AML Modernization and Financial Crime Analytics Webinar
Virtual Event | December 8, 2022

Ahmed is an industry Consultant with more than 10 years’ experience in the field of compliance, AML and  sanctions. He started his career in Europe and Middle- East where he was helping financial institutions to comply with the local regulation sharing best practices and trends of the industry.

Ahmed moved to Asia in 2015 leveraging his experience, he was able to build trusted relationships with major financial institutions in the region providing guidance and international expertise.

Cryptocurrency being one of his passion, Ahmed give a particular focus to the regulation and technology that can help financial institution to monitor and detect suspicious payments in this space.

Ahmed holds a Master’s degree in e-business project management from the university of Lille (France). He is an ACAMS Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS)

Christopher has over 25 years of experience in the ICT industry. As the Partner Revenue Acceleration Director for APJ, Chris is responsible for the business relationship & go to market programs with our global ISV partners across APJ, which include VMware, SAP, Red Hat & SAS. Before this role, he was the APJ Datacenter Platform Marketing Manager, owning the product marketing for Xeon & Atom server product lines. Other roles in his 17 years Intel career included the Business Development Manager for Singapore & the Enterprise Sales Manager for South East Asia, where he managed the account relationships with large enterprise end-customers, OEM partners and service providers.

Before joining Intel, Christopher held multiple APAC Global Account Management & technical sales roles with telecommunication & networking multi-nationals like Nortel, Avaya & Lucent Technologies. He also had management & leadership roles in the IT organization of the National University Hospital in 2004.

Christopher graduated from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore with a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Electronics) degree and has post graduate Diplomas in Marketing Management from the Singapore Institute of Management and Network Engineering from the Information & Communication Institute of Singapore at NTU.

Francis is the Head of Financial Crime Compliance of PAOBank with 25 years of experience working in Finance Crime Compliance, Anti-money laundering and Fraud investigation fields of insurers and banks across Asia Pacific. Francis specializes in Cross-border and complex fraud investigation, AML Investigation and FCC process optimization, and big data analysis application.

Dr. Kannan is currently the Deputy General Manager (Alternate Principal Officer) at Centralized Transaction Monitoring Unit, Bank of Baroda, Vadodara.

He worked as Faculty Associate and Lecturer, from July 1990 to Aug 1997 in multiple educational institutes, such as Department Of Econometrics, University of Madras; PSG Inst. Of Management, Coimbatore; APACAC, Palani etc.; Joined erstwhile Vijaya Bank as Economic Analyst in Aug 1997, and worked as Senior Economist, for 10 years at HO Bangalore, eVijaya Bank, from Aug 1997 to Jan 2008.

He previously worked as Chief Manager, Risk Management Department – as Head-Operational risk,

Model Building and Validation of Statistical Models; and as AGM, Risk Management Dept, heading the Risk Management Dept.- Credit Risk, Market Risk and Operational Risk, Capital Raising, Stress testing and ICAAP. He also worked in mainstream banking as Chief Manager, Regional Office – Mumbai; Assistant General Manager, Regional Office. Ahmedabad; Head, Retail Lending Cell at Kolkata;

Branch Head, Mysore Road Branch Bengaluru; Deputy General Manager, Strategic Planning & Performance Dept.

His achievements include – Winner of Laureate Award at “Contest for Best Example of AML/CFT Financial Analysis” in the International Olympiad organized by EuroAsian Group (EAG), held at Sochi, Russia on 10th October, 2022; and Golden Peacock Award for implementation of the best risk management practices in the erstwhile Vijaya Bank under my tenure as AGM In charge of risk management department.

Radish 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.