Egmont Group vice chair joins FIU Hong Kong’s first international webinar on technology and public private partnerships to combat financial crime

The Egmont Group reported that Vice Chair Daniel Thelesklaf participated in the Hong Kong Police Force Financial Intelligence and Investigation Bureau’s (FIU Hong Kong) first international webinar on combating financial crime on December 4, 2025, moderating a session on “Unleashing the Power of Technology in Fighting Financial Crime”. A second session on public-private partnerships was moderated by Stewart McGlynn, Co-Chair of the Financial Action Task Force Evaluation and Compliance Working Group and Head of AML and Financial Crime Risk at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. Discussion takeaways highlighted financial intelligence units (FIUs) as proactive, data-driven intelligence hubs where technology is treated as a core institutional capacity, and that IT business strategy should be built from intelligence requirements through aligned analytics, data architecture and governance. The webinar also emphasized privacy by design through privacy-enhancing technologies such as secure multi-party computation, homomorphic encryption and federated learning, as well as the need for high-integrity, standardized and interoperable data. Cross-border information exchange was framed as evolving from request-response processes toward shared analytical models, with public-private partnerships developing into continuous “intelligence ecosystems”. Participants included FIUs and law enforcement agencies from 65 jurisdictions alongside Hong Kong stakeholders including Customs, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Securities and Futures Commission and the Hong Kong Association of Banks.