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Colin has extensive experience in assisting financial services companies across the globe to improve and bring cost efficiencies to their compliance and operational functions through the deployment of new technology. With 40 years of industry experience and over 20 years in Asia in various executive roles, he now heads up Pelican’s Business Development and Sales activities in the Asia Pacific region. Pelican has been one of the industry innovators in providing Artificial Intelligence solutions for Financial Crime Compliance and Payments processing for almost 25 years and count many of the global banks as their partners and clients.

Mr. Chris Cheung is a partner in Deloitte China specializes in Financial Crime Compliance, AML and Analytics. Over the last 17 years, Mr. Cheung was involved in a wide range of projects with national and sectoral coverage, wide variety of product/ service as well as scale and depth. Over the last 15 years, Mr. Cheung has involved in a wide range of projects such as AML risk rating model, risk assessments, Sanctions look back projects in HK, Macau and China. He is also a frequent speaker to professional and regulatory bodies. Mr. Cheung has led the effort in assisting key government agencies on their AML / CFT Risk Assessments for a jurisdiction and has been involved with the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) Sanctions retrospective investigation. He has implemented a global solution and addressed local data challenges, and has assisted the local branch of the global banks perform independent review to evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of their AML / CFT policy, procedures, systems and controls.

Samantha Pelosi joined BAFT in 2016 as a Senior Vice President to define its payments and innovation strategies and increase its visibility in financial crime compliance. Samantha currently focuses on application of innovative technologies like blockchain in banking, faster payments systems, and reversing the worldwide decline in correspondent banking relationships. Samantha came to BAFT from the payments from the Federal Reserve Board. As a manager in the payments systems division, Pelosi formulated U.S. public policy and led all initiatives related to retail payments. In the consumer protection division, she wrote regulations implementing the Dodd-Frank Act at the height of the 2008-2009 financial crisis as a senior attorney. Before the Federal Reserve, Pelosi served as global head of regulatory compliance at Travelex Global Business Payments (now Western Union Business Solutions).

Ms. Radish Singh has 20+ years of experience in the field of financial services regulations, compliance, anti-bribery and corruption, conduct of business and financial crime (AML/Sanctions). She currently leads Deloitte’s South East Asia Financial Crime Compliance practice. Her clientele includes major global and local Banks in Singapore. Broadly, her experience includes regulatory, business conduct policy formulation, legislative drafting, anti-money laundering, outsourcing, implementing anti-bribery and corruption policy, advising on data protection matters, establishing corporate governance codes, stock exchange supervision/rules and securities laws. Ms. Singh has been actively presenting on global regulatory reform as a result of the G20 initiatives to major banks and institutions in Singapore as well as in various public forums. In prior roles, she led an engagement with the Association of Banks in Singapore to revise and modernize their AML guidelines for the banking industry in Singapore. She has advised the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore on revising their compliance and AML industry standards modules.