Our guest in this episode is Marijo Samneh - a Lebanese legal, compliance, and anti-money laundering officer with a focus on banking and financial matters. In her 10 years career, Marijo worked as the head of compliance in a Lebanese financial institution, and a leading Lebanese subsidiary of a Swiss private bank where she established the compliance department from the ground up. Marijo prepared all policies and procedures of the compliance department and oversaw the implementation of various strategic, operational, and regulatory processes. In her experience, Marijo also worked as the head of legal and compliance in the Association of Banks in Lebanon which is a professional association established by Lebanese banks. During her time at the Association, she contributed to the preparation of various banking legislation and coordinated their discussions with the various stakeholders such as the government, banks, and AML regulators.
Today she is the primary contact with Lebanese regulators at Arab Bank Switzerland, she handles all the Bank's strategic development plans and all legal/regulatory interactions between the branch and parent company.
She holds a Law degree, a Masters in Banking and FInancia from Sagesse University Beirut, a Masters in management from the Ecole Superieure des Affaire Beirut, and an Executive education "Program for Leadership Development" from Harvard Business School. She is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.
She is the creator of an amazing project called "In a Nutshell by MJ" which aims to make complex AML and financial crime topics easy to understand by anyone.
MJ's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marijo-samneh/
In A Nutshell YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC1vE6xufjh5hFPS55tFeuw