Dilip Krishnasamy, FICA, CAMS, is currently heading the Transaction Monitoring Team under Financial Crime Risk Operations of HSBC Global Services Centre based in Sri Lanka. Dilip has worked in the financial services industry for over 17 years, with experience from multiple financial organisations across Asia Pacific. In his current role, he provides strategic leadership to the Global Transaction monitoring team of over 250 analysts supporting various countries across APAC, MENA and the Americas.

Dilip has previously held roles as AVP - Regulatory and Product Compliance for Citibank Sri Lanka; Head of Risk & Compliance of Pan Oceanic Bank in Solomon Islands; Regional Head of Compliance - Sri Lanka and Maldives of Habib Bank Ltd as well as Financial Crime Compliance Lead - Retail banking & wealth management for HSBC Sri Lanka & Maldives.

Amongst his achievements, Dilip was Risk & Compliance consultant for the “Ezi Pei mobile wallet” program which is part of the Financial Inclusion program for Solomon Islands, and carried out various Financial Crime reviews, drafting & review of various  compliance polices, implementation of transaction monitoring & screening systems, and forming & training well-resourced compliance teams from scratch. 

Dilip holds an ICA Post-Graduate Diploma in Financial Crime Compliance awarded in association with Alliance Manchester Business School and is a Fellow of International Compliance Association. He has an Executive MBA from Asia University, Malaysia and is also CAMS certified. Dilip is also a qualified management accountant & member of Institute of Bankers Sri Lanka.