Attorney-at-Law, trained banker and lawyer, has served as General Counsel and Managing Director of the Association of German Banks since 2005. After joining the Association in 1995, he was responsible for matters relating to the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing, competition law, and various aspects of civil banking law. From 2002 to 2008, he chaired the Anti-Fraud and Anti-Money-Laundering Committee, and from 2010 to 2014, the Legal Committee of the European Banking Federation in Brussels. Thorsten is co-editor of the leading German banking law commentary Bankrecht und Bankpraxis, chairs the advisory board of one of Germany’s leading banking law journals, Wertpapier-Mitteilungen, and has published widely on a range of banking law topics. He is also a frequent speaker on legal issues relating to banking and lectures on compliance at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.