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Hire an AML compliance expert in Greece and Cyprus
Anti-money-laundering compliance built around how your firm actually takes on clients and moves money.
In Cyprus, anti-money-laundering compliance is a condition of existence for investment firms, fund managers, and the fiduciary and corporate service sector; in Greece it reaches payments companies, fintechs, and gaming operators as they grow. The work stands or falls on fit: a business-wide risk assessment that describes your actual client book rather than a template's idea of it, customer due diligence and KYC processes sized to how the firm takes on clients, transaction monitoring tuned until its alerts are worth reading, and remediation that closes findings instead of reclassifying them.
The AML compliance experts on Hellenic Talent come from compliance and financial-crime functions at banks, payment institutions, and investment firms and from Big 4 financial-crime practices. Their work is compliance practice, not legal services: assessments, processes, controls, evidence, and training. Where a question turns on formal legal interpretation, or on representation before a court or an authority, it is work for the firm's lawyers, and an experienced AML expert says so early.
What does an AML compliance expert actually do?
- Run the business-wide risk assessment so it reflects the clients the firm actually has, not the ones a template imagines
- Design customer due diligence and KYC processes sized to the firm and its risk, from onboarding through periodic review
- Set up transaction monitoring that fits the business, with tools chosen for fit rather than the logo and rules tuned until alerts mean something
- Lead remediation after audit or inspection findings, with owners, evidence, and progress reported without varnish
- Build escalation paths so a suspicion actually reaches the person who must act on it
- Deliver training built on the firm's own cases, aimed at the desks where risk walks in
How to choose the right AML compliance expert
What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.
Front-line or supervisory background
Has run AML inside a regulated firm or examined firms from the supervisory side, not only written manuals.
Matched to your supervisor
Knows the supervisor you answer to, whether CySEC, the Central Bank of Cyprus, the Bank of Greece, or a gaming authority, and how its inspections run.
Friction where the risk is
Sizes due diligence to the risk instead of applying bank-grade friction to every client.
Starts from your patterns
Talks about monitoring in terms of your transaction patterns, not a vendor demonstration.
Approvals belong to the regulator
Plain about the limits: officer appointments and approvals follow the regulator's process, and inspection outcomes are the supervisor's to decide.
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Tell us what you are trying to get done
A short call is enough to understand the situation and tell you honestly whether the network has the right AML compliance expert for it.
Engagements run remote, hybrid, or on-site, for clients in Greece, Cyprus, and the rest of the world.