Douglas B. Trindade / Law & compliance
Legal interpretation. Financial-crime risk. Independent second-line compliance across European financial markets.
About me
About me
I am Douglas B. Trindade, a Brazilian-qualified lawyer (OAB/SP) and Compliance Officer (Director) at Leonteq Securities (Europe) GmbH, based in Lisbon.
My work brings legal interpretation into the practical decisions of a financial institution: what applies, where risk sits, how a control should operate and what evidence supports the conclusion.
My background spans capital-markets and cross-border legal work in Brazil, followed by financial-crime compliance at Natixis and FinTrU. Today, my scope covers German, EU and Swiss law, together with applicable branch-country law in Italy, France, Portugal and the UK.
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Selected responsibilities and methods. Confidential work remains confidential.
Make the facts, uncertainty, rationale and decision required explicit. Documentation should support independent challenge and a defensible conclusion.
Risk factors → assessment → controls → residual risk
Identify the applicable jurisdiction, entity and activity. Separate binding requirements from guidance, policy choices and assumptions.
Assess the material risk and the quality of the evidence. Apply scrutiny proportionate to the relationship and its complexity.
Translate requirements into a defined control, an accountable owner and evidence that can be reviewed. A policy needs an operational counterpart.
Make the facts, uncertainty and rationale visible. Constructive challenge should help a decision-maker understand what must be resolved.
Treat remediation as complete only when the underlying issue has been addressed and the evidence supports closure.
Selected professional experience
Compliance Officer (Director)
Independent second-line oversight of regulatory and financial-crime risks in derivatives and structured products. Responsibilities include control design and testing, product governance, regulatory liaison and engagement with internal and external auditors. I contribute to legal and compliance frameworks and coordinate regulatory change implementation across branches, addressing German, EU and Swiss law, plus applicable branch-country law in Italy, France, Portugal and the UK, according to the entity and activity. Risk-based monitoring encompasses control design and operating effectiveness, root-cause analysis and remediation assessment. Regulatory work includes applicability and impact assessments and obligation mapping across WpIG, WpHG, GwG, MaComp, applicable MaRisk requirements, MiFID II/MiFIR, MAR, PRIIPs and the EU AML Package.
Financial Crime Compliance Associate
Financial-crime compliance for Tier 1 international investment-bank clients of FinTrU, covering EU, UK and US institutional portfolios. Conducted risk-based assessments of complex corporate relationships, beneficial ownership and control structures, enhanced due diligence, PEP and sanctions exposure. Applied bank-specific AML/CFT policies and risk-classification methodologies, assessed evidential gaps and documented conclusions and escalation points. Contributed to analytical workflow improvements and AI-assisted multilingual document analysis. Collaborated with engineers on an AI and machine-learning project, contributing domain expertise and training activities to support the automation of compliance processes.
KYC / AML-CFT Compliance Officer
Risk-based AML/CFT assessments of corporate and institutional banking relationships, including higher-risk counterparties, complex beneficial-ownership and control structures, jurisdictional exposure and enhanced due diligence. Progressed into a CRM role with broader assessment and coordination responsibilities. Applied Financial Security policies and risk-classification methodologies, assessed evidential adequacy and documented material concerns for escalation and mitigation. Analysed technical legal, regulatory and banking documentation in French and English.
Brazil — law career
Capital markets, cross-border M&A, legal due diligence and regulatory gap analyses. Led implementation of a company-wide LGPD/GDPR data-protection programme covering policies, governance, contractual safeguards and operating procedures. Worked in Spanish on cross-border matters. Trainee roles at Clifford Chance and Trench Rossi Watanabe. Approximately seven years in law firms during 2013–2020; dates describe career endpoints, not uninterrupted employment.
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). Undergraduate dissertation on non-competition considerations in antitrust analysis, supervised by Professor Calixto Salomão Filho. Participation in Lawgorithm research on the regulation of artificial intelligence and algorithms with Professor Juliano Maranhão (Universidade de São Paulo). · 2007–2014
Visiting Student in Law, St Catherine’s College · 2011–2012
Exchange programme in law · 2011
Portuguese · English · Spanish · French · German · Mandarin
Portuguese: native · English: C2 · Spanish: C2 · French: professional working · German: B2, developing · Mandarin: elementary.
Public professional editions
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Python · SQL · AI
Python, SQL and automation for structured data, reconciliation and repeatable checks. AI-assisted research and multilingual analysis remain subject to source verification and human review.
German · EU · Swiss law
Branch-country law: Italy · France · Portugal · UK
Writing & analysis
Legal review: 8 November 2026From legal applicability to a target operating model, control assurance and defensible closure.
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I plan to publish monthly on AMLR implementation.
Based in Lisbon — open to relocation to Germany, Luxembourg or Switzerland.
I welcome a substantive exchange on compliance governance, financial-crime risk and regulatory developments.
douglasbarrosotrindade@gmail.com