Changes approved from April 7 “SEB Māris Larionovs, Head of the Credit Department of SEB banka, will join the bank’s board and assume responsibility for AML and compliance, while the current member of the board, Kārlis Danēvičs (pictured), will lead the credit and risk control area. informs the bank.
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The new composition of the board has been approved European Central Bank and the Board of SEB banka.
The current member of the Board, Erki Pugals, who has been responsible for credit and risk control so far, will continue to work in the field of lending in the SEB banka group.
The Board of SEB banka in Latvia consists of six people: Ieva Tetere, Chairman of the Board, Ints Krasts, Head of Corporate Banking, Arnis Škapars, Head of Retail and Small and Medium Enterprises, Maris Larionovs, Member of the Board responsible for AML and compliance, Kārlis Danēvičs, Member of the Board responsible for risk control management, and Kristaps Strazds, Chief Financial Officer.
Larionovs has been working at SEB banka for more than 27 years and has held various leading positions in both lending and servicing units of the bank’s individuals and small and medium-sized enterprises. For the past nine years, he has headed the Lending Department.
Larionovs holds a professional master’s degree in economics from the University of Latvia, has also completed the senior management professional education program at the Wallenberg Institute and the Swedish Leadership Development Program “Art of Execution”. Since 2014, he has been a member of the Supervisory Board of JSC “Kredītinformācijas birojs”.
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Pictured: Larionov.
Danevics has been working at SEB banka for more than 17 years and has headed various areas and structural units, elected to the Board in 2014. For the past two years, he has been a member of the board responsible for AML and compliance, and has undergone ambitious change processes. From 2017 to 2019, Danēvičs was a member of the Board responsible for credit and risk control – in the future these areas will be under his supervision again.
Danevics holds a Master’s degree (MBA) in Business Administration and Finance from the Riga Business School, studied Finance at the Banking Institution of Higher Education and Economic Policy at the University of Latvia. He has also studied the senior management professional education program at the Wallenberg Institute. Danēvičs also works in various organizations – he is the co-chairman of the Credit Committee of the Financial Industry Association, a member of the board of the Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance and the chairman of the council of the Latvian SOS Children’s Villages Association.
Ieva Tetere, Chairman of the Board of SEB banka, points out that the areas of AML and operational compliance, as well as credit and risk control, are among the most important cornerstones of SEB banka and the entire financial sector. “Looking to the future, it is clear that we must work purposefully so that Latvia’s achievements in the field of AML and compliance are also assessed by international partners and investors, as well as so that we can be one step ahead of change in the area of credit and risk control.”
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