MBAER Bank - The Swiss Merchant Bank

The Bank with a Soul

Nathalie Kappeler

Attorney-at-law
Senior Legal & Compliance Officer

Nathalie has been working at MBaer Merchant Bank since August 2024.

As Senior Legal & Compliance Officer, she supports the Legal & Compliance team in various regulatory and legal matters.

Key professional milestones

Longstanding experience

Nathalie is a versatile lawyer with extensive experience in the areas of legal, compliance and forensics. She has many years of professional experience from her work at the public prosecutor's office in Zurich, as a corporate lawyer at one of the Big Four, as a senior compliance officer in wealth management at two banks in Switzerland and as Head of Compliance at a leading Swiss securities firm in the structured products market.

Expertise

She has extensive expertise in the prosecution of complex commercial and criminal cases, project management, risk assessment and the development and implementation of compliance and prevention strategies.

Nathalie has very good knowledge of AMLA, KYC, sanctions, CDB, capital markets regulation, cross-border regulations as well as litigation, ethical issues and employment law.

Qualifications

  • Attorney-at-law (admitted to the Swiss Bar)
  • lic.iur., University of Zurich
  • Certificate in Compliance, Institute for Studies in Finance and Banking Geneva

Nathalie is a native German speaker and has a very good knowledge of English, French and Spanish. She also has a basic knowledge of Italian.