Aqshar Khaliq is Director of Sanctions Policy at UK Finance, representing the banking and finance industry on UK and international sanctions policy. He has more than 30 years’ experience in financial services, including over a decade leading sanctions policy and strategy at Lloyds Banking Group. He works closely with government, regulators and industry on sanctions implementation, ownership and control, screening, trade and emerging economic security risks.

Marisol leads the evolution of Moody’s value proposition across Financial & Professional Services Europe with a focus on financial crime and third party risk.

Marisol also works with current and prospective customers, strategic partners, and product development teams to identify strategic opportunities to enhance the potential of the solutions. Previously, she worked at S&P where she was the Global Head of KYC services and Entity Insights. During her career in Financial Crime, Marisol has built Managed Services and designed AML and third party risk programs for financial institutions in the U.S. and Europe.

She has also benchmarked and advised on more than 60 global AML/CDD policies with a deep focus on data requirements and the use of technology to streamline, automate and keep up to date the data gathering process. Marisol has an extensive legal and compliance background. In her 15 plus years, she has helped organizations develop and implement their compliance, anti-corruption and third-party due diligence programmes. Marisol is a dual qualified lawyer (Spain & UK) and holds two Masters in Law (LLM); International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation, Economic Law and Comparative Business Law. She also holds an ICA international diploma in anti-money laundering.

Currently leading EMEA Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Client and KYC Services at JP Morgan Chase, overseeing a team across multiple locations, managing global client lifecycle and onboarding programs. Delivered multimillion-dollar operational efficiencies by restructuring service models, reducing client onboarding timelines, and embedding digital automation frameworks.

Previously served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Global Banking at HSBC (Mexico & Argentina), leading  business strategy, regulatory compliance, enterprise-wide transformation, and financial risk management. Spearheaded digital and automation initiatives, achieving a 60% reduction in client onboarding times, enhanced risk mitigation frameworks, and improved operational resiliency. Deep expertise in KYC, AML, risk governance, compliance, and financial crime prevention with extensive experience navigating regulatory engagements across global markets.

Director-level Operations and Transformation leader with 22+ years' experience delivering strategic change across UK, EMEA and APAC investment banking operations. Extensive experience leading global teams of 100+ FTE, transforming operating models, reducing costs, strengthening regulatory controls and improving client experience. Trusted advisor to Executive Management, Front Office, Compliance and Regulators, recognised for aligning operational transformation with business growth, regulatory resilience and superior client outcomes.

Hera U. Smith is a Director for Financial Crime Compliance Practice at Moody’s. As an industry practice lead, she focuses on regulatory developments and market trends in sanctions, money laundering and other areas of financial crime, translating them into product capabilities and thought leadership. She has built and headed global sanctions programs for financial institutions in the US and Europe. Additionally, she was the Co-chair of the ACFCS Nordics Chapter and a facilitator of the US State Department’s Sanctions Capacity Building Workshops in countries all over the world.

Before joining Moody’s, Hera worked at Danske Bank, where she developed the sanctions program and managed external commitments to regulators globally. She also headed the Global Sanctions Program at Associated Foreign Exchange, a global payment company now known as Corpay, and before that, East West Bank. In her early career, she worked as a litigation lawyer, and is a licensed attorney in California and the Philippines. She is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) a Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) and a Certified Sanctions Specialist (CSS). She also has an International Diploma in Governance, Risk & Compliance from the International Compliance Association (ICA) and helped draft the sanctions certifications exams for ACSS and ACAMS.

Kate Ng is a financial crime risk management and compliance expert with experience across the financial services and crypto industries. She has implemented and strengthened compliance and transformation programmes following high profile organisational failures, large scale uplifts, and significant regulatory actions or findings. She was previously a sanctions advisor at BNY, overseeing financial crime controls for the asset servicing and treasury services businesses and advising on emerging initiatives involving asset tokenisation. In her capacity as a regulatory programme manager at Kraken, she led efforts in the US cryptoasset exchange to strengthen the programme’s alignment with EMEA regulatory expectations. She was a technical expert for the EBA which issued guidelines on implementing restrictive measures in EU credit institutions, PSPs and CASPs.