Caryn
Leong
Caryn is the Regional Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Director – APAC for ACAMS, where she is the lead English speaking SME practitioner on AML and Financial Crime Compliance across the APAC region. Working closely with APAC and international colleagues, Caryn plays a key role in shaping ACAMS priorities, offerings, and activities across the APAC region.
Caryn brings to ACAMS a diverse global banking experience in large financial institutions such as Standard Chartered, Clearstream Banking, JP Morgan and UBS AG, to name a few. She has worked in global, regional and country teams and have led global implementation of processes across teams in multiple jurisdictions. Before joining ACAMS, Caryn was the Head of Financial Crime Compliance Controls, Surveillance Excellence with Standard Chartered Bank, where she was responsible for the end-to-end process, governance, and risk management of the group wide alert disposition process. Caryn’s expertise covers Client Due Diligence, financial crime compliance business advisory, project management, governance, risk management, and the overarching financial crime compliance framework.