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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.

Royston has over 23 years in civil and criminal litigation, commercial and corporate legal, regulatory compliance and risk management. He has held leadership roles in Legal, Compliance and Risk, with a specialization in financial services.

Royston’s prior experience includes being a prosecutor, a judge, and roles with DBS Bank, General Electric, PayPal, Wirecard, Agoda, Booking Holdings, Mastercard, and fintech startup EMQ Inc. 

In addition to criminal and corporate trial experience, Royston has negotiated multibillion dollar fund distribution agreements, drafted commercial contracts between e-payment giants, and participated in convention negotiations at the United Nations. He has also guided companies through regulatory and external audits and led the development and implementation of AML systems in multinational companies.

Royston is presently Head of Global Regulatory Strategy and a director in the COO’s office for Sea Limited, which holds Shopee, Garena and various digital financial services under the SeaMoney label.