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Solving the KYC Puzzle for
Funds + Fund Administrators

Funds and Fund Administrators need to understand why their industry is high risk for banks - especially with vulnerabilities to financial crime - and, more importantly, how they can comply with Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations to alleviate this risk. 

This session will provide tactical and actionable insights on and frameworks that can be used for risk assessments, best practices for KYC collection and screening to get started quickly, and the ideal processes that help with controlling your own legal entity structure and responding to the countless KYC questionnaires from banks.

Event Details
Online
Held
Thursday 14 March 2024
9:00 to 10:00 CET

"Sanctions definitely come into play quickly... If you don't have the right infrastructure, technology, resources, the right team, how can you implement it, monitor it, report on it?"


"So in our world, in the Funds world... as a director, I have the ultimate liability and responsibility as a board member, and I have to make sure that - to the best of my ability - the underlying parties to the fund, the fund manager, the fund administrator and the parties within that fund are able to discharge their duties in the manner that we need from the fund's perspective. So ongoing monitoring. Ongoing, reporting.

Do we have the right providers in the fund - based on the strategy of the fund, based on the domicile of the investors - can the custodians, the brokers, the fund admins... Can they move quickly when sanctions and these things come into place?"

- Martin O'Regan

About the speakers

Mona Zoet
Founder
Regpac Revolution
LinkedIn
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Mona is an experienced Risk Management / Compliance professional with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry within top tier financial institutions around the globe.

She is a frequent guest speaker at prominent physical and online events. An impactful thought-leader in the RegTech space, Mona has published articles in "Reg Tech Black Book series" as well as various other public / private programs + initiated the APAC RegTech Global Summit - an online conference of thought-leaders for networking and educational / community building purposes.


Willie Chang
Chief Operating Officer
Alta
LinkedIn
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Willie Chang is the Chief Operating Officer of Alta and heads Alta’s exchange
business. He has twenty years of experience spanning fintech, investment banking
and management consulting.
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He is also currently a member of the Digital Financing Subcommittee at the
Singapore Fintech Association and contributes actively to educating and promoting best practices in digital financing in the market.
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Previously, Willie was the Head of Strategic Planning and Business Development at
Mizuho Securities in Singapore and also held management positions at Lehman
Brothers and Deloitte Consulting.

He has an MBA with Honours from the Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern University.
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Martin O’Regan
Founder and Managing Director
Solas
‍LinkedIn
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Martin O’Regan is the founder and managing director of Solas, providing truly independent directorship service, based in, and privately owned in Asia.

With over 25 years of experience in investments funds and other alternative investment vehicles, Martin has held senior roles for Deutsche, Citi, Apex and UBS at Bermuda, Dubai, Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Martin is licensed as a director with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA).

He is also Chairman of the Singapore Fund Directors Association (SFDA).


Anders Meinert Jørgensen
CEO and Co-Founder
Avallone
LinkedIn
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A successful corporate banker for +20 years, Anders fought financial crime first-hand while leading compliance divisions in two of the largest banks in the nordics.

Realizing that the industry is hindered by a lack of efficient tools, Anders co-founded Avallone to give companies and financial institutions a world-class platform that empowers them to combat financial crime.