July 5-9, 2021 (Virtual Event)
11.00 am to 2.00 pm IST / 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm SGT
Over five days of extensive knowledge sharing, the Fintelekt Asia AML/CFT 3rd Annual Summit 2021 brought together AML/CFT experts, regulators, practitioners and suppliers from across the globe to discuss relevant issues in the region.
SHIRISH PATHAK
Managing Director
Fintelekt Advisory Services
DANIEL THELESKLAF
Project Director – FAST Initiative
United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR)
DOUGLAS WOLFSON
Director – Market Planning, FCC & Payments
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
AVINASH TANNA
Business Solutions Consultant – Asia-Pacific
Accuity
ARPITA BEDEKAR
Director – Strategy & Planning
Fintelekt Advisory Services
ATTY. MEL GEORGIE B. RACELA
Executive Director
Anti-Money Laundering Council Secretariat, Philippines
CHRISTIAAN BARNARD
Head – Financial Intelligence Unit
New Zealand
HARI KUMAR NEPAL
Deputy Director, Nepal Rastra Bank &
AML Cell, Ministry of Finance, Nepal
SUPRANEE SATITCHAICHAROEN
Director of International Cooperation Division
Anti Money Laundering Office (AMLO) Thailand
CHANNING MAVRELLIS
Illicit Trade Director
Global Financial Integrity
GIRISH HANUMEGOWDA
Trade Compliance Regional Subject Matter Expert
IHS Markit
AVANEESH RAMAN
AML/CFT Consultant
GovRisk (The International Governance & Risk Institute)
CLAIRE WILSON
Partner
Holland & Marie
ROBIN LEE
Head of APAC
Napier
ROB LOH
Director
Huron
FABRIZIO FIORONI
Adviser – AML/CFT, Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific,
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
NICHOLAS TURNER
Of Counsel
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
SAGAR TANNA
Co-Founder
TSS Consultancy
ANKIT TIBREWALA
Director, Sanctions Advisory, ASEAN & South Asia
Standard Chartered Bank
STEPHEN CUTLER
Chief Enterprise Risk and Compliance Officer
Omnipay
MUHAMMAD IMRAN
Criminal Intelligence Officer, Financial Crimes Unit
INTERPOL
GUY SHEPPARD
Head of APAC Financial Crime, Intelligence and Initiatives
SWIFT
MATTHEW REDHEAD
Associate Fellow, Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies
RUSI
SERGE CENIZA
First Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer
Philippine Business Bank
THERESA KARUNAKARAN
Former General Manager
Reserve Bank of India
MD. ABDULLAH AL MAMUN
CAMLCO & Head of Vigilance, Dutch-Bangla Bank; and General Secretary – AACOBB Bangladesh
SRINIVAS VAMAN GOLLAPUDI
Joint President and Business Head – Trade Finance and Commercial Operations
Kotak Mahindra Bank
ASIAN BANKERS ASSOCIATION (ABA)
The ABA aims to provide a forum for advancing the cause of the banking and finance industry in the region and promoting regional economic cooperation. Its primary objectives include providing avenues for exchange of views and information on banking opportunities in the Asia-Pacific region, facilitating the meeting of bankers in the region in an atmosphere of fellowship and friendship and to encourage joint activities that would enhance the role of its members in servicing the financial needs of their respective economies and in promoting regional development; and to undertake projects that will encourage trade, industrial, and investment cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.
11.00 am IST / 1.30 pm SGT
Welcome Remarks
Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt Advisory Services
11.10 am IST / 1.40 pm SGT
FATF Plenary June 2021: Outcomes and Interpretation
Daniel Thelesklaf, Project Director – FAST Initiative, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR)
11.40 am IST / 2.10 pm SGT
KYX – Know Everything
Douglas Wolfson, Director – Market Planning, FCC & Payments, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
12.10 pm IST / 2.40 pm SGT
More Power to Compliance: Enabling Ease of AML CFT Screening
Avinash Tanna, Business Solutions Consultant – Asia-Pacific, Accuity
12.30 pm IST / 3.00 pm SGT
AML/CFT Regulatory Updates in Asia
Arpita Bedekar, Director – Strategy & Planning, Fintelekt Advisory Services
1.00 pm IST / 3.30 pm SGT
Panel Discussion: Regulatory Expectations
Moderator:
Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt Advisory Services
Panelists:
Atty. Mel George B. Racela, Executive Director, Anti-Money Laundering Council Secretariat, Philippines
Christiaan Barnard, Head – Financial Intelligence Unit, New Zealand
Hari Kumar Nepal, Deputy Director, Nepal Rastra Bank & AML Cell, Ministry of Finance, Nepal
Supranee Satitchaicharoen, Director of International Cooperation Division, Anti Money Laundering Office (AMLO) Thailand
11.00 am IST / 1.30 pm SGT
Detecting Trade-Based Illicit Financial Flows
Channing Mavrellis, Illicit Trade Director, Global Financial Integrity
11.45 am IST / 2.15 pm SGT
Evaluating Hidden Risks in Trade Finance Shipping
Girish Hanumegowda, Trade Compliance Regional Subject Matter Expert, IHS Markit
12.30 pm IST / 3.00 pm SGT
Pandemic, Percussors and the Pacific: Scan of the Evolving Transnational Crime Environment
Avaneesh Raman, AML/CFT Consultant, GovRisk (The International Governance & Risk Institute)
1.15 pm IST / 3.45 pm SGT
Democratising AML/CFT Learning
Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt Advisory Services
11.00 am IST / 1.30 pm SGT
Developments in Virtual Assets
Claire Wilson, Partner, Holland & Marie
11.45 am IST / 2.15 pm SGT
Holistic AML – Why is it important?
Robin Lee, Head of APAC, Napier
12.30 pm IST / 3.00 pm SGT
Are Non-Fungible Tokens the Perfect Money Laundering Tool? A Look at Mitigating AML/CFT Risks
Rob Loh, Director, Huron
1.15 pm IST / 3.45 pm SGT
AML Risks from Environmental Crimes
Fabrizio Fioroni, Adviser – AML/CFT, Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
11.00 am IST / 1.30 pm SGT
Economic Sanctions
Nicholas Turner, Of Counsel, Steptoe & Johnson LLP
11.45 am IST / 2.15 pm SGT
Customer Experience and Compliance: Have You Got the Balance Right?
Sagar Tanna, Co-Founder, TSS Consultancy
12.30 pm IST / 3.00 pm SGT
Best Practices in Sanctions Compliance
Ankit Tibrewala, Director, Sanctions Advisory, ASEAN & South Asia, Standard Chartered Bank
1.15 pm IST / 3.45 pm SGT
Mitigating AML Risks in Remittances
Stephen Cutler, Chief Enterprise Risk and Compliance Officer, Omnipay
11.00 am IST / 1.30 pm SGT
Financial Industry Collaboration for Fraud Mitigation and Prevention
Muhammad Imran, Criminal Intelligence Officer, Financial Crimes Unit – INTERPOL
11.45 am IST / 2.15 pm SGT
SWIFT Institute White Paper Discussion: “The Future of Transaction Monitoring: Better Ways to Detect and Disrupt Financial Crime”
Guy Sheppard, Head of APAC Financial Crime, Intelligence and Initiatives, SWIFT
Matthew Redhead, Associate Fellow, Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies, RUSI
12.30 pm IST / 3.00 pm SGT
Panel Discussion: Key APAC Trends and Challenges
Moderator:
Arpita Bedekar, Director – Strategy & Planning, Fintelekt Advisory Services
Panelists:
Serge Ceniza, First Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Philippine Business Bank
Theresa Karunakaran, Former General Manager, Reserve Bank of India
Md. Abdullah Al Mamun, CAMLCO & Head of Vigilance, Dutch-Bangla Bank; and General Secretary – AACOBB Bangladesh
Srinivas Vaman Gollapudi, Joint President and Business Head – Trade Finance and Commercial Operations, Kotak Mahindra Bank
1.45 pm IST / 4.15 pm SGT
Closing Remarks and Summit Wrap-up by Fintelekt
Accuity, a LexisNexis Risk Solutions company, powers compliant and assured client transactions to help build an interconnected and trusted financial ecosystem. Our financial crime screening, payment services, and benefits compliance solutions help enable financial inclusion while identifying criminal activity and fraudulent players. With deep expertise and industry-leading data and analytics solutions from the Firco and Bankers Almanac brands, Accuity provides unmatched confidence, efficiency, and compliance for customers around the world. Part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, Accuity has been delivering solutions to banks and businesses worldwide for 180 years.
IHS Markit provides information, analytics and insights to enable organizations to identify risks involved in trade finance and the supply chain. We have over 300 years industry experience within maritime and trade and are the sole appointed authority for assigning and validating the IMO number for a vessel. IHS Markit’s Trade Compliance Secure platform supports trade finance practitioners by automating their workflow processes. Valuable insights can be generated on trade patterns, routes and commodity shipments through the use of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, providing clarity when determining the risk patterns in a trade transaction. In addition, the solution provides the ability to screen vessel movements and ownership levels, review behavioral aspects of the vessel and identify dual-use and military goods. IHS Markit also provide current and historical seaborne import and export data along with global trade pricing information, covering 98% of global bi-lateral trade.
Napier is a new breed of anti-money laundering and compliance tech provider. Trusted by the world’s leading financial institutions, we are transforming compliance from legal obligation to competitive edge.
All Napier products are built on our next generation Intelligent Compliance Platform. Enhanced by artificial intelligence it can be delivered via public cloud, private cloud or on premise.
Our tools dramatically reduce both false positives and false negatives and empower compliance teams to make validated decisions with unprecedented speed and accuracy.
TrackWizz software is a proud creation of TSS Consultancy Private Limited headquartered in Mumbai, India and serving 150+ institutions in 3 different countries. Catering exclusively to financial institutions, it offers technology solution in the areas of Risk & Compliance, Operations and Business
TrackWizz software has the following modules which can be subscribed individually or jointly: Anti-Money Laundering; Screening; Risk rating; Transaction Monitoring; CKYC; Customer On Boarding; FATCA CRS; Employee Trade Tracking (Insider Trading regulations); Information Utility (Insolvency Bankruptcy Code); Research analyst compliance; Aadhaar Image Masking; Spend Management.
Subject matter expertise and constantly evolving solution are the biggest strengths of the solution.
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Will the Summit content be relevant to my country?
The Summit themes have been designed so that they are relevant for all countries in Asia.
Who should attend the Summit?
The Summit will be relevant for employees of all AML/CFT reporting entities/covered persons – such as banks, financial institutions, insurance, mutual funds, capital markets, lawyers, accountants, brokers, casinos, etc.
It will also be relevant for regulators, government, law enforcement agencies, academicians, NGOs, consulting and technology services companies connected with AML/CFT.
What do I need to attend the Summit?
The Summit will be held on Zoom. You can join the session through a laptop/personal computer, tablet or mobile phone. A stable internet connection (with an average speed of at least 2 mbps) is recommended for uninterrupted streaming.
Please note that some organisations block access to external emails, webinar platforms including Zoom, or audio/visual hardware. Kindly contact the IT team of your organisation to resolve any such issues. Or alternatively, use a personal computer or mobile phone to log in to the session.
How can I provide my suggestions or feedback?
You are welcome to provide your suggestions or feedback about the summit by writing to us at [email protected].
The Summit was very organized & covered contemporary issues with Asian flavor, was helpful for us. Thanks Fintelekt!
The speakers were very knowledgeable about the topics they discussed. It was indeed a great experience to be part of the Asia AML/CFT 2nd Annual Summit.
The summit was well organised . The selection of speakers was thoughtful. The topic selection also covered entire gamut of money laundering in financial sector.
