Christian Kothe

Christian Kothe

Tribe Lead, Financial Crime Compliance, Swift

Since June 2018 Christian is the Tribe Lead for Swift’s financial crime compliance portfolio. He carries the end-to-end responsibility for Swift`s portfolio of products and services addressing customer solution requirements for transaction & name screening as well as for payments anomaly detection.

He was appointed Head of Markets & Initiatives EMEA in May 2017. In this role, he was in charge of banking, securities and financial crime compliance initiatives at Swift for Europe, Middle-East, and Africa. His responsibilities included defining and executing the regional go-to-market for Swift projects such as Instant Payments, Global Payments Innovation, managing large scale Market Infrastructure accounts and commercializing the portfolio of shared services such as business intelligence and financial crime compliance services. Prior to his current assignment, Christian was Head of Central & Eastern Europe from September 2007 to April 2017. As Head of CEE he was responsible for Swift’s business development with around3.000 customers in the German-speaking countries and in Eastern Europe. He is also the Managing Director of Swift Germany GmbH and Swift Austria GmbH, two fully-owned subsidiaries of Swift since July 2004.

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