Mr Chan was appointed the Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury on 16 August 2017. Mr Chan has many years of senior executive experience in the banking industry. He was a Managing Director in the Global Markets Division of Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank, and was a Managing Director in Financial Markets of Standard Chartered Bank. Prior to joining the Government, Mr Chan held multiple roles in a number of public and professional bodies, including Vice President of the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts, Director of Hong Kong Securities & Investment Institute, Advisor of the Chinese Gold & Silver Exchange Society, as well as a General Committee member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. Mr Chan was also a member of the Central & Western District Council. Mr Chan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics (Hon) and Psychology from the University of Michigan, USA. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst

Ms Chu is responsible for overseeing the enforcement function including the Complaint Processing Centre of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) as well as the supervision of the anti-money laundering and financial crime risk management by authorized institutions and stored value facility licensees. She also sits on the board of directors of the Financial Dispute Resolution Centre.

Ms Chu joined the HKMA in 1994 as a Manager Trainee, and has taken up different responsibilities in the HKMA, including research and monetary operations. She was seconded to the World Bank Office in Beijing from 1998 to 1999. Since then, she has mainly been involved in international and regional financial cooperation initiatives as well as renminbi business development in Hong Kong. She was appointed Executive Director (External) in April 2010 and Executive Director (Banking Conduct) in September 2014 before her current position in December 2017.

Mr Wilson is Executive Director of the SFC overseeing the Enforcement Division, which has the mission of upholding the integrity of the Hong Kong securities and futures markets by deterring unlawful or improper activities through effective surveillance and enforcement.

Prior to joining the SFC, he was Deputy General Counsel at HSBC in Hong Kong from 2016 to 2022, a managing director in Legal at JPMorgan in Hong Kong from 2004 to 2015 and Deputy General Counsel at Citizens Bank in Boston, US, from 2015 to 2016.

Mr Wilson began his legal career at Simpson Thacher in New York, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Mr McGlynn is a Division Head in the Hong Kong Monetary Authority with responsibilities for policy development, innovation, specialist on-site supervision and international engagement pertaining to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing. In international work he is currently Co-Chair of the Financial Action Task Force Evaluations and Compliance Working Group and represents the HKMA on the Anti-Money Laundering Experts Group of the Basel Committee.

Prior to the HKMA, he worked as the Deputy Head of Hong Kong’s Financial Intelligence Unit and has extensive experience across AML and financial crime

Ms McHugh is the Director, Asia-Pacific, for MyComplianceOffice (MCO). She is responsible for the growth and retention of their business, which is specifically focused on financial services conduct risk, employee compliance, and control room compliance activities. In Asia-Pacific, she provides the voice of MCO customers in the region to the global product management teams to enhance and develop a suite of regulatory solutions, ensuring the needs of Asia are met. She is also responsible for growing the local office to support the region.

Ms McHugh has 14 years of experience in the compliance and risk management industry, including both as a practitioner and as a solution provider. Her recent experience has also included managing regional product and sales teams for financial services regulatory compliance solutions in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia. She enjoys preparing pitch presentations for clients and really listening to a customer’s requirements, ensuring the voice of the customer is heard.

Ms McHugh graduated from the University of Auckland in accounting and information systems. She is a Certified Risk and Information Control Professional and, in a previous life, was once a Chartered Accountant.

Ms Fritzen is the AI Policy and Compliance Specialist at Sumsub, where she prepares the company to navigate the world of AI regulation. Prior to her current role, she worked as a tech policy analyst at Nubank, Brazil. She holds a Master's degree from the Central European University, Viena, where she specialized in Ethics and wrote her final thesis on AI nudges and regulation.

Mr Lim heads the enterprise business for Diligent in Asia and he aims to bring the best ESG and GRC solutions to enterprises in Asia to help them manage their risks better. He has been in the GRC domain for close to 10 years and has worked with clients across Asia

Mr Kuo currently as the CEO of Lawsnote Inc., which is the largest LegalTech company in Taiwan, and is also a practicing attorney in Taiwan. Since 2016, he has been dedicated to the field of LegalTech, guided by the core philosophy of "making the law more efficient." He has been instrumental in creating products such as the "Google of the legal field" Legal Search Engine, Legal Document Generation System, Contract Auto-Review System, and Compliance System. In addition to driving innovation and research and development for Lawsnote Inc., products, he is committed to the development of Legal Tech and holds key positions in the legal and technology community. Mr Kuo is the Chairman of the Technology Law Committee at Taiwan Bar Association, Vice President of the Taiwan Legal Tech Association, and Information Director at the Taipei Bar Association.

Mr Fenwick is the Managing Director and founder of Governance Risk & Compliance Solutions, a leading online compliance training company in the APAC region. He is one of the founding directors of The RegTech Association, a not-for-profit global business network working together with the aim of streamlining regulatory compliance and improving conduct risk outcomes in regulated entities.

 In 2018, he was appointed to the ASIC Digital Finance Advisory Committee (DFAC). He moved into the regulatory compliance industry in October 2000. Since that time, he has been instrumental in the development of the online compliance training industry in the APAC region. He has also been influential in the design of several other compliance and regulatory technology platforms.

Mr Fenwick is a regular presenter in Asia on innovation, entrepreneurship, RegTech, and managing organisational compliance. He is an enthusiastic supporter of the Australian start-up community with a particular interest in adaptive eLearning technology. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Sydney and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a member of the GRC Institute.

Ms Qiu is a seasoned AML practitioner with 15 years of experience in the US, China and Hong Kong. Her areas of expertise include Sanctions, export controls, FCC advisory, regulatory exams, audit, compliance Monitoring & Testing, large scale remediation projects and global Policy and Program implementation.

Ms Qiu moved to Asia in 2010 to work as China MLRO for BAML and later served as the Regional Head of Sanctions in Standard Chartered. Previously, she also worked for the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in Bank of America’s Global Headquarter in North Carolina, USA. Before joining Bank of America Merrill Lynch, she also held various risk management roles in Wachovia, and Wells Fargo US.

Ms Qiu is a frequent speaker at international seminars and conferences for topics related to Financial Crimes Compliance, Sanctions, regulatory compliance, Fintech and digital assets. She is also an early investor in Cryptocurrencies.

Ms Au, as part of the Hong Kong Management Committee, heads up the HK Legal Compliance & Compliance Secretariat teams and is the HKMA's 72B senior manager, HKEx compliance officer of DBS HK. Debra joined DBS Hong Kong in June 2022 after 18 years of serving as a compliance professionals with Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Newedge/Societe Generale and HSBC.

Ms Au began her career in the compliance department at Goldman Sachs, where she focused on compliance, anti-money laundering and financial crime following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. She then joined Societe Generale to continue her compliance career, and worked in various entities at Societe Generale, including the brokerage, capital markets and global banking businesses.

In 2015, she decided to further enrich her career development by switching her second-line-of-defense experience to join the business front. She joined the HSBC HK office of Global Banking and Markets (GBM) under the COO, focusing on supporting the ASP GBM business with her compliance professions on financial crime and deferred prosecutions agreement (DPA)–related matters.

In September 2017, she was appointed to the role of Hong Kong head of financial crime compliance (FCC) due to her long-standing experience in dealing with financial crime–related regulatory matters. In 2019, Ms Au successfully led the HK FCC team as well as the businesses in HK in passing the s166 Skilled Person review with an eminent result that helps the group in negotiating with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the U.K. for further narrowing the scope of the mandatory regulatory review.

In July 2020, She was appointed to the role of chief compliance officer for Hong Kong and Macau, covering all compliance-related matters, including regulatory, financial crime, conduct, fraud, investigations and surveillance.

After nearly seven years of successful contributions to the HSBC, she decided to further enhance her career and take on a bigger role covering the legal and compliance secretary arenas as the head of legal, compliance and secretariat for HK, Macau and China since June 2022.

Mr Ashmore joined HSBC in the UK in 1997 and has since held a number of roles in the UK, Brazil, India and Hong Kong across multiple business lines and functions. He has been based in Hong Kong since June 2010 and working in Compliance technology since 2014 in both global and regional capacities. He is currently the Global Head of Customer Account Risk and CDD IT and the Regional Head of Risk and Compliance IT for Asia Pacific, as well as continuing to cover for Regulatory & Conduct IT and Analytics & MI IT globally on an interim basis.

Mr Ashmore and his team were instrumental in implementing the technology solutions that allowed HSBC to successfully exit its 5 year DPA with the US Department of Justice and the Skilled Person agreement with the UK FCA and are continuing to explore multiple areas where the latest technology can help improve HSBC’s ability to fight financial crime.

Mr Shaik is a Partner of ADM Capital. He has over 25 years’ experience working in private credit supervising ADM Capital’s structuring and operations across the Asia-Pacific Region. Before joining ADM Capital, Alexander Shaik worked at Sidley Austin and Allen & Overy

Mr Lui is TI Fluid Systems’ Legal Director for the APAC region, mainly dealing with legal and risk aspects in both the selling and manufacturing fronts. Between 2015 and 2018, he served as the Head of Legal and Compliance for the APAC of Hilti (construction material manufacturer); one of his key functions is formulating and directing compliance programs. Prior to that, he worked five and a half years at Nobel Biocare – a medical device manufacturer – as its General Counsel for APAC where he was responsible for procuring legal, compliance and risk related advice to various business functions. He has also worked for the Fire and Security unit of United Technology Corporation (2007 to 2009) and local apparel retailer G2000 (2005 to 2007).

Mr Lui is also the founder of “White Hat Guys”, a legal and compliance communication best-practice sharing platform, whose objective is to engage employees via innovative messaging.

Ms Katz leads the team which provides legal strategic advice and counsel across CLP Group, in working towards the Group’s aim to be a leading responsible energy provider from one generation to the next. Corinne has been working with the CLP Group since June 2010. Before taking up her current role she was the Group Counsel – Retail & IS at EnergyAustralia. She started her career in South Africa, where she was a partner at a national law firm, she then moved to Australia to work at the firm now known as King & Wood Mallesons. Ms Katz has an MBA from the University of Melbourne and an LLB and BCom from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Mr Day is the COO of VDX, a Fintech startup in Hong Kong, building a digital asset eco-system for institutional investors. He previously was the in-house crypto expert at the SFC, the Hong Kong regulator, where he helped shape the licensing regime for virtual asset trading platforms, and designed and lead the supervision of virtual asset fund manager and trading platforms. He is a veteran of Deutsche Bank and Accenture. He was a co-founder, partner and CTO at Bletchley Park Asset Management, an institutional grade crypto Hedge Fund, where he led systematic portfolio management. Mr Day served many roles at brokerage houses and hedge funds, including COO of Qantex , a pan Asian OTC derivatives brokerage; Delta-1 Trader at Segantii , a multi strategy Hedge Fund; and Quantitative Strategist and Trader at Deutsche Bank. Donald started his career in the Capital Markets practice of Accenture, where he helped design and build world-class trading systems for some of the largest equity and derivatives exchanges. Donald holds an MBA from London Business School and a Master in Computer Science from LMU University Munich.

Mr Friedman is an international human trafficking expert with more than 30 years’ experience. He is CEO of The Mekong Club, an organization of Hong Kong’s leading businesses which have joined forces to help end all forms of modern slavery. Mr Friedman previously worked for USAID and the United Nations in over 40 countries. Mr Friedman offers technical advice to numerous governments, banks and corporations working to eliminate all forms of modern slavery and is the author of twelve books. In 2017, Mr Friedman won Asia’s prestigious “Communicator of the Year” Gold Award.

Mr Mak is the Head of Financial Crime & Security Services of DBS Bank, Hong Kong, overseeing AML, sanctions, fraud risk management and physical security services. Before joining DBS, Mak spent seven and a half years with Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited with the last position as the MLRO, Deputy General Manager of the Financial Crime Compliance Department. He was the rotating Chairman of the Anti-Money Laundering Committee of the Hong Kong Association of Banks.

Prior to joining Bank of China Hong Kong, he worked in the Hong Kong Police Force for over 15 years. He was the Superintendent of Police and Head of Joint Financial Intelligence Unit from 2013 to 2015. In 2015, Cyril was seconded to the Security Bureau of the HKSAR Government as the Assistant Secretary for Security. He was a core member of the HKSAR delegation in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary sessions and the leading representative of the HKSAR Government in the Egmont Group of FIUs.

Mr Mak is a non-practicing barrister and holds a Master of Laws Degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Mr Wright, the dynamic force behind InnoFi Advisory, pioneers the growth of financial services through innovative technologies like blockchain, virtual assets, DAOs, and NFTs. As a respected global authority on virtual asset regulation and compliance, his career highlights include crucial roles at Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) and Shyft, the prominent crypto Travel Rule provider.

Notably, he’s been a transformative C-suite executive in the FinTech and virtual asset spheres, influencing the course of established firms such as Schroders, Revolut, Thomson Reuters (now Refinitiv), BitMEX, and Eqonex, and even helmed his own successful technology firm.

In his highly regarded position as Director of Regulatory Affairs, APAC, and Vice-Chair of the Advisory Council at GBBC Digital Finance (GDF), Mr Wright facilitated the creation of favourable legislation and cultivated industry understanding of complex virtual asset regulations. His co-leadership of GDF’s AML working group and engagement with the FATF cemented him as an influential figure in the field of virtual assets.

Among his impressive achievements was the co-founding and leading of a global consortium of 135 technical experts, which gave rise to the globally-adopted IVMS101 data standard, meeting FATF’s ‘Travel Rule’ requirements. He recently concluded on leading a ground-breaking project streamlining onboarding processes between financial institutions and virtual asset service providers in collaboration with the Wolfsberg Group.

An engaging international speaker and insightful writer, he illuminates topics around virtual assets and risk mitigation with unmistakable clarity. His influence extends further as the Chair of the Practitioners Advisory Board at the International Compliance Association and an Associate Fellow at the UK’s Royal United Services Institute’s Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies. He is indisputably an essential voice in the financial services and virtual asset arena.

Mr Porteous is a Senior Due Diligence & Research Manager at The Hong Kong Jockey Club. His team researches global illegal betting markets, their links to transnational organised crime and their negative impacts on society. Previously he was a journalist in the UK and Hong Kong.

Mr Williams has worked in law enforcement in Hong Kong for 34 years, focusing on financial investigation for the majority of that period. While attached to the Hong Kong Police, he trained and worked with the Commercial Crime Bureau and the Financial Investigations of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau. He was part of the Hong Kong Police team responsible for developing anti-money laundering strategies and policies, as well as asset recovery protocols, following enactment of the relevant legislation in 1994.

Mr Williams joined the Operations Department of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in 2011, initially focusing on listed company corruption and money laundering, before handling the prosecution of a major corruption case involving a former senior official. He has over 25 years’ hands on experience in the investigation of complex and listed company frauds, bribery, grand corruption and money laundering. He has been involved in training for law enforcement officers in Hong Kong and Australia, and to a wider audience through the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, and the International Association of Anti-Corruption Authorities.

Mr Gathani is the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Better Business Governance (BBG) – APAC Pte Ltd, and has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of Governance, Risk and Compliance which stems employment and engagement with family run business to multi-national corporations.

Presently, he also serves as an Independent Director for Ponco Pacific Pte Ltd, and is a well-regarded Corporate Trainer and Speaker and has delivered plentiful of trainings and exclusive talks in the space of Corporate Governance, Data Security, Data Privacy and Fraud and Risk Management. These sessions were delivered to both Academia and Corporate sector organizations.

He has also written several articles in local newspapers on every day topics that matter to ordinary folks as well as Corporate Matters. He has been featured in Brunei Times on several occasions and had his articles published in the editorial section of the Today Newspaper.

In 2016, he was the First Singaporean to be awarded the title of Global Hero, an award the recognizes the efforts put in to adopt healthy lifestyle thru exercise despite medical challenges. He is also founder of a social Not for Profit enterprise that helps obese folks to adopt a healthy lifestyle through proper diet and exercise.

Mr Lee is a professor of practice (ESG, FinTech/ RegTech, Risk Management), and has been advising Asian policymakers and regulators; banks, insurers, and investment managers; listed and private companies on Climate risk management & Corporate sustainability, Digital transformation, ESG, Financial Communications and Investor Relations, Governance and Risk Management, HealthTech/ InsurTech/ RegTech.

He advised and trained the HKMA on RegTech/ SupTech and was one of the 9 judges at the first HKMA Green FinTech competition in 2023.

Prior to his current role, he was a Financial Services Consulting Partner at Deloitte with a focus on governance, risk management, controls (GRC) and managed the regulatory relationships with the HKMA, Insurance Authority, MPFA, and SFC, and a Managing Director at Duff & Phelps/ Kroll leading the Financial Crime and Regulatory Compliance consulting services.

He set up the InsurTech Committee of the FinTech Association, where he was a Board Member responsible for AI & Big Data. Mr Lee is the Vice Chair of the British Chamber financial services committee.

Mr Yu s a Risk and Compliance Executive with over 20 years’ of experience with a focus on non-financial risk in both private and public sectors, including retail, investment, corporate and private banking, together with Regtech and digital finance sector. He has been working on various regional and local senior management roles including MLRO, MIC of SFC and S72b Manager of HKMA for different financial institutions. Henry is also lecturing in the Department of Laws of The University of HK for its LLM classes.

Mr Wong is an experienced ACAMS (Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists) certified compliance professional with over 20 years’ accrued expertise of AML, Regulatory Compliance, Project Management and Operation Optimization. In his current position as Vice President - Legal and Compliance, he leads a team of AML specialists across multiple offices and countries, he has designed the implementation of the company’s AML Program and developed procedures in jurisdictions including Hong Kong, China, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea and the United States.

He developed and managed an AML training program in multiple locations, offices and onboard a fleet of cruise ships. He also personally trained over 2000 employees, and designed, managed and implemented customized e-learning system for over 3000 gaming and non-gaming staff.

Mr Wong has been a key member of pre-opening team for major integrated resorts in Mississippi, Detroit, Macau and Korea with focus on standardizing policies and procedures, developing regulatory controls, budgeting, developing staff and acted as an internal consultant for multiple areas including casino operation, hotel operation and IT/financial controls for the Sarbanes-Oxley program.

Prior to joining the hospitality/casino industry, he was an Analyst/Consultant in the financial industry for companies such as Credit Suisse and JP Morgan & Chase in New York City.

Mr Dam is the Managing Editor of Thomson Reuters’ Legal Media Group, which includes Asia Legal Business, Asia’s foremost monthly publication covering the legal industry. In his role, he tracks developments in the legal sector across Asia, and also legal and regulatory developments that impact the business and investment climate.

A former lawyer, Mr Dam has been a journalist for closed to two decades, after graduating from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Since then, he has worked in the United States, India, China and Singapore, where he is currently based. He has been with Thomson Reuters since 2011.

Ms Zeng is Southeast Asia correspondent at Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence in Singapore, focusing on financial regulations and compliance.

Prior to this, she had more than nine years’ experience writing on asset management, oil trading, and corporate legal rankings-related subjects.

Born in China, she was educated in the UK on journalism, accounting and finance. Before relocating to Singapore, she worked in both London and Hong Kong. She is also an accredited reporter qualified by the UK National Council for the Training of Journalists.

Mr Shamdasani is a veteran writer, editor and researcher based in Hong Kong. He holds an AB in history and government from Ripon College, JD and MIPCT degrees from the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce Law School, and an LLM in financial regulation from the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law.

His 15-year long career as a financial and legal journalist began as deputy editor of A Plus magazine – the journal of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. From there, he assumed the helm of Macau Business magazine as its editor-in-chief, and later, joined Asialaw magazine as its deputy editor. More recently, he spent close to seven years as a senior correspondent with Thomson Reuters’ subscription-based trade-wire service Regulatory Intelligence/Compliance Complete (previously called Complinet) in Hong Kong. While there, he covered regulatory developments in that city, as well as Singapore, India and South Korea.

Mr Lam is the Head of Compliance and AML Division of Fubon Bank (Hong Kong) Limited, overseeing AML/CFT, sanctions, fraud risk management, regulatory compliance and data protection matters. Before joining Fubon Bank, he was the Chief Compliance Officer of Airstar Bank where he had the opportunity to set up and manage the Legal & Compliance Department to handle the various compliance challenges faced by a virtual bank. Prior to joining Airstar Bank, he held senior management roles in different Asian / HK based banking groups managing AML/CFT/sanctions and regulatory compliance matters of Retail Banking, Wealth Management, Commercial and Corporate Banking, Treasury and Financial Institutions businesses.

Prior to his career in compliance, he was an audit manager in one of the leading local banks in Hong Kong. Mr Lam is a trainer for the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers’ Enhanced Competency Framework on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing training programme since 2017.

Mr Inglis is the Wildlife Programme Manager for the ADM Capital Foundation. He is a researcher with experience working on a varity of environmental issues in Asia, namely water security, cryospheric change and wildlife trade. He has worked for ADMCF since 2016, overseeing projects on wildlife trade and crime. He has been a lead author on ADMCF's reports characterising Hong Kong's significance in the global wildlife trade - legal and illegal. He is also overseeing work on the exotic pet trade, financial crime and convergence with organised crime.

Mrs Ho is the Founder of Hong Kong Dignity Institute, Founding and Managing Partner of Patricia Ho & Associates and Principal Lecturer of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. Much of her work involves defending the rights of minority groups in Hong Kong by way of seeking advancements and developments of government policies and laws through strategic litigation. She also provides legal and strategic advice to a number of NGOs in Hong Kong, and works with both local and international bodies to advocate for the rights of marginalised groups, including refugees, asylum seekers and victims of human trafficking.

In 2015, she represented Mr. ZN to bring a judicial review - ZN v Secretary for Justice & Ors - to encourage the government to consider introducing specific legislations to criminalise forced labour and human trafficking. She has provided trainings and seminars to the legal community and other civil society organizations in Hong Kong on avenues to protect victims of human trafficking and forced labour, and is a co-author of the Crimes (Amendment) (Modern Slavery) Bill 2019.

She is trained in Post Trauma Psychosocial and Mental Health Interventions for the Refugee Population.

Ms Chow is a seasoned practitioner with more than 25 years of experience in securities law and compliance. She has formerly served as a member of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Ordinance drafting team, C-suite executive of multiple investment banks, as well as the Chief Compliance Officer on SDG Development with the United Nations Development Program of UNSIF (United Nations SDG Innovative Finance).

She is also a serial entrepreneur and now with the focus on her Web 3.0 Fintech startup, which has multiple projects recognized and supported by Cyberport and HKTech300 of City University of Hong Kong.

Mr Yu is the director and co-founder of the AI legaltech startup Makebell which builds solutions that reduce legal frictions for business.

He also is a visiting fellow at City University lecturing on patent law and commercialization of IP. He has also lectured at HKU, HK Poly, HKUST and Peking University on IP and patent law and recently co-taught a fintech regtech class at CUHK with Donald Day who is speaking at the 3PM plenary panel on crypto assets.

Mr Yu has also authored books, book chapters and papers on AI & law, smart cities, cross border data flow, IP and digital evidence.

Ms Wei is a cryptocurrency finance executive, investor, and entrepreneur with a blend of experience in both legacy and blockchain-based finance and cryptocurrencies. Ms Wei has worked with Goldman Sachs with MBA from Stanford Business School. Currently, she is the founder and CEO of Aegis Trust & Custody, dedicated to integrating custody solutions into the world of blockchain.