Professional background
Professional biography
Douglas B. Trindade
Compliance Officer (Director)
Leonteq Securities (Europe) GmbH
Lisbon, Portugal
My career connects corporate and capital-markets legal work in Brazil with financial-crime compliance in Portugal. Today, I work in the independent second-line Compliance function of Leonteq Securities (Europe) GmbH, with a focus on German and EU requirements in a cross-border investment-firm environment.
That background informs the questions I bring to compliance: how a transaction works, where risk arises, what the rule requires and what evidence supports the decision.
Selected professional experience
Leonteq Securities (Europe) GmbH
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.
FinTrU
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.
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking (Groupe BPCE)
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.
Demarest · Neiva Barros & Figueiró / Garrigues · Senise · Clifford Chance · Trench Rossi Watanabe
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.
Education
Universidade de São Paulo
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
University of Oxford
Visiting Student in Law, St Catherine’s College · 2011–2012
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Exchange programme in law · 2011
Working across languages
Portuguese · English · Spanish · French · German · Mandarin
Portuguese: native · English: C2 · Spanish: C2 · French: professional working · German: B2, developing · Mandarin: elementary.
Qualifications & professional membership
- Member of the Brazilian Bar — Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil, São Paulo (OAB/SP).
- Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) — C2.
- Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera (DELE), Nivel Superior — C2.
- Former President, Oxford University Brazilian Society.
Curriculum vitae
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