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Zürich · Financial crime compliance · Behavioural finance

Dr. Firas Nadim
HabachCFA · MSc (WU) · BSc

Money Laundering Reporting Officer for Switzerland and Central Europe. Founding president of the SCFCEA, lecturer at OST and HWZ, and a researcher in investor psychology and behavioural finance.

Dr. Firas Nadim Habach
Zürich, 2024
Based
Zürich, Switzerland
Fields
Behavioural finance · Information economics
ORCID
0009-0005-3487-6582
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Jurisdictions and capacity

  • 10Jurisdictions
  • 15Years in banking
  • 16Speaking engagements
  • 4Board seats

Where regulatory responsibility has been held, and in what capacity. Filled marks are current, outlined marks past.

JurisdictionMLROComplianceBoardTeachingSpeaking
SwitzerlandZürich · FINMA
AustriaVienna··
GermanyFrankfurt··
Oversight, current
Romania · Hungary · Poland
Oversight, past
Luxembourg · Abu Dhabi (ADGM) · Singapore
Board, past
Bermuda

Current Past

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Current mandate

Central Europe MLRO · Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Switzerland
Revolut
2024 —
Co-founder & president
Swiss Compliance & Financial Crime Executives Association
2026 —
Advisory Board Member
CENSE AG · Zug
2025 —
Independent Board Member
Swiss Digital Development AG · Zug
2024 —
Lecturer — Artificial Intelligence & Compliance
OST — Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
2025 —
Lecturer — Innovation Compliance
HWZ Hochschule für Wirtschaft Zürich
2024 —
Boards and advisory →
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Research

  • Investor psychology
  • Behavioural finance
  • Information economics
  • Econometrics

Preprint · 20 pp. · 31.07.2026

Heuristics, Affect, Herding and Overconfidence: A Decade-Long Test of Investor Psychology Using Tesla, Inc

doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.7208049
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Speaking

Upcoming

AMLP's 20th Annual EU AML/CTF & Financial Crime Conference
AMLP Forum
09.11.2026
Deepfakes, synthetic identities and the slow decay of digital trust
FinCrime Time Machine 2026 · Salv
11.12.2025
FinTech scalability and sustainability: modern approaches to combating financial crime
Deloitte FinCrime Symposium
03.10.2025
AMLP's 19th Annual EU AML/CTF & Financial Crime Conference
AMLP Forum
10.11.2025
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Contact

Speaking enquiries, advisory mandates and press. Biographies at 50, 150 and 300 words are on the bio page.