In Focus: Insights from Singapore $2.8 Billion Money Laundering Probe

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.

Mark Nuttall is a director within the APAC & MENA regions for Thomson Reuters. With an extensive counter-crime and risk background and over 20 years’ experience in global risk management, anti-financial crime, and international security, Mark is a renowned expert in his field.

Mark holds an MA in International Security, is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), Certified Protection Professional (CPP), and has managed corporate projects through his qualification as a Project Management Professional (PMP).

All the above is compounded by his professional expertise base as a risk, security, and geopolitics expert, as quantified by the Global Institute against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC), and published works of academia.

As an active member of Singapore Institute of Directors, Mark offers his deep corporate understanding to peers and advises businesses on navigating complex supply chain and risk assessment ventures. He is a fellow and member of many other associations and institutes, both in terms of corporate activity, as well as security, geopolitics, military matters, and AML/Compliance, and so is well placed to advise on this basis

Julian has over 20 years of financial crime experience gained from working in Australia, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Julian’s focus is on financial crime strategy and operations and has held various senior compliance roles at HSBC, Merrill Lynch, Standard Chartered Bank, Jefferies International and Westpac.  He holds a MBA from the University of QLD and a Criminal Justice Degree from Griffith University along with numerous other qualifications. Julian is a member of the GRC Institute and a Fellow of the International Compliance Association.