The Asian Bankers Association (ABA) would like to invite you to participate in the Fraud and Financial Crime Asia 2025 forum to be held on 15 May 2025 at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Center in Singapore.
Organized by Regulation Asia, the annual Fraud & Financial Crime Asia forum remains a vital gathering for public and private sector leaders, experts, and stakeholders to address the evolving threats and regulatory challenges facing financial institutions. This event has become a cornerstone for fostering collaboration, offering a unique platform to share insights, discuss emerging risks, and explore innovative solutions crucial to protecting the integrity of financial systems across Asia.
Providing an invaluable opportunity to engage with opinion leaders, hear from industry experts, and contribute to building a more resilient and secure financial sector, the forum can foster a more informed, responsive approach to the challenges of financial crime, ensuring that the financial services ecosystem remains robust, transparent, and secure for all.
KEY THEMES
The Forum will focus on the following Key Themes:
- Regulatory shifts and geopolitics;
- Payments and digital ecosystems;
- Bridging traditional & Token native;
- Ghost laundering & Shadow networks;
- Capital markets & Complex financial crimes;
- Synthetic identifies, deepfakes and non-face to face KYC/KYB;
- Proliferation financing and sanctions;
- Entity risks & Complex structures; and
- Cyber: Laundering and Financial security.
AGENDA
08:15 - 09:00 Registration & Networking
09:00 - 09:05 Opening Remarks
09:05 - 09:15 Regulatory Keynote
09:15 - 10:10 The Marina Bay Dialogue: Fraud, Scams, and Geopolitical Tensions - Navigating Singapore's Cyber, Fraud and Financial Crime Threat Landscape in a Fractured Globe
10:10 - 11:00 The Regional Dialogue: Global Risk & Regulation - Beyond the Usual Suspects in an Increasingly Complex World
11:00 - 11:20 Networking Break
11:20 - 11:55 Dialogue: Together We Stand - Perspectives on Progress in Regulatory and Policy Approaches Future of Financial Intelligence Sharing
11:55 - 12:30 Panel: Japan’s ML/TF Threat Landscape - A Discussion on Regulatory and Policing Priorities
12:00 - 13:30 VIP Lunch Roundtable - Hosted by Quantexa
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch & Networking Break
Stream 1 - Banking & Payments Stream
13:30 - 13:40 Regulatory Keynote: Crisis of Trust
13:40 - 14:10 Dialogue: Scam Empire - Taking on the Fraud Ecosystem
14:10 - 14:30 Threat Talk: From Illegal Gambling to Crime as a Service - Understanding Organised Crime Business Lines
14:30 - 15:00 Dialogue: Targeting Mule Networks with Precision - Payments Risk Scoring, Fraud, and AI, and the 2026 World Cup
15:00 - 15:20 Networking Break (Joint)
15:20 - 15:40 Threat Talk: Payments & Ecosystems - Gaming Communities, Radicalization, and Terror Financing
15:40 - 16:10 Dialogue: From Golden Passports to Proof of Address - Redefining Customer Risk and Ensuring Information Integrity in the Age of AI
16:10 - 16:30 Threat Talk: Deepfakes, AI and Underground Malware/Crime-as-a-Service Markets
Stream 2 - Entity Risks, Complex Structures, and KYB
13:30 - 13:40 Regulatory Keynote: FATF Grey List, Truths & Myths
13:40 - 14:10 Dialogue: Risk-Sensitive Execution - Sources of Wealth, Shell Companies, and the Offshore Landscape
14:10 - 14:30 Threat Talk: Navigating Shadows - The Evolving Landscape of TBML, Shadow Supply Chains and Underground Networks
14:30 - 15:00 Dialogue: Towers of Cash - Unpacking Money Laundering through Real Estate and other DNFBPs
15:00 - 15:20 Networking Break (Joint)
15:20 - 15:40 Threat Talk: Criminal Connections - Financial Flows, Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Exposed
15:40 - 16:10 Dialogue: Bribe, Swindle or Steal - When is Corruption Not Corruption?
16:10 - 16:30 Threat Talk: In Conversation with Australia’s New Australian Sanction Office
16:30 - 16:40 Closing Remarks
For more details about the Forum, please visit their website HERE.
We are pleased to inform you that participating ABA members will benefit from a 15% discount from the listed price. Interested ABA members, please write to the ABA Secretariat at aba@aba.org.tw to obtain the discount code.
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