Vladimir Jizdny is a senior director in K2 Integrity’s Financial Crimes Compliance practice, based in Abu Dhabi. With more than 20 years of expertise and experience in prevention, identification, and mitigation of financial crime (FC) risk, he works with leading private and government entities across multiple jurisdictions to design and implement effective FC risk management frameworks to ensure compliance with local legislation and international standards and to support safe and sustainable business growth.
Before joining K2 Integrity, Vladimir was the head of MENAT Financial Crime Analysis, EMEA Risk Assessment at HSBC in Dubai. He managed the bank’s Financial Crime Analysis (FCA) Team, which is responsible for the identification of emerging financial crime risks across the EMEA region. He served as a key point of accountability for identification of emerging financial crime threats impacting HSBC by managing a team of six analysts and leading the integration of FCA and applied analytics to deliver data-driven based insights to the stakeholders. Vladimir also oversaw the production of high-quality, innovative analytical products that deliver actionable insights to mitigate emerging FC risk.
Prior to his time at HSBC, Vladimir was a director, Integrated Intelligence and Investigations (i3), AME, at Standard Chartered Dubai, where he was responsible for the setup and implementation of strategy to identify and assess financial crime risks arising from products, business segments, geographies, customers, and transactions by the i3 Team at the AME level. Additionally, he managed high-profile, end-to-end investigations of financial crime, including sanctions and bribery and corruption in AME markets that were subject to a regulatory scrutiny.
Earlier in his career, Vladimir held positions in financial crime policy team at the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), where he was the senior manager; Europol, where he was an AML and proceeds of crime specialist; and the Czech Republic’s Unit for Combating Corruption and Financial Crime, where he was a senior investigator and a group leader.
Vladimir received an M.A. in financial investigations and financial crime from the Teesside University Business School and completed three courses at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the management and leadership track. He is an FATF trained and certified evaluator and holds ICA certificates in anti-money laundering awareness and digital compliance. Vladimir speaks the Czech language (native), English (proficient), and Russian (basic).
