András Bácsfalvi

András Bácsfalvi is a seasoned and well-known compliance professional, author of Defense Lines compliance podcast, sharing knowledge and compliance awareness throughout the community. Before joining the banking sector he worked as an Operation Officer at CPO (this is one of the Hungarian authorities); and got experience as a consultant at SAP and TATA Consultancy Services as a consultant. In 2013 he was asked to build up the Compliance Department of the Hungarian Export-Import Bank Plc. & Hungarian Export Credit Insurance Plc. Between 2016 and 2021 he was the Chief Compliance Officer of MKB Bank, one of the biggest financial institutions in Hungary. At the end of 2020 he was appointed as Group Chief Compliance Officer of Magyar Bankholding Zrt, so he was responsible for three Banks’ (MKB, Budapest Bank and Magyar Takarékbank) core compliance, anti-money laundering, customer protection, capital markets compliance, data protection and fraud prevention fusion. He was the president of the Hungarian Banking Association’s AML working group between 2016-2021, and the president of the Compliance working group between 2018-2021. He is a member of Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) since 2016. In 2018 he was appointed as a presidential member of Hungarian Internal Auditor Association. In 2020 he was awarded the Golden Beehive Award. He is also a Board Member of Hungarian Business Leaders Forum. Since 2023 he is a Partner at EY.