AFC Trends and Typologies: Uncovering Fraud Schemes from a Law Enforcement Lens

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 wealth of AFC global banking experience that spans Standard Chartered, JP Morgan, Clearstream Banking, UBS AG, ABN Amro and Bank of America. Most recently she 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 business advisory, project management, governance, risk management, and the overarching financial crime compliance framework.

Samson Leo is currently the Chief Legal Officer of Fazz Financial Group and StraitsX (formerly Xfers), which are both high-growth “Fintech 250” companies. Since his time as co-founder and Chief Legal Officer in Xfers, he has grown Xfers from a 3-person start-up to a regional company with more than 200 people across Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam and Philippines, and now more than 600 people in the merger to form Fazz Financial Group. Today, he leads group legal & regulatory matters, across financial regulations, financial crime & compliance, AML/CFT, and strategic commercial deals. Additionally, Samson engages with MAS on the regulatory framework and changes for the Payment Services Act, most recently for the upcoming MAS regulated-stablecoin framework, for which 3 subsidiaries under the StraitsX brand have received MAS Major Payment Institution licences. 

Under Samson’s leadership, Fazz (StraitsX, formerly Xfers) has been recognised by the Ministry of Home Affairs, and has also received 8 police awards to date for continued efforts in fighting cybercrime. Samson was also awarded the NUS Outstanding Young Alumni Award and the LexisNexis 40 Under 40, with him and his team coming in as finalists for 3 categories of the ALB Southeast Asia Law Awards (2023,2024) and the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Asia Pacific (2024).

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Timothy Ng joined the Singapore Police Force (SPF) in 2014 and is currently an Officer-in-Charge at the Anti-Scam Centre of the Commercial Affairs Department’s Anti-Scam Command. He leads a team of Investigation Officers in processing scam reports, carrying out fund tracing, and conducting victim intervention. DSP Ng works closely with industry stakeholders on scam-fighting strategies and  policy, driving initiatives to achieve organisational goals in tackling scams. 

Holding a Bachelor of Laws and qualified as an Advocate and Solicitor, DSP Ng is well versed in the legal processes and landscape of Singapore. He has performed roles in SPF such as Operations Management and Policy Officer at

Juon Qiang is the Head of Group Investigations at DBS, overseeing Anti-Scam and Anti-Mule operations, internal fraud investigations, Financial Advisors investigations and financial crime intelligence.