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3rd Deloitte Financial Crime Symposium
Monday, 5 October 2026 9:00 a.m. EET

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5 Oct. 2026

Monday, 09:00 a.m. EET

3rd Deloitte Financial Crime Symposium

Deloitte Greece proudly invites you to the 3rd Financial Crime Symposium: One Rulebook, New Rules: Preparing for the AMLR Era, taking place on October 5th at 09:00 at the Athens Conservatoire, a benchmark gathering for professionals committed to advance financial crime prevention in Greece and Europe.

Leading representatives from regulatory bodies, law enforcement, financial institutions, and industry will come together for a day of dialogue and insights on the shifting financial crime landscape.

Agenda

09:00 – 09:45 | Registration & welcome

09:45 – 10:00 | Opening remarks
John D. Saracakis
, President, American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) 
Karolos Saias, Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies (HAIC), Chairman of the Insurance Fraud Prevention & Response Committee 
Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Partner, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece

10:00 – 10:30 | Keynote speech: EU-AML package – AMLA is transforming our AML/CFT regime
Andreas Burger
, Partner, Strategy, Risk & Transanctions, Deloitte Frankfurt 

10:30 – 10:50 | Discussion: AML package in practice – MPS programme and the experience gained on customer due diligence model
Roberto Regoli
, Group AML Officer, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena 
Alfredo Canori, Director, Strategy, Risk & Transactions, Deloitte Italy

10:50 – 11:10 | Fireside chat: The new era of AML – how the Greek banking system is preparing for AMLR
Charoula Apalagaki, Acting General Manager, Hellenic Bank Association 
in discussion with: Thanos Papanikolaou, Partner, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece

11:10 – 11:30 | Fireside chat: Financial crime risk across credit servicers
Theodore Athanasopoulos
, Chairman, Board of the Hellenic Loan Servicers Association
in discussion with: George Trivizas, Partner, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece

11:30 – 11:50 | Fireside chat: The MLRO in the AMLA era – from national gatekeeper to EU-supervised function
Sofia Asmatoglou
, Director Financial Crime Compliance Division & Group MLRO, National Bank of Greece
in discussion with: Eleana Batsi, Principal, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece

11:50 – 12:20 | Discussion: Compliance as a growth enabler – how fast-growing banks build scalable AML frameworks without becoming a bottleneck
Alexandros Diolis
, Head of Compliance, MLRO, Optima bank
Eleni Georgiadi, Director of Compliance and Corporate Governance, CrediaBank
Moderator: Thanos Papanikolaou, Partner, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece

12:20 – 12:40 | Fireside chat: The cost of standing still – AI and financial crime from the boardroom
Damianos Charalampidis
, Independent NED, Board Member, Audit and Risk Committee Member Eurobank Ltd (Cyprus)
in discussion with: Renato Tzeferacos, Partner, AI & Data, Deloitte Greece

12:40 – 13:45 | Lunch break

13:45 – 14:15 | Speech: When art becomes an obliged entity – the new AML regulation for art and antiquities
Maria Gkioni, UNESCO Chair on Threats to Cultural Heritage, Ionian University

14:15 – 14:35 | Fireside chat: AMLR in practice – what the new framework means for capital markets
Vassiliki Lazarakou
, Chair, Hellenic Capital Market Commission 
in discussion with: Yannis Dracoulis, Partner, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece

14:35 – 15:15 | Panel: The new AML architecture in practice – what Greek banks are doing
Angelos Tzermiadianos, Deputy Director, Supervised Institutions Inspection Directorate, Bank of Greece
Panos Dasmanoglou, Executive General Manager of Group Compliance & Corporate Governance, General Company Secretary, National Bank of Greece 
Xenofon Avlonitis, Group Chief of Compliance, Alpha Bank 
Platon Karageorgos, Senior Director, Anti-Money Laundering & Compliance, Piraeus Bank
Thanasis Athanasopoulos, Group Chief Compliance Officer, General Manager, Eurobank
Moderator: George Trivizas, Partner, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece
 

15:15 – 15:45 | Panel: AML in the payments ecosystem 
Michael Diamantoulis
, Chief Compliance Officer, MLRO, Euronet Merchant Services (epay)
Eleni Ntogka, AML Reporting Officer, Financial Crime Compliance, Worldline
Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, Head of Compliance and MLRO, Nexi Greece
Evangelia Vagena, Deputy MLRO, NBG Pay - Global Payments
Moderator: Thanos Papanikolaou, Partner, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece

15:45 – 16:15 | Panel: AMLR, AMLA and the new compliance landscape in the gaming sector
Antonis Alexiou
, Director General, Hellenic Gaming Commission (HGC)
Panos Giannisis, Head of Legal & Compliance, Stoiximan
Dimitris Papakonstantinou, Head of Risk & AML, Allwyn Hellas
Moderator: Myrcene Michanou, Principal, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece

16:15 – 16:30 | Fireside chat: Closing the gate – the role of real estate professionals in preventing financial crime
Ana Vukovic
, Managing Director AVTB, RICS Board Member
in discussion with: Yannis Dracoulis, Partner, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece

16:30 – 16:35 | Closing remarks
George Trivizas
, Partner, Risk, Regulatory & Forensic, Deloitte Greece

16:35 | Drinks & networking