OUR MISSION
Make Anti-Money Laundering compliance understandable.
At RISKVERSE, we come to work every day because we want to help people become relatable to the work of combating money laundering and terrorist financing. About USD 2 trillion is lost every year due to money laundering and New Zealand is not immune to the horror of Terrorism as we learnt from the tragedy in Christchurch.
This may all have been preventable if we worked together. Small businesses often aren't familiar with the tell tales of suspicious behaviour and day to day customers don't know why they need to provide identification. Criminals exploit the loop holes when we don't understand.
Our mission at RISKVERSE is to help everyone understand in simple language how to prevent tragedies from happening again by providing training, consulting and auditing services to small businesses so combating money laundering and terrorism becomes as easy and appreciated as possible.
ABOUT US
Ken Shih, CAMS, CPA, CFE
Managing Director
Ken is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the USA, a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (CAMS) and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). Ken received his Master of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ken has been working in the Financial Crime Compliance field for the past 6 years and started his career at EY as a forensic accountant in the Greater China region specialising in assisting multinational banks in AML/CFT investigation and AML/CFT best practices. Ken assisted a European Bank who was fined by the US regulator for Sanctions’ violation and helped transform this bank’s Customer Due Diligence (CDD) practices. Ken has led many Section 59 audits for small to medium sized reporting entities supervised by the DIA and FMA, and has a deep understanding of the NZ regulatory requirements. Ken's most recent role was working as an Audit Manager at one of the big four banks in NZ and has worked on various AML/CFT audits and different business units to gain a depth of understanding in the New Zealand financial industry.