People
From supervision.
To implementation.
All founders combine the supervisory authorities' perspective on what is required with hands-on banking leadership experience in how to deliver it.
Founding partners
Four founders. Four specialisms.
Bernd Träxler
Partner & Founder
Compliance governance · AML/CFT and sanctions · Risk assessment and KYC · Integrity frameworks for IFIs
Stephan Klinger
Partner & Co-Founder
Financial sanctions · EU financial regulation · Governance · Crypto-assets and MiCAR
Christoph Kodada
Partner & Co-Founder
AML/CFT · Targeted financial sanctions · Banking regulatory compliance · Securities compliance
Bernd Fletzberger
Partner & Co-Founder & Attorney at Law
Banking and finance · Financial market law · Payment services law · Crypto and blockchain law
Network
The best minds for every mandate.
Compliance requires partnership and a variety of different skillsets. That is why leading international experts and practitioners with different specialisms come together at Compliance Networks for each client need.
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Advisory
Risk assessment, policies, processes, systems, training and internal controls – AML, CFT, TFS, PF, fraud, MiCAR, regulatory and securities compliance.
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Legal
Legal advice in connection with regulatory questions, licensing and other regulatory procedures for the financial sector – via respective law firms. In this context, please note that Compliance Networks does not offer or perform any activities reserved by law to admitted attorneys.
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Technology
AI-enabled compliance processes, compliance systems and tools, applied analytics and solutions for regulated digital-asset companies.
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Organisation
Organisational set-up, effective governance, culture of compliance, outsourcing, executive search, interim functions and operations.
Network partners
Specialists who extend every team.
Former supervisors, senior compliance leaders, lawyers, data scientists and technology founders – brought in according to the needs of each mandate.
Samuel Brandstätter
Network partner · Vienna
GRC technology · Digital-asset compliance · Compliance platforms
Peter Engering
Network partner · Rotterdam
Financial economic crime · Crypto and TBML · MiCAR
Lorenzo Giurintano
Network partner · Vienna
Unsupervised learning · Explainable machine learning · Data architecture
Philipp Hochreiter
Network partner · Vienna
Fintech and CASPs · Cross-cutting regulatory issues · Regulatory trainings
Gabriele Klein-Gleissinger
Network partner · Vienna
Market abuse regulation · Insider trading detection · Market supervision
Silvia Kodada
Network partner · Vienna
Executive search · Headhunting · Compliance and legal positions
Lukasz Lukaszewski
Network partner · Brussels
Crypto source of wealth · Crypto due diligence · Crypto tax data
Christopher O’Donnell
Network partner · New York
Cross-border compliance architecture · Enterprise risk management · Board advisory
Gary E. Peterson
Network partner · New York
Compliance and AML programme design · Culture and governance change · Board advisory
Shane Riedel
Network partner · Berlin
Correspondent banking risk · AI risk decisioning · Perpetual KYC
Franz Rudorfer
Network partner · Vienna
EU financial services regulation · Regulatory simplification · Governance
Oliver Schwendinger
Network partner · Dornbirn
Financial crime prevention · Compliance technology · AI governance
Stefan Stranzinger-Maier
Network partner · Vienna
FinTech regulation · Digital resilience · AML and sanctions compliance
Martin Thaler
Network partner · Vienna
Ex-post AML monitoring · Sanctions screening · Data architecture and AI
Simone van Ruijven
Network partner · Rotterdam
Regulatory compliance · AML · CDD and KYC · Crypto compliance
Haibo Zhang
Network partner · London
AML monitoring design · Sanctions screening · Model validation
Technology from the network
Compliance technology, built by network partners.
IT solutions from four network partners – from governed AI agents for KYC and correspondent banking to crypto source-of-wealth verification.
Risk Decisioning Platform
Elucidate’s Risk Decisioning Platform puts governed AI agents to work across KYC, correspondent banking due diligence and monitoring, alert triage, investigations and payment validation, acting within limits each institution sets, with full audit logging and a named human accountable for every agent.
Shane Riedel · Founder and CEO
MLTF Prevention System
Soltain helps organisations turn complex compliance requirements into practical, connected workflows. Its modular MLTF Prevention System brings together risk assessments, customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and the tracking of controls and measures.
Oliver Schwendinger · Managing Director
ChainComply
Helps banks and crypto-related financial institutions overcome slow, fragmented and manual enhanced due diligence by consolidating exchange and blockchain data, reconstructing clients’ sources of wealth and funds, and producing audit-ready evidence to support AML decisions.
Lukasz Lukaszewski · Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
3Folio platform
3Folio helps regulated and professional organisations bring digital assets into real financial operations. Its platform turns complex blockchain activity into audit-ready accounting, tax and regulatory data – so institutions can innovate with confidence.
Samuel Brandstätter · CEOWhere we are represented
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