Yeva Gazazyan

Head of Compliance, HSBC Bank Armenia CJSC

Yeva has been employed in financial industry almost 20 years, of which about 15 years with HSBC. She occupied business management / COO roles in commercial banking in HSBC Bank Armenia for 7 years, has worked for the regional executive management office in London headquarters for 2.5 years, and has been member of country executive committee in HSBC Bank Armenia since 2016 as head of regulatory compliance, and afterwards, as Chief Compliance Officer and MLRO (accountable for financial crime compliance and regulatory compliance).

During her secondment to London headquarters, she has been driving various workstreams related to embedding Conduct Programme in HSBC Group headquarters in 2014-2016, and further supported the country implementation programme in her capacity of country head of regulatory compliance since 2016.

Yeva graduated from Yerevan State Economics University in 2014 majoring in finance and banking, she holds a Ph.D. in Finance (2007), is a CFA charterholder (2012), holds ICA International Diploma on Governance, Risk and Compliance (2019) and is en-route of completing her post-graduate Diploma in Financial Crime Compliance with ICA this year.

Yeva is married and has a daughter.