Miguel Aguado

Compliance Director Asia Pacific Ria Money Transfer

Miguel Aguado is the head of the compliance department for Ria Money Transfer and XE.com in the APAC region. He assumed this role in January 2022 upon his appointment as Compliance Director and relocation to Sydney. Miguel holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and boasts over 15 years of experience in Compliance within the Financial Services sector across various jurisdictions. Before joining Ria Money Transfer, Miguel served 4 years as a Compliance Specialist for Europe at PayPal (Ireland) and as a Regional Compliance Officer for Spain and Portugal at MoneyGram. In 2013, Miguel transitioned to the compliance department of Ria in Spain, later relocating to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in 2015 as a Compliance Officer for Asia, where he served for almost 4 years. Prior to his relocation to Australia, Miguel led the Financial Investigation Unit at Ria Money Transfer in EMEA & APAC from Spain. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing real-time monitoring, post-transactional analysis, and fraud prevention. Additionally, he spearheaded the implementation of cutting-edge IT solutions aimed at combating fraud, financial crime, money laundering, and terrorism financing.