Fraud trends and best practices to watch in APAC

YOU Jung-Kee is a criminal intelligence officer of INTERPOL Financial Crimes Unit. He has more than 15 years’ experience in Korean National Police and also a lawyer as a member of the Korean Bar since 2013 with a Master’s degree in Law. His main career focuses on investigating financial crimes, holding several roles including the head of Cybercrime Investigation team in Seoul Yongsan Police Station (2017), and the head of International Financial Crime Investigation team in Korean Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency (2015). He has been invited to speak at various international conferences, including the Financial Intelligence Analyst Course (FIAC), Fraud.Analytics.AI conference(Netguardians), International Conference on Illegal Gambling(ICIG). Recently he spoke at the Council of Europe Webinar about the impact of Covid-19 on financial crimes and he co-organized the ‘4th global conference on cryptocurrency and criminal finances’ with Europol and the Basel Institute on Governance. He is passionate about fighting financial crimes, and believes that it can be done through enhanced network among relevant stakeholders.

Peter Marini heads up the NetGuardians Asia Pacific organisation as the Managing Director. With more than 20 years’ experience in tech sales in mature and emerging markets, Peter draws on his excellent technical knowledge and a deep understanding of customer journeys to advise financial institutions about fraud prevention and mitigation. Throughout his career, Peter has focused on helping organizations overcome business challenges, from securing their environment to improving their relationships with customers.

Brent is an Associate Director in the Forensic Services practice of PwC Hong Kong. He advises on the prevention and investigation of financial crime and money laundering across the established financial services sector and emerging digital finance industry. He specialises in leading complex multi-jurisdictional mandates with a focus on anti-money laundering, fraud and forensic accounting examinations. Brent has been involved in a range of forensic accounting investigations involving criminal and civil allegations of employee fraud, misconduct, asset misappropriation and financial statement fraud. Brent’s financial crime compliance and regulatory experience has included the development and evaluation of anti-money laundering policies and procedures, regulatory-driven examination of sanctions practices, a study of industry-wide regional onboarding practices, remediation and regulatory response initiatives, as well as the assessment and development of anti-bribery and corruption policies.

Nav is Managing Director of Synpulse in Au, NZ and the Pacific. Nav’s background is in strategy and transformation roles in Financial Services and Consulting companies. Prior to joining Synpulse, Nav scaled out the Digital Strategy and CX consulting practice at Infosys Consulting. Nav also teaches at the University of Sydney on topics around Tech Innovation and sits on a number of startup advisory boards. Nav has a Bachelor of Computer Science from University of Sydney, Master of Business from University of Newcastle and a MBA from INSEAD. When not working, Nav is either taxiing his 3 kids around to their various activities, tinkering on his cars or playing golf.

Dennis Cheah has been the Executive Director, Head of Fraud Risk Management at UOB for the last 16 months responsible for the fraud management across the UOB group. Prior to that he spent 24 years at HSBC, with his last role focused on Security and Fraud Risk where he led a team of 43 people across fraud, information security, business continuity management and physical security.

YOU Jung-Kee is a criminal intelligence officer of INTERPOL Financial Crimes Unit. He has more than 15 years’ experience in Korean National Police and also a lawyer as a member of the Korean Bar since 2013 with a Master’s degree in Law. His main career focuses on investigating financial crimes, holding several roles including the head of Cybercrime Investigation team in Seoul Yongsan Police Station (2017), and the head of International Financial Crime Investigation team in Korean Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency (2015). He has been invited to speak at various international conferences, including the Financial Intelligence Analyst Course (FIAC), Fraud.Analytics.AI conference(Netguardians), International Conference on Illegal Gambling(ICIG). Recently he spoke at the Council of Europe Webinar about the impact of Covid-19 on financial crimes and he co-organized the ‘4th global conference on cryptocurrency and criminal finances’ with Europol and the Basel Institute on Governance. He is passionate about fighting financial crimes, and believes that it can be done through enhanced network among relevant stakeholders.

Brent is an Associate Director in the Forensic Services practice of PwC Hong Kong. He advises on the prevention and investigation of financial crime and money laundering across the established financial services sector and emerging digital finance industry. He specialises in leading complex multi-jurisdictional mandates with a focus on anti-money laundering, fraud and forensic accounting examinations. Brent has been involved in a range of forensic accounting investigations involving criminal and civil allegations of employee fraud, misconduct, asset misappropriation and financial statement fraud. Brent’s financial crime compliance and regulatory experience has included the development and evaluation of anti-money laundering policies and procedures, regulatory-driven examination of sanctions practices, a study of industry-wide regional onboarding practices, remediation and regulatory response initiatives, as well as the assessment and development of anti-bribery and corruption policies.

Nav is Managing Director of Synpulse in Au, NZ and the Pacific. Nav’s background is in strategy and transformation roles in Financial Services and Consulting companies. Prior to joining Synpulse, Nav scaled out the Digital Strategy and CX consulting practice at Infosys Consulting. Nav also teaches at the University of Sydney on topics around Tech Innovation and sits on a number of startup advisory boards. Nav has a Bachelor of Computer Science from University of Sydney, Master of Business from University of Newcastle and a MBA from INSEAD. When not working, Nav is either taxiing his 3 kids around to their various activities, tinkering on his cars or playing golf.

Dennis Cheah has been the Executive Director, Head of Fraud Risk Management at UOB for the last 16 months responsible for the fraud management across the UOB group. Prior to that he spent 24 years at HSBC, with his last role focused on Security and Fraud Risk where he led a team of 43 people across fraud, information security, business continuity management and physical security.

Michael is a prominent figure in the financial services industry in Asia. He is the founder and CEO of Hubbis, a renowned provider of intelligence and connectivity for the Asian wealth management industry. With a depth of experience and expertise, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the industry for over 30 years, becoming a leading industry presence in the events, professional development, and publishing space in the region. Hubbis is a multi-generational family-owned and managed business.

He has been actively involved in the Asia-Pacific region since 1993. And has lived in Asia since 1995, holding positions in Hong Kong, Sydney, and Singapore. 

For over 14-years, Hubbis has established itself as the gold standard media and events brand in wealth management thought leadership in Asia. Each year providing a very large body of cutting-edge editorial and sponsored content, organizing top-flight events. During that time Hubbis has become the platform of choice for many high-profile C-suite leaders to communicate their vision of the Asian wealth management.

Before his involvement with Hubbis, Michael founded Pacific Prospect in 2002, a financial services media company. Under his leadership, the company achieved significant success and was subsequently acquired by global business-to-business publisher Incisive Media in 2006. Michael continued to serve as the CEO of Pacific Prospect until October 2008. Prior to his entrepreneurial ventures, Michael garnered 5 years of experience in financial markets publishing.

His career in this field began in 1993 when he joined Euromoney Publications as the publisher of the quarterly magazine, International Bond Investor. In 1995, Michael joined Thomson Financial Services (now owned by LSEG) and spearheaded the conception and launch of Finance Asia magazine. During his tenure as Managing Director of Finance Asia, he also initiated the Asian Debt Review, Asian Private Capital Magazine, and the Finance Asia Conference Business. In 1997, he founded FIA Limited, further expanding his contributions to the financial publishing industry.

Born in North Wales, Michael served as the head boy of St David's College Llandudno. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Cardiff University. Beyond his professional endeavours, Michael is a family-oriented individual and is happily married with three children: Reanna, Garett, and Tarryn.