Masterclass: Anti-Financial Crime Considerations when Doing Business in China

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.

Zhang Yin (Adam) is familiar with domestic and foreign financial crime related regulations and practices. He has served as the head of anti-money laundering and financial crime compliance for wholesale business of the head office of a foreign bank, responsible for financial crime risk control, system process design and strategy development related to anti-money laundering, sanctions/export control, anti-fraud, anti-tax evasion and payment transparency. When serving as the head of compliance for wholesale business, he focused on and provided compliance consultation and risk assessment for corporate clients affected by sanctions and export controls and was invited by the Anti-Money Laundering Bureau to share topics related to financial crimes and sanctions compliance with major state-owned banks.

Zhang Yin served as a senior manager at the Big Four accounting firms, assisting financial institutions including banks, insurance, and asset management to establish and improve anti-financial crime compliance frameworks, systems, processes, and systems, and assisting financial institutions to carry out a series of financial crime process rectification. Provides project management services including regulatory compliance, customer due diligence, sanctions, transaction monitoring, list scanning, and unsupervised projects. He also assisted a city commercial bank listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to build an anti-money laundering compliance framework, focusing on institutional risk assessment, customer due diligence and risk assessment procedures, transaction monitoring and due diligence system improvement. The project was highly recognized by local regulator.

During his tenure in financial institutions and accounting firms, Zhang Yin was invited to provide sharing and training for a series of financial institutions and industry associations, including interbank associations, HSBC, Bank of China, Taiping Insurance, etc.