FINANCIAL CRIME CONFERENCE 2006

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Platinum Sponsor

Credit Bureau (Singapore) Pte Ltd (CBS), Singapore’s consumer credit bureau, provides objective and accurate information to credit providers in the financial services industry to strengthen their risk assessment capabilities. By enabling clients such as banks, credit card companies and institutions to make better lending decisions, CBS aims to enhance Singapore’s risk management capability.

As the leader in managing consumer credit information, CBS also seeks to enlighten, empower and engage consumers to manage and protect their financial health.

CBS maintains data accuracy and integrity by using advanced technology to update millions of consumer information.

Throughout its operations, CBS observes a strict Code of Conduct that its members comply with. This ensures the highest moral and ethical standards in data handling in all business activities.

Established in 2002, CBS is a joint venture between The Association of Banks in Singapore and DBIC Holdings Pte Ltd. DBIC is part of the Infocredit Holdings group of companies, which has amongst its shareholders Baycorp Advantage and Dun & Bradstreet.

More information on CBS can be found at www.creditbureau.com.sg

Gold Sponsor

World-Check assists institutions in mitigating reputation, financial and compliance risk by monitoring and correlating information on higher risk entities. Used and trusted by 1,600 institutions worldwide including banks, insurance companies, law firms, e-gaming companies, casinos and more than 200 regulatory bodies and government agencies, World-Check has become the ‘must have’ in any institution’s risk assessment protocol.

By consolidating and organising unstructured information from hundreds of thousands of sources into a database of highly structured profiles, World-Check enables institutions to automatically and regularly screen their client-base for the presence of high and heightened-risk entities such as, terrorists, fraudsters, money launderers, Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs), perpetrators of organised crime, narcotics traffickers, arms dealers and sanctioned entities amongst many other categories.

There is no doubt of the value of World-Check's risk reduction intelligence. On a regular basis World-Check has profiled entities up to 2 years ahead of them being added to the major international sanction lists, proving to thousands of financial services professionals on a daily basis, that KYC checking can make a big difference.

Recognized as an industry pioneer, World-Check has revolutionized and “standardized” global Know Your Customer (KYC) and Politically Exposed Person (PEP) screening. Today, 43 of the world’s top 50 banks use World-Check’s global list of heightened-risk individuals and organizations.

For more information, please visit www.world-check.com

World-Check, reducing risk through intelligence.

Silver Sponsor

Visa connects cardholders, merchants and financial institutions through the world's largest electronic payments network. Visa products allow buyers and sellers to conduct commerce with ease and confidence in both the physical and virtual worlds. As an association owned by 21,000 member financial institutions, Visa is committed to the sustained growth of electronic payment systems to support the needs of all stakeholders and to drive economic growth. For more information, visit www.corporate.visa.com

In Asia Pacific, Visa has a greater market share than all other payment card brands combined with 62 percent of all card purchases at the point of sale being made using Visa cards. There are currently 277 million Visa-branded cards in the region. For the 12 months ended December 2005, US$579 billion was spent at point of sale or withdrawn from ATMs in Asia Pacific using Visa cards. Visa Asia Pacific's internet address is www.visa-asia.com

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