Changes to Compliance organisational structure - Dr Peik Achtert appointed as Head of Compliance

As a response to increasingly complex regulatory requirements and the rising importance of preventing financial crime, Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen is temporarily splitting its Compliance division into two independent organisational units:

• Financial Crime Risk Management, which will focus on preventing money laundering, the financing of terrorism and other financial crime; and

• Compliance, whose priorities will be regulatory requirements, integrity management and internal policy guidelines.

"By strategically recalibrating our organisational structure in this way, we will be able to respond with even greater precision and effectiveness to the specific challenges and regulatory developments in both of these areas", affirms Tamara Weiss, Chief Risk Officer and a member of Helaba's Executive Board. "We are confident that this new structure, with two highly experienced leaders, will make an important contribution to ensuring that our bank is even better equipped for the future."

This structural optimisation will be accompanied by some staffing adjustments. Sylvia Trimborn-Ley (53), who was appointed as a Head of Division on 1 July 2025 in anticipation of this organisational change, will be leading the newly established division of Financial Crime Risk Management.

Dr Peik Achtert (49) will be assuming the role of Head of Compliance from 1 August 2025, reporting in the same way as Sylvia Trimborn-Ley directly to CRO Tamara Weiss. Dr Achtert brings with him wide-ranging experience in regulatory affairs as well as in the operational and strategic alignment of compliance processes. He will play a key role in shaping the reorganisation of the bank's compliance activities. He has held a number of positions of responsibility at Commerzbank and Credit Suisse throughout his professional career. Most recently, he served in a senior programme management role at Helaba.