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LATCA ADVISERS

Made up of a renowned team of international experts in Prevention of AML, FT, FPWMD and crimes related to financial crime. Our facilitators have extensive experience and high commitment in the prevention of financial crimes. The work of our advisors plays an important role in the development of the Association and in the training of Compliance professionals, associated entities and members in general. Demonstrating a sense of belonging, ethics, professionalism and best practices in the performance of their activities.

Asesor LATCA

Alberto Avila

(United States)

Director de Innovating Politics

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Carlos

Carlos Augusto Oviedo

(Colombia)

International AML Consultant / Corporate Governance / Ethics

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Franco Rojas Sagarnaga

(Bolivia)

General Manager AMLC Group

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FRANCO ROJAS SAGÁRNAGA:

Juan Carlos Medina

(Peru)

Consultant and Ex-President of the FELABAN Compliance Committee

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JoseAntonio Diaz

Jose Antonio Diaz Pineda

(Honduras)

Executive Director of Compliance and Risk

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Ricardo Sabella

(Uruguay)

Managing Partner BST Global Consulting

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Mauricio Ortega Hinojosa

(España)

Managing Partner of SERINEA INVESTMENTS S.L.

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Cesar Raul Bula

(Colombia)

International AML Analytics Consultant

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Rene Pinto Carraffa

(Bolivia)

Financial Entities Advisor

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Rafael Fallas

(Costa Rica)

Risk Consultant, Advisor and Trainer

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Guillermo Garcia Orue

(Paraguay)

Lawyer specialized in Banking Law of the
Law Firm García Orué

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Juan Miguel del Cid

(España)

AML / CFT Expert Consultant

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Alberto Avila

(Estados Unidos)

Compliance and risk management oriented executive in businesses with more than 24 years of experience in the field of combating money laundering. Practical support to members of Boards of Directors and of transnational companies. Articulated, with set goals and persuasive. Ability in managing multicultural teams. Creator of the advanced cruise ship training systems. Hands-on review experience independent in the public sector and regulated institutions, OFAC, ITAR, FCPA, as well as in fraud and risk prevention and detection programs and efforts. Founder and Strategic Leader of Innovating Politics, a company dedicated to the high level training for members of the Board of Directors and Experienced Professionals. It was member of the Advisory Council of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering ACAMS Specialists (the first Latino to achieve this honor)

Author Published by ASOBANCARIA DE COLOMBIA. Financial institutions consultant, government agencies and political parties. He worked for the National Banking and Securities Commission of Mexico as Advisor to the Legal Vice President. Former Compliance Officer for the Republic National Bank of New York. Grupo BAL (Compliance Officer of 7 companies including GNP). ACE Insurance Company (Compliance Officer for Latin America). Royal Bank of Canada (Director of Advanced Research).

Jose Antonio Diaz Pineda

(Honduras)

Founding Partner and Executive Director of the company Cumplimiento y Riesgo. He served as AML Compliance Manager in the Savings and Credit cooperative sector, he was President of the National Committee of AML Compliance Officers of Savings and Credit Unions from Honduras. He is currently also the Legal Representative of the Anti Money Laundering Group. Consultants (AMLC) of Bolivia, for the regulated markets of Honduras. He has international certification in International Compliance Officer Anti-Money Laundering & Terrorism Financing, granted by U.S. Interamerican Community Affairs.

He is also a Certified Professional in Anti-Money Laundering (CP/AML) granted by Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA), in alliance with Florida International University (FIU) in 2010. As well as Diplomas on Money Laundering Prevention, awarded by the National Commission of Banks and Insurance (CNBS) of Honduras. He has been a speaker and panelist at Anti-Money Laundering Congresses in Honduras, Colombia, Bolivia, El Salvador and Mexico. He is a facilitator in seminars, workshops, forums, webinars, meetings and conferences on LAFT prevention, for institutions of the financial system. His face-to-face training in Anti Money Laundering has been carried out in the United States, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia.

Carlos Augusto Oviedo

(Colombia)

Ph.D. candidate. University of Lille II, France and Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia. Master of Laws (LL.M DESS approved by the DEA). Faculty of Law, Lille II, University from France (1992). Lawyer graduated from the Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia (1990). Diploma in Philosophy of Law from the Javeriana, Rosario and Externado Universities, Bogotá, Colombia (1996). Lawyer and professor, with twenty years of experience in Banking (Bancolombia Group and Aval Group) and Government. Recognized for his trajectory in academic circles, financial unions, high government in Colombia and several countries of Latin America and multilateral organizations as an expert in prevention, detection, control and administration of the risk of money laundering, corporate governance, internal control, economic penalties, international penalties and drug policies.

Compliance Officer of Bancolombia and AV Villas Bank, pioneer, since 1994. Founder of the Committee of Colombian Compliance Officers (ASOBANCARIA), obtaining the following achievement: Inter-bank knowledge-of-the-client agreement, and awareness-raising and AML training. Advisor to ASOBANCARIA in risk management, internal control and money laundering. Author and director of the AML Prevention, Detection and Control Program, with 65,000 employees through ASOBANCARIA; through the OAS-CICAD, IDB and CFATF, to thirteen countries.

General Director of Drug and Narcotic Policies, Ministry of Justice. He acted like "Policy maker" in AML. Co-founder and ad hoc Secretary of the Financial Action Group of Latin America - GAFILAT (GAFISUD). Author of the “Hemispheric Program on Best Practices in the financial sector against money laundering and terrorist financing ”. IDB, CICAD-OEA, year 2000. IMF Speaker on terrorism financing for LATAM. Director and Speaker of International AML Congresses, Diplomas, Specializations in AML / CFT / en universities in Colombia, Panama, Bolivia, Ecuador and Costa Rica. In LATAM it has formed compliance officers, boards of directors, senior financial, banking and non-banking executives, judicial authorities (prosecutors, judges and magistrates), regulators, Intelligence Units, in matters of AML prevention and control, risks (operational, legal), control internal and corporate governance.

Juan Carlos Medina

(Perú)

Consultant and international expert in risk management, prevention of money laundering, Regulatory compliance, corporate governance and internal control (audit), the private sector (Latin American financial and insurance groups) and the public sector (advising international organizations and various Latin American regulators) with more than 10 years of experience. He was President of the Committee for the Prevention of Money Laundering (COPLAFT) of the Latin American Federation of Banks (FELABAN), for two periods. He also served as an Advisor in various Latin American financial entities. Former Corporate Vice President of Compliance in regional financial groups.

Former President of the Compliance Committee of the Association of Banks of Peru (ASBANC), for two consecutive periods. He was President of the EGADE MBA Alumni Association Business School - Peru Headquarters. Magister. Industrial Engineer. Professional certification (CPAML) by the Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA) and Florida International University (FIU). Experience in banking, and in service companies, in control, auditing, planning, fraud and risk tasks; and in university teaching, in areas of management, projects, engineering and finance. Member of the Institute of Internal Auditors of Peru.

Franco Rojas Sagarnaga

(Bolivia)

Commercial Engineer, with a major in Economics. Master in Business Administration and Finances of the Bolivian Private University (UPB) and the University of Santiago de Chile (USACH); Specialist in Financial Management from the Catholic University of Valparaiso in Chile. He is also a Forensic Auditor certified by the Rey Juan Carlos University of Spain and PricewaterhouseCoopers of Spain. He has 2 Diplomas in Money Laundering Prevention, one at CEDET Spain and the other at IBI in Panama. He is a Certified Professional in Money Laundering Prevention from the Organization of American States OAS and a Certified Financial Crimes Specialist (ACFCS). In his professional experience, he has been a banking officer at Santa Cruz Bank, a member of the Santander Group in Bolivia, holding various important commercial positions. He is an official of the FIU of Bolivia, in the Financial Investigations Unit (FIU) of the Superintendency of Banks and Financial Entities of Bolivia (SBEF), today known as ASFI.

He has been a consultant for the OAS at CICAD and CICTE. From 2006 to 2010; Currently, he is the General Manager of the AMLC Group, with a presence in 9 Latin American countries, a Group specialized in Asset Laundering Prevention and Risk Management, having developed risk management methodologies and AMLC COMPLIANCE Anti-laundering Software and having implemented said system in more than 120 entities in Latin America. In teaching, he has been a UPB Postgraduate professor, is Director of the Diploma in the Prevention of Money Laundering in Bolivia, Ecuador and Honduras. His experience has allowed him to be invited to more than 60 international conferences as a speaker on the matter in the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, among others.

Ricardo Sabella

(Uruguay)

International expert consultant in the prevention of ML and financial crimes. He is director and professor of the Certificate in Prevention of Money Laundering at the Uruguay´s Catholic University since 2009. He is a managing partner of BST Global Consulting S.A. -consulting company International with operations throughout Latin America and the United States. He accumulates more than 900 academic hours at the university level specialized in PLD / CFT in Universities of Latin America and is a teacher and consultant for the Latin American Association of Institutions Finance for Development (ALIDE) He has a degree in business administration. Founding member and part of the technical council of the Association of Certified Risk Management Specialists (AECGR) and current President of the Uruguayan Compliance Association. He holds the CAMS Certification, the AIRM of the Latin American Risk and Insurance Association and is Certified in Advice on Financial investments. He is also a member of the ACFCS and an honorary member of the Transparent Uruguay Civil Association. He served as executive of the Management of Organization and Methods of the Bank of the City of Buenos Aires and the Bank of the Nation Argentina. He was a compliance officer and director of major financial companies in Uruguay.

He has given trainings on risks and prevention of money laundering for various subjects and regulatory entities in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, the United States, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay. He is a frequent speaker at Congresses and Seminars of Latin America. He has directed and collaborated in more than 80 audit consulting projects in the Prevention of Money Laundering in Banks, Supervisory Authorities, Stock Markets, Insurance, Money Services Businesses and electronic means of payment. He is registered as an auditor qualified to carry out and present independent reviews in anti-laundering matter, before the Central Bank of Uruguay. He is the author of several collective works such as Compliance Without Borders, recently published and more than 100 articles in magazines, portals and specialized publications in the field of financial crimes.

Mauricio Ortega Hinojosa

(España)

Expert in digital transformation for MFIs, investment banking in the microfinance sector, impact investing and sustainable finance. Coordinator of the Master in Microfinance and Social Development of the University of Alcalá (UAH). Spain. Managing Partner of SERINEA INVESTMENTS S.L. and Project manager of the Serinea Digital Lab. Spain. Course teacher ESG at Exponential Education. Preparatory courses for IASE (International Association for Sustainable Economy). Consultant in the Research Department of Repsol Spain on issues of sustainability and climate change. Independent director of institutions microfinance institutions in Latam.

Cesar Raul Bula

(Colombia)

Electronic Engineer, with technological training in Management, Marketing and Sales positions. Marketing and Finance Specialist from the Universidad de los Andes - Colombia and Master in Computer Science & Software Development. Specialist in the area of Compliance, Prevention of Money Laundering and prevention of Fraud (Risks, internal control, among other specializations). Guest speaker in Marketing postgraduate courses and master's degrees in compliance and diplomas compliance officer, risks, and prevention of money laundering. He is a Speaker at AML / FT prevention congresses throughout Latin America and the Caribbean and He holds ICA Diploma (International Compliance Association) and international Anti Money Laundering Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist CAMS, since 2014.

Roderick Schwarz

(Venezuela)

He has more than 20 years of experience and professional training in the financial industry and securities, holding positions in global banking institutions. He is Principal Director of Aguirre & Schwarz, S.A., and Senior Executive Consultant for CSMB International, Inc. For “FIBA AML Institute” he is an academic developer and professor of the Certification called “CPAML - Certified Professional and the AMLCA”, which are issued by the Florida International University (FIU), The Money Laundering Prevention Institute (FIBA AML INSTITUTE) of the Florida International Bankers Association. He is a consultant and exhibitor international in countries such as: United States of America, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Uruguay, Argentina, Curaçao, Aruba, Dominican Republic, Cayman Islands and Puerto Rico.

Rene Pinto Carraffa

(Bolivia)

Financial Auditor of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés de La Paz - Bolivia, Specialist in Financial Management from the Catholic University of Valparaíso in Chile, Master in Administration and Financial Management of the International Business School in Salamanca– Spain, Master of Business Administration and Management from the European School of Business in La Paz - Bolivia, Master in Risk Management Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid - Spain. Certified specialist in: Prevention of Money Laundering International Financial Training Center Foundation in Madrid - Spain, Prevention of Illicit Profits and Terrorism Financing at the University of Florida Miami in agreement with FIBA, Management of the Risk of Legitimization of Illicit Profits and Financing of Terrorism of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), Risk Management of the Association of Banking Supervisors of the Americas (ASBA). Former supervisor in charge of the Superintendency of Banks and Financial Entities (SBEF) of Bolivia, currently ASFI. Former National Deputy Manager of Compliance in Private Banking, former member of the Corporate Governance Committee in Private Banking. University professor at the Postgraduate level, speaker in Comprehensive Management of Financial Risks and Risks for Latin America and former advisor in Cooperatives of Savings and Credit of Bolivia. He also served as the National Audit Manager of Banco Unión S.A. in Bolivia. He is currently an Advisor to Financial Institutions.

Rafael Fallas

(Costa Rica)

He has a Bachelor of Business Administration, Master in Economics, Banking and Management of Risks of the UCR. He is internationally certified in the implementation of the Comprehensive Risk Management by INCOLDA-CESA, Colombia 2008 and Risk Management 31000 by PECB 2020. In addition, he is certified by the CGR as an instructor and facilitator of the SEVRI 2007. He was an external member and president of the Risk Committee of the FGJBNCR from 2018 to 2021. He is a consultant associated with BLP Abogados S.A. In addition, he was Director of Operational Risks in the INS Financial Group and Chief Compliance Officer (LC / FT Risk) in three companies private. For his extensive knowledge of international standards on governance matters and risk management technique he has given hundreds of trainings to professionals such as professor at the CPCECR, UCR, UNA, CICAP, CBEF, APP and other universities, in order to establish good Corporate Governance (CG), strengthen the Internal Control System (ICS) and Comprehensive Risk Management. He is an advisor in management of operational risks and the risk of fraud for financial institutions and the risk of LC / FT, thus increasing the organizational culture and its correct management.

Guillermo García Orue

(Paraguay)

Lawyer, graduated with distinction for outstanding average (National University of Asuncion). He has done Postgraduate studies in International Law (Universität Heidelberg, through the Heidelberg Center Lateinamerika and CEDEP), in Banking Law and Administrative (National University of Asunción), in Trust Business (Federation Latin American Banks and Autonomous University of Asunción) and in Business Law and Corporate (American University). He is internationally certified AMLCA (Anti Money Laundering Certified Associate). He knows the reality of the Prevention of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing "from within", since he was an Officer of the Compliance of different types of entities: Financial, Stock Market and Payment Means Electronic He was also a member of the Control Committee of an Insurance Company. He currently works closely with all types of obliged subjects, advising Banks, Financial, Insurers, Brokerage Houses, Electronic Payment Means Entities, Companies of the Fintech sector, Remittance Companies, Exchange Houses, Non-Profit Organizations, Companies dedicated to Games of Chance, Real Estate, Companies in the automotive sector, Cooperatives and more. He also advises one of the firms belonging to the exclusive Big 4, at as well as banking associations (Asociación de Bancos y Financieras Paraguayos, ABAFI, Ex ADEFI) and insurance (attached Member and advisor to the Compliance Committee of the Association Paraguayan Insurance Company, APCS). All of this Allows him to have probably be the most holistic and all-inclusive vision on the market.

Juan Miguel del CID

(España)

Economist specialized in accounting, auditing, compliance, fraud prevention, prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism. Diploma in Science Business by the University of Granada. Degree in Economics and Business. Company Branch. Malaga University. Doctor in Economics and Business by the University of Granada. Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting at the University of Granada. (Seniority at the University of Granada. 12/1/1986). Professor of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences and the Faculty of Labor Relations and Human Resources of the University of Granada. Member of the Research Group & quot; Accounting Research for Management, code SEJ-273. General Directorate of Universities and Research, Ministry of Education and Science of the Junta de Andalucía. He has been a member of the Spanish group of the EU-DEFI Project (“European Union - Delivering Excellence in Financial Investigation ”), sponsored by the European Commission and coordinated in Spain by Guardia Civil. Its objective has been to promote and standardize the investigation of financial crimes and money laundering in the European Union. He has been a training consultant for WorldCompliance, to Lexis Nexis Company. Fiscal year 2014. President of the Institute Iberoamerican Compliance. Academic Director of the International Certification in Investigation of Economic-Financial Crimes (behavioral, financial and legal approach). Organized by the Mediterranean Center. University of Granada. International speaker.