Chong Kok Wai

Chong Kok Wai is the Group Head of Legal, Compliance & Sustainability at GHL Systems Bhd. Chong has over 1 year of experience in handling all legal and compliance issues for the Company in the ASEAN region comprising Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore , Thailand as well as Australia. Chong has handled corporate exercises such as M&As, ESOS, perusing all legal documentations such as Merchant Services Agreements, Collaboration Agreements, Partnership Agreement, Systems Deployment, Terminal Deployment, Systems Integration and so on for all scheme cards, e wallets, bnpl, epay, mydebit, fpx, tag on which include but not limited to Visa, Mastercard, Diners, Grabpay,TnG, Shopee, Alipay, Alipay+, Atome, Split and so on and collaboration agreements with banks such as MBB, CIMB, PBB, SCBMB, HSBC, ABMB, Bank Islam, Alliance Bank and others. Compliance matters involving all regulators of major ASEAN countries such as Bank Negara Malaysia, Paynet, Bank of Indonesia, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Bank of Thailand and so on which includes but not limited to handling of all audit compliance in relation to TPA Audit Risk Assessment, IT Cyber Risk & Resilience Audit and related Compliance Audit Reports ensuring compliance from all relevant departments of all relevant procedures and policies ranging from BCP, DRP, Data Centres, Terminals and so on. Handling of all litigation matters arising thereto which include court and international arbitration disputes. Driving the Sustainability of the Company for ESG Compliance which includes ensuring compliance of economic social and governance of the Company is in line with the global GRI standards reporting and Bursa FTSE4Good Index to enhance the shareholder's value. Advising the GCEO and the Board on all legal and compliance matters in particular compliance of the MCCG and drafting and ensuring full compliance of policies such as Anti Bribery and Corruption Policy (ABC Policy), Data Privacy Policy (DPP), Gender Diversity Policy (GDP), Labour Policy (LP) and Human Rights Policy (HRP) as well as being part of the Risk Management Committee (RMC).

Chong Kok Wai has a legal background, having obtained a Certificate of Legal Practice from the Legal Qualifying Board of Malaysia in 1998 and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London in 1996. Chong is also a member of IIA-The Institute of Internal Auditors Malaysia.