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Banking & Finance: Regulatory

Austria

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Practice Areas

Banking & Finance Regulatory

Career

Since 2012: Law office Bettina Hörtner, attorney at law.

2006-2012: DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach Rechtsanwälte GmbH (since 2009 admitted as attorney at law), Vienna.

2002-2006: Deloitte. Austria – Teamleader Financial Services Regulatory Consulting, Vienna.

1998-2002: Former Austrian Securities Supervisory Authority (now Financial Market Authority), Vienna.

1994-1998: Creditanstalt AG, legal department, Vienna.

1993: Internship at the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union, Brussels.

1992: Court practice (clerkship) in Vienna.

University degree in Law, University of Vienna (Mag. iur. 1991, Dr. iur. 1995).

Languages: German, English, French.

Professional Memberships

• Attorney at law registered with the Vienna Bar Association

• Member of working group Banking, Insurance Companies and financial markets of Transparency International Austrian Chapter

• Advisory Board Member of the German legal journal on Payment Services “Recht der Zahlungsdienste”

• Member of the advisory board of the Austrian Compliance Officers Association

• Member of BWG “Österreichische bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft”

Publications

• Technical lectures in the area of the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing and book contributions regarding the beneficial owner

• Dr. Bettina Hörtner holds a large number of expert lectures, as well as in-house seminars for clients and is co-editor and co-author of the practical handbook on the FM-GwG, the first comprehensive work on the FM-GwG on the market: Praxishandbuch FM-GwG | Finanzverlag (https://www.finanzverlag.at/titel/fm-gwg-praxishandbuch/). The demand of in-house trainings has also significantly increased in the time of COVID restrictions and this increase remains unchanged.

• Dr. Hörtner´s most recent scholarly contributions include the preparation of an article on a decision of the supreme court on specific clauses in general business conditions of a bank for the German Legal Journal (RdZ – Recht der Zahlungsdienste), published 02/2023 and an article on Interests in the suspensive effect and regulatory publications according to Art. 37 Financial Markets Anti-Money Laundering Act, written together with Thomas Ehrschwendner for ÖBA Österreichisches BankArchiv (5/2022).

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