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John Ford is the Deputy Commissioner of Fraud and Criminal Behaviours business line at the Australian Taxation Office.

As Deputy Commissioner, John has responsibility for providing holistic solutions to counter deliberate, systemic or complex behavioural issues that pose the biggest fraud and criminal threats to the integrity of the tax and superannuation systems.

John is Chief of the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce, and is the Australian representative of the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5) alliance.

Doron Goldbarsht, LLB, LLM (HUJI), PhD (UNSW), is the Director of Financial Integrity Hub and a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School, where he teaches in the field of banking and financial crime. He has over 20 years of experience in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF) and is an authority on AML/CTF regulations. Doron has expertise in compliance and financial innovation related fields. His recent books, “Financial Technology and the Law: Combating Financial Crime” (Springer, 2022), co-edited with Louis de Koker, and “Global Counter-Terrorist Financing and Soft Law: Multi-Layered Approaches” (Edward Elgar, 2020), along with his journal and chapter publications, focus on international AML/CTF standards and the mechanisms for their effective implementation and compliance at the national level.

Amanda specializes in anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CFT) leveraging more than 25 years of senior leadership experience across large financial institutions and in the Australian public sector, including the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Department of Treasury. She has extensive knowledge of financial crime risk management and compliance frameworks and expertise in developing and executing financial crime policy and operational processes. Amanda’s proven track record of building influential relationships at the senior leadership level has helped her achieve transformational change when shaping strategic compliance and operational frameworks. Prior to being appointed as a managing director at Kroll, Amanda was an independent consultant in AML/CFT, providing subject matter expertise to clients across the financial services, gaming and government sectors. During this period, she was engaged by Kroll to provide expert financial crime input into the monitorship of Crown Casino by the New South Wales Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA), including assessing the remediation activities and providing advice on the suitability of the casino to commence gaming operations. Through this work, Amanda has also provided extensive assistance to ILGA on enhancements to Crown’s policies to better mitigate risk. Additionally, Amanda also held the titles of Group Money Laundering Reporting Officer and Anti-Bribery and Corruption Officer at Westpac, Head of Financial Crime at Commonwealth Bank and General Manager of Compliance at AUSTRAC. Amanda received a master’s degree in accounting studies from Southern Cross University. She also holds a graduate diploma in economic history and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Australian National University and aa diploma of applied AML/CTF from Manchester Business School/Australian Financial Markets Association.

James Hunt CFCS, SME Fraud Prevention James has 20 years of experience preventing payment fraud across banking, eCommerce, and payment service providers, specializing in creating, leading, and refining fraud prevention teams. Believing that fraud and risk teams should be an enabler of business and not a bottleneck, he’s consulted with some of the world’s largest global brands. James is a Certified Financial Crime Specialist and prior to joining Feedzai, he held positions at NatWest, Bottomline Technologies, and Visa.

Miguel Aguado leads the compliance department of Ria Money Transfer in APAC region. He was relocated to Sydney in January 2022 after being appointed as Compliance Director.

Miguel holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and has 15 years of experience in Compliance in Financial Services companies in different jurisdictions.

Prior to joining Ria Money Transfer. Miguel worked at PayPal (Ireland) as Compliance Specialist for Europe and at MoneyGram as Regional Compliance Officer for Spain and Portugal.” In 2013 he joined the compliance department of Ria in Spain and later, in 2015, he was relocated to Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) as Compliance officer Asia for almost 4 years.

During the last four years Miguel led the Financial Investigation Unit at Ria Money Transfer in EMEA & APAC from Spain, he was responsible of administering all aspects of real time monitoring, post-transactional analysis and fraud prevention. He managed the implementation of IT High Tech solutions to fight Financial Crime, Money laundering and Terrorism Financing.

Kuan is currently a senior risk executive with one of Australia’s’ biggest financial group who has extensive risk, compliance and transformation experience with Xinja (neo bank), HSBC, Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), Big 4 and a Goldman Sachs jv in Australia, Hong Kong, London and Tokyo.  He also has a proven regulatory compliance and transformation (including financial services) track record with Australian Federal and State government bodies.  When Kuan was with the Queensland Treasury, he worked on the merger/privatisation of Suncorp/Metway/QIDC and portfolio management of Queensland State Owned Corporations including Queensland Investment Corporation.  As Stanwell Corporation’s Regulatory Counsel, Kuan was nominated to serve as the energy industry representative on the Emissions Trading and No Disadvantage for Early Action Steering Committee and Working Groups.

Bobby currently the Head of Governance & Analytics in the Global Technology Operations at Prudential Assurance Company Singapore. He is also responsible for driving Digitalization for Risk Prevention, mitigation and Control at Prudential.

Bobby comes with 18 years of rich Industry experience within the BFSI sector especially within Life Insurance. He is known industry leader and is extremely passionate about Risk Management as a domain. He specializes in Operational Risk and is extremely driven about using Technology for Risk Mitigation / Prevention.

Bobby has been a regular speaker at all major institutes of Law Enforcement (especially Police) on lectures on Financial Crimes in the Insurance Industry. In his previous role in India, he has been leading various industry level initiatives within Life and General Insurance space.

Matthew has more than 28 years’ experience in regulatory compliance, risk management, business consulting and information technology solutions. He currently is responsible for the AML Line of Business in Asia Pacific.  In this role Matthew meets with Actimize clients, APAC regional regulators and industry analyst to determine the AML initiatives, trends and challenges faced by organizations in APAC.

Based in Asia for the last 20 years, he has held Executive, Partner level and senior management positions for a global risk advisory, a big four accounting firm within their risk and compliance management practice and two global providers of financial services compliance and risk management solutions.

He has also provided advisory to clients on assessing their Compliance and Risk capability and actions to improve maturity of their frameworks.

Matthew is a frequent speaker at industry events in the region, including ACAMS, Goodway Japan, OpRisk Asia, Regulation Asia and many other local and regional Financial Crime Risk conferences.

Ricardo is the Head of Risk and Compliance for Hnry with over 15 years of experience in digital transformation for compliance, data governance, risk management, controls testing, and governance within the Financial Services sector in Australia and South America. He has worked previously in big consulting firms like EY and Protiviti supporting the major banks in Australia and prior to that worked in big Banks including JP Morgan, HSBC and Bank of America, all supporting the delivery and implementation of risk transformation projects.

A corporate governance, risk, and compliance senior executive, board advisor, qualified GRC professional, and certified GRC Auditor with over 12 years’ experience in advanced risk assessments, regulatory compliance, Identity management, quality, and assurance testing, internal audit, and AML/CTF reporting within different sectors including banking, big 4s, government, and private sectors. Competent, result-oriented, and dedicated professional, offering progressive leadership experience with outstanding risk management and analytical skills. Also a member of the RMIA, Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD), and Governance Institute of Australia. 

More specifically, Raj’s experience includes analyzing and implementing complex regulatory reforms, developing compliance frameworks and policies. He has a strong background in Management and Finance with excellent communication skills with the ability to analyze and reduce complex regulatory requirements into easily understandable compliance obligations. 

Doron Goldbarsht, LLB, LLM (HUJI), PhD (UNSW), is the Director of Financial Integrity Hub and a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School, where he teaches in the field of banking and financial crime. He has over 20 years of experience in Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorist Financing (CTF) and is an authority on AML/CTF regulations. Doron has expertise in compliance and financial innovation related fields. His recent books, “Financial Technology and the Law: Combating Financial Crime” (Springer, 2022), co-edited with Louis de Koker, and “Global Counter-Terrorist Financing and Soft Law: Multi-Layered Approaches” (Edward Elgar, 2020), along with his journal and chapter publications, focus on international AML/CTF standards and the mechanisms for their effective implementation and compliance at the national level.