Webinar

Reduce Your Exposure To Fraud Risks: Best Practices From Industry Experts

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  Sara Abbasi

  Senior Consultant APAC, Fintrail

  Sara has a background in anti-financial crime operations, spanning both FinTech and traditional banking sectors. She specialises in audits, SAR reporting, investigations, and transaction monitoring. Based in Singapore, Sara is also FINTRAIL’s APAC expert. Prior to joining FINTRAIL, Sara worked in senior anti-financial crime compliance positions at a Big Four consultancy. She has also worked in AML investigations and as a compliance analyst at a global bank and a fast-growing FinTech. Drawing from her hands-on experience in the UK, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Sara offers expert financial crime compliance advisory services for a diverse range of financial products and services. She has collaborated with FinTechs, RegTechs and established banks, aiding their technology overhauls and crafting tailored, risk-based anti-financial crime strategies for both new-to-market and existing offerings. With her extensive product knowledge including banking-as-a-service, cryptocurrency, payments and merchant acquiring, across different regions, Sara innovatively leverages technology to enhance financial crime defences, ensure regulatory adherence, and optimise operational efficiency.

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  Kai Asano

  Manager, Cacco Inc./YCP Solidiance

  Kai has over six years of experience in data analytics/science and business operation reform. He is responsible in the strategic expansion and execution for fraud detection solutions in Southeast Asia. His involvement in projects spans across a wide range of industries, including IT, Retail, Ecommerce, Fintech and Telecommunications.

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  George NP

  Head of Business Development APAC, Sumsub

  With over 10 years experience of global software sales in virtualization and know your customer, George is a keen enthusiast of exploring the ways advanced technology improves people's lives.

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  Jess Patel

  Head of Product - Transaction Monitoring, Sumsub

  As a Product Owner/Manager, Jess is passionate about creating innovative and effective solutions to solve real problems for people and businesses. Jess has over eight years of experience in product management, with a focus on fincrime risk management, transaction monitoring, and KYC in the FinTech industry.

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  Vijay Bharadwaj

  Senior Consultant, Ingenia Consultants

  Vijay has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Vijay spent a significant part of his career with a global fund management company working across finance, risk management and governance in different countries and, ultimately, as Regional Head of Operational Risk for APAC. He then moved into payment services, where he developed the compliance program and managed compliance function as Head of Compliance and Regional Head of Compliance respectively for two payment services companies dealing with fiat and cryptocurrencies.