Pierre-Francis LOBE

– These training sessions are aimed at professionals working in the finance industry (banks, insurance companies) and consultants willing to enhance their knowledge in the capital markets. – Taught subjects include: – The basics of financial markets – financial securities and portfolio management – Derivatives Markets – Structured products: Understanding their functioning and usage – Bond markets

– Day-to-day management of anti-money laundering software – Vigiliste: Anti-money laundering customer screening – VigiDS: Sharing of suspicious transaction reports amongst the company's divisions – Dow Jones Factiva : Watchlist management platform (Asset Freeze list and other sanctions, PEP/RCA, Adverse media) – Day-to-day management includes: – User assistance: access authorizations, response to work requests – Third-party software maintenance: incident troubleshooting and software enhancements – Activity dashboard management – Management of the call of tenders for the replacement of Anti-money laundering screening (Vigiliste) and profiling (Vigiprofil) software – Shortlisting of AML software publishers – Writing of the tender procedure – Bidding evaluation – Technologies : – Vigiliste: SAS AML (SAS) – Vigiprofil: NetReveal v8.6 (SymphonyAI) – VigiDS: OpenAGE (Reflexe Technologies)

– Answering the reporting needs of the Corporate and Markets activity – Gathering and analysis of business needs – Writing functional specifications (user stories) – Follow-up of the IT development phase – Tests and validation – Some addressed issues: – Market making operations daily report – Market making monthly cash positions report – Monthly report of overdue bills for Financial Control – Monthly Client Activity Report – HR Monthly Balance Scorecard dashboard – Yearly regulatory RTS28 report – Project management method: Agile – Technologies: IBM Cognos, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server

– Project AML-FT 22-24 : Redesigning the framework of Anti-Money Laundering and Financing Terrorism at Group level: – Redesigning Tracline - Suspicious transaction report tool – Definition of new features – Writing the business requirements in order to ensure compliance with the upcoming version of Ermes, the Tracfin transmission system. – Negative News management system – Definition of the features – Selection of the News provider – Project management method: Agile

– Replacement of the AML people screening software – Monitoring the relationship with the software provider – Correction and validation of the functional specifications – Ensuring the steady business quality of deliverables – Planning building and follow-up – User testing phase – Writing the tests to be performed – Chairing the workshops – Building up an excel simulation tool – Following up anomalies – Writing the software evolution business requirements – Comitology of the project – Planning and chairing the project committee meetings – Planning the steering committee meetings – Writing down the minutes of the meetings – Software rollout and user training – Writing down the user guide – Training the users – Daily management of the AML tools – User assistance – Technologies: SAS AML – Auditing the data stream of the AML profiling tool: – Analyzing des rejected data – Redefining the main data injection rules – Writing the audit report – Technologies: RStudio (big data analysis), Microsoft Excel

– Taught subjects: – Introduction to market economy – Firm financing – Role of the government in the economy – European institutions – The digital industry

– Revamping of the alert generating scenarios within the life insurance profiling software – Data and process analysis – Engineering the new alert generating scenarios – Chairing the scenario creation workshops – Writing down the scenarios functional specifications – Managing the data analysis team – Supervision of the technical implementation of the new scenarios – Presenting the scenarios to the development team – Performing the functional and integration tests – Technologies: RStudio (statistical calculations), Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft DotNet

– Setting up an AML-CFT tool for the monitoring of the retail clients. – Helping the business team express the functional requirements – Writing the general and detailed functional specifications – Chairing the functional specifications workshops – Engineering the technical solutions with the programming teams – Writing the technical specifications – Performing the unitary and integration tests – Technologies: – Scoring engine and alerts generation: Hadoop (HIVE, PIG, Spark, HDFS, sqoop) – Transactional: JBoss, Postgres database, PrimeFaces framework

– Setting up an anti-fraud software aimed at monitoring the traders' transactions (Enforcement of the new control rules following the Jerome Kerviel scandal) – Software development team manager – Programming, in the dataserver language, the data import modules – Coordinating the software provider deliveries – Coordinating the user tests – Ensuring the post go-live steadiness – Performing the software maintenance (correcting bugs and developing evolutions)

– Setting up an AML customer scoring tool (enforcement of the 3rd European directive) – Enhancement of the risk cartography – Writing the business requirements – Engineering the customer scoring formula – Designing the screen mock-ups – Translating, from French to English, the MLRA questionnaire (survey about the AML framework performed among the whole Group)

– Setting up an AML people screening software in application of the 3rd European directive – Organizing the call for tender – Writing down the call for tender document to select the provider of the sensitive persons repository (Politically Exposed Persons, Terrorists, sanctioned countries, ...) – Chairing the preliminary meetings with the bidders – Writing the general functional specifications dossiers – Customer screening system (detection of terrorists, PEP and sanctioned countries) – Central Registry of reports of suspicions to TRACFIN (French financial security authority) – Coordinating the project stakeholders: – Product owner – Legal department – Users: local branches and subsidiaries – Software building and running: IT department – Managing the user tests – Writing the tests description document – Running the tests – Chairing the validation (go – no go) meetings – Programming the screening modules (ETL Informatica) – Rolling out the software through the local branches and French and international subsidiaries – Preparing the regulatory authority visits

– Answering to several calls of tender

– Ensuring data reliability during the operational merger of several newly acquired small banks

– Roll out of a car leasing management software

– Data analyst: March 2006 - September 2007 – Software developer: September 2001- December 2004

– Intranet website designer and developer