Haibo Zhang

FinTech especially RegTech will benefit from my experience.
Based in London, my consulting practice centers on offering high level advice to US and global financial institutions on projects such as building standards and frameworks, evaluating FinTechs and applying machine learning to AML and Fraud Modeling. From an industry perspective, I served as HSBC’s Senior Vice President and Global Head of applied analytics, responsible for driving the analytics strategy for its Financial Crime Threat Mitigation global function. There I led both AML and Fraud Analytics global teams to ensure sound methodology and governance were applied.

Prior to this role, I was at HSBC in New York where he was Global Head of Analytics Oversight, responsible for the best practice and innovation of Transaction Monitoring Systems and Analytics, including the Model Validation framework. I am fully familiar with the Searchspace/Fortent, Norkom, Actimize, and Mantas systems. I also led and oversaw the evaluation and implementation of two major RegTech solutions: Ayasdi and Quantexa. Earlier, I served as HSBC’s US Head of AML Analytics where he established Model Validation framework and was responsible for all analytics of the US AML transaction monitoring systems. I also has direct vendor experience as he served as Senior Scientist at Nice Actimize and a Senior Sentinel Architect for Fortent and Searchspace’s AML and Fraud solutions.

Major expertise including product design, AML TM (Transaction Monitoring) model validation, Fraud detection, coverage assessment, scenario development, tuning, segmentation, data analytics, data quality impact assessment, triage, automation, application of supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques to AML TM and Fraud, Anti-Human Trafficking detection, entity resolution and entity consolidation, and data mining and analysis.