Alina Bloshchenko is a senior director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice, based in Abu Dhabi. A seasoned compliance expert with close to a decade of banking experience, Alina has held roles across various departments within compliance and business. She leverages her domain knowledge—spanning across compliance and underpinned by strong governance capabilities from a nonfinancial risk perspective—to support financial institutions with their regulatory and overall compliance obligations. Alina’s understanding and experience in this domain enables her to be a strong trusted partner for financial institutions during their compliance and regulatory transformational journey.
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Alina worked for HSBC Bank Middle East, where she was an integral part of its financial crime function. She managed the implementation of the institution’s regional target operating model for all combined financial crime compliance analytical and investigatory capabilities and respective governance frameworks. This was a program triggered by the U.S. Department of Justice from a global perspective, which Alina managed and drove to successful implementation across the MENAT region, such that it was used as a pilot for the respective deployments across remaining regions.
In her recent capacity with business at HSBC Middle East, Alina managed nonfinancial risk reporting for MENAT and Europe, which fed into various risk management governance committees and board meetings, while supporting the regional head of business. This also entailed development and deployment of the overall nonfinancial risk framework in collaboration with senior stakeholders, as well as ongoing monitoring and reporting ensuring that high risks or areas of concern were flagged to senior management and addressed by respective stakeholders.
Alina holds an M.S. degree in political science from National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv. A native Ukrainian speaker, she is fluent in English and Russian and intermediate in German, with limited proficiency in French, Spanish, and Arabic (basic).