AFC in Practice: Navigating the Evolving AI Landscape for AFC Programs

Ekta is a highly accomplished and results-driven Compliance professional with over 15 years of progressive leadership experience across banking, fintech, and the Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) sector. She specialize in AML/CFT and regulatory compliance, FCC control testing and operational excellence. Holding 3 Master's Degree, Compliance certifications and recently selected as one of the top 15 compliance officers in Asia 2025.  Ekta Singh is Chief Compliance officer, MLRO and She brings wealth of knowledge and awareness of ethics, compliance, business management, current industry trends and technological advancement in the Fintech, regulatory compliance, RegTech area.

She is Subcommittee member of Regtech at Singapore Fintech Association, Ambassador for Singapore Fintech Festival & GBBC, Active working group member of ACCESS, AML working group member at Global Digital finance (GDF), Trainer at RHT academy and Fintelekt focusing on ethics & compliance, fraud management, risk assessment and AML/CFT.  She also volunteers as mentor at iLead program and Stories of Asia (SOA).

Akshay Malhotra leads Financial Crime for Citi's Corporate, Commercial, and Investment Banking, overseeing financial crime risk and compliance standards across Asia Pacific. With almost 2 decades of experience, he is a seasoned compliance professional and a leader in financial crime prevention. He drives risk prevention and control, leveraging expertise in regulatory technology and AI. His focus is on ensuring compliance, integrity, and innovative risk mitigation strategies.

Christoph Roeder, a qualified lawyer, has over 20 years of experience in various Legal, Compliance and Financial Crimes roles in Zurich, London and Hong Kong. He worked for UBS, Morgan Stanley and Lombard Odier and is currently UBS’ Head of Financial Crime Prevention for APAC.

Guy Sheppard is the Head of AI strategy and adoption at Standard Chartered Bank, an Executive Director working within CDO-AI enablement. He leads delivery to business solutioning, use case prioritisation and alignment to stated group strategy.

Prior to joining the bank, Guy has served as Chief Commercial and Chief Operating Officer at Aboitiz Data Innovation, a conglomerate-owned AI and Data Science Consultancy delivering Generative AI modelling and development expertise.

Guy has over 20 years experience in various strategy, product and commercial roles, primarily within wholesale and institutional banking and E2E financial crime (FRAML) domains.

In his career he has worked for SWIFT in the Americas, UKI and served as Head of the APAC Financial Crime Initiatives teams as well as companies like LexisNexis, BankersAlmanac and WoltersKluwer and been seconded to various agencies including the Metropolitan Police Service.

Guy graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English and Medieval Literature from University of Exeter and holds an Master of Arts in Marketing from Kingston University, London, England.