Olaf Bausch | Frankfurt | Hogan Lovells

Olaf Bausch

Director of Financial Services Global Regulatory

Languages

German, English

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Olaf Bausch
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  • Overview
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Olaf Bausch advises German and international companies on the transfer and implementation of legal requirements in the areas of regulatory law, payment services law and anti-money laundering law into their daily operational structures. As part of interim management, Olaf is regularly appointed as the money laundering officer.

Olaf has comprehensive practical know-how, which he gained during his professional career as a supervisor at the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, as a compliance and money laundering officer in international companies, and as a consultant for national and international companies. He is member of the board of the German Federal Association of Payment and E-Money-Institutions. The combination of diverse roles and perspectives makes his experience truely unique.

Olaf regularly deals with the preparation and successful execution of applications for obtaining a license as a financial institution. This includes all operational aspects of the structural and procedural organisation of a financial instution.    

Representative experience

Appointed for more than two years as an external Money Laundering Reporting Officer for the German branch office of an systematically important credit institution.

Appointed external Money Laundering Reporting Officer for credit institutions, financial services institutions and traders of goods.

Draft of the application for a license as financial services institution and point of contact to BaFin for a government owned company. 

Draft of several applications for companies to obtain a license as payment or e-money institution and point of contact for BaFin during the application process.

Review and update the guidelines, procedures and control documents of the money laundering organisation of regulated financial companies.

Advising traders of luxury goods regarding the organisational setup of measures to prevent money laundering and combat terrorism financing.

Credentials

Education
  • Diplom-Wirtschaftsjurist, HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences, 2004