Mariya Handzhiyska

Maria Handzhiyska is the head of the Compliance department on group level in MFG. She has been part of the holding since 2016, and for the last couple of years she has been dealing with regulatory compliance and application of regulations. Maria is an active part of the development of AML software to be used to implement group policy. She is a lawyer by profession holding a Master’s Degree in Law from University of National and World Economy.

Her professional knowledge and experience in the sphere of Data protection compliance started in 2017 when she had the chance to deal with the project for the implementation of the GDPR regulation in the group of MFG. As an Data protection officer in the last 4 years she’s responsible for overseeing the MFG companies’s data protection strategy and its implementation to ensure compliance with GDPR requirements.

As Chief AML officer her professional focus falls on the internal systems and controls for AML&CFT prevention.