Hokee is a Partner at PwC Hong Kong who specialises in Anti-Money Laundering and other compliance matters. Hokee advises a broad range of financial institutions and designated non-financial businesses and professionals operating in the Asia Pacific region on their Anti-Money Laundering programmes, and has delivered a significant number of regulator-commissioned reviews in assessing compliance status as well as conducted remediation/enhancement projects to help organisations ensure compliance with the applicable Anti-Money Laundering requirements.

Hokee has spent six months on secondment to a regulator where he conducted inspections of banks in order to assess their compliance status against the applicable Anti-Money Laundering requirements. He has supported a regulator in the development of money laundering risk assessment, with a primarily focus on industry data collection and analysis.

He is a member of the Anti-Money Laundering working group at the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, assisting with the development of the institute’s enhanced AML guidelines to accountants and comment upon government consultations.

He is also a regular speaker at various functions, including the management of tax evasion risk at a Hong Kong Monetary Authority training seminar, and at Anti-Money Laundering training seminars jointly organised by the Narcotics Division within the Security Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Joint Financial Intelligence Unit and Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Wilkie Lai has been in the Banking and Asset Management industry for around 20 years, spanning across various areas like risk management, operations, technology, client development, legal, and compliance. His latest venture involves a startup initiative in providing next generation A.I. (artificial intelligence) solutions and services to the financial industry.

Before that he was the Head of Compliance for Dragon Capital Group, a US$1.5 billion+ regional fund with a focus in the Indo-China markets. His mandates covered regulatory and investment compliance across multiple jurisdictions including Hong Kong, EU, UK, US and traditional offshore markets. In that capacity he was a member of the Group's Management and Compliance Committee.

Prior to Dragon Capital Group, he spent more than 7 years at TriBridge Investment Partners, a pan-Asian credit hedge fund, in various capacities including Chief Risk Officer and Managing Director. In his tenure he covered all non-trading functions including operations, client management, risk management, legal and compliance.

Wilkie also headed up different risk management functions for a number of financial institutions in Hong Kong. He was with Bank of China (Hong Kong) focusing on bank-wide market risk management functions, as well as Banca Intesa S.p.A. Hong Kong Branch focusing on overall risk management functions. Prior to his internal risk manager roles, Mr. Lai spent 6 years with Thomson Reuters, the global information company, in their Trade and Risk Management practice focusing on treasury and middle office advisory and solutions for financial institutions across Asia. He also worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in process re-engineering for financial institutions.

Wilkie is a lawyer qualified by the State of New South Wales, Australia. He read law at Chinese University of Hong Kong and Australia National University and holds a Juris Doctor degree. He further received a M.Sc. degree in Information System Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a B.A. degree in Computer Science from the University of California.

Helen is a Partner specialising in the Asset and Wealth Management Industry Group and provides assurance and advisory services for asset and wealth management clients. She has extensive auditing and regulatory advisory experience, serving investment fund managers, advisors, fund administrators, private equity funds, hedge funds, traditional funds and SFC authorised funds. She is active in providing wide range of regulatory advisory services to asset and wealth management clients, including conducting internal controls review work, advising regulatory compliance review for asset managers, prime brokers and other service providers. Additionally, she is also very experienced in providing the assurance and advisory services for the start up investment funds, newly established fund managers and investment advisors.

In 2008-2009, Helen seconded to the SFC’s Intermediary Supervision Department for a 9-month period, during which she was responsible for the supervision of SFC licensed intermediaries, including securities broker firms, fund managers and investment advisors.

Helen is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). She is a member of Investment Funds Regulatory Panel of HKICPA. She is also a charter holder of Chartered Financial Analyst.

Ms Teu is the founder and managing partner of a boutique Hong Kong corporate and commercial law firm focusing on the practice areas of funds and asset management, financial services, securities & regulatory, tax and trusts.

Ms Teu is qualified to practice law in Hong Kong, England & Wales, Singapore and Malaysia. She previously held lead roles in China and Hong Kong funds practice at market leading Hong Kong and international law firms, and thereafter gained substantial in-house experience as Greater China Head of Legal at a large global asset management firm.

With her extensive legal practice and in-house experience focused in the areas of asset management, funds and investment arrangement, trusts and financial services, Ms Teu frequently advises on securities regulatory issues and assists financial institutions on Hong Kong set up, SFC licensing and other legal or regulatory matters.