Lina Williamsson

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About Lina Williamsson

Having 20 years of experience of Compliance, Risk, AML and Data Protection issues within the financial services sector I'm currently heading the Risk, Regulatory & Sustainability Function within the Fortnox Group. It is exiting to be part of the business applying the knowledge I have gained from my years in the 2LOD. We are developing effective financial crime prevention and sustainability work across the Fortnox Group along with defining and implementing regulatory strategies and a robust governance and risk management framework. In my role as Compliance and Regulatory Officer & Data Protection Officer at the fintech start-up company stoEr Technologies AB I was covering Swedish and international privacy and banking laws from an IT-perspective. It was a privilege to be part of the great team and making privacy as well as compliance by design happen in practice and being part of digitalising the Swedish mortgage and credit business. Before this, I headed the Global Compliance Function at Klarna, a Swedish credit institution with the idea to simplify buying online. Klarna is one of Europe’s fastest growing companies and the Klarna Group has more than 1,200 employees, is active on 15 markets, serves 25 million consumers and works with merchants. The company's goal is to become the world’s favorite way to buy. At Klarna, I lead the work of assisting the business in identifying and managing compliance risk across the group as well as reporting to the Group CEO and the Group Board. We also monitored the group’s overall compliance with external and internal rules. I also acted as AMLRO. In my previous compliance roles, I have gained experience of, inter alia, regulatory issues, drafting of compliance documentations, practical prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, insider trading and market abuse, conflict of interest handling and training on compliance issue. In my role as senior associate at law firm DLA Piper Nordic I worked with both regulatory and contractual issues in the financial sector. I am also a co-founder and held the role as vice Chairman of the Board of Compliance Forum, a Swedish non-profit association of about 300 members consisting of Compliance Officers in regulated companies in the Swedish market for 14 years. The aim of Compliance Forum is to strengthen and define the Compliance Officer role in Sweden, by way of networking and knowledge-sharing between the members. Besides compliance, I am also passionate about yoga and I am a yoga teacher giving yoga classes in Sweden and Spain.