Mr Singh comes with a robust 15+ years of experience in compliance and client onboarding functions across Fintech, Trading and Banking domains. He joined Mastercard in 2017 as a Regional AML Lead for the Asia Pacific region. His role is to assess potential AML/Sanctions risk to Mastercard and develop controls for the region. Before joining Mastercard, he worked at Noble Group, a commodity trading firm, where he developed and ran a global onboarding team. Prior to this, he worked for Bank of America-Merrill Lynch in New York and Singapore offices and held several roles focusing on managing AML/KYC risks for Global Markets and Global Banking business lines.

Ms Ang leads Asia Pacific public policy and regulatory affairs for TRM Labs, a blockchain intelligence company that helps financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses and public agencies detect and investigate crypto-related fraud and financial crime.

A former regulator, She spent over a decade at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), where she was most recently Deputy Director in charge of licensing for payment service providers. As part of the pioneering team for Singapore’s payments regulatory regime, she oversaw the development and implementation of the licensing framework as well as the assessment of several hundred payments and digital asset license applications. Prior to this, she held a diverse range of roles at MAS including in regulatory policy, business development and consumer education, giving her deep insight into the full gamut of policymaking considerations for global financial regulators.

Mr Bowden heads compliance at crypto exchange OKX. He has more than twenty years of legal and compliance experience from crypto, fintech, banking and law firms. Prior to joining OKX he was with payments firms Currencycloud (part of the Visa group) and Assembly Payments (now Zai).

Before that he spent 12 years in various global legal and compliance leadership roles at Standard Chartered Bank. Before that he was with global law firm Linklaters.

Mr Chye Kit co-founded Cynopsis Solutions in 2014, an award-winning end-to-end RegTech solution provider headquartered in Singapore with offices in United Kingdom, United States of America, Abu Dhabi, Vietnam and Taiwan. Cynopsis focuses on simplifying complex know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) requirements by automating and digitising essential regulatory processes for clients in financial and non-financial services sectors globally.

Under his leadership, Cynopsis is named as a Top 10 Fastest Growing Company in Singapore 2020 by The Straits Times and Top 50 High Growth Company in Asia Pacific 2020 by The Financial Times. Cynopsis is also ranked amongst the Top100 most innovative RegTech companies in the world by FinTech Global.

For over 20 years Mr Parekh has helped organisations to break through financial crimes and take their compliance function to the next level in the areas that matter most: economy, environment and people.

He helps organisations apply data analytics to bring out the synergies of technology, AML, business, operations, controls and human intelligence to build strong and successful transactions surveillance teams. He has worked with visionary leaders, industry veterans and talented young professionals across industries, levels and geographies in different capacities.

His specialities include:- Passionate Financial Crimes Investigator, Leader and coach trained in Finance, Law, AML/CFT, Taxation, Audit and Marketing.

• 23 years experience in Transactions Surveillance, Controls, Data Analytics, Investigations and Audit in Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Real Estate and Advertising Industries
• End to End proficiency of setting up Transaction Monitoring function and global stakeholder management with effective collaborator across functions
• Led thematic investigations, change management, devised industry best practices
• Trained over 1,000 analysts on investigation techniques and report writing
• Strong grasp of economics, banking products and business models

Mr Raman is a Partner in the Finance & Risk practice based in Singapore. He advises and serves clients in the Banking, Financial Services and Private Equity sectors. His areas of expertise include Regulatory Compliance, Anti-Financial Crime and Cyber Risk, across strategy, analytics and organisational transformation. He co-leads Oliver Wyman’s Non-Financial Risk practice for Asia-Pacific with a focus on new and emerging areas of risk.

Mr Raman holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from University of Mumbai, India. He has previously been based in Oliver Wyman’s Sydney and London offices.

Mr Wallis is a naturally curious problem solver who relishes the professional challenges that the fight against global financial crime creates. With a focus on supporting innovative financial services, he combines his industry knowledge with deep domain expertise in national intelligence to help provide practical solutions to the risks facing the sector. Martin is based in Singapore, where he actively engages with financial institutions, regulators and industry bodies. As Head of Operations, he is also focused on scaling FINTRAIL across Europe, the US, APAC, the Middle East and Africa.

Mr Ismail is CEO and Founder of Ethikom Consultancy, a compliance-focused consultancy in Singapore.

He draws upon his previous regulatory experience as Head of the Market Conduct Policy Division of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, his compliance background as Head of Compliance for Southeast Asia at Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley, and his legal background as Deputy Public Prosecutor/State Counsel at the Commercial Affairs Department and Senior Legal Counsel at Citigroup, to assist global financial institutions (including fund managers), FinTech firms and corporate clients with licence applications and various regulatory compliance issues.

He is the founding Chairman of the Regulatory and Compliance Sub-Committee of the Blockchain Association of Singapore. He is also a Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Studies.

Ms Singh has over 25 years of experience as a compliance professional in financial services. She is an expert in FCC, regulatory compliance, anti-bribery and corruption, fraud and data protection, conduct of business regulations. Prior to EY, she lead Deloitte South East Asia’s FCC practice. As a compliance professional, Radish believes that a balance has to be achieved while upholding regulatory requirements and finding workable solutions in view of business challenges.

She holds an LL.B with Honors and a MBA in Finance (UK). She is a CPA Australia member and holds memberships in BAFT Trade Committee Asia, and International advisory board member of London Institute of Banking and Finance.

Mr Lee career started in Silicon Valley before moving to Wall Street working as a Hedge Fund Technology Analyst. He then moved to the Regtech/Start Up space which included 7 start up launches, 2 acquisitions, multiple board roles and 2 books. He most recently worked in Market Development covering the Risk business in South East Asia at Refinitiv.

He holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, a degree in Mathematics, Computer Science and Management from King’s College London and Diplomas in Compliance and AML with the International Compliance Association.

Ms Zeng is Southeast Asia correspondent at Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence in Singapore, focusing on financial regulations and compliance.

Prior to this, she had more than nine years’ experience writing on asset management, oil trading, and corporate legal rankings-related subjects.

Born in China, she was educated in the UK on journalism, accounting and finance. Before relocating to Singapore, she worked in both London and Hong Kong. She is also an accredited reporter qualified by the UK National Council for the Training of Journalists.