AFC in Practice: A Risk-Based Approach to Banking Nonprofit Organizations

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.

Grace Chong heads the Financial Regulatory practice in Drew & Napier LLC. She has extensive experience advising on crossborder and complex regulatory matters, including licensing and conduct of business requirements, regulatory investigations, and regulatory change. A former in-house counsel at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), she regularly interacts with key regulators, is closely involved in regional regulatory reform initiatives and has led discussions with regulators on behalf of the financial services industry. Grace also brings a strategic outlook from an in-house perspective having previously been a counsel in the Global Internal Investigations Group at the Hong Kong headquarters of a large leading multinational bank.

Grace is an elected board member of the Singapore Association of Cryptocurrency Enterprises and Startups (ACCESS), has worked with the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) to draft best practices for the development of fintech and for digital asset exchanges, and sits on the Singapore Board of Women in Payments and the AML Committee of Global Digital Finance. She is also a Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (ACAMS) with specialist expertise in sanctions, the application of the travel rule and the development of AML programmes.

With over 15 years of experience, John has worked in various Risk Management and Financial Crime Compliance roles both in the 1st and 2nd line of defence. Currently leading the Asia Group PEP and Sensitive Clients team within the High Risk Clients Unit at Standard Chartered Bank. Prior to joining Standard Chartered Bank, John worked in Bank of Singapore as a Business Compliance Director supporting the Global Market Head for Philippines, Australia, Indonesia and Thailand.