A new centre set up in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, will expand the use of the yuan settlement in cross-border trade with Africa.
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Priya Kundamal, DTCC
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Alex Orgaz-Barnier, ASIC
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Manesh Samtani, Regulation Asia
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Julia Leong, PwC Singapore
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With over 20 years of experience, she has led core banking, compliance, operational risk, finance transformation programmes, corporate governance, ERM and internal audit reviews. Clients value her partnership to connect the dots and co-create pragmatic, best-fit solutions for them.
Prior to her current role, she has assumed various leadership roles at firm-level as private banking industry lead, banking governance, risk and compliance and digital transformation services leader.
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Carl Hovland, Broadridge
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Ashish Patangiya
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Bradley Maclean, Regulation Asia
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Bradley is a senior Financial Regulation and Risk Management research fellow with The Guangzhou-Nottingham Advanced Institute of Finance and the Guangzhou University of Finance’s Institute of Financial Employment.
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Parsa Khoshdel, Synpulse
Parsa Khoshdel is an accomplished management consulting professional with more than 11 years of experience in private banking and financial services consulting.
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Parsa holds a Masters degree in Financial Engineering from National University of Singapore and is currently leading the PBWM Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management division for Synpulse in APAC.
Jane Soh, Charles Monat Associates
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Prior to her current role at Charles Monat Associates, Jane served as the Head of Compliance at both AAM Advisory and St. James’s Place Singapore, where she established robust policies and standards that were successfully integrated throughout the organisations.
Throughout her career, Jane has worked closely with advisors and business stakeholders to ensure that clients can easily conduct business with the firm while maintaining compliance with all regulatory requirements.
Osvaldo Berrios, NICE Actimize
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Osvaldo has a bachelor’s degree in Finance from New Jersey City University. He also holds a Series 7, 63, 65, and Life & Health Producers licenses from the state of New Jersey.
Ken Nagatsuka
Mr Ken Nagatsuka is the Executive Director and Head of Payments Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The department is responsible for the authorisation, ongoing supervision and policy-making in relation to payment systems and payment service providers, such as e-money issuers, remittance providers and digital payment token (more commonly known as cryptocurrency) service providers under the Payments Services Act.
Prior to this, Mr Nagatsuka has worked in the field of capital markets regulation for over 15 years, and was previously Head of the Capital Markets Policy Division responsible for policy formulation and reviewing legislation in relation to capital markets and market infrastructures. In his role, he represented MAS on various international committees under the FSB, CPMI and IOSCO, on subjects such as OTC derivatives reforms and financial market infrastructures. Prior to that, he also served in various roles in exchange and clearing house supervisory functions.
Mr Nagatsuka holds both a Bachelor of Business Management and Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Singapore Management University.
Ari Redbord
Ari Redbord is Head of Legal and Government Affairs at TRM Labs, a blockchain analytics company. Prior to joining TRM Labs, he served as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary and the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence at the United States Department of Treasury. In this capacity, he worked with teams from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and other Treasury and interagency components on issues related to sanctions, the Bank Secrecy Act, cryptocurrency, and anti-money laundering strategies.
Previously, Mr. Redbord served as a Senior Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, where he investigated and prosecuted cases related to cryptocurrency, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, export control, child exploitation and human trafficking. He has received numerous awards from FinCEN, the FBI, and the United States Attorney’s Office, including the Attorney General’s Award for leading an interagency task force dedicated to prosecuting those who abuse and exploit children.
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