Mertert, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg
Enabler of regulatory compliance and digital transformation projects for the banking, insurance and asset management industries. Working as Agile Coach and agile practitioner helping your organization to fully leverage its employees potential. Providing long term perspectives to senior management and delivering strong results through operational project excellence.
Joachim founded Eagle and Lion Consulting as an advisory boutique in Luxembourg that offers three main types of services: agile coaching, project management and regulatory advisory services. His clients are mostly active in the banking and asset management industry, and they appreciate the company's ability to deliver strategic, IT or regulatory assignments in an agile way. The most recent projects include: - Assisting the Group CEO of a digital financial services group with the implementation of various group functions, a management information system and group-wide business processes - Assisting a ManCo with an AML on-site inspection - Assisting an international banking group with the archiving and decommissioning of a Luxembourg bank before handover to the liquidator by applying SCRUM - Assisting a payment institution with their Banking License Implementation Program in Luxembourg through setting up the needed program structure to coordinate the implementation of the various projects. e.g. IT (20/750 or BAIT), AML, 12/552, regulatory reporting, etc. - Assisting a Luxembourg bank with the implementation of an EU-wide Human Resource function by designing and implementing the necessary HR processes, procedures and controls in an agile way - Assisting a scale-up company in Luxembourg during a due diligence process to raise funds - Assisting a scale-up with the implementation of a group structure to globalize the business beyond Europe - Assisting a start-up to raise funds from the European Investment Bank - Assisting a start-up with the digitisation of their KYC onboarding and screening processes - Assisting a start-up with their rebranding and relaunch of their internet presence
In his role as Chief Compliance Officer, Joachim supports the senior management team with navigating the legal and regulatory framework around P2P lending, crowdlending and P2P platforms in Europe to develop a new alternative asset class for investors.
Digital and agile transformation advisor for Luxembourg based clients. - Scrum Master for the Olympic core banking team and the PM1 wealth & asset management platform team - Product Owner for the core banking team at a depositary bank during the ERI-Bancaire Olympic release change from vF00 to vA21
His work within the project management department was being in charge and fully responsible for the delivery of medium to large sized projects, in terms of scope, quality, time and budget. He directly worked together with internal and external stakeholders of Nordea Bank S.A. to deliver projects. During his time with Nordea, he successfully managed and delivered strategically important projects for private banking international. As such he delivered project OPAL, which involved the restructuring of the operational activities within Nordea Wealth Management in Luxembourg. Further, he managed as part of project Krypton, the execution of the IT and operational migration of the Nordea private banking assets to UBS Luxembourg in line with an Asset Purchase Agreement (APA). Additionally, he managed regulatory projects impacting the bank, inter alia project EMIR 2017 as well as the group-wide Financial Crime Change Program (FCCP) supporting the bank in adhering to AML and CTF laws and regulations.
His work within KPMG Regulatory Advisory was mainly focused on the analyses of laws and regulations and their operational impact on the fund (AIFMD, UCITS, unregulated) and banking industry. Joachim is a regulatory subject matter expert for alternative investment funds, fund structuring, derivatives, securities financing transactions, collateral management and reporting (e.g. EMIR, SFTR, MiFIR). As such he regularly contributed editorial content to the KPMG fund news, KPMG regulatory scout, KPMG AIFMD Alert and KPMG 39JFK blog. He has been assigned on various KPMG projects, including: - Assisting clients during the authorization process with the CSSF to become a fully licensed AIFM, UCITS ManCo or PFS in Luxembourg; - Assisting a global management company in reviewing and updating its collateral documentation based on best practice and in drafting a collateral management policy compliant with EU regulations; - Assisting fund managers and depositary banks in reviewing their collateral management function based on best practice and regulatory requirements to define a new TOM; - Reviewing the securities lending business model of a large asset manager to align it with best market practice; - Performing an EMIR & DFA gap analysis and developing a new strategy to leverage regulatory requirements for a large international financial group; - Assisting an international financial institution governed by public international law to review its internal control framework at entity, process and activity level. The activities of the institution ranged from securities trading, derivatives, collateral management, (reverse) repo trading to bond issuance; - Assisting a national competent authority in South-East Asia in the country-wide review and benchmarking of it’s fund management sector; - Conducting the operational and strategic review of the currency desk at a major Luxembourg bank.