Fintelekt AML Leadership Conclave (Malaysia) 2026

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Fintelekt AML Leadership Conclave (Malaysia) 2026

9 June 2026
8.30 am to 4.30 pm
AICB Centre of Excellence, Kuala Lumpur

Set against the backdrop of Malaysia’s rapidly evolving financial ecosystem, Fintelekt’s first AML Leadership Conclave in Malaysia will bring together senior compliance leaders, regulators, and industry experts to examine the most pressing financial crime risks shaping the region.

Agenda

8.30 am - 9.00 am

Registration

9.00 am - 10.00 am

Inaugural Session

Shirish Pathak
Managing Director,
Fintelekt

Dr Sylvia Deutsch
Deputy Director, Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering

10.00 am - 10.30 am

Presentation by Platinum Partner

10.30 am - 11.00 am

Networking and Refreshments Break

11.00 am - 11.45 am

Presentation: Beneficial Ownership and Corporate Transparency

The misuse of legal persons and arrangements remains one of the most persistent vulnerabilities in the global fight against financial crime. In Malaysia, efforts to strengthen beneficial ownership transparency are gaining momentum through regulatory reforms, reporting obligations, and supervisory oversight. However, challenges remain in identifying ultimate beneficial owners across complex structures, nominee arrangements, and cross-border entities. This session will explore how financial institutions, regulators, and corporate intermediaries can use beneficial ownership information to detect and prevent abuse of corporate vehicles for money laundering, corruption, and tax crimes.

Speaker to be announced shortly…

11.45 am - 12.45 pm

Panel Discussion: Navigating AML Risks in the Digital Economy: Virtual Assets, Fraud Ecosystems & Cross-Border Threats

As financial systems become increasingly digitised, the risk landscape for money laundering is evolving at an unprecedented pace. The proliferation of virtual assets, the rise of organised fraud ecosystems, and the seamless movement of funds across borders are challenging traditional AML frameworks. This panel will examine how financial institutions and regulators can better understand and respond to these emerging threats, while balancing innovation, financial inclusion, and regulatory compliance.

Arpita Bedekar
Chief Operating Officer, Fintelekt
(Moderator)

Julius Rajeswaran
Chief Operating Officer, Ryt Bank

Hakimi Harun
Head of Financial Crime and Fraud Prevention, ING Hubs

Woody Tan
UN Programme Officer for High-Tech Financial Crime, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

12.45 pm - 1.15 pm

Presentation: 7 Things That Make The Complete AML System

As financial crime risks become more complex, many AML programs continue to operate across fragmented systems, limiting risk visibility, increasing false positives, and impacting overall effectiveness. This session will outline the structure of a complete AML system by integrating customer due diligence, screening, transaction monitoring, risk rating, and reporting into a unified framework. It will examine the role of integrated data, configurable rules engines, and applied AI in enabling a continuous, risk-based view of customers. Attendees will gain practical insights into enhancing detection accuracy, reducing operational overhead, and improving the effectiveness of AML controls.

Abhishek Bali
CEO, ZIGRAM

1.15 pm - 2.30 pm

Networking Lunch

2.30 pm - 3.15 pm

Presentation: Malaysia's MER: What FIs Need to Know, the DNFBP Risk Profile and Why Regulators are Watching DNFBP Relationships

Beyond Checkbox CDD: Practical enhanced due diligence that assesses your client’s actual AML culture, not just their paperwork.
Transaction patterns and relationship signals that indicate weak AML controls in your DNFBP clients.
Ecosystem Accountability: How FIs and DNFBPs can collaborate on defense without FIs becoming their compliance department.

Julia Chin
Trainer,
Fintelekt

3.15 pm - 4.15 pm

Panel Discussion: From Alerts to Outcomes: Strengthening AML Investigations and Reporting Frameworks

While significant investments continue to be made in AML systems and controls, financial institutions often face challenges in translating alerts into high-quality investigations and actionable intelligence. This panel will focus on strengthening the effectiveness of AML investigations and Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR) frameworks, with an emphasis on improving analytical capabilities, ensuring consistency in decision-making, and enhancing the overall impact of reporting in supporting law enforcement outcomes.

Panelists to be announced shortly…

Dr Sylvia Deutsch
Deputy Director, Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (Moderator)

4.15 pm

Closing Session

Partners

Gold Partner

ZIGRAM is a RegTech (Regulatory Technology) organization with a focus on anti-money laundering (AML), financial crime compliance (FCC) and emerging risk areas. We provide our proprietary ‘AML RegTech Stack’ and the ‘Complete AML System’ as part of the risk application ecosystem. This enables our clients to comply in a simple, comprehensive and cost-effective manner.

Our products are designed to be cloud native, self-serve, low friction and with bundled flexibility. We serve our clients to help address over 40 risk use cases such as anti-money laundering, fraud, anti-bribery compliance, supply chain risk, and third-party risk. ZIGRAM operates a risk data library has over 3,200 watchlists, 9 billion content items covering 250 global jurisdictions and 45 languages.

Display Partner

Solytics Partners is a global RiskTech100 analytics firm specializing in transforming AML/FCC, Risk, and Data Analytics functions for financial institutions. Our expertise spans transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, alert prioritization, customer segmentation, and model validation for AML/Fraud. With a unique approach to “accelerated services delivery” and “advanced technology solutions,” we empower financial institutions across the US, Europe, MENA, South Africa, and APAC to meet evolving regulatory requirements and strengthen risk management. Leveraging deep domain knowledge and global experience, we help our client’s future-proof their compliance and risk frameworks while enhancing operational efficiency.

We invite technology providers, consulting firms and other service providers to explore partnership opportunities. Why should you consider partnering with this conclave?

Build thought leadership with the target audience by speaking on your area of expertise
Build new relationships and deepen the existing ones with clients, decision makers and influencers
Enhance your sales pipeline in banking, financial services, insurance, regulatory and other reporting sectors
Showcase your brand, product and solutions in front of a highly relevant and targeted audience

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Registration

Participation in this conclave is by invitation only and is restricted to regulated entities.

If you would like to apply for a seat, kindly click on the link below and submit your details in the application form.

Please note that submission of this form does not guarantee a seat. If your request is accepted, you will receive an email confirmation separately.