Crispin Yuen

Crispin Yuen, CAMS-Audit, CISSP, CISA

Crispin is an award-winning, Financial Crime Risk & Compliance specialist with extensive experience in regulatory compliance, risk controls, governance and assurance. He brings a unique combination of insights, experience and pragmatism to complex group-wide agendas and help clients navigate the fast-evolving financial crime risk landscape.

Through his work in both financial institutions and professional services firms over the past 20 years, Crispin has accumulated in-depth remediation experience in resolving deficiencies raised in both OFAC and AUSTRAC enforcements. This distinguishes him as one of very few professionals with such experience in Australia. At the same time, Crispin has developed deep working relationships with regulators and law enforcement agencies in combating financial crime. At the invitation of the Australian Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement, Crispin spoke as an industry witness before the Inquiry into financial-related crime (2015). In June 2022, he was invited to speak at an expert roundtable held at the United Nations Office, Vienna by the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on Cybercrime pursuant to the UN General Assembly resolution 75/282.

Crispin is recognised as an expert in financial crime by The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, an international non-governmental organisation (headquartered in Switzerland) dedicated to developing new and innovative strategies and responses to organised crime. He has been serving as a Board member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS) Australasian Chapter for over 15 years and co-authored the CAMS and Certified Global Sanctions Specialist (CGSS) study guide and exam questions. Crispin is a Certified Advanced AML Audit Specialist (CAMS-Audit), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He is the author of the book “FATF Review of Standards – 2010-2011”, available on Amazon. Crispin teaches postgraduate students on International Financial Crime at the University of Sydney.