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Where others see chaos, I see structure. My role is to bring clarity, confidence, and peace of mind where it's needed most. When we work together, I'm not just your service provider – I'm your partner, fully invested in every detail.
Expert Giedrė Soares
As an AML/CTF and sanctions compliance professional, Giedrė brings over 14 years of experience in the financial sector, including more than 8 years of hands-on expertise in regulatory compliance. Her experience extends beyond AML/CTF, encompassing insurance, microlending, and other financial services, giving her a broad and well-rounded perspective of the industry.
She has successfully designed, implemented, and refined AML/CTF and sanctions frameworks for multiple EMIs and PIs. Her projects include building comprehensive AML/CTF and sanctions program for newly licensed financial institution, rolling out in-house sanctions monitoring tool, optimizing transaction monitoring processes within organizations and other.
Giedrė’s career spans both large international organizations - such as Western Union and Danske Bank - and fast-paced fintech startups (like IBS Lithuania, W1tty, Kevin). Whether coordinating vendor selection and system integration or delivering staff training on compliance fundamentals, she approaches each challenge with clarity, consistency, and unwavering attention to detail.
By prioritizing risk management and aligning operational practices with current regulations, she helps organizations safeguard their operations and maintain trust in an ever-evolving regulatory environment.
Projects I am proud of:
Successfull implementation of the complete AML/CTF and Sanctions framework from scratch for a newly licensed EMI; in-house sanctions monitoring tool project managment from requirements gathering to launch; built the entire transaction monitoring framework, from vendor selection to rule logic implementation; optimizing loan issuance processes across EU shared service center and +15 branches in Africa.
Areas of Expertise:
AML/CTF and Sanctions framework development
Transaction Monitoring processes implementation and optimization
Fraud management
Process building and optimization (KYC, ODD, Monitoring, etc.)
Vendor selection and system integration and testing
Geographical, individual client, and Enterprise-Wide Risk Assessments and control
Staff Training on AML/CTF, Fraud, Sanctions, and related Subjects