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Changing guidelines and regulatory landscape

• The growing complexity and internationalisation of the AML/CFT compliance frameworks
• The impact of the revised FATF assessment methodology
• Best practise examples of collaboration between countries in the prosecution of financial crime
• Experiences and challenges with due diligence and reporting obligations under FATCA
• Forging public-private partnerships to combat illicit transactions
• Outlook on what to expect from the regulators within the next years

Invited speakers/panelists:
Jimmy Gurule, Former Under Secretary, Dept. of the Treasury, USA
Mohd Zabri Adil B. Talib, Head of Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, Malaysia
Dante Fuentes, President, Association of Bank Compliance Officers, Philippines

Moderator:
Foo Boon Ping, Managing Editor, The Asian Banker

Tea/ Coffee Break

Tackling AML challenges with proper CDD and KYC procedures

• How far should organisations go when capturing and validating customer data? What are the alternatives to invasive identity checks?
• New guidelines on detecting suspicious transactions; reporting requirements and asset freezing
• Strengthening customer on-boarding and due diligence procedures
• The widening of the category of politically exposed persons (PEPs) and enhanced due diligence (EDD)
• Can sanctions monitoring be outsourced?
• Bribery, corruption and other third-party risks
• Keeping up with changing legislation on beneficial ownership

Invited speakers/panelists:
David E. Vignola, Head, Compliance, Private Banking & Wealth Management, Singapore
Oonagh Mckinley-Hutchinson, MLRO, China Trust Bank (CTBC), Singapore
Joe Chan, Head Intelligence, Financial Crime and Security Services, DBS, Singapore

Moderator:
Dione Schick, Asia Program Director, Compliance & Financial Crime, International Compliance Association
Framroze Pochara, Former Executive Director and Chief Risk Officer, Singapore Mercantile Exchange

Using data analytics, social media and open source intelligence to combat crimes

• Advanced analytics in customer identification, verification and risk profiling
• Creating actionable intelligence from open source data and social media
• Latest tools of advanced data analytics for monitoring, reporting, compliance, risk assessment and investigation purposes
• Which OSINT tools are in the market and how can they exploit hidden data?
• Social media monitoring tools vs. traditional risk management tools

Invited speakers/panelists:
Amitpal Singh Dhillon, CTO & Founder, A Lion Cyber Solutions
Leonard Ong, International Vice President, ISACA
Alan Seow, Cyber Security Head, Ministry of Communications & Information, Singapore

Moderator: 
Robin Lee, Chief Executive Officer, RHT Governance Risk AML Compliance Ethics Pte. Ltd. (RHT G.R.A.C.E.)

Cyber crime and breaches - Is your institution safe?

• Cyber security governance: Creating an effective risk and compliance framework
• Understanding highly complex cybercriminal networks of today
• Building a resilient organisation, pre-empting attacks
• Adequate plans for responding to and recovering from cyber incidents
• Best practices for a collaboration and threat data sharing between financial institutions and law enforcement entities in the incident of an attack

Invited speakers/panelists:
Amar Singh, CEO & Founder, Cyber Management Alliance, UK
Mohd Zabri Adil B. Talib, Head of Digital Forensics, Cyber Security, Malaysia

Moderator:
Howard Mannella, Managing Principal, Alternative Resiliency Services Corp, USA

Lunch break

Trade Based Money Laundering (TBML)

• Strengthening inter-agency coordination and forming domestic task-forces as way to combine the respective competencies of relevant authorities
• Need to strengthen the existing bilateral arrangements and to build multilateral mechanisms for international cooperation
• Addressing the lack of reliable statistics and standardization with regard to the practice of collection and maintenance of data on TBML

Invited speakers/panelists:
Dante Fuentes, President, Association of Bank Compliance Officers, Philippines
Thomas McMahon, MD & CEO, UD Trading Group

Moderator:
Mobasher Zein Kazmi, Head of Research, The Asian Banker

Risks associated with money service businesses (MSBs) as well as Hawala and Other Similar Service Providers (HOSSPs)

• Differences in risk evaluation between MSBs and HOSSPs
• Working on a case-by-case, risk based approach with MSBs
• Will the legalization of HOSSPs help expand remittances through legal channels?

Invited speakers/panelists:
Andrew Koh, Deputy Chief Manager, Risk Control, China Construction Bank
Nizam Ismail, Co-Founder at RHT Compliance Solutions

Moderator:
Mobasher Zein Kazmi, Head of Research, The Asian Banker

Tea/Coffee break

Emerging vulnerabilities and new players

• Block chain – Will it make financial transactions safer?
• Bitcoin  and FATF’s new 'Guidance for a risk-based approach to virtual currencies'
• Crowd funding and crowd lending platforms and the KYC challenge
• The security of P2P payment technologies and faster payments initiatives around the world – Lessons learned
• Regulation versus innovation: Are banks de-risking to an extend that hinders progress and innovations?

Invited speakers/panelists:
David Moskowitz, Founder, Coin Republic - Bitcoin Brokerage
Erik Wilgenhof Plante,Chief Compliance Officer, BitX

Moderator:
Robin Lee, Chief Executive Officer, RHT Governance Risk AML Compliance Ethics Pte. Ltd. (RHT G.R.A.C.E.)

FIFA and Volkswagen – Learning from the latest scandals about building a sustainable and ethical corporate culture

• Preventing and investigating fraud in the workplace
• The role of whistle blowing in exposing corruption, fraud, and mismanagement in both public and private organisations
• Conduct risk and internal control failures
• Key takeaways from LIBOR, FOREX, FIFA, Volkswagen and the Malaysia Development Berhad scandals

Invited speakers/panellists:
Takeyoshi Imai, Director, Criminal Law Society of Japan
Eric R Pesik, Associate General Counsel and compliance officer, Seagate Singapore International Headquarters Pte Ltd

Moderator:
Foo Boon Ping, Managing Editor, The Asian Banker

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