Financial Crime and Compliance50 2025

Frankie is an award-winning Chief Information Security Officer with 20 years+ experience in Financial and IT industries. He headed Singapore Cyber & technology risk at the world largest private bank UBS and worked at Citibank, Microsoft and HP.

He is a frequent speaker at industry leading forums organized by Reuters, IDC, The Asian Banker (TAB), Asia Risk, Asian Banking & Finance (ABF), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Central Bank of Indonesia, etc.

As a digital transformation and innovation catalyst, Frankie holds a US patent about next generation wireless networking as sole inventor. The patent has been cited by other big technology companies like Intel and Ericsson.

He was featured on Nasdaq Tower of New York Times Square as 2024 Global CISO 100 award winner and featured on cover page of Enterprise Security Magazine (2022 APAC special edition). He is also recipient of Global Top 100 leaders in InfoSec, World CIO 200, IDG’s CSO30 & CIO 100 ASEAN, etc.

As Aboitiz Data Innovation (ADI)’s Chief Commercial Officer, Guy plays a key role in continuing the advancement of ADI’s mission to drive the adoption of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence tools and solutions that can help reduce operational cost, drive effectiveness within financial crime processes, collections, alternate lending, data sharing processes, and ultimately accelerate more inclusive financing.

Guy has over 16 years of experience in Financial Crime, Cyber and Fraud having led Financial Crime commercial and markets teams for SWIFT in the Americas, UK and the Asia Pacific. In his career, he has worked for Bankers Almanac (now Accuity), Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, LexisNexis and with the Metropolitan Police Terrorist Finance Investigations Unit on a Joint Venture. As a recognized domain expert and speaker in Due Diligence, Fraud, Cyber and Sanctions technology assurance, he is also an active individual in the community, having held various positions such as being a former member of the Singapore FinTech Association’s RegTech sub-committee and Course Director for the Wealth Management Institute’s InfoSec Central Bank training programme.

Guy graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Medieval Literature from the University of Exeter and holds a Master of Arts in Marketing from Kingston University.

Francis has over 23 years of experience working on Compliance, Financial Crime Investigation in China, Hong Kong and Asia Pacific.  She has experienced of active AML/ Fraud change management in technology and project enhancement of banking and insurance industries.  Led AML Institutional Risk Assessment for local banks and investment banks.  Provided AML/ Fraud Risk management trainings across Asia Pacific.

Mr. Senghay Ly is well rounded banker with more than 13 years of experience of corporate governance roles in internal audit and compliance for banking and financial institutions. In addition, he had more than 3 years in retail business with Chevron Cambodia and more than 5 years with NGOs.

Currently, Senghay is working as a Chief Compliance Officer for the Branch of Krungthai Bank PCL, Phom Penh Branch with primary responsibilities related to regulatory and anti-money laundering and financing of terrorism compliance reporting to senior management and the Board.

In terms of professional qualifications, he holds a master degree in international business from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, bachelor’s degree of art in Economic from Pannasastra University of Cambodia. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist of Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists. Also, he obtained ICA Advanced Certificate in Money Laundering from the International Compliance Association (ICA). Currently, he is pursuing the Advance CAMS on Financial Crimes Investigations with ACAMS.

With nearly 25 years of experience in Financial Services, Tom joined BNY Mellon as the Head of Financial Crimes Compliance – APAC in August 2021, from Morgan Stanley.   He brings deep experience in all aspects of financial crimes compliance.

Tom also spent nearly 17 years at JPMorgan Chase (JPMC), including 8+ years in Hong Kong after  8+ years in New York.  During this period he became the Head of Regulatory and Risk Technology and was Technology Information Risk Officer for JPMC Private Bank in Asia.

Tom earned his BS/MBA from Clemson University and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS).

As the Head of Financial Crime Production, I specialise in AML and KYC innovations for global markets and financial institutions. With a strong focus on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes, she has a proven track record of developing training strategies that streamline compliance workflows. Georgina is passionate about fostering innovation in banking compliance and is dedicated to creating impactful content for financial crime professionals. She also holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Queen Mary, University of London.

Raj is the Deputy Money Laundering Reporting Officer at Santander UK. He is responsible for the management of Financial Crime Compliance and also directly responsible for the oversight of Financial Crime Controls, Models and the use of Advanced Analytics. He previously held roles within Financial Crime Compliance having built and run compliance programmes at a number of banks and insurers including prior leadership roles in investigations, assurance, risk assessments and transformation.

Nick is research specialist focusing on the Financial Crime and Fraud markets. Nick joined Chartis from LexisNexis Risk Solutions, where he led the Insight function delivering strategic research and intelligence in the Fields of Financial Crime, Payments, Fraud and Cybercrime.

Prior to LNR, Nick had In a 15-year career across Banking, Government, Payments and Private Equity leading research, analytics and strategic planning teams.

Nick’s career in banking and finance across Barclays, Lloyds and RBS, has exposed him to a broad range of focus areas including Treasury Services, Retail, Corporate and Private banking with focus on growth, international expansion, transformation and risk. Through his varied career and educational background in Economics and Management Nick adopts a macro-to-micro approach to problem diagnostics and solution.