Deloitte Southeast Asia Financial Crime Symposium 2026

By T Raja Kumar, Past President of the Financial Action Task Force 2022-2024

Financial crime is evolving at unprecedented speed, driven by new technologies, increasingly professionalised criminal networks and a rapidly shifting global environment. This keynote will explore the forces reshaping the financial crime landscape, from the convergence of fraud, cyber, AML and sanctions risks to the growing impact of AI-enabled crime. Gain a leadership perspective on what these changes mean for traditional financial crime frameworks and the priorities organisations should be considering now.

Criminals do not operate within organisational silos, yet financial institutions have traditionally managed AML, fraud and cyber risks through separate teams, systems and controls. This panel will explore how financial crime increasingly cuts across the customer journey and where gaps between functions can create vulnerabilities. Hear perspectives on breaking down silos, strengthening intelligence sharing and building a more connected response to threats that move seamlessly between cyber, fraud and money laundering.

Moderated by:

• Khoo Boon Hui, Former Singapore Police Force Commissioner and Former President of Interpol

Panellists:

• Ravi Kakad, Head of Financial Crime Prevention, UBS
• Richard Soh, Head of Anti-Fraud and Anti-Bribery & Corruption, UOB
• Lina Tong, Fraud & Security Intelligence Practice, Customer Advisory, ASEAN, SAS
• Edna Yap, Cyber Strategy & Transformation Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Financial crime moves across borders, but the data needed to detect and disrupt it often cannot. Privacy requirements, data localisation, inconsistent data quality and jurisdictional boundaries continue to challenge regional financial crime efforts. This panel will examine how organisations can navigate these constraints while strengthening cross-border intelligence and information sharing. The discussion will also explore the potential for regional collaboration and what increasingly data-dependent technologies such as AI mean for the future of financial crime prevention.

Moderated by:

• Darren Cerasi, Forensic & Financial Crime Partner, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Panellists:

• David Cope, Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Asia Pacific, Goldman Sachs
• Eugene Ho, Co-Head of Cybersecurity & Data protection, Allen & Gledhill
• Robert Harris, Head of Industry Relations, Feedzai

AI is rapidly moving from experimentation into the financial crime and compliance environment, but where is it delivering genuine impact? This panel will move beyond the hype to explore what has successfully progressed from proof of concept to real-world deployment, where expectations have fallen short, and how organisations are measuring value. From investigations and KYC to transaction monitoring, screening and fraud, the discussion will examine how AI, including emerging agentic capabilities, can be deployed responsibly with the right governance, explainability and human oversight.

Moderated by:

• Michael Hoo, AI & Data Partner, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Panellists:

• Svend Janssen, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Nuix
• Guy Sheppard, Head of AI Strategy & Adoption, Standard Chartered Bank 
• Gary Ang, Principal, Quaintitative & CTO, TalentQuill

Behind every financial crime control is a broader purpose: protecting the integrity of institutions, markets and communities. Through immersive storytelling, this session will bring the human impact of financial crime into focus and explore why trust, integrity and individual accountability remain fundamental even as technology transforms the way organisations manage financial crime risk.

By Jarrod Baker, Forensic & Financial Crime Partner, Deloitte Southeast Asia

As financial crime becomes more interconnected, data-driven and technology-enabled, traditional compliance operating models are being challenged. This panel will look ahead to 2030 and explore how financial crime functions may need to evolve across people, processes, technology and governance. From greater convergence between AML, fraud and cyber to AI-enabled operations, regional models and changing workforce skills, the discussion will consider a provocative question: if you could build the financial crime compliance function of the future from scratch, what would you do differently?

Moderated by

• Graham Dawes, Forensic & Financial Crime Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Panellists:

• Ali Asghar, AML Country Officer (AMLCO), Singapore, Citibank 
• Daniel Ng, Head, Group Compliance, UOB 
• Sue Wan Wong, Partner, Wong & Partners
• Mourid Nasri, Vice President, Head of Asia & Japan, Quantexa
• Cengiz Kiamil, Managing Director, APAC, Fenergo

A more fragmented geopolitical landscape is reshaping financial flows, trade relationships and the risks facing global organisations. This discussion will examine how sanctions, changing trade patterns, emerging payment corridors and digital assets are creating new financial crime challenges and opportunities for exploitation. Gain perspectives on balancing de-risking with effective risk management and the geopolitical developments financial crime leaders should be watching over the next three to five years.

Fireside chat between Ali Burney, Partner, Steptoe and Claire Franklin, Forensic & Financial Crime Partner, Deloitte Southeast Asia

Drawing together the key insights from across the symposium, this closing session will translate the day’s discussions into practical priorities for financial crime leaders. From breaking down organisational silos and thinking beyond jurisdictional boundaries to treating data as critical FCC infrastructure and moving AI into controlled deployment, the session will identify the actions organisations can take now to build more connected and future-ready financial crime capabilities.

The session will also revisit audience perspectives captured throughout the day and reflect on how views have evolved through the discussions.

Speaker:

By Graham Dawes, Forensic & Financial Crime Leader, Deloitte Southeast Asia