FinCrime & Cybersecurity Summit singapore

Athreya is a Financial Services Advisory Partner at the consulting practice of Mazars Singapore. For over 16 years, he has worked with numerous financial institutions to navigate the complex and evolving regulatory requirements for compliance, enterprise risk management, corporate governance, and internal audit.

Julia is a seasoned financial industry professional with over 25 years of experience under her belt, her focus being client due diligence and operational risk management. Under which, she serves as a subject matter expert on Correspondent Banking and Securities Services. She is passionate about innovative process re-engineering and change management, and is an advisor on data analysis, remediation and digital transformation in the areas of risk management and compliance.

She got her start in a Big-Four, and has since worked in consultancy, global banking and regulatory entities. This includes being involved in the implementation and design standards of risk and control frameworks in Asia and Middle East. A woman of many talents, such opportunities to this global exposure have been supplemented by her proficiency in several languages, which include English, Mandarin, Cantonese, and Malay. More recently, she has also been recognised as a rising talent in Financial Crime and Regulatory Compliance across Fintech. As the lead for the alumni mentoring programme and ambassador of the e-Fintech Fortnynja school, she is working toward nurturing the next generation of leaders of the industry.

She is also a member of the AML Working Group of Global Digital Finance, which is an association advocating and accelerating the adoption of best practices for digital assets. Lastly, she also volunteers as a mentor for young compliance professionals with RAW Compliance, a social enterprise.

Although she has gradually pivoted from traditional banking to fintech, she is keeping true to her principles. She is now the Head of Compliance for Hugo Save, a wealthcare app, which aims to help the community spend smarter, save better and invest.

Senior Leader with 22+ years of experience in Banking & Financial Services industry with specialization in Financial Crime Compliance and Risk Management, spanning over 10+ countries in Asia Pacific.

A former Deputy Public Prosecutor with the Commercial Affairs Department (CAD), Ministry of Finance, Singapore, and Litigation Partner with Drew & Napier, Ros joined the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva as a Senior Legal Officer to review and recommend claims for compensation by individuals and entities impacted by the Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait in 1990-1991. In 2005, Ros returned to Singapore and joined the Financial Sector. She started with Citi Private Bank (CPB) as a member of the Global AML Team, and was responsible for the review and development of globally consistent CPB AML policies. Her role subsequently became regional to include oversight of the AML controls for Consumer and Corporate Banking. Her responsibilities included Regional APAC AML policy development, governance / reporting and training. In November 2010, Ros joined Citi’s Internal Audit. As part of the CPB-Asia Audit team, she has audited various controls and processes of private banking, as well as the trust and brokerage business, with special focus on AML/CTF controls. She returned to her former AML role when she joined Standard Chartered in November 2013 as the Country Head of Financial Crimes Compliance for Singapore, where she remained until 2018, and shortly thereafter, joined Julius Baer Singapore as AML & KYC Head.

Ros holds a Masters in Law from Columbia School of Law, New York. Ros has been CAMS-certified since 2009, and a CAMS-certified instructor since 2018. Ros was with the ACAMS as Regional AML Director – APAC (October 2020- December 2021). Ros is now FCC Head at CIMB.

With years of experience in the financial services industry, Sebastian is passionate about how technology transforms the way economy works today. Backed with expertise in AML/Compliance/Trust/Payments knowledge, Seb believes that Fintech and Regtech will evolve into a more efficient and inclusive way of delivering financial services to consumers and businesses. 

Every Business Model has at least 1 revenue opportunity but many business risks. Seb enjoys finding solutions to solve the risk and turn it into opportunities. The lesser the risk, the faster a business grows. 

His studies in Engineering business management allowed him to reconstruct financial services with an engineering approach. His dissertation focused on how the client onboarding process can be conducted more efficiently and safely. 

Today, Seb help organizations disrupt how processes are looked at and done. Through a sound and scalable framework, Seb collaborates to show how others can transform their culture from surviving change to growing through change. 

Jevgenija is a Fraud Risk Officer at Maersk (Asia-Pacific) and the founder of Ethics Ambassadors. Jevgenija is a candidate for a Master’s in Anti-Corruption and is a qualified business ethics, compliance, anti-fraud and anti-financial crime specialist. With a broad global functional and business acumen from different industries (Big4, FMCG, Logistics, Oil, Retail), Jevgenija, in recent years, has focused on fraud investigations and awareness in the Asia Pacific region and, recently, in the Middle East. In addition, with Ethics Ambassadors, Jevgenija actively participates in AI, Web3, Metaverse and Crypto Assets industry by providing risk management and advisory services related to the regulatory framework in Asia, Middle-East and Europe.

Professional with over 9 years of experience with exceptional expertise in delivering value through innovative use of data across a spectrum of industry verticals. During the span of her career, she has gained a variety of experiences in the areas of data, analytics, and modeling across the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services, Insurance) domain.

An informed opinion leader and the go-to person in the field of Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning.  At American Express as Director (Fraud Decision Science), her mandate is to build analytics, ML & AI driven modeling solutions that help in global fraud risk management. Prior to joining AmEx, she was the modelling lead for Credit Risk Model development for cards portfolio of CITI bank, North America. In that role, she developed ML models for real-time decisions across Balance Transfer, Line Management & Initial Line Assignment. She started her career with SBI Cards in Marketing analytics working on account level models for cross sell, new acquisitions, and targeted marketing campaign analysis.

While analytics has been at the core of all her roles, she has enjoyed the adventure of taking on challenging responsibilities in completely new realms. She is a strong supporter of Diversity and Inclusion and spends time mentoring aspiring Data Scientists.

She holds a master’s degree in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Delhi University. Outside of analytics, her interests are on the creative side and include playing the guitar and learning new languages.

Arjun has over 2 decades of experience with Citi, ABN and SCB handling all Retail, Business Banking and Wealth Products across Ops, technology, financial crime, risk, governance, digital, transformation, data standards and client journey.

Thought Leader with a proven track record in leading large scale transformation programs, new business growth, product and platform buildout and digitization.

Core expertise in: Running large scale multi-cultural diverse operations team handling multiple products; Leading large-scale transformation and transitioning existing manual to digital operations; Building green field end-to-end digital client journey; Won Retail Banker International Trailblazer Awards in 2021 and 2022 across Best Client On boarding, Best Branch Innovation and Employee Engagement across Asia financial services industry.

Ekta Singh is the chief compliance officer FCC, NMS, and compliance specialist at Antalpha. She brings a wealth of knowledge and awareness of ethics, compliance, business management, current industry trends, and technological advancement in the Fintech, regulatory compliance, and RegTech area. Ekta has a forward-looking approach to managing compliance and operational challenges. Ekta has been in Financial Industry for more than a decade and in her professional career she adored the role of Financial advisor, supervisor, Sales management, business head, and Risk & Compliance head. Her positive can-do attitude and problem-solving nature bring more to the table and she advocates that there is a thin line between business and good business. 

She is a Subcommittee member of Regtech at the Singapore Fintech Association, Active working group member of ACCESS, AML working group member at Global Digital Finance (GDF), Trainer at RHT academy and Fintelekt focussing on ethics & compliance, fraud management, risk assessment, and AML/CFT.  She also volunteers as a mentor at the iLead program and Stories of Asia (SOA). 

A motivated individual who is passionate about compliance.