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      Timo Purkott is leading KPMG’s Global Fraud and Financial Crime Transformation Program, which aims to develop tangible, technology-enabled, and expertise-led solutions to help our clients combat Fraud and Financial Crime. As a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience, Timo has been dedicated to supporting his clients in implementing and enhancing their Risk, Compliance, and Financial Crime Prevention Systems. His expertise lies in analyzing and managing regulatory change, and he consistently strives to identify the real impact and opportunities for business and operating models by leveraging cutting-edge technology and Regtech.

      While Regtech is Timo’s primary focus to improve the Fraud & Financial Crime framework for our clients, he remains closely attuned to regulatory developments and supervisory expectations. In his role as Lead for Germany’s KPMG Regulatory & Compliance team, comprising over 160 professionals, he gains valuable practical insights based on the latest ECB on-site inspections, BaFin reviews, and KPMG’s regulatory audits on Anti-Money Laundering/Counter-Terrorist Financing (AML/CTF), Anti-Tax Evasion (ATE), Fraud, and Sanctions. Additionally, Timo serves as KPMG’s AMLA Office Co-Lead, further strengthening his comprehensive and real-world perspective. This broad expertise forms the foundation of Timo’s ability to provide market insights and assess an organisation’s maturity through market comparison.

      1. Education & qualification
        • Stanford Graduate School of Business – Stanford Executive Program (SEP) University of Mannheim
        • University of California Berkeley,Master in Business Administration (diploma-degree / Diplom-Kaufmann)
      2. Optional Details

        Relevant client engagements include:

        • Establishment and evolution of Anti Financial Crime & Compliance function according to new regulatory requirements.
        • Development of compliance and risk architecture, configuration of risk function, development of functional model, process model and information flows.
        • Several projects in the context of post-merger integration, especially of the compliance risk management function and systems
        • Large scale tax-related remediation program to set up a Tax Governance, Risk and Compliance Framework to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion
        • Review of Transaction Monitoring target operating model, processes, and tools
        • Co-Sourcing for sanctions screening processes – including process review, identification of improvement measures, tuning of screening algorithms
        • Design and implementation of transaction monitoring solutions  
        • Re-Design of AML Risk Assessment methodology, approach, tools and templates