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Dr. Firas Nadim Habach, CFA, is Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Revolut in Switzerland and Central Europe MLRO. He is a board member of Swiss Digital Development AG, advisory board member of CENSE AG, and lectures at HWZ and OST.
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Dr. Firas Nadim Habach, CFA, is Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Revolut in Switzerland and Central Europe MLRO, overseeing financial crime compliance across Austria, Germany, Romania, Hungary and Poland. He is a board member of Swiss Digital Development AG, an advisory board member of CENSE AG, and lectures at HWZ and OST.
An expert on banking compliance and anti-money-laundering practice as well as blockchain-based solutions, he was previously Head of Compliance & MLRO at Sygnum Bank and held similar roles at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank. He is a CFA charterholder and co-founded the Swiss Compliance & Financial Crime Executives Association, which he chairs.
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Dr. Firas Nadim Habach, CFA, is Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Revolut in Switzerland and Central Europe MLRO, with oversight of financial crime compliance across Austria, Germany, Romania, Hungary and Poland.
An expert on banking compliance and anti-money-laundering practice as well as blockchain-based solutions, he was previously Head of Compliance & MLRO at Sygnum Bank, the first regulated digital asset bank, and held similar roles at J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank in Zurich and Vienna. Earlier oversight responsibility extended to Luxembourg, Abu Dhabi and Singapore.
He is a board member of Swiss Digital Development AG and an advisory board member of CENSE AG, and served as an independent director of Mountain Protocol until its acquisition by Anchorage Digital. He lectures on artificial intelligence and compliance at OST and on innovation compliance at HWZ, and co-founded the Swiss Compliance & Financial Crime Executives Association, which he chairs.
He is a CFA charterholder and holds a doctorate from Heriot-Watt University. His academic work focuses on the mathematical modelling of behavioural finance and information economics; he also researches stablecoins and the application of artificial intelligence to compliance. He speaks regularly at industry conferences including the AMLP Forum, Deloitte, PwC and the NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum.
Beyond the mandate
Away from the desk: volunteer firefighter at Freiwillige Feuerwehr Theresienfeld since 1997, currently Hauptfeuerwehrmann and the brigade's auditor. The fire service website I built for Theresienfeld placed in the top thirty in Austria in 2009 and the top ten in 2011, in the national rankings then hosted by Dräger. I collect historical coins, banknotes and share certificates — the paper trail of how money has actually behaved, which is not unrelated to the day job.
Conflict clearance
All speaking, advisory and publication activity is undertaken in a personal capacity and is subject to prior conflict-of-interest clearance by my employer and by the boards on which I serve. Nothing here represents the views of any employer, board or association. Please allow time for clearance when inviting me.