Compliance in Asian Wealth Management Forum 2020

Vincent is the Assistant Managing Director (Technology) for the Technology Group comprising Data Analytics Department (DAD); Information Technology Department (ITD); and Technology & Cyber Risk Supervision Department (TCRD). Prior to this appointment, Vincent heads Accenture Singapore Financial Services. Before Accenture, Vincent was the PwC Leader for Financial Crime and Cyber for Asia Pac and also leads the Financial Services Risk Assurance in Singapore. He specialises in managing large scale transformation and managing risks relating to digital, disruption and fintech confronting complex global organisations.. Prior to Singapore, Vincent spent more than 20 years in UK as a partner in PwC UK, leading the Financial Services, Technology Risk practice and advised major international financial institutions and regulators in both the UK and US on technology, risk and resilence. Vincent is a member of the advisory board on National University of Singapore (School of Computing & Business School). Vincent sits on Ministry of Communication panel of experts for cyber security and also an independent board of director in IHIS (Integrated Health Information Systems). Previously, Vincent was a member of MAS International Advisory Board on Cybersecurity.

Adriel Loh is the Global Head of Compliance for Bank of Singapore. He is responsible for ensuring that the private bank fulfills its compliance requirements across the various markets in which it operates, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Manila, London and Jersey. He has over 16 years of experience in legal, compliance and regulatory matters. He started work as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and was subsequently appointed as a Magistrate of the Subordinate Courts (now State Courts). He also held positions with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Pictet & Cie. Prior to joining Bank of Singapore, he was Head of Legal and Compliance Asia for Union Bancaire Privee. Adriel is a qualified lawyer and has a law degree from the National University of Singapore.

John Shoemaker is Senior Counsel with Butler Snow in their Singapore office. John has more than 30 years’ experience in tax, legal & regulatory compliance, and is a common law lawyer with educational emphasis on taxation, trusts & estate planning. He also has extensive experience in ensuring multi-jurisdictional compliance for fiduciary product offerings (working with multijurisdictional outside counsel & adapting products for sale in relevant jurisdictions), including product management skills to direct complex products from concept to fully operational status.

Zac Lucas is the Founder of Centenal Legal Technology Group. Zac is a practicing lawyer with over 20 years legal experience, admitted to practice in England & Wales, and is a former Partner of various international law firms including, Harneys, Ogier, Lawrence Graham and Gowling WLG advising on all areas of international private client law, including cross border wills, trust and estates and business succession planning. Zac has particular expertise advising on international regulatory law and has lectured and written extensively on the OECD Common Reporting Standard (CRS). As a result, Zac has been retained by a number of leading private banks, trust companies, wealthy individuals and families and a governmental authority to advise on the practical implementation of the CRS. Zac has now taken the step, in founding Centenal Legal Technology Group, to leverage the power of information technology to create innovative enterprise application software solutions for use by Financial Institutions, Business Professionals and UHNW families and individuals.

Mr. Chionh Chye Kit is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cynopsis Solutions. Chye Kit has nearly 20 years of financial and capital markets experience in Asia, gained largely from working in Macquarie Group and ING Bank. He started his career in an external audit role with PwC specialising in audit of financial services providers. Prior to his entrepreneurship in 2014, Chye Kit spent more than a decade with Macquarie Group as Managing Director and Regional Head of Compliance, Asia. Chye Kit was also one of the top 3 winners for the Singapore Founder MAS FinTech Awards 2018. Recently, he has also clinched the Singapore FinTech Awards 2019 under the Top Ten Leaders category. Chye Kit serves as an Advisor to RegPac Revolution, an end-to-end RegTech ecosystem builder and knowledge sharing platform. He is also the Chair of Singapore FinTech Association’s RegTech subcommittee. Chye Kit lectures on various Compliance and regulatory topics with International Compliance Training Academy (ICTA), Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants in Singapore (ISCA), Corporate Secretaries Institute of Singapore (CSIS) as well as Singapore FinTech Association (SFA). He is a regular speaker at conferences in the Asian region including seminars and events organised by the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), ISCA, CSIS, International Compliance Association (ICA), Financial Action Task Force (FATF) & Eurasia Group (EAG), British High Commission, Money 20/20, Amazon, Hong Kong FinTech Week and various other FinTech and RegTech events.

Sinyee manages Duff & Phelps’ Compliance and Regulatory Consulting Practice in Singapore. She advises financial services firms on licensing and ongoing Singapore and cross-border regulatory requirements and reviews firms’ risk management, internal controls and compliance arrangements. Sinyee has advised a range of firms from banks, trust companies, private equity fund managers, venture capital fund managers, hedge fund managers, external asset managers, remittance companies and fintechs on a range of regulatory issues from licensing to ongoing obligations. Recent areas on which Sinyee has advised firms on include personnel fit & proper requirements, preparation of regulatory filings and reports, outsourcing, data privacy, business continuity, anti-money laundering & counter financing of terrorism controls, cybersecurity & technology risk management, cryptocurrency and fintech regulations. Sinyee conducts internal audits and gap analyses of firms’ internal controls and compliance and risk management systems. Before joining the firm, Sinyee practiced in the Hong Kong and London offices of a top City law firm. Her practice areas were contentious financial services regulation and white collar investigations. From 2008 to 2014, Sinyee worked at the Monetary Authority of Singapore and has handled various roles including enforcement, investigating and prosecuting market abuse and mis-selling, and financial market strategy development. Sinyee is admitted to practice law in Singapore, Hong Kong, England and New York. She speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Japanese and French.

Mr. Vincent Koo joined EFG Bank Singapore Branch as the Head of Compliance in August 2018. Prior to joining EFG Bank Singapore Branch, Vincent has over 25 years of working experience across various international institutions, covering audit and compliance roles, including Deloitte & Touche, Hang Seng Bank, UBS, Citibank, RBS Coutts, BNP Paribas Wealth Management and most recently Schroders Wealth Management Singapore.

Joining Credit Suisse in 1998 as an analyst, Philipp Piaz commenced his comprehensive career in private banking and wealth management. During his time at Credit Suisse, Philipp held a number of senior roles, relocating from Zürich to Singapore in 2001 to undertake Thailand Private Client Business Development in his role as Vice President. In 2004, Philipp joined the senior management of Deutsche Bank AG, with whom he was affiliated for 5 years. In his role as Director, Philipp was responsible for the development of Deutsche Bank’s Thai Private Client Business. In 2009, he became Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Finaport, overseeing the expansion of the firm's Asian operations. Philipp is a founding member of the Association of Independent Asset Managers (AIAM) in Singapore, and was appointed President of the AIAM in 2018. Philipp undertook Elementary Studies of Economics and Law at University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Natalie leads Herbert Smith Freehills' financial services regulatory (FSR) practice in Singapore, covering Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (alongside the Hong Kong FSR partners). Having practised in four Asia-Pacific jurisdictions, Natalie has an in-depth understanding of the regulatory regimes and challenges that apply to firms operating in this region. Natalie's contentious experience includes advising on internal and regulatory investigations and enforcement relating to breaches of AML/CFT regulations, market misconduct, conflicts of interest, employee conduct issues, systems and controls breaches, cyber-related incidents, IPO sponsorship conduct, misleading disclosure and mis-selling. Natalie also has extensive experience advising financial institutions and fintech clients on a broad range of non-contentious regulatory and compliance matters, including AML/CFT compliance, financial services licensing, senior management accountability, culture and conduct, corporate governance, financial services M&A, cross-border marketing, suitability, virtual banking, digital token offers, payment services and the cross-border and local impact of regulatory change such as (L)IBOR discontinuation.

Christina McNamara is a Director of Regulatory Compliance with IHS Markit. Ms McNamara has extensive experience working with global, regional and local financial institutions on their US tax, including FATCA and QI, and OECD CRS compliance initiatives, specialising in implementation across Asia. McNamara has led regional FATCA and CRS implementation and remediation projects for global banks with operations in Asia Pacific and is a regular speaker at various industry events on CRS in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. She has also engaged in regional consultations held by regulators and industry bodies on regulations and guidance material relating to AEOI.

Mark Büsser is the founder and chairman of IMTF. He studied aeronautical engineering at ETH (Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland) and holds an MBA from IMD. He started his career in Management Consulting, led and transformed a large machine tool company into an integrated provider of hard- and software solutions before founding IMTF, which he successfully developed and managed for over 36 years to become the market leader in the fight against financial crime. The IMTF Regtech platform “Siron” provides modular Anti-financial Crime, Compliance and Client Lifecycle Management solutions to more than 1’000 banks in over 60 countries.

Andrew Chow is a Partner in the Financial Services Regulatory Practice. He has extensive experience in financial services regulatory matters, with an emphasis on banking and capital markets legal and compliance advisory. As one of the first dedicated compliance professionals in Singapore, Andrew has worked for various international financial institutions across the Asian region. He advises on a wide spectrum of regulatory issues and developments, and has previously guided each of the financial institutions he worked in on regulatory compliance with statutes, regulations, notices and guidelines in Singapore including the Banking Act, the Securities and Futures Act (SFA), the Financial Advisers Act (FAA), the Trust Companies Act, the Commodity Trading Act administered by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and other regulatory bodies. Apart from his advisory roles, he also developed the compliance processes and procedures for those institutions, including other risk, operational and IT policies and procedures where legal and compliance input was essential. In the 16 years prior to joining WongPartnership, the financial institutions Andrew worked for were: Standard Chartered Bank, where he established the compliance department, and was actively involved in managing the issues surrounding the collapse of Baring Futures and its parent; and Baring Brothers & Co. in the UK. He then moved to Toronto Dominion Bank/TD Waterhouse, where he led in the establishment of TD Waterhouse in Hong Kong as one of the first Asian discount brokers while overseeing TD Bank's transactions through the Asian Financial Crisis. The next institution was Schroders, which was acquired by Salomon Smith Barney as part of Citigroup. At Salomon, Andrew was the author of the application for the first unified securities and futures membership on the Singapore Exchange, and also managed the issues arising from the dot.com bust, the collapse of WorldCom and Enron, and the tragic event of 9/11. As the Country Compliance Officer for Citibank, Singapore Branch, he has covered all aspects of Citi's comprehensive footprint in Singapore, including its global technology function locally. He was also actively involved in the integration of the Lehman businesses into Nomura in Asia (ex-Japan). Andrew speaks regularly at seminars organised by the Association of Banks in Singapore, the Institute of Banking and Finance, the Wealth Management Institute, where he leads in Ethics and Compliance training for private banking and wealth management, Hubbis for private banking, the Compliance Professionals Association of Singapore and the Robert Half-ICPAS Financial Leadership Forum. He is also a committee member of the Financial Industry Competency Standards (FICS) Compliance Working Group. Andrew graduated from the National University of Singapore.  He is admitted to the Singapore Bar and is also an Attorney-at-Law, New York State Bar.

Colin is a Managing Partner at 42 Consulting Pte Ltd, which is a Partner and representative of LexiFi in Asia. Prior to joining 42 Consulting he was the Head of Markets Development and Support in Julius Baer where he helped shape processes and policies pertaining to Capital Markets.  With over 15 years of experience in banking and consulting, he has worked with multiple clients within the Wealth Management space to helped them navigate the regulatory and compliance environment pertaining to the trading of structured products and derivatives. He has been working with LexiFi over the last 5 years providing direction and developing their product offering in APAC. Colin is a CAIA charterholder, has a MSc in Applied Finance and a Bachelors in Computing.

Daniel Levison has more than 20 years of experience in advising clients on complex multi–jurisdictional investigation, litigation, arbitration, and compliance matters across the Asia–Pacific region. As head of the disputes and compliance practice for Morrison & Foerster in Singapore, he represents clients in commercial litigation and arbitration, government and internal investigations, and helps clients develop, review, and implement world class compliance policies, procedures, and training programs and protect their businesses through pre–acquisition and third–party compliance due diligence. Clients rely on Daniel’s intelligent and flexible approach to handling these highly sensitive issues in connection with fraud and corruption, anti–money laundering, economic sanctions and export control, privacy and data security, and competition matters. Daniel’s practice covers the Asia–Pacific region and beyond, including Japan, China, Korea, India, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, and nearly every country in Southeast Asia. His clients span a range of industries including banking and financial services, private equity and venture capital, technology, software, pharmaceuticals and life science, consumer goods, e–commerce, real estate, hospitality, and professional services. Daniel has been ranked as a top practitioner (Band 1) for Corporate Investigations and Anti–Corruption by Chambers Asia Pacific for the past three years, and is recognized as one of the world’s leading investigations lawyers by Who’s Who Legal: Investigations/Global Investigation Review in 2019 and 2020.

Shaun has varied expertise in the areas of Singapore and international taxation, with a specific focus in private wealth and fiduciary structuring matters. He has also accumulated noteworthy industry experience with a Taiwanese start-up which allowed him to gain greater appreciation of back-office operations and issues pertinent to SMEs. Shaun now assumes primary responsibility in providing customised private wealth tax products / solutions and structuring for HNWIs and family businesses. Shaun’s current portfolio comprises public-listed companies, multinationals and companies from the fund and private wealth industry. Shaun is also a regular speaker in our tax seminars for clients and the public. In Shaun’s past and present roles, he has provided tax compliance services to a range of clients spanning across industries such as insurance, fund management, trusts, sports, media, manufacturing and shipping; Tax advice with respect to fund, carry, trust structuring, cross border investments, stamp duty reliefs, withholding taxes, permanent establishments, employee remuneration schemes and transfer pricing.

Kyra is a Partner with PwC’s Risk Services based in Singapore and leads it’s Third Party Trust service as well as sector lead for Digital Trust in Financial Services. She has almost 20 years experience working with PwC's Financial Services clients globally (i.e. Asia Pacific, US and UK/Europe) and specialises in governance and risk management of technology, operations and third parties. As Third Party Trust Leader, she leads a team of professionals dedicated to advising organisations on third party risk management (including Cloud services) and service level control standards. She provides thought leadership and advises senior executives on the challenges and strategies to manage risks associated with their digital transformation agenda. Focusing on current topics such as cyber risk, cloud governance and ecosystem risk management. Kyra leads Diversity and Inclusion for PwC’s Risk Services and is passionate in promoting a culture of awareness and inclusion, developing and supporting women talent, as well as the power of diversity in problem solving. Animal lover, coffee drinker, enjoys travels, beach holidays and snowboarding. Kyra has a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems) from Monash University. She is an Australia Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA), Singapore Chartered Accountant (CA) and also previously qualified for Certified Information System Auditor (CISA).

Our founder, Mona Zoet has over 18 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry within the Legal, Risk and Compliance areas, specializing in AML and KYC During her banking years, she became acutely aware of the Regulatory, Operational and Risk Management pain points faced by banks and other Financial Institutions alike She is an Executive Board Member, Southeast Asia Lead and Singapore Chapter President of the International RegTech Association ( which exists to ease and accelerate the evolution of the RegTech industry, by facilitating integration, collaboration and innovation of all stakeholders, within the Financial Services sector Mona recently contributed to “The Legal Aspects of Blockchain”, a book published by the UNOPS focusing on the legal implications that blockchain has, not only in humanitarian and development work, but also on existing regulatory frameworks, data and identity Mona also shares co authorship for the book #RegTech Blackbook which highlights all the latest development of RegTech, FinTech, WealthTech from different angles To end, Mona has also been mentioned as one of the RegTech top 100 influencers a report created by Analytica One

Anu is a seasoned compliance professional with over 17 years of experience in financial services spanning wealth management compliance and more recently fintech compliance. In her current role as the Head of Compliance and MLRO for Revolut Singapore she is responsible for all areas in Regulatory Compliance as well as Financial Crime Compliance. She is passionate about the use of technology in not just customer facing solutions but also in other areas such as Reg Tech. As new innovative solutions in the world of payments and financial technology evolve, they will revolutionize the world of financial services and she is very excited to see what the future holds.

Tan Woon Hum is widely regarded as one of the rare senior market leaders specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts, especially Variable Capital Companies (VCCs) and family offices. He heads a team of specialist lawyers in the Trust, Asset & Wealth Management practice at major Singapore law firm Shook Lin & Bok LLP. He is ranked as a Band 1 leading investment funds lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific since 2014 and top 100 lawyer in Singapore by Asia Business Law Journal in 2023. He advises on fund formation, (including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and single-family funds) using Singapore funds (including VCC) and offshore funds structures (eg. Cayman LP funds and segregated portfolio companies). He drafts and reviews the full range of fund documents and is extremely well versed with independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single-family offices, and has an extremely strong track record in securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions. His excellent and long-term professional relationship with the local regulators, authorities and major industry players add credence to his practice. He has advised on and helped clients launched about 100 VCCs as at May 2023. He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single-family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, family offices, single-family funds, Sections 13O and 13U (formerly 13R and 13X) structures and drafts trust documents, fund documents, global investor programme documents and family charters. Woon Hum is bi-lingual (English and Mandarin), has a law degree and a MBA (Finance). He is a highly sought after speaker and speaks regularly at public conferences, forums and seminars since 2002 in Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Dubai, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh and Kuala Lumpur.

Dr. Silvio Struebi is a Partner at Simon-Kucher's Hong Kong and Singapore Office. He is a member of the Global Banking Practice and heads the company's banking operations in APAC. Silvio focuses on international Private Banking and B2B Banking in Hong Kong and Singapore. Silvio has more than twelve years of consulting experience. He advises a broad array of local and global financial institutions on multiple topics, starting from monetisation and product management to market-specific implementation of growth strategies. Prior to focusing in the APAC region, Silvio served Retail, Private Banks and Asset Managers in Switzerland and Europe. Prior to joining Simon-Kucher, Silvio worked for an international Private Bank in Zurich and at a consulting start-up. He received his PhD in Marketing from the University of St. Gallen and has a Masterʼs degree in business administration.

Alison Fidler, Head, Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance, Wealth Markets Products and Sales, Standard Chartered Bank has overall leadership and functional responsibility for conduct, financial crime and compliance (CFCC) matters concerning the Wealth Markets Products and Sales business, which is a globally managed business that provides financial markets access to the Private Banking and Retail Banking client segments through advice on, product structuring and transaction execution in most asset classes (foreign exchange, interest rates, credit, equities and commodities). In recent years this has included CFCC responsibility for digital initiatives both direct to clients and direct to RMs (equities, FX and fixed income). She also provides advice, strategic direction and leadership on the interpretation, assessment and implementation of Global Regulatory Reform initiatives that impact the Wealth Management business. She joined Standard Chartered Bank in January 2010 from King & Wood Mallesons in Sydney where she worked in the banking and financial services department. Prior to Mallesons, Alison worked for Linklaters first in London and then, for over 11 years, in Hong Kong; where she gained extensive regional knowledge. She is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, Hong Kong and New South Wales.

Evelyn is Head, Network Compliance, Wealth Management  at Standard Chartered Bank, based in Singapore. Prior to this she was head of compliance APAC Wealth Management at Royal Bank of Canada.  Until 2011, she was the Asia regional head of equities compliance for UBS based in Hong Kong for almost five years. She was also with Merrill Lynch for almost 10 years based in Singapore, Bangkok and Hong Kong, with responsibilities for derivatives compliance for the Asia Pacific region and country compliance coverage for Thailand, Korea, India, Taiwan, Singapore and Australia. With over 20 years of dedicated Compliance experience, Evelyn has a strong background in product advisory, private banking, strategic development of Compliance framework and teams.
 

Uthra is a Compliance and Operational risk management professional with a strategic problem solving approach and passion to drive new initiatives, and is currently the Director of Compliance & Operations for Propine. She possesses a good understanding and exposure to operational dynamics of various businesses, with knowledge spanning institutional equities, investment banking, fund & asset management and real estate across markets like India, Singapore, Japan and Korea, honing her skillset and experience across a career spanning over 18 years. Uthra possesses end-to-end corporate secretarial, compliance and legal experience, stretching from being a strategic advisor to the Board to seamless set up of the Compliance, Secretarial and Legal frameworks. She has expertise in setting up Operational Risk frameworks and driving the Operational Risk process for real estate fund  initiatives. She also possesses experience in the conceptualisation and building of the Regulatory Risk Matrix for mutual funds business universe in Singapore. Beyond this, Uthra possesses a strong understanding of global regulatory best practices and implementation constraints in Asian markets honed through exposures in groups like HSBC, where she was Assistant Company Secretary, Daiwa Group and Prudential, with a flair for working on new business, products, and understanding of distribution and cross border issues across Asian markets. She began her career working for Larsen & Toubro, an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, where she was an executive covering secretarial & legal, relocating to Singapore in 2010 as General Counsel for Credit Suisse. She graduated from Mumbai University with an LLB.

Damian Hitchen, Chief Executive Officer, Swissquote Pte Ltd Damian joined in January 2014 to drive Swissquote’s expansion strategy from being Switzerland’s largest online banking and trading platform into the Middle East & Asia region. During 2014-2019 inclusive he built a successful B2c-B2b office from the DIFC, Dubai with a major focus on the development and upgrade of the Bank existing institutional platform services. In July 2019, he relocated from Dubai to head up Swissquote’s new office in Singapore, which will act as the regional booking centre for its business development in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on professional, industry and institutional clients such as external asset-managers, insurance firms, securities brokerages, family offices and local - regional Banks/Private Banks. Prior to joining Swissquote, Damian worked in a number of senior roles for HSBC in the Middle East region, and as an Executive r Director for Falcon Private Bank, the Abu Dhabi owned Swiss Private Bank.

Laurence was called to the UK Bar in 2006 having studied law at the University of Bristol, Warwick University and Nottingham Law School. He joined Sovereign as in-house Counsel at the beginning of 2008, and was appointed Sovereign Group Tax Counsel in 2010. Now Sovereign’s Head of Tax, Laurence has recently re-located to Asia and will be principally based from Sovereign’s Singapore office for the foreseeable future. Specialising in the UK tax treatment of overseas structures and pension schemes, Laurence typically advises high net worth individuals on tax mitigation strategies concerning future planning as well as unscrambling existing offshore structures. A large part of his practice involves advising on UK property ownership issues. Laurence advises high net worth clients directly, as well as professional clients who receive the advice on their behalf. He works closely with external tax counsel practising at the UK’s leading tax chambers; he also works closely with HMRC, particularly in the area of the UK tax treatment of overseas pension schemes. He is currently co-writing a book on UK pension taxation and is the ITPA Jurisdiction Editor for Singapore.    

Mr. Chionh Chye Kit is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cynopsis Solutions. Chye Kit has nearly 20 years of financial and capital markets experience in Asia, gained largely from working in Macquarie Group and ING Bank. He started his career in an external audit role with PwC specialising in audit of financial services providers. Prior to his entrepreneurship in 2014, Chye Kit spent more than a decade with Macquarie Group as Managing Director and Regional Head of Compliance, Asia. Chye Kit was also one of the top 3 winners for the Singapore Founder MAS FinTech Awards 2018. Recently, he has also clinched the Singapore FinTech Awards 2019 under the Top Ten Leaders category. Chye Kit serves as an Advisor to RegPac Revolution, an end-to-end RegTech ecosystem builder and knowledge sharing platform. He is also the Chair of Singapore FinTech Association’s RegTech subcommittee. Chye Kit lectures on various Compliance and regulatory topics with International Compliance Training Academy (ICTA), Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants in Singapore (ISCA), Corporate Secretaries Institute of Singapore (CSIS) as well as Singapore FinTech Association (SFA). He is a regular speaker at conferences in the Asian region including seminars and events organised by the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA), ISCA, CSIS, International Compliance Association (ICA), Financial Action Task Force (FATF) & Eurasia Group (EAG), British High Commission, Money 20/20, Amazon, Hong Kong FinTech Week and various other FinTech and RegTech events.

Our founder, Mona Zoet has over 18 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry within the Legal, Risk and Compliance areas, specializing in AML and KYC During her banking years, she became acutely aware of the Regulatory, Operational and Risk Management pain points faced by banks and other Financial Institutions alike She is an Executive Board Member, Southeast Asia Lead and Singapore Chapter President of the International RegTech Association ( which exists to ease and accelerate the evolution of the RegTech industry, by facilitating integration, collaboration and innovation of all stakeholders, within the Financial Services sector Mona recently contributed to “The Legal Aspects of Blockchain”, a book published by the UNOPS focusing on the legal implications that blockchain has, not only in humanitarian and development work, but also on existing regulatory frameworks, data and identity Mona also shares co authorship for the book #RegTech Blackbook which highlights all the latest development of RegTech, FinTech, WealthTech from different angles To end, Mona has also been mentioned as one of the RegTech top 100 influencers a report created by Analytica One

Joining Credit Suisse in 1998 as an analyst, Philipp Piaz commenced his comprehensive career in private banking and wealth management. During his time at Credit Suisse, Philipp held a number of senior roles, relocating from Zürich to Singapore in 2001 to undertake Thailand Private Client Business Development in his role as Vice President. In 2004, Philipp joined the senior management of Deutsche Bank AG, with whom he was affiliated for 5 years. In his role as Director, Philipp was responsible for the development of Deutsche Bank’s Thai Private Client Business. In 2009, he became Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Finaport, overseeing the expansion of the firm's Asian operations. Philipp is a founding member of the Association of Independent Asset Managers (AIAM) in Singapore, and was appointed President of the AIAM in 2018. Philipp undertook Elementary Studies of Economics and Law at University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

John Shoemaker is Senior Counsel with Butler Snow in their Singapore office. John has more than 30 years’ experience in tax, legal & regulatory compliance, and is a common law lawyer with educational emphasis on taxation, trusts & estate planning. He also has extensive experience in ensuring multi-jurisdictional compliance for fiduciary product offerings (working with multijurisdictional outside counsel & adapting products for sale in relevant jurisdictions), including product management skills to direct complex products from concept to fully operational status.

Dr. Silvio Struebi is a Partner at Simon-Kucher's Hong Kong and Singapore Office. He is a member of the Global Banking Practice and heads the company's banking operations in APAC. Silvio focuses on international Private Banking and B2B Banking in Hong Kong and Singapore. Silvio has more than twelve years of consulting experience. He advises a broad array of local and global financial institutions on multiple topics, starting from monetisation and product management to market-specific implementation of growth strategies. Prior to focusing in the APAC region, Silvio served Retail, Private Banks and Asset Managers in Switzerland and Europe. Prior to joining Simon-Kucher, Silvio worked for an international Private Bank in Zurich and at a consulting start-up. He received his PhD in Marketing from the University of St. Gallen and has a Masterʼs degree in business administration.

Mark Büsser is the founder and chairman of IMTF. He studied aeronautical engineering at ETH (Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland) and holds an MBA from IMD. He started his career in Management Consulting, led and transformed a large machine tool company into an integrated provider of hard- and software solutions before founding IMTF, which he successfully developed and managed for over 36 years to become the market leader in the fight against financial crime. The IMTF Regtech platform “Siron” provides modular Anti-financial Crime, Compliance and Client Lifecycle Management solutions to more than 1’000 banks in over 60 countries.

Colin is a Managing Partner at 42 Consulting Pte Ltd, which is a Partner and representative of LexiFi in Asia. Prior to joining 42 Consulting he was the Head of Markets Development and Support in Julius Baer where he helped shape processes and policies pertaining to Capital Markets.  With over 15 years of experience in banking and consulting, he has worked with multiple clients within the Wealth Management space to helped them navigate the regulatory and compliance environment pertaining to the trading of structured products and derivatives. He has been working with LexiFi over the last 5 years providing direction and developing their product offering in APAC. Colin is a CAIA charterholder, has a MSc in Applied Finance and a Bachelors in Computing.

Natalie leads Herbert Smith Freehills' financial services regulatory (FSR) practice in Singapore, covering Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (alongside the Hong Kong FSR partners). Having practised in four Asia-Pacific jurisdictions, Natalie has an in-depth understanding of the regulatory regimes and challenges that apply to firms operating in this region. Natalie's contentious experience includes advising on internal and regulatory investigations and enforcement relating to breaches of AML/CFT regulations, market misconduct, conflicts of interest, employee conduct issues, systems and controls breaches, cyber-related incidents, IPO sponsorship conduct, misleading disclosure and mis-selling. Natalie also has extensive experience advising financial institutions and fintech clients on a broad range of non-contentious regulatory and compliance matters, including AML/CFT compliance, financial services licensing, senior management accountability, culture and conduct, corporate governance, financial services M&A, cross-border marketing, suitability, virtual banking, digital token offers, payment services and the cross-border and local impact of regulatory change such as (L)IBOR discontinuation.

Adriel Loh is the Global Head of Compliance for Bank of Singapore. He is responsible for ensuring that the private bank fulfills its compliance requirements across the various markets in which it operates, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Manila, London and Jersey. He has over 16 years of experience in legal, compliance and regulatory matters. He started work as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and was subsequently appointed as a Magistrate of the Subordinate Courts (now State Courts). He also held positions with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and Pictet & Cie. Prior to joining Bank of Singapore, he was Head of Legal and Compliance Asia for Union Bancaire Privee. Adriel is a qualified lawyer and has a law degree from the National University of Singapore.

Tan Woon Hum is widely regarded as one of the rare senior market leaders specialising in investment funds, REITs and trusts, especially Variable Capital Companies (VCCs) and family offices. He heads a team of specialist lawyers in the Trust, Asset & Wealth Management practice at major Singapore law firm Shook Lin & Bok LLP. He is ranked as a Band 1 leading investment funds lawyer by Chambers Asia-Pacific since 2014 and top 100 lawyer in Singapore by Asia Business Law Journal in 2023. He advises on fund formation, (including hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds and single-family funds) using Singapore funds (including VCC) and offshore funds structures (eg. Cayman LP funds and segregated portfolio companies). He drafts and reviews the full range of fund documents and is extremely well versed with independent asset managers, external asset managers, multi-family offices and single-family offices, and has an extremely strong track record in securing the relevant regulatory licences and exemptions. His excellent and long-term professional relationship with the local regulators, authorities and major industry players add credence to his practice. He has advised on and helped clients launched about 100 VCCs as at May 2023. He has extensive experience in advising private clients (including ultra-high net worth individuals and single-family offices) and trustees on the establishment of private trusts, family offices, single-family funds, Sections 13O and 13U (formerly 13R and 13X) structures and drafts trust documents, fund documents, global investor programme documents and family charters. Woon Hum is bi-lingual (English and Mandarin), has a law degree and a MBA (Finance). He is a highly sought after speaker and speaks regularly at public conferences, forums and seminars since 2002 in Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Dubai, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh and Kuala Lumpur.

Laurence was called to the UK Bar in 2006 having studied law at the University of Bristol, Warwick University and Nottingham Law School. He joined Sovereign as in-house Counsel at the beginning of 2008, and was appointed Sovereign Group Tax Counsel in 2010. Now Sovereign’s Head of Tax, Laurence has recently re-located to Asia and will be principally based from Sovereign’s Singapore office for the foreseeable future. Specialising in the UK tax treatment of overseas structures and pension schemes, Laurence typically advises high net worth individuals on tax mitigation strategies concerning future planning as well as unscrambling existing offshore structures. A large part of his practice involves advising on UK property ownership issues. Laurence advises high net worth clients directly, as well as professional clients who receive the advice on their behalf. He works closely with external tax counsel practising at the UK’s leading tax chambers; he also works closely with HMRC, particularly in the area of the UK tax treatment of overseas pension schemes. He is currently co-writing a book on UK pension taxation and is the ITPA Jurisdiction Editor for Singapore.    

Christina McNamara is a Director of Regulatory Compliance with IHS Markit. Ms McNamara has extensive experience working with global, regional and local financial institutions on their US tax, including FATCA and QI, and OECD CRS compliance initiatives, specialising in implementation across Asia. McNamara has led regional FATCA and CRS implementation and remediation projects for global banks with operations in Asia Pacific and is a regular speaker at various industry events on CRS in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. She has also engaged in regional consultations held by regulators and industry bodies on regulations and guidance material relating to AEOI.

Kyra is a Partner with PwC’s Risk Services based in Singapore and leads it’s Third Party Trust service as well as sector lead for Digital Trust in Financial Services. She has almost 20 years experience working with PwC's Financial Services clients globally (i.e. Asia Pacific, US and UK/Europe) and specialises in governance and risk management of technology, operations and third parties. As Third Party Trust Leader, she leads a team of professionals dedicated to advising organisations on third party risk management (including Cloud services) and service level control standards. She provides thought leadership and advises senior executives on the challenges and strategies to manage risks associated with their digital transformation agenda. Focusing on current topics such as cyber risk, cloud governance and ecosystem risk management. Kyra leads Diversity and Inclusion for PwC’s Risk Services and is passionate in promoting a culture of awareness and inclusion, developing and supporting women talent, as well as the power of diversity in problem solving. Animal lover, coffee drinker, enjoys travels, beach holidays and snowboarding. Kyra has a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) and Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems) from Monash University. She is an Australia Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA), Singapore Chartered Accountant (CA) and also previously qualified for Certified Information System Auditor (CISA).

Daniel Levison has more than 20 years of experience in advising clients on complex multi–jurisdictional investigation, litigation, arbitration, and compliance matters across the Asia–Pacific region. As head of the disputes and compliance practice for Morrison & Foerster in Singapore, he represents clients in commercial litigation and arbitration, government and internal investigations, and helps clients develop, review, and implement world class compliance policies, procedures, and training programs and protect their businesses through pre–acquisition and third–party compliance due diligence. Clients rely on Daniel’s intelligent and flexible approach to handling these highly sensitive issues in connection with fraud and corruption, anti–money laundering, economic sanctions and export control, privacy and data security, and competition matters. Daniel’s practice covers the Asia–Pacific region and beyond, including Japan, China, Korea, India, Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, and nearly every country in Southeast Asia. His clients span a range of industries including banking and financial services, private equity and venture capital, technology, software, pharmaceuticals and life science, consumer goods, e–commerce, real estate, hospitality, and professional services. Daniel has been ranked as a top practitioner (Band 1) for Corporate Investigations and Anti–Corruption by Chambers Asia Pacific for the past three years, and is recognized as one of the world’s leading investigations lawyers by Who’s Who Legal: Investigations/Global Investigation Review in 2019 and 2020.

Uthra is a Compliance and Operational risk management professional with a strategic problem solving approach and passion to drive new initiatives, and is currently the Director of Compliance & Operations for Propine. She possesses a good understanding and exposure to operational dynamics of various businesses, with knowledge spanning institutional equities, investment banking, fund & asset management and real estate across markets like India, Singapore, Japan and Korea, honing her skillset and experience across a career spanning over 18 years. Uthra possesses end-to-end corporate secretarial, compliance and legal experience, stretching from being a strategic advisor to the Board to seamless set up of the Compliance, Secretarial and Legal frameworks. She has expertise in setting up Operational Risk frameworks and driving the Operational Risk process for real estate fund  initiatives. She also possesses experience in the conceptualisation and building of the Regulatory Risk Matrix for mutual funds business universe in Singapore. Beyond this, Uthra possesses a strong understanding of global regulatory best practices and implementation constraints in Asian markets honed through exposures in groups like HSBC, where she was Assistant Company Secretary, Daiwa Group and Prudential, with a flair for working on new business, products, and understanding of distribution and cross border issues across Asian markets. She began her career working for Larsen & Toubro, an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, where she was an executive covering secretarial & legal, relocating to Singapore in 2010 as General Counsel for Credit Suisse. She graduated from Mumbai University with an LLB.

Michael is a prominent figure in the financial services industry in Asia. He is the founder and CEO of Hubbis, a renowned provider of intelligence and connectivity for the Asian wealth management industry. With a depth of experience and expertise, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the industry for over 30 years, becoming a leading industry presence in the events, professional development, and publishing space in the region. Hubbis is a multi-generational family-owned and managed business.

He has been actively involved in the Asia-Pacific region since 1993. And has lived in Asia since 1995, holding positions in Hong Kong, Sydney, and Singapore. 

For over 14-years, Hubbis has established itself as the gold standard media and events brand in wealth management thought leadership in Asia. Each year providing a very large body of cutting-edge editorial and sponsored content, organizing top-flight events.

During that time Hubbis has become the platform of choice for many high-profile C-suite leaders to communicate their vision of the Asian wealth management.

Before his involvement with Hubbis, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002, a financial services media company. Under his leadership, the company achieved significant success and was subsequently acquired by global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006. Michael continued to serve as the CEO of Pacific Prospect until October 2008.

Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Michael garnered 5 years of experience in financial markets publishing. His career in this field began in 1993 when he joined Euromoney Publications as the publisher of the quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now owned by LSEG) and spearheaded the conception and launch of Finance Asia magazine. During his tenure as Managing Director of Finance Asia, he also initiated the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine, and the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, he founded FIA Limited, further expanding his contributions to the financial publishing industry.

Born in North Wales, Michael served as the head boy of St David's College Llandudno. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. Beyond his professional endeavours, Michael is a family-oriented individual and is happily married with three children: Reanna, Garett, and Tarryn.

Michael is a prominent figure in the financial services industry in Asia. He is the founder and CEO of Hubbis, a renowned provider of intelligence and connectivity for the Asian wealth management industry. With a depth of experience and expertise, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the industry for over 30 years, becoming a leading industry presence in the events, professional development, and publishing space in the region. Hubbis is a multi-generational family-owned and managed business.

He has been actively involved in the Asia-Pacific region since 1993. And has lived in Asia since 1995, holding positions in Hong Kong, Sydney, and Singapore. 

For over 14-years, Hubbis has established itself as the gold standard media and events brand in wealth management thought leadership in Asia. Each year providing a very large body of cutting-edge editorial and sponsored content, organizing top-flight events.

During that time Hubbis has become the platform of choice for many high-profile C-suite leaders to communicate their vision of the Asian wealth management.

Before his involvement with Hubbis, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002, a financial services media company. Under his leadership, the company achieved significant success and was subsequently acquired by global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006. Michael continued to serve as the CEO of Pacific Prospect until October 2008.

Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Michael garnered 5 years of experience in financial markets publishing. His career in this field began in 1993 when he joined Euromoney Publications as the publisher of the quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now owned by LSEG) and spearheaded the conception and launch of Finance Asia magazine. During his tenure as Managing Director of Finance Asia, he also initiated the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine, and the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, he founded FIA Limited, further expanding his contributions to the financial publishing industry.

Born in North Wales, Michael served as the head boy of St David's College Llandudno. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. Beyond his professional endeavours, Michael is a family-oriented individual and is happily married with three children: Reanna, Garett, and Tarryn.

Michael is a prominent figure in the financial services industry in Asia. He is the founder and CEO of Hubbis, a renowned provider of intelligence and connectivity for the Asian wealth management industry. With a depth of experience and expertise, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the industry for over 30 years, becoming a leading industry presence in the events, professional development, and publishing space in the region. Hubbis is a multi-generational family-owned and managed business.

He has been actively involved in the Asia-Pacific region since 1993. And has lived in Asia since 1995, holding positions in Hong Kong, Sydney, and Singapore. 

For over 14-years, Hubbis has established itself as the gold standard media and events brand in wealth management thought leadership in Asia. Each year providing a very large body of cutting-edge editorial and sponsored content, organizing top-flight events.

During that time Hubbis has become the platform of choice for many high-profile C-suite leaders to communicate their vision of the Asian wealth management.

Before his involvement with Hubbis, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002, a financial services media company. Under his leadership, the company achieved significant success and was subsequently acquired by global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006. Michael continued to serve as the CEO of Pacific Prospect until October 2008.

Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Michael garnered 5 years of experience in financial markets publishing. His career in this field began in 1993 when he joined Euromoney Publications as the publisher of the quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now owned by LSEG) and spearheaded the conception and launch of Finance Asia magazine. During his tenure as Managing Director of Finance Asia, he also initiated the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine, and the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, he founded FIA Limited, further expanding his contributions to the financial publishing industry.

Born in North Wales, Michael served as the head boy of St David's College Llandudno. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. Beyond his professional endeavours, Michael is a family-oriented individual and is happily married with three children: Reanna, Garett, and Tarryn.

Michael is a prominent figure in the financial services industry in Asia. He is the founder and CEO of Hubbis, a renowned provider of intelligence and connectivity for the Asian wealth management industry. With a depth of experience and expertise, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the industry for over 30 years, becoming a leading industry presence in the events, professional development, and publishing space in the region. Hubbis is a multi-generational family-owned and managed business.

He has been actively involved in the Asia-Pacific region since 1993. And has lived in Asia since 1995, holding positions in Hong Kong, Sydney, and Singapore. 

For over 14-years, Hubbis has established itself as the gold standard media and events brand in wealth management thought leadership in Asia. Each year providing a very large body of cutting-edge editorial and sponsored content, organizing top-flight events.

During that time Hubbis has become the platform of choice for many high-profile C-suite leaders to communicate their vision of the Asian wealth management.

Before his involvement with Hubbis, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002, a financial services media company. Under his leadership, the company achieved significant success and was subsequently acquired by global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006. Michael continued to serve as the CEO of Pacific Prospect until October 2008.

Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Michael garnered 5 years of experience in financial markets publishing. His career in this field began in 1993 when he joined Euromoney Publications as the publisher of the quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now owned by LSEG) and spearheaded the conception and launch of Finance Asia magazine. During his tenure as Managing Director of Finance Asia, he also initiated the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine, and the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, he founded FIA Limited, further expanding his contributions to the financial publishing industry.

Born in North Wales, Michael served as the head boy of St David's College Llandudno. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. Beyond his professional endeavours, Michael is a family-oriented individual and is happily married with three children: Reanna, Garett, and Tarryn.