Looking Back at 2025 – Test Your Sanctions Knowledge!

Vincent Gaudel works as a financial crime compliance expert for LexisNexis® Risk Solutions. His responsibilities include maintaining a deep understanding of worldwide regulatory trends to help guide the company’s product development and functionality growth while supporting client expansions.

With more than 10 years of experience in compliance functions, Gaudel provides exceptional expertise in sanctions compliance, anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regulations. His comprehensive regulatory analysis enables the sales engineering process and sanctions data teams.

Gaudel is the author of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Sanctions Pulse, a recurring in-depth evaluation of the global sanctions landscape. He is certified by ACAMS as a Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) and holds Master’s degrees in international and European relations from Linköping University, Sweden and international business from INSEEC, France.

In June 2023, Howard joined Citigroup as a Sanctions Risk Officer for the Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory Group, where he works with first and second line stakeholders to ensure sanctions compliance with applicable regulations, policies and procedures.

Previously, Howard was a Vice President in the Global Sanctions Compliance Department at MUFG, where he collaborated on sanctions compliance program initiatives and worked on wide-ranging projects, including risk assessments, global product reviews, and consulting on complex transactions. Prior to that, he held anti-financial crime roles at Citibank and AIG, where he provided sanctions and compliance subject-matter expertise to global stakeholders.

Before that, Spieler served in the Bloomberg administration for 10 years, with seven of those years as head of compliance at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where he helped develop and maintain its risk-based compliance program, which included managing regulatory reporting as well as the ongoing monitoring and assessment of a $30 billion portfolio of public-private real estate transactions

Ivy Llena has over 14 years of experience in the learning and development field, providing capacity-building and professional development programs for corporate and social service agencies in the US and the Philippines.
Before joining ACSS, she was a program director at a non-profit organization in the Philippines, where she co-designed and co-implemented economic empowerment programs and services for survivors of human trafficking and their families. Ivy also served at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, where she led and contributed to inclusive economic growth initiatives.