Matthew Gardiner is the founder of A1 AI. He consults on new centres of gravity for financial institutions at the intersection of digital assets, DeFi, AI, Cloud and APIs.
A former PwC Global Financial Services Consultant, Matthew has worked extensively with T1 banks, Fintechs, crypto exchanges, financial institutions, central banks, governments, finance ministries, financial centres, regulators, institutional investors, VCs, CVCs and their legal counsel around the world.
Matthew has given keynote speeches at leading and emerging conferences in Europe, the US the Middle East, Asia and Australasia. He is a founding member of Techfugees, a charity focused on financial inclusion and visiting faculty at Cass Business School and The Asian Banking School.
Experienced strategic integrated communication professional, working closely with executive teams — from startups to corporations — to translate business priorities into integrated communication plans, implementing tactical execution, and delivering measurable results.
Managed and collaborated with PR teams across multiple countries to deliver against corporate
communication goals.
Specialized in financial verticals, including blockchain & crypto, economic & financial theory, financial markets, market structure, fintech, insurance, retirement & personal finance, investment banking and asset management.
Established media relationships with U.S. and APAC business and financial top-tier (online, print, radio, and broadcast) and trade publications. Well-versed in digital and social strategies.
Dev Odedra is an independent money laundering expert and the founder of ‘The Laundry’, a financial crime media aggregator. Dev has significant experience in managing money laundering risk in the retail, corporate and investment banking sectors, having worked at a number of global banks before setting up his own consultancy. His expertise covers a variety of areas of money laundering, including investigations, advisory and controls implementation and improvement.
Alex is the Managing Director for Asia-Pacific for world leading RegTech / SupTech firm AML Analytics that specialises in the testing and validation of sanctions screening and transaction monitoring systems. Recently, the firm has been named in Top 5 Regtech Firms (Banking CIO Outlook) and works with over 300 institutions globally. Prior to AML Analytics, Alex led KYC automation firm encompass corporation’s expansion efforts in the Asia region and LexisNexis Business Development in Hong Kong for Sanctions and PEP screening system sales. Alex currently serves as a Non-Executive Director at the Australian Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and holds the CAMS designation from ACAMS, BBus from Swinburne University and MSc ( Management ) from the University College of Dublin.
Oonagh is an industry award-winning Compliance Officer based in Hong Kong, with over 19 years of experience in law and regulation, and a mother of two.
She is recognised as a global compliance industry leader in promoting innovation, improved culture and providing access to affordable thought-provoking compliance training opportunities.
She is the founder of RAW Compliance, a global compliance social enterprise, which provides free webinars, masterclasses, training and mentoring programmes to the compliance community. She is also the Managing Director of the global compliance consultancy firm Virtual Risk Solutions VRS, which supports FinTech and Crypto firms with regulatory licensing and the development of innovative, streamlined, agile and automated compliance risk frameworks.
Passionate about improving risk typology detection on socially imperative issues such as Human Trafficking, Modern Day Slavery and Illegal Wildlife Trading, she also involved in various industry working groups and public-private partnerships.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oonaghvandenberg/
Email: Oonagh@virtualrisksolutions.com