Austėja Viederytė

Head of AML Group

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+370 5 212 40 84
Languages: Lithuanian, English

Practice areas

AML Compliance

Austėja Viederytė is the Head of AML Group at ECOVIS ProventusLaw. She has more than 10 years of experience in money laundering and terrorist financing prevention area and provides consultations in the fields of AML and FinTech.

During her career, Austėja worked for 3 different financial institutions – a global money remittance company, a bank, and an electronic money institution, where she gained extensive management and hands-on experience in daily AML processes. Austėja also worked for the Bank of Lithuania in AML / CTF team where she gained a deep understanding of the regulatory requirements, participated in Payments Council activities, delivered training, and consulted FinTech companies on various AML questions.

Austėja is a certified internal auditor, and she leads external AML audits for financial institutions. She also assists our clients to develop AML policies & procedures, helps them overcome daily AML challenges, delivers training for various financial market participants, and is actively engaged in product development for FinTechs.

Education

2008-2012
Bachelor of International Relations & Politics
Vilnius University, Institute of International Relations & Politics

Awards and recognitions

Knowledge without experience is of little use. Therefore we are proud of having our own valuable experience to share with you.

Business-minded approach, dedicated team, responsiveness looking for solutions, ready for the extra mile. They are known in the market as brilliant experts of Fintech

ECOVIS Proventuslaw was ranked in Chambers Europe Ranking 2019, 2020, 2021 and Chambers FinTech 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.

Inga Karulaitytė was recognised as Highly Regarded lawyer in Banking and finance by IFLR1000 2019 and 2020 rankings.

ECOVIS is knowledgeable and helpful on complex matters, and has been able to provide access to subject matter experts in all areas when handling our queries.

ECOVIS ProventusLaw specialists are very flexible and have solutions to every problem we have. It is always a pleasure to communicate with them

Loreta is very sharp-minded. She always looks out of the box, has a vast experience in various sectors and can provide diverse solutions.

Ecovis has a dedicated employment team, which always takes care of the clients’ needs and tries to find the best solution. It doesn’t matter on which side they have to be – on the employee or the employer, Ecovis will ensure that the solution will be found.

Ecovis ProventusLaw is best known in Lithuania for its banking work, where it regularly completes fintech-related deals. They are very good at adapting quickly.