The RegTech Pulse

In this week's episode Kim Manchester, Managing Director of ManchesterCF, joins us to cover The Importance of Financial Crime Training in Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML). Kim discusses with us why industry trends and developments’ proper understanding is critical to combat TBML, and subsequently why additional intelligence functions in both, the private and public sectors, are key to stay on top of the ever changing regulatory landscape.  

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This week on The RegTechPulse we welcome Phoebe Ewen, Programme Director at The Mekong Club. Phoebe sits with us to discuss modern slavery, its global impact, and the vulnerabilities of the supply chain and service industries. Listen today to a wonderful conversation that brings awareness to a very concerning issue that affects more than 40 million people worldwide, and highlights key roles of the private and public sectors, as well as AML professionals in the fight against modern slavery.

Phoebe Ewen is the programme manager at The Mekong Club, a Hong Kong based NGO that works with private sector organisations to combat modern slavery. The Mekong Club engages with businesses across the finance, hospitality, retail, and manufacturing sectors, building tools and projects to combat the modern slavery issues within their operations. Phoebe manages a range of projects from developing typologies and red flags for banks, to apps that facilitate more effective worker interviews in factories for manufacturers. Phoebe has spoken internationally on the topic of modern slavery and its relationship with the private sector, and is passionate about galvanising action and harnessing the vast power that companies have to change lives. 

Phoebe holds a Masters degree with honours in International Relations from the University of Nottingham in the UK, and focused her masters thesis on supply and demand factors driving modern slavery in Asia. She is also ACAMS accredited as a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

Mark Bradbury shares insight about why payments really fail, and how fintech and modern companies are now turning to APIs for the answer. He also gives tips for processing customer payments as fast as possible, whilst maintaining accuracy and adhering to regulatory requirements. Mark is Founder and Director of Bankers Almanac Validate.

In this podcast you can learn:

• Why payments fail, and what can be done to stop them failing
• How API-based services enable faster payments, and seamless user experiences

During this week’s episode, we welcome Shirish Pathak, Managing Director of Fintelekt Advisory Services. Shirish walks us through the current landscape for financial crime compliance in APAC. We discuss the biggest hurdles and challenges the region faces, as well as key factors for compliance professionals to take in consideration for the future. Tune in today!   

Shirish Pathak, Managing Director, Fintelekt Advisory Services, is the founder and Managing Director of Fintelekt Advisory Services Pvt Ltd, a company providing research, training and advisory in anti-money laundering, financial crime and countering the financing of terrorism. Over the years, he has actively invested time and resources in building sustainable relationships with regulators and compliance professionals around the region by ensuring that Fintelekt releases relevant and timely products and services that provide significant value to the compliance community. He can be reached via email at [email protected]. 

During this episode, we sit with Sin Yee Koh, Director of Compliance Consulting for Duff & Phelps Singapore. Sin Yee walks us through the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) journey of Fintechs, the ongoing debate of how to balance innovation vs. regulations, and the best practices to be ‘regulator ready.’ Tune in today for another great conversation!

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In this week’s episode, we’re joined by Ross Delston, Attorney and Expert Witness, who talks to us about the risks and dangers law firms face against fraudsters and criminals.

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Accuity Head of Innovation, Neela Das, discusses the opportunities and limitations posed by artificial intelligence in the world of payments and sanctions screening. 

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In this episode of the RegTech Pulse, we're joined by Saurav Banerjee, Head of Innovation and Financial Crime Prevention at UBS and Dalbir Sahota, VP of Bankers Almanac KYC at Accuity. Saurav and Dal sit down to discuss the outlook for financial crime prevention, and discuss the fundamental changes that may be in store for the future. 

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During the second part of the episode, we discuss with Hdeel Abdelhady, Principal at Masspoint PLLC, why should law firm be concerned with financial crime risk, and where the U.S. is headed in terms of regulations. Tune in today! 
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This week's episodes of The RegTech Pulse, we have a special guest: Hdeel Abdelhady, Principal at Masspoint PLLC. During the first part of this episode, we discuss the regulatory landscape of law firms in the United State, and why the legal industry is such a vulnerable sector for financial crime. Tune in today! For any inquires, reach out to us at [email protected], or visit accuity.com/theregtechpulse