Anti-Money Laundering
Asia Conference 2003

31st July - 1st August 2003, Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore

This inaugural annual regional conference aims to help financial institutions understand the issues that would help them build an effective anti-money laundering (AML) regime. The guest-of-honour is Mr. Ravi Menon, Assistant Managing Director (Complex Institutions) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. It features well-known industry specialists including:

	Rick Small, Director of Global AML, Citigroup Rick is Citigroup's top worldwide anti-money laundering officer in New York. Previously, he served as the Federal Reserve Board's top money laundering control official and, for twelve years, as a key member of the U.S. anti-money laundering regulatory regimen. He was influential in the development of the nation's anti-money laundering and bank examination policies. He is a member of the advisory board for the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists, USA. ^top
	Michael Levi, Professor at Cardiff University, UN Consultant Michael has been professor of criminology at Cardiff University since 1991. His major research contributions for governments, international organisations (the UN) and the private sector have been in the fields of white-collar crime and corruption, organised crime, money laundering and violent crime, and he is scientific expert on organised crime to the Council of Europe and the UK's academic representative to the Falcone Research Committee of the European Union. He has also carried out a variety of studies on the prevention of fraud and organised crime. He has written a number of books and research reports. ^top
	Rick McDonell, Head, Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering Secretariat Rick has been the Head of the APG since its creation. Rick is a lawyer specialising in criminal law. He has worked with a Government appointed special commission into certain aspects of organised crime and has worked as a Federal prosecutor. Immediately prior to his present position he worked for three years as National Coordinator of Investigations for Australia's National Crime Authority which is a specialised agency for national coordinated investigations into organised crime. ^top
	Muralidharan Pillai, Partner, Allen & Gledhill, Singapore Murali is a Partner with Allen & Gledhill and specialises in litigation and dispute resolution. His principal areas of practice encompass criminal litigation, general commercial litigation, employment law, property litigation and insolvency. As counsel, he has been involved in several landmark civil and criminal cases in the Supreme Court of Singapore and has considerable expertise in the area of high-profile white collar crime trials. Prior to pursuing a career in law, Murali served as an Assistant Superintendent of Police in the Singapore Police Force, primarily conducting criminal investigations relating to large-scale syndicated crime. Murali was called to the Singapore Bar and joined Allen & Gledhill in 1996. ^top
	Richard Price, Partner, Shearman and Sterling, Singapore Richard is a U.S. capital markets partner of Shearman & Sterling and has extensive experience in representing both issuers and underwriters in a wide range of international corporate finance transactions. He has overseen investment grade debt, high-yield debt and equity offerings by issuers in a wide range of industries. His practice includes providing advice to corporate clients regarding U.S. federal securities laws, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and other corporate matters and frequently speaks on U.S. securities law issues, international corporate finance transactions and corporate governance matters. Richard has also sat on the Competitiveness Working Group Committee of the Stock Exchange of Singapore and the Corporate Governance Committee of the Government of Singapore. ^top
	Dominic Nixon, Asia Head for AML, PricewaterhouseCoopers Dominic is the Asia Head for AML and the Chairman of the Financial Risk Management practice in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Dominic has been with the firm for over 22 years. Dominic has been involved with a broad range of financial services-related mergers and acquisitions services, including loan portfolio sales, securitisations, target evaluations, industry strategic assessments, business and financial due diligence, accounting and tax structure, and AML reviews. Dominic is spearheading the development and marketing of AML products throughout Asia. ^top
	Alan Abel, Americas Head for AML, PricewaterhouseCoopers Alan is the Americas Head for AML. Alan has worked with the governments of 30 countries and jurisdictions to evaluate and assist their money laundering detection and deterrence efforts. Alan led the first money laundering vulnerability assessment of the Caribbean Region for the Organization of American States (OAS / CICAD) and the G-7 OECD Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the world's anti-money laundering watchdog organization, and issued a PricewaterhouseCoopers report that has received wide recognition in the Region, the U.S. and Europe. Alan is a member of the U.S. Treasury Department's Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group (BSAAG). ^top
	Rohan Bedi, Head of AML Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore Rohan is the Head of AML Services of PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore. He was a line banker with thirteen years of work-experience across Asia. He has a passion for AML and is involved with all aspects of the subject from research, consultancy, software, training, and other thought leadership activities. He is the author of a number of articles on the subject published both locally and in leading Asian newspapers, magazines, and International publications. Rohan is widely regarded as an Asia AML expert and his opinions on AML issues are sought after by the media and by regulators. He is the author of the PwC publication "Money Laundering - Controls and Prevention". ^top
	Elizabeth Goodbody, Head of AML Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers Indonesia Elizabeth is the Head of AML Services for PwC Indonesia. She specialises in the areas of forensic accounting in anti-money laundering and fraud investigations plus fraud and anti money laundering prevention and control. She was also the Director in charge of the KYC Banking Compliance Review, Indonesia (2002) which involved review and comment on the extent of compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Suspicious Transaction Reporting (STR) and related AML requirements in Indonesia by the regulator (Bank Indonesia) and commercial banks. ^top
	Mahboob Mahmood, CEO Knowledge Platform, Singapore, eminent Asian lawyer Mahboob is the CEO of Knowledge Platform from 2000. He was formerly a partner at the international law firm of Sidley, Austin Brown & Wood where during 11 years he handled with corporate finance transactions in the firm's New York office. Mahboob has broad industry experience and has been lead counsel for complex transactions in the financial services, high tech, telecommunications, utilities and transportation sectors with an aggregate transaction value in excess of $15 billion. In 1998 and 1999, the International Financial Law Review selected Mahboob as one of Asia's leading lawyers. ^top
	Michael J Thomas, Group CEO, STB Software Systems, UK Michael is a member of the founding team of STB Systems from 1985, and is now Group CEO of the company, which specialises in software solutions to address compliance issues in the financial markets. He has previously worked in the fields of systems security with Chemical Bank and computer audit with Chase Manhattan. Whilst leading STB's international expansion, with offices now in London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore, he remains close to the business issues surrounding financial compliance and anti money laundering in particular. He has a deep understanding of the application of IT as a part of an institution's overall anti money laundering programme, and is frequently quoted in leading international publications, as well as appearing on CNBC-Asia. ^top
	Nigel Morris-Cotterill, Counter-Money Laundering Strategist, The Anti Money Laundering Network Nigel is a leading counter-money laundering strategist and heads The Anti Money Laundering Network. He is editor in chief of World Money Laundering Report and its associated information services, he had the idea that became Risk Values, a profiling tool to identify those with the predilection to commit financial crime and he has been providing training to bankers and others since 1994. He is a Solicitor in practice in England but lives and works in Kuala Lumpur. ^top
	Kevin Zervos, Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions, Department of Justice and Head of Criminal Appeals Unit, Hong Kong SAR Kevin is a specialist in the prosecution of white collar crime. In 1984, he worked in Australia with the Special Prosecutor's office responsible for the investigation and prosecution of large scale revenue frauds. From 1985, he was Senior Assistant Director of the office of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions at the Melbourne and Sydney Offices where he was in charge of the Major Fraud Section. From 1989 to 1992, he was General Counsel to the Independent Commission Against Corruption in New South Wales. Kevin has conducted the full ambit of trials and appeals in the commercial crime field, including credit card and currency frauds, banking and corporate frauds, infringement of intellectual property, money laundering and corruption. He has presented numerous papers and given talks on the subject of commercial crime and has recently prosecuted some high profile money laundering cases. ^top
	Terence Leung, Superintendent In-charge of the joint Financial Intelligence Unit, Hong Kong Police Force Terence joined the Hong Kong Police Force in 1983. He has worked extensively in wide range of criminal investigations including criminal intelligence, commercial crime and financial investigation. Terence is the head of the Financial Investigation Division of the Narcotics Bureau and also in charge of the operation of the Joint Financial Intelligence Unit. He has been involved in supervising asset recovery and money laundering investigations, setting policy on anti-money laundering, training of financial investigators, giving lectures to financial sectors and professions, ensuring effective running of JFIU. ^top