Nicola Eschenburg is currently the EMEA AML Strategy Leader at NICE Actimize, where she helps financial institutions tackle complex financial crime and compliance challenges. With over 10 years of experience across financial crime and cybersecurity, Nicola has held senior roles spanning strategy, innovation, and consultancy, with a focus on ensuring compliance systems are equipped to detect real-world criminal typologies.

Having worked at the intersection of market insight and product strategy, including advisory roles supporting financial crime prevention initiatives at BAE Systems and Forrester, Nicola brings deep expertise across CDD/KYC, sanctions screening, and transaction monitoring. Known for challenging the status quo, she combines practical industry knowledge with a passion for exploring “the art of the possible” in financial crime prevention.