Implementing e-KYC & CDD – Challenges and opportunities

Pekka is Vice President of ICA. Pekka has many years’ experience as a practitioner in Financial Crime Compliance and has spent the last 11 years helping ICA to become the world’s most respected professional body and training provider in Compliance and Risk.

Jee Meng started his career in the Retail and Commercial Banking segment in a foreign bank and has over 20 years experience that spans across various functional positions in audit, risk management and compliance. He is currently Head Regulatory, Corporate & Financial Crime Compliance in AIA Singapore.
Since year 2001, Jee Meng has started to contribute banking and risk-related articles, free-lance basis, in international publications e.g. The Risk Management Association Journal, OpRisk and Compliance Journal, Fraud Intelligence, LCMonitor, Documentary Credit Insight, etc. He conducts seminars/workshops in the Association of Banks in Singapore, the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants, etc

Balachandar Sathyanarayanan (Bala) is a financial crime, compliance, and risk subject matter expert with over 15 years of experience. He is currently the Regional Head of Compliance-Malaysia & APAC with Transfermate Malaysia. He has worked extensively in MSB industries and correspondent banking in the Asia sub-continent region including Middle East, India and Malaysia.
He is a highly sought after speaker at conferences and seminars across Asia, and is frequently invited by regulators from Malaysia, China and Thailand to speak on compliance, risk and other matters relating to MSB business. Bala has conducted training for Law Enforcement Agents ((LEAs) in Malaysia for the Certified Financial Investigator Programme (CFIP) 2019 by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). Bala holds a Master’s degree in Arts, Post graduate diploma from Loyola Institute of Business Management. He also holds post-graduate in AML from ICA and Manchester University, and a “Fellow” of the ICA. Bala is a Certified Trainer from FAA (Financial Accreditation Agency Malaysia) and has trained over 500 Compliance officers from the industry.

Proud Mancunian, Dr Louise Maynard-Atem, heads up the Data Insights team at GBG. Louise uses data to develop new products and services across identity, location and fraud intelligence, creating solutions and offering insights that only GBG can deliver.
Louise believes that technology and data have the potential to be a great leveller. She is research lead and executive committee member for Women in Identity, a non-profit that inspires, elevates and supports a more diverse workforce in the digital identity industry. She has used her position to showcase how data and digital identity solutions can improve social inclusion and help the most marginalised people in society get access to digital services.
Louise holds a MSc in Chemistry and a PhD in Materials Science. During the Covid-enforced lockdown, Louise added Level 2 and Level 3 wine tasting certificates from the Wine & Spirit Education Trust to her list of qualifications. She is also talented in circus skills, including the trapeze.

Brian has extensive experience in asset management having spent almost 30 years working at M&G, Cofunds, IFDS (now SS&C), Allfunds, Northern Trust and currently at Fidelity. Brian has performed many different roles in that time, with the Last 15 years working primarily on Financial Crime prevention, Initially in 1st line of defence, before becoming Deputy MLRO at Fidelity in 2020. Brian has participated in a wide range of initiatives in the FC space, including refresh programmes, control enhancements and implementation of new technologies, and is a passionate advocate of working collaboratively across the industry, being an active participant in Financial Crime working groups for both TISA and the TA Forum.