Rayson
Tan, CAMS
Rayson is the Chief Risk Officer Asia for Bank Pictet, and in the role is the accountable executive responsible for overseeing its risk management framework across Asia covering all key financial and non-financial risks as well as management of the Risk and Compliance teams.
He is a career compliance and risk professional and prior to Pictet was Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Risk Officer and Head of Legal for fintech scaleup Revolut where he helped them secure their operating license in Singapore.
He spent the last 20 years in various leadership and management roles covering AML, Financial Crime and Sanctions with Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and UBS with Country, Regional and Global responsibilities. He was the first AML Officer for UBS Investment Bank in Singapore in 2003, build the FCC Program for Deutsche Bank in Asia in 2008 as well as the first Managing Director in Compliance for Credit Suisse based in Singapore.
Rayson has a deep interest in applying technology in risk management and had spearheaded a number of innovations in his past roles such as a network analysis tool to aid investigations, holistic case management to reimagine transaction monitoring, using data science to identify risk hotspots etc.
Rayson believes in contributing back to the industry. He was appointed industry spokesperson to the media by the MAS on the Notice 626 changes in 2015 and led the CS team during the FATF Mutual Evaluation of Singapore in the same year. He has contributed to various industry initiatives at the ABS and PBIG such as the ACIP paper on using Data Analytics in AML/CFT controls and has hosted Wolfsberg planning meetings in APAC on multiple occasions. For his industry contributions, he was recognized by the Institute of Banking & Finance (IBF) as Fellow for Compliance in 2020.
Rayson graduated from the University of London and holds a Diploma in Compliance from the International Compliance Association. He is a certified CAMS Specialist since 2006 and has been a Director of the ACAMS Singapore Chapter since 2014.
Email: ratan@pictet.com