Mr Marco Francini has been working as a banker at the EIB in charge of origination, appraisal and structuring of operations in Italy for corporates under EU mandates. Marco joined EIB in 2010, covering a variety of roles for the technical and financial assessment of projects in several sectors across Europe in the Bank’s Projects Directorate. Mr Francini has a background in Chemical Engineering and holds an MBA degree from Politecnico of Milan.

Diarmaid Kehoe is a PPP Principal Advisor within the European PPP Expertise Centre of the European Investment Bank. His work entails the delivery of strategic-level advice on the development of infrastructure projects and programmes across Europe bringing experience from both the private and public side across a broad range of sectors including energy, social infrastructure, transport, waste and environment.

John Paul is a Managing Associate in Simmons & Simmons’s financial services regulatory team, specialising in cross-border financial services regulation. He forms part of the firm’s regulatory Cross-Border Unit, assisting numerous global financial institutions with their bespoke advice and tools. 

Lukas is the Head of the Financial Market Development at the Bank of Lithuania. The team he leads is responsible for the development of the financial market in the credit, capital, insurance and payment sectors. The Financial Market Development takes care of sales, helps to navigate in the regulatory environment and evaluate opportunities to operate in Lithuania, as well as helps companies grow when they have already obtained a license or started operations. Lukas is a lawyer by profession, having previously worked in this field for 9 years.

Laura is the Lead Product Designer at Lightyear, building fair, simple and transparent access to the world’s stock markets for every European. Laura has worked with startups as a full-stack designer for a little over 9 years, the last three of those at Wise. She’s passionate about making design processes more inclusive and products more accessible for customers.

At FinReg 2023, she’ll talk about the role of inclusion in building products for everybody, and how that can be applied in projects at any scale.
 

Seasoned Fintech Executive with over 10 years of experience in financial institutions, focus on risk management, licensing, payments, and banking products development. Vast experience in establishing, growing, and leading teams from scratch in global financial institutions and startups. 
 
Last 5 years, I was leading the Simplex Lithuania, whereas we grew the team from 3 to 100+ in first 3 yrs., made the company to be among top-5 EMIs in Lithuania, and has been successfully acquired by Nuvei in 2021. Post-acquisition, I am leading banking and card issuing initiatives globally at Nuvei.

Marine Krasovska is banking and fintech professional with wide experience in financial sector working on leading positions in top Baltic banks: SEB, DNB, Luminor, related to lending and product and business strategy development. Ex-cofounder of Fintech startup. From 2020, Marine Krasovska worked as director of “Financial innovation department“ in Financial and Capital Market Commission and following the integration from 1 January 2023, she became head of “FinTech supervision department” in the Bank of Latvia with focus on: PI/EMI, crowdfunding and other FinTech companies’ supervision. Also development of Fintech environment; ICT risks’ supervision among financial sector, and implementation of SupTech and RegTech solutions, to make supervision process more modern and digital. Marine Krasovska holds a Master’s Degree in Finance from the University of Latvia, professional diploma in management from the Open University Business School (UK). 

Edgars Lodziņš leads the Banking and Finance Practice Group. He has more than 15 years of professional experience in banking and finance, capital markets and M&A field. During his practice, Edgars has successfully advised some of the most significant financing, capital markets and M&A transactions in the region (both Latvian and cross-border) and has earned an excellent reputation for being one of the top specialists in the field. His clients include major international and local credit and financial institutions, private equity and venture capital funds and investors.

Edgars is also a member of the Legal Committee of Latvian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

Indrė Genytė-Pikčienė, the Chief Economist at INVL Asset Management has 17 years of experience in the central and commercial banking sector in macroeconomic analysis and strategic planning. Her insights on global and local macroeconomic environment, financial markets, region’s competitiveness and trade, fiscal policy and sectoral issues of the Baltic countries have been valued by business leaders, policy makers as well as various international bodies. She stands among the most prominent thought leaders in the country actively joining public debate on economic, political and social issues.

Joana Lisboa is a Senior Investment Officer at the European Investment Bank (EIB) – Venture Debt, Equity, Growth Capital & Innovation Finance. She has more than 20 years of professional experience and has worked in different industries such as investment banking, private equity, infrastructures, utilities and renewable energy. Joana Lisboa holds an Economic Degree from ISCTE University, Portugal and a MBA from Nova School of Business and Economics, Portugal.

Business and Technology executive with 15+ years of proven track record in developing digital products and accelerating growth in various enterprises. Experienced in Global Finance industry, Marius is proficient at delivering highly scalable and reliable systems and platforms. Well versed in organisational development and navigating teams of experts towards common goals. 

Mindaugas devoted his whole career serving law enforcement agencies, where he spent most of his time specializing in financial crime investigation. His attitude to the law's application was impacted by these experiences, which also improved his capacity to coordinate financial investigations, also consult colleagues.

Rita Balogh is the Group Head of Anti-money laundering and fraud prevention at IPF Digital AS, with more than 15 years of experience in anti-money laundering and fraud risk management in the financial sector. Started her career as fraud analyst by experiencing the fraud risk management from the basics when she was working with a group of 50 fraud professionals in Hungary at the beginning of her career, then became responsible for an East Region and covered AML and fraud prevention areas. More than 3 years ago changed for digital environment in Estonia where she is working with a smaller international team who is supported by technological solutions, smart tools and AI systems to enable more effective fraud prevention.

Medeia Japaridze is a legal advisor at Monese - a leading fintech company that offers a mobile-only banking service as an alternative to traditional banks. With a presence in 31 countries across the European Economic Area and UK, Monese is a rapidly expanding pan-European fintech that has partnered with major players such as PayPal, Investec, Augmentum, and HSBC. Over her career Medeia played a leading role in helping to secure funding for startups, international restructuring, and other complex projects in both the UK and Europe, making her a valuable asset to Monese as it continues to expand its operations in the dynamic fintech space.

Akvilė Bosaitė has specialised in banking, finance, investment funds, project financing, restructuring of financing, securities and M&A for over fourteen years. Akvilė is a recommended expert in finance law by international law firm directories. She holds a Master’s degree in Law from Vilnius University and an LL.M. from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. During her legal practice, Akvilė Bosaitė has led a number of the largest financing, investment funds, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions projects both in Lithuania and foreign jurisdictions.

Monika Koolmeister is a Partner of COBALT Estonia having a 15-year track record as a Banking & Finance attorney. Monika also has valuable experience from a leading commercial bank in Estonia, operating as Head of Compliance and member of the Extended Management Board. Monika has also been in charge of keeping good working relationships with the financial regulators – as Head of Compliance she has served as a contact person to the European Central Bank and the Estonian Financial Supervision Authority. 

She has been a member of the Estonian Bar Association since 2004.

Boris Augustinov is a Policy Officer in the Digital Finance Unit in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA).
In his role, Boris leads the work on cyber resilience and participates in various European and international fora, including the G7 Cyber Expert Group, the FSB Cyber Incident Reporting and Third-Party Risks and Outsourcing, the BCBS Operational Resilience Group and the ESRB Systemic Cyber Working Group.
Boris joined the European Commission in 2011, after having worked a few years in the private banking sector. He holds a PhD in Financial Economics and Accounting and a Bachelor in Economics.

Kuba Ruiz has been advising clients since 2004 and has extensive experience in the legal practices involved in IT and new technologies, transactional and commercial law, and dispute resolution, including litigation and court administrative disputes, arbitration and mediation. 
He has advised on, drafted, and negotiated all manner of contracts and commercial arrangements including contracts for supply of goods or services, contracts relating to telecoms equipment, networks, agency, distribution, franchise, licensing, outsourcing, content, sponsorship, media and entertainment, IP, leasing and maintenance.

Mari-Liis leads the work of the authority’s Innovation Hub, which is aimed at helping fintech companies to understand how their solution may fit the regulatory environment. She has a PhD in Economics and Finance and her academic work revolves around the role of FinTechs in building a novel financial sector. She has co-authored two editions of the Estonian FinTech Report.

Vytautas has accumulated 15 years of banking experience. He has worked in the country's largest banks, and for the past two years he has been leading Revolut's compliance area in Europe.

Vytautas Danta has a master’s degree in law and is also a certified anti-money laundering prevention specialist.

Revolut is building the world's first financial superapp. Founded in the United Kingdom in 2015, the company began with money transfer and currency exchange services, and today provides dozens of advanced financial services used by over 28 million customers worldwide.
 

Richard Parkin is the Head of Research at Salv, an Estonian technology & data company that has built Europe’s first real-time, cross-border fincrime information sharing platform. Operational in 4x European markets, Salv Bridge, enables financial institutions to swiftly and securely exchange data or information relating to AML, sanctions or fraud use cases. Prior to joining Salv, Richard worked operationally in fraud with Wise, worked in development for the United Nations, taught Politics & Economics at Sydney University, and worked as a journalist with The Guardian.

Dr Irmantas Norkus is the Managing Partner of COBALT Lithuania, with over 20 years of extensive experience in private and public M&A, competition, banking and finance. During his career, Dr Norkus has led numerous landmark cross-border and domestic transactions and projects and has handled some of the most complex antitrust matters of recent times. He has represented a broad range of high-profile corporate clients, investment funds, issuers, financial institutions and institutional investors. Dr Norkus’ exceptional and impeccable service has earned him a reputation as a leading lawyer in his areas of practice.

Eva Suduiko is a Partner and Co-Head of the Banking and Finance Practice Group. She has specialised in banking, finance, capital markets and M&A for over twelve years. Eva gained a Master’s degree in Law from Vilnius University and broadened her experience while working as a visiting lawyer at a leading Nordic law firm Roschier in Helsinki.

During her legal practice, Eva Suduiko has advised clients in a number of M&A transactions, international financing and security arrangements. She constantly advises both local and foreign clients on various regulatory matters, including cross-border provision of services, issue of securities and other capital and financial markets related projects.