Speakers

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.

Amir Mousa – CIA, CFE, CRMA Trainer, Facilitator, and Public Speaker at professional conferences for Fraud, Internal Audit, Governance, and compliance. Currently, Amir is an Internal Audit and Financial Service Manager at a leading organisation in Sydney, Australia. Before this, he was with Ernst & Young in an advisory risk function. He has participated in risk assessment exercises involving the identification of critical risks and the development of internal audit plans in different industries, including Financial Services, Capital Projects, and manufacturing. More than 17 years of experience specializing in audit, risk management, compliance, and fraud investigation. 

Connuil is currently the Chief Risk Officer of Shaype. A highly respected leader in risk management, governance and assurance with over 20 years regional and global experience in public and private sectors in financial services, property, infrastructure, telecommunications, technology, regulation and enforcement as well as professional services.

He is a pragmatic humanist in his approach to risk management. Connuil has a very strong record of identifying and managing risks in a commercial, realistic and compliant manner to meet the needs of organisations and populations which improves delivery and supports assurance.

He has specific experience and sustained achievements in establishing global and regional ‘green field’ risk management functions, operationalising frameworks or leading and designing regulatory and audit remediation programs. Connuil’s experiences above both augment and act as a counterpoint to his more traditional experience leading risk management functions in financial services, government, payments, technology, telecommunications, transport and national critical infrastructure, commercial and industrial property.

Connuil has led and inspired matrix and geographically dispersed teams across cultures, industries and languages. He has a deserved reputation for establishing and improving individual and organisational decision making to support strategic outcomes, operational delivery as well as technological, information and logistic resiliency and integrity.

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.

Mr. Nichols is a senior risk and compliance professional with over 20 years’ of local and international financial crime compliance and risk management experience. Mr. Nichols holds a Masters in Business Law from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Sydney, is CAMS certified and has completed advanced CAMS – Risk Management.

Cameron Smith is a Sydney based Chartered Accountant with over 30 years audit, advisory and banking experience locally and in the UK. He has held a range of Risk, Financial Crime and Operations roles and is currently the Head of Banking Operations and Financial Crime for the Newcastle Permanent Building Society. In this role he leads the teams responsible for Payment Systems, Payment Operations and Financial Crime Operations. Cameron believes passionately that risk culture trumps compliance management.

Dan has several years of experience in the financial services industry, in settings ranging from an international bank to a buy now, pay later startup. He works in financial crime compliance and conduct. His specialties include serious financial crime investigation, law enforcement notices and requests, corporate policy and regulatory framework governance. He is a member of ICA and ACAMS and is certified in AML/CTF, combatting CEM (child exploitation material), and the fight against human trafficking and modern slavery. His professional experience builds on tertiary study in psychology and law, at two major Australian universities. 

Dan Corrente is currently managing the FCR Governance, Financial Crime Risk unit of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. He used to work as the MLRO of Applypay Pty Ltd, a fin-tech company providing buy now, pay later solutions for recruitment agency fees. With an understanding that Compliance is often deemed a business cost center for most, Dan is committed to efficiently adapting the AML/CTF Compliance regime to the fast paced and rapidly evolving financial sector.  

Dan Sanders is the Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) of FinClear, a technology and financial markets infrastructure company providing services to the broking, wealth and platform sectors. In addition to operating its own HIN platform, FinClear enables wealth and stockbroking entities through the provision of platform technology solutions and market access solutions. FinClear is a General Clearing Participant & General Settlement Participant of the ASX as well as a participant on Chi-X and NSX. Dan holds Master’s degrees in Fraud and Intelligence and is a Certified Anti-money Launder Specialist (CAMS), Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He has previously worked for high profile organizations including CBA, AUSTRAC, DFAT and is an Australian Army veteran. 

With an extensive management career within several leading Investment Banks – UBS, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and Citigroup, Darren has managed teams across the complete Operations function. More specifically, he has led KYC teams and has been responsible for contributing to DB’s CLM Transformation journey.

At Encompass, Darren works closely with our existing clients to maximise the platform’s automation efficiencies as well as provide current industry insights.

With an extensive management career within several leading Investment Banks – UBS, Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and Citigroup, Darren has managed teams across the complete Operations function. More specifically, he has led KYC teams and has been responsible for contributing to DB’s CLM Transformation journey.

At Encompass, Darren works closely with our existing clients to maximise the platform’s automation efficiencies as well as provide current industry insights.

His wide-ranging experience includes assisting his clients in preventing, detecting and investigating fraud and related financial crimes and misconduct. These include bribery and corruption, money laundering, terrorist financing, financial and accounting fraud, and theft of intellectual property. His clients include public sector organizations (including the New South Wales and federal governments) and companies across industries such as consumer and industrial markets, telecommunications and IT, and financial services, in Australia, the Asia Pacific region, North America, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and Africa.

In his role at Kroll, Gary is responsible for internal investigations in Australia, into matters involving fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering and other related misconduct. Gary also provides financial crime risk management advice to clients.

Gary has handled several noteworthy investigations, which include investigating whistleblower disclosures for Australian public companies and government bodies. He has also investigated allegations of potential breaches of United Nations’ sanctions by a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Other engagements include investigations into suspected corruption by a senior procurement manager of Fiji Airways, including a fraud and corruption risk review of its procurement function.

In his advisory role, Gary has advised The Australian Securities Exchange and a large listed company in Australia in preparing whistleblower policies in accordance with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Regulatory Guide 270 on Whistleblower Policies. He has guided the Reserve Bank of Australia on the use of foreign agents (including agents in Malaysia, Nigeria and Vietnam) for securing business for an associated company engaged in the currency industry, in a matter that has led to Australia’s first anti-bribery prosecution. He also oversaw the development of an integrity due diligence program and conducted background inquiries into foreign agents used by the company. He was a special advisor to the Head of Financial Crime at a Big Four Australian bank.

Gary holds two bachelor’s degrees in commerce and accountancy from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Lawrence is a Client Manager for Jade ThirdEye in Australia. With a passion for technology and innovation, Lawrence has extensive experience in financial advice and software development projects. With a practical understanding of AML compliance combined with a background in custom technology, he is uniquely qualified to help customer navigate complex challenges and achieve success. 

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.

Sean has over 25 years of experience in enterprise transformation, with 15 of those focused specifically on transformation across fraud and financial crime prevention. Previously, he held global leadership roles, with direct experience working across EMEA, Americas, and throughout the Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Feedzai, he provided independent advice specific to this domain, to clients across financial services, the technology sector, and top-tier services providers globally. He’s passionate about leveraging today’s technology and data to prevent financial crime and joined Feedzai in 2021 where he is responsible for the growth of the business in the APAC region.

Savvy client centric Chief Risk Officer (CRO) embedding risk, compliance and corporate governance.

Risk Management, Compliance, Corporate Governance and Legal professional with extensive experience in financial services, payments, banking, startups, licensing, data & technology.

Embracing ‘risk & compliance by design & UX’ principles.

With diverse exposure to a broad spectrum of customers (from retail, wholesale, business, institutional & government), across an array of financial products & services (including Deposits, Payments, investment related – Derivatives, Wealth, Securities, Lending, Property, FX, NCP, cards, advice and digital assets & wallets), via a smorgasbord of risk areas (Enterprise Risk Management ERM, Operational Risk – financial crimes, AML CTF, cyber, outsourcing, data, conduct, culture, product, BCM & Compliance, Credit Risk, strategy, technology related, capital & liquidity focussed and Risk Control Assessments (RCA)), Compliance & legal experience includes (AML CTF Act, Corps Act, NCCP, AFSL & ACL, CARs, regulatory, policy, training, privacy, IP, trademarks, disputes / complaints, vendor contract negotiations, data management, compliance monitoring & product sign offs) and having worked in a variety of organisations (from the biggest banks in the country, global professional services, funds, mutual banking, starting & building FinTech companies and commencing career in corporate law firms) – David prides himself on being an agile strategic business enabler with strong commercial acumen.

Grateful to have achieved 4 degrees: Executive MBA, USA; Masters of Risk Management from UNSW; Economics (and Social Sciences) Degree; and Law Degree from the University of Sydney.

David completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) Director’s Course & RG 146. Also a Justice of the Peace (JP). David is an hoc guest lecturer and international conference presenter. Previous conference presenter on: the future of digital transformation & neobanks (RiskMindsAsia in Hong Kong); International Risk Management Standard ISO31000 & implications (KL, Malaysia); and Intelligent Automation (IA) & Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Security & Compliance, Culture, Governance, CPS 220, Conduct Risk, Privacy etc (Aus).

FinTech, RegTech and social impact enthusiast (valuing purpose with profit endeavours & a growth mindset) – leveraging technology in all we do.

Jamie is an AML Solutions Consultant who moved to the UK when Jade ThirdEye expanded into the region. For the past six years he’s been implementing Jade ThirdEye in a range of industries, helping clients with transaction monitoring rules, best practice processes for screening their customers against watchlists, and giving clients peace of mind that they’re meeting their compliance needs.

Xiaoshu Liu is a seasoned financial services and regulatory professional that has recently extended her footprint into the legal field. Her professional qualifications include:  

• Graduate Diploma of Legal Services | College of Law Australia (May 2023); 
• Juris Doctor | The University of Sydney (December 2022); 
• Master of AML/CTF | The Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security at Charles Sturt University (2016);  
• Diploma of Applied AML/CTF | The Australian Financial Markets Association and the International Compliance Association (UK) (2014);  
• ASX Accredited Derivatives Adviser Levels 1 & 2 | Kaplan Education 2008);  
• RG 146 (Generic Knowledge, Securities, Foreign Exchange, and Derivatives) | Finsia Education (2007); 
• Bachelor of Commerce | The University of Sydney (2007) 

Xiaoshu started her career in financial services in 2007 and transitioned into in-house operations, financial services and AML/CTF compliance in 2010 before going out on her own to establish Xenia Compliance in 2014, to assist clients with financial services and AML/CTF compliance requirements.   

‘Xenia’ is an ascent Greek word that represents the hospitality that a host shows their guests. It is our core value to foster long-lasting relationships with our clients and partners, and grow with them hand in hand. Thanks to Xiaoshu’s in-house background, Xenia has taken a practical approach from day 1. Our typical clients include remittance and currency providers, digital currency exchanges, wholesale fund managers and over-the-counter derivative providers. 

In February 2023, Xiaoshu joined the Solomons Legal team on a part-time basis, which marked the official start of her journey in the Land of the Law. She currently focuses on banking & finance, and corporate & commercial matters. Her goal is to leverage on her regulatory experience and build further legal expertise in advising financial services organisations in legal and regulatory matters, corporate governance, regulatory investigations, AML/CTF, and dispute resolution. 

Laurence Borstein is a Senior Consultant in Financial Crime at NICE Actimize. He works closely with the sales, technology, finance, and product management teams to engage with customers to understand their financial crime prevention challenges and to design tactical and strategic prevention approaches that improve business performance while reducing risk and cost.

Laurence is a qualified lawyer, has conducted many consulting engagements and has over 15 years of experience working in investments, payments, financial services and financial crime solutions.

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. 

Qualifications and Professional Memberships 

• Member of Association of Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE), USA 

• Member of Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS), USA 
• Member of National Insurance Broker Association (NIBA) 
• Associate Member of Governance Institute of Australia (AGIA) 
• Member of GRC Institute 
• Member of CPA Australia 

• Member of Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF) 
• Master in Professional Accounting (Accounting & Corporate Finance) 
• Bachelor of Business & Economics    
• Qualified Financial Services Representative, NIBA (QFSR)  
• Certified Governance, Risk and Compliance Professional (GRCP) 

• Certified Governance, Risk and Compliance Auditor (GRCA) 
• Member of Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) 

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.

Crispin is a Financial Crime Risk & Compliance specialist with extensive experience in regulatory compliance, risk controls, governance and assurance. He brings a unique combination of insights, experience and pragmatism to complex group-wide agendas and help clients navigate the fast-evolving financial crime risk landscape.

Through his work in both financial institutions and professional services firms over the past 20 years, Crispin has accumulated in-depth remediation experience in resolving deficiencies raised in both OFAC and AUSTRAC enforcements. This distinguishes him as one of very few professionals with such experience in Australia. At the same time, Crispin has developed deep working relationships with regulators and law enforcement agencies in combating financial crime. At the invitation of the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, Crispin spoke as an industry witness before the Inquiry into financial-related crime (2015). In June 2022, he was invited to speak at an expert roundtable held at the United Nations Office, Vienna by the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime pursuant to the UN General Assembly resolution 75/282.

Crispin is recognised as an expert in financial crime by The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, an international non-governmental organisation (headquartered in Switzerland) dedicated to developing new and innovative strategies and responses to organised crime. He has been serving as a Board member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) Australasian Chapter for over 15 years and co-authored the CAMS and Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) study guide and exam questions. He wrote the Compliance Best Practice and Enhanced Independent Review industry guidelines for the Australian Remittance and Currency Providers Association (ARCPA) which were presented to the then AUSTRAC CEO in 2016. Crispin teaches postgraduate students on International Financial Crime at the University of Sydney and regularly presents at financial crime conferences.

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.

An experienced financial services leader, Jo has held senior positions at leading banks, including HSBC, Westpac and ANZ, and been responsible for a wide range of middle office and operations functions, including front office and client support, client onboarding and regulatory compliance and reporting. 

At Encompass, she is part of a global team helping customers get the most out of transformation initiatives. 

Rafae Khan is a seasoned financial crime professional currently working at Citi and with NAB as an AML Specialist & Subject Matter Expert. His expertise includes ECDD, AML/CTF policy development, Transaction monitoring, Risk and Control Analysis, Strategy development, Internal and External Relationship and Stakeholder management.

He has previously worked in the California State Legislature lobbying for higher education and was also selected to be part of the Prestigious Panetta Institute of Public Policy.

Rafae graduated with a Gold Medal from California State University, East Bay with a degree in Bachelor of Science (Hons.), Business Administration – Finance and Business Economics and completed his Masters of Commerce in Financial Crime and Governance from Macquarie University.