Fraud & Financial Crime Malaysia 2026
Agenda
9 September 2026, Kuala Lumpur
08:15 - 09:00
Registration and Networking
Registration and coffee on arrival. Please pickup your badges and network with fellow attendees.
09:00 - 09:05
Opening Remarks
Regulation Asia
Nick Wakefield
Co-founder & Commercial Director
Regulation Asia
09:05 - 09:25
Opening Keynote: Fraud as the Front End of Laundering Risk
This keynote speaker will examine how fraud increasingly serves as the entry point for money laundering, with illicit proceeds moving at speeds that outpace conventional detection, investigation and recovery processes.
Dato’ Sri Shamshun Baharin bin Mohd Jamil
Director General
National Anti-Financial Crime Centre (NFCC)
09:25 - 10:10
Panel: When Value Moves in Minutes: The First-Hour Gap in Scam and Mule Activity
Fraud does not begin with victim loss; it originates in an upstream cybercrime ecosystem of phishing kits, malware-as-a-service and mule recruitment. Once funds are stolen, the critical window for action may be measured in minutes, before proceeds are dispersed through layered mule accounts. This panel examines the high-velocity threat, from the cyber infrastructure that enables scams to the real-time payment rails criminals exploit. It will explore how national coordination, public-private intelligence sharing and internal bank data strategies must evolve to intervene before the money is gone.
Christopher Yap, CFE CAMS
FinCrime Account Lead
Feedzai
Jessica Chuah
GASA Ambassador
Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA)
Rose Anne Bernard
Coordinator, INTERPOL Cybercrime Operations
Interpol
Idzwan Adli Ismail
Principal Assistant Director
National Anti-Financial Crime Centre (NFCC)
Manesh Samtani
Editor
Regulation Asia
(Moderator)
10:10 - 10:30
Fireside Chat: Closing the Response Gap: BNM on Malaysia's Fraud Mitigation Model
This fireside chat will examine Bank Negara Malaysia’s approach to fraud mitigation across prevention, enforcement, education and customer protection. The discussion will focus on how Malaysia’s response infrastructure is evolving, including the role of the National Fraud Portal in improving coordination, response speed and industry outcomes. It will also consider what financial institutions should take from BNM’s expectations on security controls, compensation, customer protection, retail payment risk and measurable effectiveness.
Nor Halimaton Sa’adiah Abdul Halim
Deputy Director of the Payment Services Policy Department
Bank Negara Malaysia
Bradley Maclean
Co-Founder & Editorial Director
Regulation Asia
(Host)
10:30 - 11:20
Panel: Real-Time Rails, Real-Time Risk: Securing Instant Payments in the Fintech Era
As instant payments become the norm, the window to stop fraud has shrunk from hours to seconds, demanding a shift from reactive detection to proactive, built-in security. This panel examines the practical challenge of securing real-time rails from the ground up: embedding effective controls and calibrated friction into payments architecture, balancing ML models and kill-switches with customer trust, and addressing ecosystem vulnerabilities from data gaps to transaction laundering.
Jai Prakash
Head of Fraud & Risk
Instapay Technologies
Lolitta Suffian
Senior Vice President, Customer Experience
Bank Simpanan Nasional (BSN)
Prateek Reddy
Head of APAC Risk
Stripe
Sajith Kumar
Head of Fraud Risk Strategy for Acquiring & Lending
Grab
Sanat Paralkar
Fraud SME APAC
NICE Actimize
Bradley Maclean
Co-Founder & Editorial Director
Regulation Asia
(Moderator)
11:20 - 11:50
Morning Networking Break
11:50 - 12:10
Keynote Address: Fraud & Financial Crime: From Detection to Disruption in the Outcomes Era
Dato’ Mohamad Zamri will discuss the current financial crime landscape in Malaysia, and the need to move beyond detection and enforcement towards prevention, disruption, stronger collaboration and measurable outcomes. Drawing on extensive experience in financial investigations, AML enforcement and asset recovery, he will examine how authorities and the private sector can better identify illicit financial flows, trace complex transaction networks and turn intelligence into effective operational action.
Dato’ Mohamad Zamri bin Zainul Abidin
Senior Director
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Academy (MACA), Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)
12:10 - 13:00
Panel: From Accounts to Assets: How Fraud Proceeds Are Layered and Structured
This panel follows the money, tracing how criminal proceeds are layered across bank accounts, corporate structures and digital asset platforms. It examines how criminals exploit gaps between siloed compliance functions, regulatory jurisdictions and fiat and digital asset ecosystems. The discussion will move from identifying these vulnerabilities to exploring how a more connected, ecosystem-wide response can uncover the full criminal network.
Bryan Keasberry
APAC Head of Market Development
Fenergo
Kartik Mathialaghan
Head of Compliance Advisory
Luno
Michael Clarson
Director, CRIU Complex Investigations Unit Head
Citibank
Pamela Chua
Director, Anti Scam Centre of Excellence
Mastercard
Woody Tan
National Programme Officer – Anti-Money Lundering/Counter-Financing of Terrorism
UNODC
Jessica Chuah
GASA Ambassador
Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA)
(Moderator)
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch & Networking Break
14:00 - 14:45
Panel: Crossing Borders: Tracing and Freezing in a High-Velocity Environment
As illicit proceeds cross borders in minutes, the system for converting intelligence into action remains slow and often ineffective. This panel will explore why critical information disappears into an intelligence ‘black hole’, how traditional legal assistance fails in a high-velocity environment, and the impact of non-existent feedback loops. We will also critically examine whether new regional and global platforms can help to overcome legal and data privacy barriers to enable real-time action and asset recovery.
Colonel Jean Mary Mangahis
Director for Plans & Programmes (DPP)
ASEANAPOL Secretariat
Nick Mays
Leader, Financial Intelligence Unit Asia Pacific / Middle East
Western Union
Sungyong Kang
Criminal Intelligence Officer
Interpol
Manesh Samtani
Editor
Regulation Asia
(Moderator)
14:45 - 15:30
Panel: Identity Crime: From Tech-Enabled Adversaries to On-the-Ground Operational Realities
This session explores the dual threats facing identity integrity: sophisticated impersonation using GenAI and the on-the-ground reality of industrial-scale mule recruitment. It will examine the practical hurdles to building a resilient defence, from securing communication channels to bridging gaps between fraud and AML teams. The discussion will also consider how feedback loops between financial institutions, regulators and other ecosystem participants can be strengthened, and what is needed to move from siloed tools to an effective, end-to-end strategy.
Desmond Koh
Sales Manager – Singapore/Malaysia
Vonage
Zeenath Shaik Ibrahim
Head of Financial Crime Compliance
Kenanga
Chye Kit Chionh
Co-Founder & CEO
WIDTH
Tana Balan
Head of Anti Financial Crime
AEON Bank (M) Berhad
Nick Wakefield
Co-founder & Commercial Director
Regulation Asia
(Moderator)
15:30 - 16:00
Afternoon Networking Break
16:00 - 16:45
Panel: Monitoring at Machine Speed: Agentic AI, Parallel Networks and the Future of Transaction Monitoring
As financial crime becomes faster and more automated, firms are looking to advanced technologies, including agentic AI, to keep pace. This panel will explore the promise and practical limits of autonomous systems in financial crime risk management, including transaction monitoring. It will examine challenges relating to data readiness, regulatory acceptance, accountability and auditability, and how firms can balance innovation with the need for effective, explainable frameworks.
Ahmed Drissi
APAC AML Lead
SAS
Effa Sjahrir
Head, Group Wholesale Banking Transaction Banking (GWBTB) – Fraud Management Malaysia
CIMB Bank Berhad
Hiroshi Ozaki
Executive Advisor
KPMG AZSA LLC
Julia Chin
Founder
JFourth Solutions
(Moderator)
16:45 - 16:50
Closing Remarks
Regulation Asia.
Bradley Maclean
Co-Founder & Editorial Director
Regulation Asia