Speaker

Kelvin Toh is the Head of Sanctions and Transaction Monitoring at HSBC Singapore. In his role, he oversees country level compliance of HSBC’s Global Sanctions Policy plus all required local country level sanctions regulations, and provides country level sanctions subject matter expertise and assessment activities to support the Business. He also implements and administers country level policies, projects and risk assessments as required by the Group’s transaction monitoring framework, and provides risk stewardship to the first line of defense on transaction monitoring activities and issues. Kelvin formerly headed group level sanctions compliance functions in 2 Singapore banks, and held other AML/CFT related portfolios in his previous stints, including work relating to EWRA, AML/CFT policy and advisory, and FATF mutual evaluation preparation. He also previously worked at the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a banking supervisory officer.