George Spanos is an AML and Compliance professional currently serving as AMLCO, with extensive hands-on involvement in sanctions compliance, AML investigations, and complex financial crime cases.

He has been responsible for handling sanctions cases end-to-end, from initial screening and alert investigation through escalation, decision-making, and final resolution. His experience includes investigating potential and confirmed sanctions matches, assessing ownership and control, beneficial ownership structures, counterparties, transactional exposure, sanctioned jurisdictions, and circumvention risks, as well as determining appropriate actions based on the circumstances of each case.

His wider AML experience includes handling high-risk and complex customer cases, PEPs, adverse media, EDD, source of funds/source of wealth assessments, KYC/CDD, transaction monitoring investigations, ongoing monitoring, and internal AML reviews. He has also been involved in the practical implementation of regulatory requirements and strengthening internal AML and sanctions controls.

George holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Nicosia and holds both the CySEC Advanced and AML Certifications.