work.
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Peter Mills
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director - KYC Operations Head - Europe, Middle East and Africa · Citi
Peter Mills has been Managing Director - KYC Operations Head - Europe, Middle East and Africa at Citi since 2026, a unit responsible for the preparation, due diligence and approval of customer acquisition due diligence and documentation. Managing Director - APAC KYC Banking Operations (2022-2026) and Global Head of KYC Remediation titles at Citi (2019-2022) make Peter a fit for questions on remediation programs.
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Tim Meulemeester
LinkedInExperience: Managing Director - Customer Onboarding & FinCrime Prevention · ING Americas
Tim Meulemeester, based in New York, has been Managing Director - Customer Onboarding & FinCrime Prevention at ING Americas since 2022. Director, Customer Onboarding & KYC at ING (2018-2020), Senior Program Director at ING (2021-2022) and an MIT Sloan Fellow MBA (2020-2021) give Tim a record for questions on designing onboarding operating models in a regulated environment.
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Živilė Arnašienė
LinkedInExperience: Head of AML KYC Office · Swedbank
Živilė Arnašienė has held Head of AML KYC Office at Swedbank since 2021, Head of KYC department (2018-2021) and Head of KYC Middle Office (2017-2018) there. Western Union AML compliance titles (2014-2017), a CAMS certification and 14 years in AML/CTF, with skills that include transaction monitoring and KYC operations management, suit questions on combining KYC and AML monitoring in one office.
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Choose the right perspective
Peter Mills and Tim Meulemeester suit questions on regional KYC operations and remediation at Citi and ING, and Živilė Arnašienė and Emanuele Ranghetti add AML office and advisory roles at Swedbank, Deutsche Bank Italia and UniCredit. Debbie van Heel, Liis Allikof, Deepti Mahoney and Katarzyna Said Nagy fit building KYC or financial crime teams at N26, Wise, SumUp and Revolut; Anna Mokrzyk fits periodic reviews and client due diligence, and Patrick Schmid fits KYC paired with customer sales operations at Airbus Bank GmbH.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should a KYC remediation program be staffed and sequenced when a regulator expects a large customer file backlog cleared on a deadline?
- 02How do KYC checks for merchants that accept card payments differ from checks for individual account holders, and what does that mean for staffing?
- 03Which KYC and AML work can be outsourced to a vendor, and which controls must stay with the first line of defence?
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