Laurent Colombant
Business Development Manager Fraud solution EMEA
Laurent Colombant is the EMEA solution lead for the Continuous Controls solution for Procurement, T&E, insider and HR fraud. He has been working in the fraud and compliance IT solutions space for over 18 years.
Laurent has been helping customers tackle financial crime using NLP, ML and analytics since 2000. After focusing on sanctions screening, anti-money laundering, payment fraud and terrorist cell financing he is now working to address Continuous Controls for SAS customers. This includes P2P, T&E, Know Your Supplier and Insider fraud modus operandi.
Prior to joining SAS, Laurent worked on sanctions screening and halt of business for Tier 1 banks using lexical AI. He managed a subsidiary of Temenos specialized in scanning and checking SWIFT messages.
He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Michigan and a joint degree in linguistics, econometrics and computing from the University of Montreal
Speaker engagements
When | What | Where | Organizer |
2020 | Unmasking the enemy within: why organisations fail to spot procurement fraud | On-Demand webinar | SAS |
2020 | Assurer l’intégrité continue des processus d’approvisionnement grâce à l’analytique et à l’intelligence artificielle | On-Demand webinar | SAS |
2020 | Uncover procurement risks early using machine learning and AI | On-Demand webinar | SAS |
2019 | Practical Feedback: artificial intelligence at the service of the fight against corruption | Brussels- Fight against Corruption | Creobis (Business Information and Seminars) |
2018 | Continuous Compliance Monitoring Using Advanced Analytics • Identifying collusions and corruption | 18th Fraud and Corruption Forum Amsterdam | Thought Leader Global |
2017 | Breakout Session: Fighting Fraud: Uncover procurement risks earlier than ever. Prevent financial losses. Protect your reputation. | Amsterdam | SAS Analytics Experience |