It is the Hong Kong Chapter’s mission to strive for excellence in preventing money laundering and the financing of terrorism, by creating a forum in Hong Kong for training and the exchange of ideas within the financial services community.

Please email us at HKChapter@acams.org for questions regarding chapter membership or events.

Kyran McCarthy, CAMS
Co-Chair
KPMG

Kyran McCarthy (CAMS) is the head of KPMG’s Anti-Money Laundering and Sanctions Services practice in China. He has been based in Hong Kong for over 35 years and he has more than 16 years experience in financial advisory services. 

During his career he has led major regional anti-money laundering and sanctions investigations and he has also led multiple due diligence exercises on large IPO and M&A transactions in China, Hong Kong and Macau.

Kyran speaks frequently about anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, bribery and corruption risks at regional seminars and conferences and he regularly conducts training for global financial and gaming institutions throughout the region.

email: kyran.mccarthy@kpmg.com

Chris Wilson, CAMS
Co-Chair
Deloitte & Touche

Chris is a Partner at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services and the AML & Sanctions Services Leader for Hong Kong and China. He is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) with 18 years of law enforcement experience in UK, Bermuda and Hong Kong involving the investigation of complex money laundering and white collar crimes and the enforcement of Hong Kong’s Money laundering and Asset Tracing/recovery legislation.

Mr. Wilson is the former Head of Money Laundering Prevention for GE Money in Asia and APAC Regional AML leader for UBS Investment Bank. He has international experience outside Asia having served as Head of Group Compliance for Bank of Butterfield in Bermuda and in a regional AML role for JP Morgan in New York. Chris has extensive AML and sanctions consulting, and due diligence experience throughout Asia Pacific region.

email: chriswilson@deloitte.com.hk

Justin Baldacchino, CAMS
Secretary
National Australia Bank

Justin Baldacchino is the Head of Compliance and Risk Governance, Asia at National Australia Bank, one of Australia's Big Four Banks., based in Hong Kong. Mr. Baldacchino joined National Australia Bank in 2002.He has spent the last 10 years in the Risk area of the bank focusing on regulatory interpretation, liaison and implementation, globally.

Mr. Baldacchino holds a Bachelor degree in Economics from La Trobe University, Postgraduate Diploma in Management and MBA from Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne. He is also a Member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS), Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and a member of the Golden Key society.

email: Justin.Baldacchino@nabasia.com

Wesley Tam
Co-Secretary
Prudential Corporation

Wesley is the Head of Anti-Money Laundering of the Asia Region of Prudential Corporation Asia since 2008. Before joining Prudential, he worked for the Forensics Department of two Big 4 accounting firms, Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Wesley is an experienced investigator where he has over 10 years of criminal investigation experience with the New South Wales Police Force (Australia).

During his time in the public sector, Wesley undertook numerous investigations of organized and complex financial crime including Commercial Fraud and Anti-Money Laundering.

Whilst in the private sector, Wesley has extensive experience in various forensic engagements including fraud reviews, Anti-Money Laundering and licensing compliance programs. These cases cover a wide variety of industrial, financial and commercial activities throughout Asia.

email: wesley.tam@prudential.com.hk

Scott Burton
Treasurer
Credit Suisse

Scott Burton is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the General Counsel Division, based in Hong Kong. Mr. Burton is the Asia Pacific Regional Head for Anti Money Laundering, Anti-Corruption and Sanctions Compliance. He is also Global Co-Head of Client Identification Compliance. Mr. Burton joined Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. He has been based in Hong Kong since 2002, having also worked for the Bank in Sydney, Australia. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Burton worked in Management Consulting and Investment Banking in both Australia and the United Kingdom.

Mr. Burton holds Bachelor degrees in both Arts and Economics from the University of Queensland and a Post Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia. He is also a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia.

email: scott.burton@credit-suisse.com

Hue Dang, CAMS
Co-Treasurer
ACAMS

Hue is the Head of Asia of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (“ACAMS”) based in Hong Kong. Prior to joining ACAMS in 2008, she had more than 15 years experience in banking and finance.

She was previously a Bank Examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Manager with Barclays Capital’s Investment Banking Division in Singapore, Director for Business Development at Citibank’s Global Consumer Banking Group in Singapore and Director of Business Development, Asia/Pacific, for Thomson Financial in Hong Kong.

Ms. Dang holds educational degrees from Massachusetts, USA, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors from Amherst College and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

email: HDang@acams.org

Rod Francis
Membership Director
Citigroup

Rod is a career Compliance professional, and is currently the APAC Regional Head of AML, Sanctions and Anti-Bribery Compliance at Citi across all geographic and business lines. Prior to this role Rod was the Asia Pacific Regional Head of AML and Sanctions Compliance at UBS.

Amongst other Compliance roles for Financial Institutions in London, Rod was also previously the Regional Head of AML in EMEA for both Credit Suisse Securities and Morgan Stanley, incorporating Central Compliance and Operations Compliance for each respectively.

email: rod.francis@citi.com

Moray Taylor-Smith
Co-Membership Director
Fidelity Investments

Moray is Head of Compliance Services, Asia Pacific, for Fidelity Investments. His responsibilities include code of ethics, AML, corporate security, operational risk and oversight services for the Asia region. His previous experience with Fidelity has focused on Asia, and includes roles as Head of Code of Ethics and Oversight Services, Head of Business Compliance, and Head of Corporate Security and Regional MLRO. In addition, he spent more than 8 years with Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, in various roles, including Regional VP for Asia, Senior Managing Director for North Asia, and Managing Director for Taiwan. Prior to Asia, Moray has more than a decade of experience in South Africa, with the South African Government and the South African Navy. His educational background includes a MSc in Security Management from the University of Leicester, UK.

email: moray.taylor-smith@fil.com

David Cope
Programming Director
Morgan Stanley

Mr. David Cope is an Executive Director in Morgan Stanley’s Legal and Compliance Department and based in Hong Kong. Mr. Cope is the Regional Coverage Manager for Anti-Money Laundering and Sanction Compliance issues in the Asia Pacific Region including Japan. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2008, Mr. Cope was a Detective Chief Inspector in the Hong Kong Police Force. His Police service included postings to the Commercial Crime Bureau, Organised Crime and Triad Bureau, Joint Financial Intelligence Unit and Narcotics Bureau.

During his Police career Mr. Cope specialized in the investigation of financial crime, money laundering, and the restraint and confiscation of the proceeds of crime, and he was involved as lead investigator in the successful prosecution of a number of landmark financial crime and money laundering cases in both the District and High Court of Hong Kong.

Mr. Cope was, and continues to be involved and in developing laws and policies to improve Hong Kong’s Anti-Money Laundering regime. Mr. Cope holds an LLB and a Masters in Criminology, is trained as a FATF Evaluator, and has lectured widely on Anti -Money Laundering and Sanction Compliance issues in the Asia Pacific region.

email: David.Cope@morganstanley.com

Al Demeter, CAMS
Co-Programming Director
Citigroup

Mr. Demeter is a former Criminal Investigator of the US Treasury Department, Criminal Investigation Division where he served as a Special Agent and in various management roles. He was the Special Agent in Charge of the Asia Pacific Region, assigned to the US Consulate in Hong Kong, where he acted as the US Treasury, Criminal Investigation Division Attaché prior to his retirement, covering responsibility for the Asia/Pacific region.

During his 28 year career as Special Agent Mr. Demeter conducted and managed numerous financial crimes and money laundering investigations involving narcotics trafficking, organized crime, bank fraud, loan fraud, healthcare and labor fraud, tax evasion and many other federal crimes, as well as conducting and managing undercover operations. Mr. Demeter served as a US Delegate to the OECD Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering, and was involved in various projects for the Agency for International Development (AID) relating to financial crimes.

Mr. Demeter instructed in Basic and Advanced Criminal Investigation techniques for financial and other crimes and management of criminal investigations at the Federal Law Enforcement Academy and the International Law Enforcement Academy in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr. Demeter has been with Citigroup Investigations since October 2001 and is the Regional Director of Investigations where he manages and conducts investigations of internal and external financial crimes and other frauds.

email: al.demeter@citi.com

John J. Kartonchik
Communications Director
Maples & Calder

John has worked in an AML/Compliance related capacity for over 12 years in a number of jurisdictions including Canada, Cayman Islands, Dubai and Hong Kong. He has worked for hedge funds and their administrators, prime brokers and banks, investment managers, portfolio and investment management systems companies and most recently with a law firm.

John's current role is with Maples and Calder, one of the largest offshore law firms in the world, with whom he joined in 2008 and is currently the Regional Head of Compliance for the Middle East & Asia based in Hong Kong.

Mr. Kartonchik holds a Postgraduate Diploma in AML/Compliance from The University of Manchester Business School, is licensed by the Dubai Financial Services Authority and is a recognised MLRO with the Law Society of Hong Kong. He is also a Member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS).

email: John.Kartonchik@MAPLESANDCALDER.com

Benny Chan, CAMS
Co-Communications Director
State Street

Benny Chan is the Regional Security Manager of State Street Bank and Trust Company for Asia Pacific.  He joined State Street in September 2011. Prior to joining State Street, Mr. Chan was the Asia Pacific Head of Co-ordination and Intelligence, Security and Risk, Royal Bank of Scotland.  He first joined ABN AMRO Bank in 2006 and then migrated to Royal Bank of Scotland in 2008 through the acquisition by a banking consortium led by RBS.  Prior to that, he was a police officer for Hong Kong Police and throughout his police career, he spent most of his service in the fields of criminal investigation, forensic investigation and criminal intelligence.

Mr. Chan is a Certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CEF).  He was born in Hong Kong and received his high school education in Canada.  He attained his BSc in Biochemistry from Canada and his MSc in Criminal Justice from the United Kingdom.

email: Chan.Benny@StateStreet.com