About

Stewart has since 2011 led the Hong Kong Monetary Authorities’ specialist Anti-Money Money Laundering supervision as well as overseeing policy development, currently leading changes to legislation to allow bank-to-bank information sharing as part of wider reforms to support increased collaboration.  He is widely spoken on the need to recalibrate AML supervision to better support risk-based objectives and since 2019 has implemented a significant digitalisation programme to improve the HKMA’s data and analytics capabilities.  For the past four years he has also been the Co-Chair of the Financial Action Task Force Evaluations and Compliance Working Group overseeing fourth round mutual evaluations as well as the transition to the fifth round.  Prior to joining the HKMA Stewart spent 22 years in law enforcement in both the UK and Hong Kong, with his final post being Deputy Head of Hong Kong’s Financial Intelligence Unit.