The Mekong Club
Mike Coates is an experienced professional with a diverse background in program management and compliance within the financial sector. As an Ambassador at The Mekong Club since April 2018, Mike has contributed to various initiatives focused on combating financial crime. Prior roles include Senior Executive at Plenitude Consulting, Senior Program Manager at TLM Consulting HK and Standard Chartered Bank, where Mike managed significant compliance projects related to financial crime and AML remediation. Earlier career milestones include serving as Anti-Money Laundering Officer at Branding China and Regional Head of Global Standards at HSBC, where Mike led AML and KYC programs across the region. Mike's foundational experience was gained at Atlas Copco, where Mike held several managerial roles. Mike’s education was completed at Queen Elizabeth from 1973 to 1978.
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The Mekong Club
The Mekong Club is a catalyst for change, uniting and mobilizing businesses to bring about sustainable practices towards the fight against modern slavery. Given that the majority of modern-day slavery exists in the private sector, these companies are ideally placed to help turn the tide of this global epidemic. The only organisation of its kind, The Mekong Club steers away from the approach taken by other players in this space, which is to ‘name and shame’ companies – ousting bad behaviour or issues related to this subject. Instead, we believe in starting and ending with collaboration. In fact, The Mekong Club originally formed as a direct response to the growing number of companies looking to develop strategies to address forced labour risk through a professional forum. Divided into industry-specific working groups, these networks meet regularly to learn, share best practices, and network with other like-minded professionals. Member companies also work together to achieve an annual deliverable which will work towards producing tangible results in the fight against forced labour. We have identified four industries within the private sector that we believe have the greatest opportunity to impact change. They are: financial services, apparel & footwear, hospitality providers and retailers. LinkedIn disclaimer: The Mekong Club reserves the right to remove comments that are not on topic, abusive or use bad language.