Kaushika Ruwangalla – HSBC

Kaushika is currently the Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance at HSBC’s Global Trade & Receivables Finance business, the world’s largest trade finance bank.

He has broad-ranging experience in Compliance and Risk at a senior leadership level across Trade Finance, Payments, Commercial Banking and Retail Banking.

Kaushika has previously held positions of Global Head of Sanctions for HSBC’s Commercial Banking & Transaction Banking businesses and Regional Chief Control Officer for HSBC Europe as the business head of risk.

He is the Co-Chair the ICC Banking Commission’s Compliance & Policy Group, and the Co-Chair of the BAFT Compliance Committee. Kaushika has also been on the Advisory Board of RUSI’s publication of Financial Crime relating to FTZs. He is also a regular panellist on Financial Crime Compliance events organised by ACAMS, ICC and LIBF, among others.