{"id":19547,"date":"2021-12-16T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/12\/16\/vp-bank-appoints-chris-chee-as-chief-risk-officer-asia\/"},"modified":"2021-12-16T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T02:30:00","slug":"vp-bank-appoints-chris-chee-as-chief-risk-officer-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/12\/16\/vp-bank-appoints-chris-chee-as-chief-risk-officer-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Bank appoints Chris Chee as Chief Risk Officer Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div lang=\"en\">\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 16 December 2021 &#8211;\u00a0<b>VP Bank&#13;<br \/>\nannounces the appointment of Chris Chee as the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Asia,&#13;<br \/>\neffective 16 December 2021, pending approval by the relevant financial market&#13;<br \/>\nauthorities. The appointment comes just as the Bank announced the expansion of&#13;<br \/>\nits Hong Kong office in November, aligning with its Strategy 2026 to further&#13;<br \/>\ngrowth in Asia. \u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Based in&#13;<br \/>\nHong Kong, Chris will be responsible for all risk management strategies and&#13;<br \/>\noperations, as well as supervising the Bank&#8217;s legal and compliance functions in&#13;<br \/>\nAsia. He will report regionally to Pamela Hsu Phua (CEO Asia) and functionally&#13;<br \/>\nto Patrick Bont (Group CRO).<\/p>\n<p>Chris has&#13;<br \/>\n20 years of experience in legal, risk and compliance, bringing with him&#13;<br \/>\nthorough understanding of risk management and the key markets in the region. He&#13;<br \/>\nhas extensive knowledge of Asian AML\/CTF laws and regulations, having worked&#13;<br \/>\nclosely with Asian regulatory and supervisory regimes and held managerial&#13;<br \/>\npositions in legal, compliance, and risk. Chris began his career at the&#13;<br \/>\nAttorney General&#8217;s Chambers and the Manpower Ministry of Singapore as Public&#13;<br \/>\nProsecutor prior to moving into the financial services industry. He&#13;<br \/>\nsubsequently held leadership positions at RBC Singapore Branch, ANZ Bank&#13;<br \/>\nSingapore, UBS and DBS across China, Hong Kong, Singapore. He was also a&#13;<br \/>\nFounding Board Member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering&#13;<br \/>\nSpecialists&#8217; (ACAMS) Singapore Chapter in 2013 and was the Co-Chair from 2016&#13;<br \/>\nto 2018. Chris was most recently the Chief Legal, Compliance and Risk Officer&#13;<br \/>\nat BIL Wealth Management, where he was responsible for the firm&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nimplementation and execution of the legal and compliance framework. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Welcoming&#13;<br \/>\nthe new CRO Asia, Pamela Hsu Phua said, &#8220;I am delighted to have Chris join our Asia&#13;<br \/>\nManagement Committee (Asia Manco). His appointment reflects our strong&#13;<br \/>\ncommitment to Asia and I&#8217;m confident that his in-depth knowledge of legal, risk&#13;<br \/>\nand compliance will greatly contribute to the successful execution and&#13;<br \/>\nachievement of our Strategy 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-12-16\/111533\/vp-bank-appoints-chris-chee-as-chief-risk-officer-asia\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 16 December 2021 &#8211;\u00a0VP Bank&#13; announces the appointment of Chris Chee as the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) Asia,&#13; effective 16 December 2021, pending approval by the relevant financial market&#13; authorities. The appointment comes just as the Bank announced the expansion of&#13; its Hong Kong office in November, aligning with its Strategy 2026 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}