The Anti-Money Laundering Authority and EU Financial Agencies

Jonathan Bauerschmidt is a Member of the Legal Service, Council of the European Union, and Visiting Professor UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels. He studied law at the Universities of Constance and Aix-en-Provence and holds a PhD from Humboldt-University Berlin where he explored the effects of public international law treaties on the institutions of the European Union. His research focuses on constitutional and institutional law of the EU, Economic and Monetary Union and the law of financial services.Raffaele D'Ambrosio is Deputy Head of the Legal Services Directorate of Banca d'Italia and Professor of "European Financial Supervision: Administrative and Judicial Proceedings" at the University of Bologna. He is member of the SSM Legal Committee and the Advisory Board of the European Banking Institute (EBI). During his professional and academic career he worked at the ECB Legal Services Directorate and at the Secretariat of the Italian Markets Authority (Consob) and was Professor of "Law of Financial Institutions" at the University of Bologna and "Banking Law" at the University of Viterbo. He is author of several essays on commercial, banking, and financial law.Diane Fromage is Professor of European Law at the University of Salzburg and Deputy Director of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies. She teaches EU institutional and Internal market law, as well as Economic and Monetary Union and Banking Union law. Prior to joining Salzburg, she was a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Fellow at Sciences Po, Paris, and an Assistant Professor at Maastricht and Utrecht Universities. She has authored numerous contributions on Economic and Monetary Union, Banking Union, Democracy and Accountability within the EU.Andreas Schirk is heading the division for Anti-Money Laundering, Countering Terrorist Financing and Sanctions Supervision of the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA). He is the Austrian alternate member of AMLA's General Board in the supervisory composition and serving as co-chair of AMLA's internal committee on private sector standards. In his capacity, Andreas is also closely involved in the work of the Financial Action Task Force. Previously, he has held various positions at the European Commission and at the European Central Bank. Trained as lawyer and economist, Andreas is researching, publishing and lecturing on financial market topics.