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Malaysia’s financial sector is facing a decisive shift in the way fraud, financial crime, cyber risk and regulatory accountability are being managed. As threats become faster, more coordinated and increasingly digital, financial institutions are under growing pressure to detect suspicious activity earlier, respond with greater precision and prove that controls are not only in place, but operating effectively. For many organisations, fragmented data, legacy processes and delayed monitoring are creating operational blind spots that increase exposure to financial loss, enforcement action and reputational damage.
The challenge is no longer limited to compliance. Fraud prevention, AML/CFT, sanctions screening, customer due diligence, eKYC, cyber resilience and operational risk are now deeply connected priorities that require stronger coordination across leadership, technology, risk and business teams. Institutions must be able to understand customer behaviour in real time, identify complex ownership and transaction patterns, maintain audit-ready evidence and adapt quickly as expectations evolve. This requires a shift from reactive control frameworks to more proactive, intelligence-led operating models.
Taking place in Kuala Lumpur on 24 September, this invite-only executive forum will bring together C-suite and strategic leaders from Malaysia’s leading banks, digital banks, financial institutions and fintech organisations for a focused discussion on the future of financial crime resilience. Through expert perspectives and peer-led dialogue, attendees will examine the operational realities of strengthening fraud prevention, financial crime controls, digital trust and regulatory readiness while exchanging practical insights with senior leaders facing similar pressures across the industry.
EVENT SNAPSHOT - KEY INSIGHTS
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Understand the new financial crime risk landscape and how fraud, AML/CFT, cyber risk, digital identity and operational resilience are converging into a board-level priority.
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Explore how institutions can strengthen real-time detection and response across customer due diligence, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring and suspicious activity escalation.
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Discuss the operational impact of fragmented data and legacy infrastructure, including the challenges they create for visibility, scalability, audit readiness and timely decision-making.
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Examine the role of AI, analytics and risk intelligence in identifying emerging threats, improving investigation quality and supporting responsible governance across financial crime functions.
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Connect with C-suite and strategic leaders from banking, risk, compliance, fraud, cybersecurity and technology to exchange perspectives on building more resilient, proactive and trusted financial institutions.
FORUM PARTNERS
Platinum Partner
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 240 fully featured services from 34 geographic regions worldwide. Since 2006, millions of customers — including the world's largest banks, insurers, and payments companies — have trusted AWS to power their most security-sensitive and mission-critical workloads.
In financial services, AWS enables institutions to modernize fraud detection, strengthen anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-financing of terrorism (CFT) programs, and accelerate regulatory compliance — leveraging advanced machine learning, real-time graph analytics, and generative AI capabilities purpose-built for the industry. AWS works alongside a global network of specialist partners to deliver end-to-end financial crime prevention solutions.
In August 2024, AWS launched the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, backed by a planned investment of MYR 29.2 billion (USD 6.2 billion) through 2038 — the largest commitment by any international cloud provider in the country. The local region enables Malaysian organizations to meet data residency and sovereignty requirements while accessing world-class cloud infrastructure with the highest standards of security, privacy, and compliance.
Preferred Partner
Established in 2003, Group-IB is a leading creator of predictive cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime globally. Headquartered in Singapore, and with Digital Crime Resistance Centers in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Central Asia, and the Asia-Pacific, Group-IB delivers predictive, intelligence-driven defense by analysing and neutralizing regional and country-specific cyber threats via its Unified Risk Platform, offering unparalleled defense through its industry-leading Cyber Fraud Intelligence Platform, Cloud Security Posture Management, Threat Intelligence, Fraud Protection, Digital Risk Protection, Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Business Email Protection, and External Attack Surface Management solutions, catering to government, retail, healthcare, gaming, financial sectors, and beyond. Group-IB collaborates with international law enforcement agencies like INTERPOL, Europol, and AFRIPOL to fortify cybersecurity worldwide, and has been awarded by advisory agencies including Datos Insights, Gartner, Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, and KuppingerCole.
For more information, visit us at www.group-ib.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, and Instagram.
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Preferred Partner
Feedzai powers trust in global finance. We protect people and payments using AI-native solutions to detect and prevent financial crime, fraud, and money laundering in real time, so money moves safely. Every year, the world's top issuing and acquiring banks, payments and digital currency networks, and core banking providers use Feedzai's technology to safeguard more than one billion consumers and $9 trillion in payment volume.
Learn more at feedzai.com.
Preferred Partner
Tookitaki is a global RegTech leader delivering the Collective Intelligence to fight Financial Crime through AI-driven anti-money laundering (AML) compliance and real-time financial crime prevention. Tookitaki empowers financial institutions—from tier-1 banks to fast-growing digital banks, e-wallets, and fintechs across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond—to strengthen institutional and consumer trust through smarter, faster, and fully scalable compliance.
Flagship Platform: FinCense
Tookitaki's flagship solution, FinCense, is an end-to-end AML and fraud prevention operating system. Built on an AI-native architecture driven by Agentic AI, FinCense deploys specialized, task-driven AI agents that streamline detection, alert prioritization, investigation, and regulatory reporting. The platform delivers end-to-end coverage across:
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Transaction Monitoring: Scenario-based and AI-driven detection of complex financial crime patterns.
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Real-Time Fraud Prevention & Payment Screening: Instant monitoring of payment flows to stop bad actors before funds move.
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Name & Sanctions Screening: High-precision watchlist checks during onboarding and ongoing monitoring.
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Customer Risk Scoring & Onboarding: Instant dynamic risk profiles for new and existing clients.
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Alert Prioritization & Case Management: Unified workspace with automated prioritization to minimize false positives and speed up resolution.
All AI decisioning within FinCense is transparent, explainable, and fully auditable to satisfy strict regulatory standards.
Collective Intelligence: The Anti-Financial Crime (AFC) Ecosystem
At the heart of Tookitaki's innovation is the AFC Ecosystem, a global, active network of compliance experts and financial institutions sharing real-world threat typologies and emerging risk patterns. Through federated learning, FinCense ingests these community-led typologies without exposing sensitive customer data. This enables institutions to proactively adapt to emerging cross-border risks rather than reacting after a threat materializes.
Proven Business Impact
Trusted by market leaders, Tookitaki delivers measurable outcomes for regulated entities:
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Drastic Reduction in False Positives: Surfacing only high-priority alerts that matter most.
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Faster Case Resolution: Streamlined workflows in a unified case management workspace.
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Lower Total Cost of Compliance: Governed automation that frees analysts to focus on real risk.
Preferred Partner
Quantexa is a global data, analytics, and AI software company pioneering Decision Intelligence to help organizations make confident decisions with contextual data. Using the latest advancements in AI, our Decision Intelligence Platform transforms siloed data into connected, contextual insights to empower the shift from a data-driven to a decision-centric organization. Our customers use Quantexa technology to protect, optimize, and grow by solving complex challenges across the entire organization through modern data management, customer intelligence, KYC, financial and economic crime, risk, fraud, and security. The company has been named as a Decision Intelligence category and innovation leader by all of the major industry analyst firms. Founded in 2016, Quantexa has over 900 employees and tens of thousands of users globally, working with billions of data points across the world. For more information, visit www.quantexa.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
THE FORUM PANEL
Chetan Sharma
Head of Banking & Wealth Industry Development, ASEAN
AWS
Matthew Nixon
Principal FSI Compliance SME
AWS
EVENT AGENDA
8:30 AM
Registration & Breakfast Networking
Executive check-in, morning coffee, and preliminary networking.
9:00 AM
Regulatory Keynote Session
Aligning Compliance with National Financial Integrity Standards
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Updated Regulatory Expectations: Insights on the updated Risk Management in Technology (RMiT)framework, focusing on mandatory real-time fraud detection and customer protection expectations.
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NSRC & National Strategy: Strengthening integration with the National Scam Response Centre (NSRC), Mule Account Operations, and cross-bank kill switches.
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Regulatory Sanctions & Expectations: Key enforcement priorities surrounding AMLA compliance and FATF Mutual Evaluation standards.
9:30 AM
AWS Keynote Session
Real-Time Fraud Defence & Intelligent Compliance: The Cloud-Native Advantage
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Compliance on Cloud — The AWS Perspective: Building directly on BNM's regulatory keynote — how cloud-native architecture addresses the updated RMiT framework and supports real-time fraud detection mandates A practical look at how institutions are achieving regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and data governance on AWS.
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Art of the Possible — Agentic AI for Fraud & Financial Crime: A live look at how agentic AI is reimagining KYC investigations, sanctions screening, and adverse media scanning — turning multi-day manual processes into minutes with auditable, policy-grounded outcomes — and the practical path to production.
10:00 AM
Networking Coffee & Tea Break
Executive break and discussions following the regulatory keynote.
10:15 AM
Fireside Chat with CXO’s
Industrialization ofFraud: Staying Ahead of a Rapidly Shifting Threat Landscape
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How Fraud Has Evolved: Deep-dive into AI-driven phishing, synthetic identity fraud, real-time payment/DuitNow exploits, and complex social engineering schemes.
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What it Takes to Keep Abreast: Building proactive, multi-layered risk strategies over reactive compliance checklists.
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AI in Fraud Prevention: Balancing deep learning and predictive risk scoring against explainability, model risk management, and regulatory fairness.
10:45 AM
Voice of executives -Themed table discussion (Chatham House)
Breaking Silos: When Fraud, AML & Risk Share One Data Lake
Interactive Roundtable: A closed-door session for CROs to discuss pressing operational bottlenecks.-Themed table discussions by AWS and partners
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Technology Modernisation & Legacy Core Systems: Overcoming monolithic legacy architectures to enable modular, microservices-driven fraud detection engines.
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Breaking Down Data Siloes: Unifying fragmented transactional, customer, and channel data streams into real-time feature stores for continuous risk scoring.
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Enabling Real-Time Execution: What is required to operate across real-time fraud—from sub-second decisioning latency and behavioral telemetry to automated blocking and instant orchestration.
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Customer Friction vs. Protection: Managing fraud intervention without causing friction in digital customer journeys.
11:15 AM
Recap and Coffee Break
11:30 AM
Partner Solution Clinics: Targeted Technology Deep-Dives
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Real-Time Fraud Detection –architecture, lessons, and measurable ROI
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AML & Sanctions Screening –meeting FATF standards, driving productivity with AI-driven entity resolution.
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Synthetic Identity & Onboarding Fraud – Prevent synthetic identity losses by unifying device, biometric, and behavioural signals at account opening in real time
12:30 PM
Interactive Q&A & Key Takeaways
Synthesis of key takeaways from the keynote speakers, panelists, and solution providers
12:45 PM
Closing Remarks & Lunch
Wrap-up by event hosts, final networking, and informal discussions.
OUR UNIQUE FORMAT
FIVE-STAR LUNCH
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PANEL DISCUSSIONS
OBSERVE AND PARTICIPATE IN HIGHLY FOCUSED & ENGAGING PANEL DISCUSSIONS WITH YOUR PEERS WHO ARE HAND-PICKED INDUSTRY EXPERTS. HEAR FIRST HAND FROM SENIOR INDUSTRY PRACTITIONERS ABOUT THE CHALLENGES THAT THEY'RE FACING, PREPARING FOR UPCOMING REGULATIONS & BEST PRACTICES THAT ARE MARKET SPECIFIC
THE SOLUTION PRESENTATION
GET A FRONT ROW SEAT TO AWARD WINNING SOLUTIONS THAT ARE TRANSFORMING DEPARTMENTS AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO ASK KEY QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO PRODUCT SPECIALISTS AND PRACTITIONERS WHO ARE ACTUALLY USING THE SOLUTION.
DELEGATES WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK AND CONNECT WITH EXECUTIVE PEERS
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