Romesh D.

Professional background

I am currently working as a Head of Compliance and Financial Crime for a fintech start-up. From January 2019 until January 2022, I was the Head of Financial Crime Risk and Controls for Global Transaction Services at Westpac. Before Westpac, I was the Global FCC Head for Wealth products and Private Banking clients for Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore.

Areas of Expertise

My expertise lies within Financial Crime across AML/CTF, Sanctions, ABC and Tax Transparency (FATCA, CRS and CFA) involving policy definition and implementation, risk assessments methodology definition and implementation and leading remediation initiatives including uplift of CDD / EDD reviews.

As a strategic thinker and appropriate business acumen, I provide industry leadership within financial crime across payments, transaction banking, liquidity and lending, and fintech-led bank as a service (BaaS) integration with fintech products.