Summits
Anti-Money Laundering 4th Annual Summit (Nepal) 2019
February 1, 2019
Friday, February 01, 2019
Hotel Radisson, Kathmandu
The 4th Annual AML Summit in Nepal, in association with the National Banking Institute (NBI), provided a fillip to the existing dialogue in the country towards leveraging the strengths and recognising improvement areas in Nepal’s AML/CFT regime through knowledge sharing on latest tools, techniques, processes and technologies.
The tone for the day was set by a keynote address from the Nepal Rastra Bank. The rest of the day consisted of presentations and panel discussions involving compliance officers from leading banks in Nepal.
Agenda
9.00 am to 9.30 am
9:30 am to 10:15 am
Sanjib Subba, CEO, National Banking Institute
Dr. Chiranjibi Nepal, Governor, Nepal Rastra Bank
Laxmi Prapanna Niroula, Chairman, NBI
10:15 am to 10:30 am
10:30 am to 11:30 am
Chowdhury MAQ Sarwar, Deputy Managing Director, Eastern Bank, Bangladesh
11.30 am to 11.45 am
11: 45 am to 12.40 pm
Ramu Paudel, Director, Financial Intelligence Unit, Nepal Rastra Bank
12.40 pm to 12.45 pm
Shivani Shrestha, CEO, KYC Nepal
12.45 pm to 1.30 pm
1.30 pm to 1.50 pm
Sriram Ramnarayan, Director, Market Development, Thomson Reuters – South Asia
Rohit Kaul, Regional Specialist, Financial and Risk, Thomson Reuters
1.50 pm to 2.50 pm
Hari Kumar Nepal, AML Cell, Ministry of Finance/Deputy Director, Nepal Rastra Bank
2:50 pm to 3.30 pm
Surendra Thapa, President, Global Intelligence Analysis Corporation, New York
3:30 pm to 3:45 pm
3:45 pm to 4:55 pm
Moderator
Arpita Bedekar, Director – Marketing, Fintelekt Advisory Services
Panelists
Saroj Kafle, Head -Compliance and Corporate Governance, Siddhartha Bank Limited
Raja Aryal, Chief Compliance Officer, Global IME Bank
Bhawani Ghimire, Head – Compliance, Himalayan Bank
DIGP Niraj Bahadur Shahi, Director, Central Investigation Bureau (Invited)
Key areas for discussion
Top priorities for compliance officers in the areas of:
- Governance frameworks
Risk assessment - Training and skill development
- The role of technology