Vladlena Baranova

• Strategic oversight and leadership of cross-functional teams, ensuring
operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and client satisfaction
across all active programs and jurisdictions.
• Development and implementation of internal policies, business processes,
and strategic planning initiatives to support company growth, service
expansion, and reputation management in the global investment
migration market.
• Close cooperation with government bodies, licensed agents, external
advisors, and program authorities across multiple countries to ensure
transparent and compliant case handling.
• Ongoing evaluation of market trends, legal and regulatory changes
(including international sanctions and AML/CFT developments), with
corresponding updates to internal controls, training programs, and client
communication strategies.

• Legal Department work and process organization (initial training,
customer onboarding, EDD, Monitoring, Quality assurance), enhanced
training and coordination (3-9 people under management). Effective
communication development between other departments, agents,
citizenship units, real estate developers, etc.
• Full and effective AML/CFT internal control system implementation -
starting from zero up to compliant AML subject with all applicable
control system elements.
• Face-to-face work with high risk VIP customers, including PEPs, Special
Interest persons, celebrities etc. by solving wide range problems,
multifunctionality and confidentiality - from financial planning,
investment opportunities and up to personal matters;
• High risk customer Due Diligence performance, Enhanced Due Diligence
performance for all sources of income of customer, analysis and
structuring of all necessary documentation;
• Preparation of legal documents - Due Diligence reports, welfare histories,
affidavits (against criminal records, public negative information, high risk
activity etc.);
• Daily improvement of the company internal AML control system: internal
documentation actualisation, technical solutions, latest European
regulation implementation (AML Directives, GDPR, International
Sanctions requirements, etc).

• Bank Compliance Control Department work and process organization,
training and coordination (4+ people management). Effective
communication development between the employees of the department
and all Bank structural units.
• Management of the Compliance department, ensuring the fulfillment of
tasks and functions, incl. work planning and coordination.
• Identifying, assessing and managing the Banks compliance risks by
establishing and maintaining an effective internal control system.
• Constant analysis and examination of laws, regulations and compliance
standards, initiation of their timely implementation in the Banks
regulatory documents, as well as supervision and initiation of updating of
all the Banks internal documentation (chairing the Methodology
Committee).
• Support and coordination of new projects and compliance issues.
• Informing the Banks senior management about significant compliance
risks and identified deficiencies. Planning and implementation of
performance compliance checks, providing results to senior management.
• Provision of external communication with regulatory authorities and
associations.
• Responsibilities, compliance and coordination in such areas as MIFID II,
GDPR, EMIR, conflict of interests, outsourcing, whistleblowing and other
processes.
• Organization of training for Bank employees in certain areas.
• Teamwork evaluation, reporting and quality assurance, as well as
continuous team qualification and professional level increase.

Department/Acting as of
• Bank AML Department work and process organization (Onboarding, EDD,
Transaction monitoring, Quality assurance teams), training and
coordination (5-23 people under management). Effective communication
development between the employees of the department and the
employees of the customer service structural units.
• Supervision and EDD of the correspondent bank relations - monitoring
process coordination, scoring system development, relative procedure
development and EDD/supervision process execution (LORO, NOSTRO,
DEPO correspondents);
• All Bank customer payment monitoring process organisation (Payment
monitoring team direct supervision), as so - check list actualization and
effectiveness testing, internal documentation development etc..
• Identification, investigation and reporting of suspicious transactions in
the supervised area in accordance with the requirements of the Banks
regulatory documents (MLRO).
• AML risk assessment system development and implementation.
• Work organization with internal/external audits, audit recommendation
implementation, control and reporting.
• Project management and participation, expert conclusion and assessment
provision in Sanction, AML and Proliferation areas.
• Teamwork evaluation, reporting and quality assurance, as well as
continuous team qualification and professional level increase.

• Management of the customer monitoring department, including
monitoring and supervision of customer transactions, due diligence and
analysis of customers and their transactions, cooperation with FIU,
operational risk management, conflict of interest management, sanction
monitoring, complaint and problem solving, promotion of cooperation
with partners, etc.
• Legal assistant - development and updating of internal legal acts -
policies and procedures, organization and management of the companys
internal documentation, promotion of cooperation with state institutions
(FCMC, SRS, IRS), preparation of the companys legal documents, solving
legal issues, etc.
• Financial instrument market assessment, MIFID & Emir regulation
implementation; legal documentation development in international
regulatory area.

specialization in civil
Development of legal documentation, provision of legal advice, development of
court documentation, maintenance of claims and court proceedings, resolution
of controversial and complex situations, analysis and processing of large
amounts of information, etc.

15 people under management: collective management, motivation and control
(schedules, salaries, taxes, training), management of work organizational issues
and documents, control of labor protection, environmental protection
documentation, inventory, control of goods (fuel) movement and registration.