Overview
Pascal Aerens is a co-founder and the Chief Product Officer of Neterium, a role he has held since December 2017. He is based in Luxembourg.
Before Neterium, he co-founded Hexalina in January 2017 and spent the year there. He was Head of Innovation at Accuity from December 2015 to December 2016, and prior to that worked at Fircosoft, where he was Head of Product Strategy from October 2012 and then Managing Director for Risk & Compliance Products. From April 2008 to October 2012 he was the founder and chief executive of telovia, and from January 2003 to March 2008 he headed product management at SIDE International.
His earlier career was in software engineering and architecture. He was a software architect at AtosEuronext, a senior software engineer at Tradeware, and a software engineer at Uniway_Belgium, SWIFT, BIM and BelFOX (Euronext), beginning in September 1991.
Aerens studied computer science at HELMo from 1985 to 1990, and in 2011 completed two courses at the Luxembourg Institute of Registered Auditors on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism.
Career history
In the news
- Throwback to an insightful discussion on the evolving sanctions landscape! Last week, we had the pleasure of taking part in the SAS Financial Services Connection, organised by our long-standing partner, SAS Our Co-founder and CPO, Pascal Aerens, joined an expert panel to discuss one of the most pressing challenges facing financial institutions today: 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁
- Back from Milan with a few thoughts, but mostly with more questions worth continuing. One of the things I enjoyed most at the SAS Financial Services Connection was the opportunity to speak directly with customers and partners. I had three sessions, but what made them valuable was how quickly presentations and panels turned into real conversations. Two topics particularly stayed with me. Convergence in financial crime. Fraud, AML and sanctions silos are still very real, not only in data, but perhaps even more in organisations and
- Neterium Talks Series | 4️⃣ upcoming sessions on the future of financial crime screening Join Neterium for four upcoming 25-minute sessions exploring the technologies, strategies, and innovations shaping the next generation of screening. 🤖 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘂𝗺 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸𝘀 - 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝟰𝟱 | 𝟰 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - 𝟱𝗣𝗠 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘒𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘈𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘐 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 With Pascal Aerens, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Neterium Discover how modular,
- 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐞." That was one of Pascal Aerens’ key takeaways from his presentation on the Sibos Discover Stage on 29 September at SIBOS 2026 in Miami, where he explored what the shift towards agentic AI means for Financial Crime Compliance. The answer isn’t another monolithic platform. 👉 It’s 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞:
- Sibos 2026 is officially open, and Neterium is in Miami 🌴! 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁. 𝗜𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴? As payments become faster, richer, and increasingly real-time, screening needs to keep up. 👉 That’s why we’re at Sibos 2026, showcasing how Neterium’s next-generation watchlist screening technology helps financial institutions keep pace with the evolution of payments: from ISO 20022 and richer payment data to instant payments and real-time sanctions screening. 📍𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐛𝐲
- Suitcase locked. 🧳 Passport checked. Slides… still being tweaked (you know me 😇) Next stop: Miami for Sibos 2026. On Tuesday at 1PM I'll be on the Discover Stage talking about Composable Compliance and Agentic AI. Agents are arriving in compliance faster than monolithic platforms can absorb them. With payments going real time and volumes climbing, there simply aren't enough human hours to clear the workload in the window we have. In the session, I'll show what this looks like in practice and why assembling, not buying, is what
- 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 Sibos 2026! Luc Meurant, Pascal Aerens, Florence Le Pecq Vicentini and Christophe Destephen are getting ready for Miami. 📍𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗦𝟱𝟳 where we’ll be showcasing how our next-generation watchlist screening engine helps financial institutions keep pace with the evolution of payments, from ISO 20022 and richer payment data to instant payments and real-time sanctions screening. 🚀 And there’s more… Agentic AI is arriving in compliance faster than
- Last hours to visit the Neterium team at our stand at the 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲 & 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘂𝗺 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, organised by Informa Connect. It’s always great to attend these events, connect with our clients and partners, and exchange ideas on the latest developments in financial crime and sanctions compliance. 👥 We’re especially happy to meet with our long-standing partner SAS Two years ago, we announced the real-world deployment of SAS–Neterium Real-Time Watchlist Screening, bringing together
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