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# Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific with Vincent Loy
- URL: https://www.analysepodcast.com/episode-152-cybersecurity-in-asia-pacific-with-vincent-loy/
- Published: 2016-12-21T14:41:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-19T13:50:13.000Z
- Description: Vincent Loy from PwC joined us to discuss cybersecurity, financial crime and anti-money laundering in Asia Pacific and the best practices in how corporations should handle the challenges of security in the physical and digital world.
- Author: Leong Chung Wei Bernard
- Tags: Analyse Podcast

Vincent Loy, partner in financial Crime & cyber leader from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) joined us in a conversation on the trends in cybersecurity, financial crime & anti-money laundering across Asia Pacific and the implications of technology in fintech. We start with Vincent’s background moving from Singapore to US and UK where he has advised the Interpol & western governments till now in Asia. Vincent shared his thoughts on how companies should think about cyber-security in different perspectives of people, technology and governance and the best practices in how businesses need to think about cyber-security.

Here are the interesting show notes and links to the discussion (with time-stamps included):

- Vincent Loy ([@vjlpwc](https://twitter.com/vjlpwc?ref=analysepodcast.com) , [LinkedIn](https://sg.linkedin.com/in/vincent-loy-7888585?ref=analysepodcast.com)), Partner, Financial Crime and Cyber Leader, PwC. \[0:45\]  
  - How did you start your career? \[1:09\]
  - His career experience in cybersecurity. \[2:20\]
  - From your career as a consultant who has advised the Interpol, western governments till now in Asia, what are the interesting career lessons you can share? \[3:19\]
- Cybersecurity, Financial Crime and AML in Asia Pacific \[4:24\]  
  - How do you define security in both the physical and digital world today? \[4:24\]
  - Can you talk about financial crime and anti-money laundering in general and why it might be important for financial services companies to rethink this? \[5:19\]
  - The complications with exponential technologies such as bitcoin and blockchain with cybersecurity. \[6:12\]
  - What are the key challenges for large organizations in dealing with cybersecurity? \[8:00\]
  - What are the common mistakes made by these organizations as we observe in the West such as the Sony and Target hack? \[9:50\]
  - What are the top 5 security incidents that Asian companies need to take note of? \[12:24\]
  - What are the first steps for companies to take on security? \[14:51\]
  - Does Asian culture or business practices towards cybersecurity different from their western counterparts? \[17:20\]
  - How should organisations set themselves up in cybersecurity, financial crime and anti-money laundering? \[19:20\]
  - Given the new wave of startups in fintech and insurtech which skirt around the regulatory tax, how does large companies stacked with compliance cope with the onslaught of these companies? \[20:20\]
  - What are the trends for financial crime prevention and anti-money laundering in Asia Pacific? \[21:56\]
  - Can organisations leverage on technologies to tackle financial crime and anti-money laundering? For example, biometric or fingerprint with smartphones to tackle the KYC issue? \[23:11\]
  - Are they any interesting case studies you can share on how Asian companies tackle cybersecurity? \[25:22\]
  - What do you see the area of cybersecurity in the next 5 years given its importance to CIOs? \[26:17\]

**References:**

- [Understanding Financial Crime](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/understanding-financial-crime-vincent-loy?trk=prof-post&ref=analysepodcast.com)
- [Anti-Money Laundering: First, know your customer (KYC)](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anti-money-laundering-first-you-need-know-your-customer-vincent-loy?trk=prof-post&ref=analysepodcast.com)
- [Anti-Money Laundering 101](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anti-money-laundering-101-vincent-loy?trk=prof-post&ref=analysepodcast.com)
- [Cyber risk management: Common issues in Asia](https://www.gtnews.com/articles/cyber-risk-management-common-issues-in-asia/?ref=analysepodcast.com)

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