Andreas Serafin

Andreas Serafin became head of our Financial Services service line on 1 October 2020. He has more than 25 years of professional experience in the finance sector and occupied a top level position with global responsibility for two internationally operating banks in Germany and Switzerland. He also has experience as Partner dealing with supervisory matters as well as accounting and audit, both at a reputable medium-sized national audit firm and at one of the international Big Four.

Fields of expertise

• Audits of financial statements of banks and financial services institutions and
• Advice on law governing regulation, risk management, compliance and financial accounting
• Outsourcing of functional areas (e.g. compliance, internal audit)
• Internal audit and audit of internal control and risk management systems
• Compliance - strategy and structural and procedural organisational concept, monitoring and testing for fraud and money laundering
• Other special audits

Publications

• Co-author of the German Banking Act (KWG), commentary on German Banking Act including German Solvency Regulation (SolvV), German Liquidity Regulation, German Large Loans Directive  (GroMiKMaRisk, published by Schäffer-Poeschel (2009)
• Numerous publications on MiFID, MaRisk and supervisory law (2004 – 2014)

Memberships

• Institute of Public Auditors in Germany [Institut der Wirtschaftsprüfer in Deutschland e.V.] 
• Chamber of Public Auditors [Wirtschaftsprüferkammer]