Partner & Founder
Bernd Träxler
Compliance governance at international level – as former Chief Compliance Officer of the EBRD and Erste Group.
Profile
Bernd Träxler held the Chief Compliance Officer role at the EBRD, a multilateral development bank, and at Erste Group, a leading commercial bank in Central and Eastern Europe. He is the founder of Compliance Networks, an international consultancy network.
He also held a variety of compliance leadership roles at a US financial services provider and worked at the Austrian regulator FMA, responsible for banking supervision and international cooperation amongst regulators. In 2025 and 2026 he advised the European Investment Bank on enhancing its governance and the Republic of Austria on setting up a retail savings product. He also supports a small Austrian bank in remediating AML/CFT and sanctions findings of the FMA.
Areas of expertise
- 01Compliance governance and compliance organisation→
- 02AML/CFT→
- 03Financial sanctions→
- 04Risk assessment, KYC procedures and policy framework
- 05Remediation of supervisory findings
- 06Integrity frameworks for international financial institutions
Career
- TodayPartner and Managing Director · Compliance Networks
- 2022–2023Chief Compliance Officer · EBRDEuropean Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- 2021–2022Founder and Managing Director · Compliance Networks
- 2018–2021Chief Compliance Officer · Erste GroupLeading commercial bank in Central and Eastern Europe
- 2008–2018Head of Compliance & Regulatory · Western Union International Bank
- 2003–2008Advisor to the Board · Deputy Head of the Banking Supervision Division · Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA)
Selected engagements & achievements
Governance and target operating model for a group of development institutions in the area of AML, CFT, sanctions and KYC.
Establishment of a training programme and roll-out of a series of masterclasses for the Palestinian banking sector and regulator in the areas of AML, CFT and sanctions.
Set-up of a retail savings product, including a KYC procedure, an AML/CFT/sanctions risk assessment and an AML/CFT/sanctions policy and its implementation.
Advising Austrian banks in remediating AML/CFT and sanctions findings of the FMA.
Analysis and implementation of the AML package.
Interim Deputy MLRO for KuCoin EU in support of the set-up and remediation of the AML, CFT and sanctions programme.
Education
- 2003
Doctorate in Law (Dr. iur.), University of Salzburg, Austria
- 2000
Master’s Degree in Law (Mag. iur.), University of Salzburg, Austria
Contact
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