Crispin Yuen

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Crispin Yuen, Advanced CAMS-Audit, CAMS, CISSP, CISA is an anti-financial crime specialist with over 20 years' experience across AML/CTF, sanctions, fraud, cybercrime, governance, and regulatory remediation. His career spans financial institutions and professional services, including Deutsche Bank, ANZ Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, AMP, Deloitte, and Ernst & Young. He is one of the few professionals in the Asia-Pacific region with direct experience remediating enforcement actions by both AUSTRAC and the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). At ANZ Bank, while seconded from Deloitte, he was part of the team that remediated the bank's OFAC sanctions enforcement related to trade finance transactions involving Sudan and Cuba. At Ria Financial Services, he led the remediation of an AUSTRAC enforcement action to the full satisfaction of AUSTRAC, resulting in the lifting of enforcement obligations. He also advised on Westpac Banking Corporation's AML and financial crime remediation following AUSTRAC's record enforcement action. Crispin is an Expert Member and Global Organized Crime Steering Committee Member of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (Geneva), and a VACI Expert at the Vancouver Anti-Corruption Institute. His contributions as an expert speaker to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime helped inform the adoption of the UN Convention against Cybercrime in 2024. He co-authored Intersections: Building Blocks of a Global Strategy Against Organized Crime (2024) and serves on the ACAMS Global Teaching Faculty. He has twice appeared before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement as an industry witness (2014 and 2025), and represented industry in the Attorney-General's Department Working Group on Remittance Account Closures. He authored compliance best practice standards for the Australian remittance industry that were reviewed and welcomed by the then AUSTRAC CEO. He is an adjunct lecturer at The University of Sydney and Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore, and has been interviewed by ABC News, BBC News, the South China Morning Post, and The Nikkei.