Laurent Colombant
Continuous Controls solution team lead, Fraud and Compliance NEMEA
Laurent has been helping customers tackle financial crime using NLP, ML and analytics since 1999. After focusing on sanctions screening, anti-money laundering, payment fraud and terrorist cell financing he is now working to address Continuous Controls monitoring for SAS customers. This includes P2P, T&E, Know Your Supplier and Insider fraud modus operandi. He’s the NEMEA pre-sale lead for the solution and believes it’s the next to hottest fraud detection solution in the market.
Prior to joining SAS, Laurent worked on sanctions screening and halt of business for Tier 1 banks using lexical AI. He was the General Manager of the Belgian subsidiary of Temenos specialized in scanning and checking SWIFT messages. He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Michigan and a joint degree in linguistics, econometrics and computing from the University of Montreal.