ACFE Hong Kong Chapter News

The 2026 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific to be held in Hong Kong

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:11:58 GMT

The ACFE Hong Kong Chapter is proud to announce that the 2026 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific will be held in Hong Kong and virtually from 17–19 August 2026.

This event brings together anti-fraud professionals from across the region to share insights, strengthen skills, and build connections. Attendees will:

Learn best practices to fight fraud in today’s complex environment
Explore emerging trends shaping the future of fraud prevention
Hear from inspiring speakers and industry leaders
Network with peers and experts from across Asia-Pacific

Whether you join us in person in Hong Kong or online, this is your opportunity to stay ahead in the fight against fraud.

Visit the event websit for more details and registration information.

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:30:00 GMT

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Photos of the 25th Anniversary Conference and Annual Dinner 2024

Tue, 03 Dec 2024 03:32:24 GMT

Thank you for your support and participation in the 25th Anniversary Conference and Annual Dinner 2024.

Relive the memorable moments, click here to view the photo gallery and see all the event highlights.

Interview by Academy of Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:00:13 GMT

On 9 April 2024, Mr. Kris Lee and Mr. Anoop Gidwani, Directors of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Hong Kong Chapter attended a virtual interview by Professor Andreas Chai, Director of the Academy of Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance. In this interview, Anoop and Kris discussed about the history and development of ICAC, corruption investigations, financial crime, anti-money laundering and shared some interesting cases. Kris and Anoop also answered questions from the students online.

Practical interview skills workshops in Nov 2023

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 01:47:51 GMT

ACFE Hong Kong Chapter recently presented two half-day practical interview skills workshops. The workshops received some outstanding reviews from the participants from wide-ranging job responsibilities in corporate and government audit and compliance, education, computer forensics, investigations and accounting. 84% of those attending were satisfied or very satisfied and 83% would recommend the course to their peers. Our presenters, Ian Barlow and Kris Lee, received high marks for their presentation skills and management of the practical exercises. We thank all those who attended and took the time to give their considered reviews of the workshops. Our thanks also to Grant Thornton for the generous use of their excellent training rooms. We have heard the suggestions about repeating this course, expanding the content to include investigation strategies and of extending the event to a full day. Please look out for announcements by email and Facebook and on our website for all our 2024 events.

Congratulations on new President and Chief Executive Officer appointments

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 08:19:52 GMT

The Hong Kong Chapter ACFE congratulates Mr John D Gill on his appointment as President ACFE and Mr John Warren on his appointment as CEO ACFE, succeeding Mr Bruce Dorris. We wish Mr Gill and Mr Warren every success in these positions and offer our thanks and best wishes to Mr Dorris.

Completion of Fraud Investigation Training 2023 (part 1)

Sat, 24 Jun 2023 16:29:52 GMT

Today we have completed our annual signature event Fraud Investigation Training 2023 (part 1), organize in partnership with Centre for Criminology, HKU. We are glad to have distinguished speakers to share their knowledge and experience with over 100 attendees over the four Saturdays in June 2023. Thank you for support and see you in upcoming events.

Barry Tong, President of ACFE HK Chapter, interviewed by Fraud Magazine

Wed, 31 May 2023 16:23:06 GMT

Barry Tong, President of ACFE HK Chapter, was interviewed by Fraud Magazine in May/June 2023 issue.

" Barry Tong, CFE, wanted to be an accountant ever since he was in secondary school, but it wasn’t until he joined a Big Four firm’s insolvency and restructuring department that he became interested in fighting fraud. Now, Tong spearheads fraud investigations as Grant Thornton China’s national leader of Forensic and Investigation Services (FIS) based in Hong Kong. "

Read full article here

Annual Dinner 2022 Highlights and Photos

Sat, 07 Jan 2023 03:13:55 GMT

The ACFE Hong Kong Chapter annual dinner was held successfully on 15 December 2022 at Regal Hong Kong Hotel. We had over 150 participants, including representatives of our supporting organizations and our members and friends.

It is our honour to have Mr Joseph H. L. Chan, JP, Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Government of Hong Kong SAR as our Guest of Honour Speaker and gave us a keynote speech. We are also pleased to have Prof. Nelson Lam, JP, Director of Audit of the Government of Hong Kong SAR and Mr. Edmund Wong, LegCo Accountancy functional constituency representative, to be our honourable guests.

Once again, thank you for your support of the annual dinner.

Our President, Mr Barry Tong’s speech and presentation slides are available. More photos are available in the photo album.

Notice of change of venue for the AGM on 15th December 2022

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 04:30:00 GMT

To all ACFE Hong Kong Chapter Members

FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

10^th December 2022

Notice of change of venue for the AGM on 15^th December 2022

I wish to inform you that due to logistic arrangement of Regal Hotel, the venue of the forthcoming AGM on 15^th December 2022, Thursday will be changed to the following location and NOT Level B1:

Victoria Boardroom
3/F., Regal Hotel
88 Yee Wo Street
Causeway Bay
Hong Kong

The amended AGM notice is attached for your reference. The meeting will start at 6:00 p.m.

Regards
Peter Wong
Secretary

Full Notice of Annual General Meeting (Amended)

Sing Tao News coverage: 每日雜誌｜企業「漂綠」歪風起 ESG詐騙案陸續浮現

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 13:00:00 GMT

Sing Tao News reported the view of ESG fraud of Barry Tong and Albert Ho of ACFE Hong Kong Chapter.

...特許詐騙審查師學會香港分會會長湯飈指，近年在歐美等地的「綠色詐騙」個案有上升趨勢，慶幸歪風尚未吹至香港，惟最近也多了客戶查詢相關審查服務。他認為，「綠色詐騙」的成因眾多，不限於金錢或利益衡突，最終目的也只是吸引投資者及應付相關條例要求。...

...特許詐騙審查師學會香港分會董事兼研究委員會主席何仕景解釋，「綠色詐騙」跟普通詐騙屬同一層面，只是欺騙的對象不同。...

Full article: https://hd.stheadline.com/news/realtime/hk/2388165/

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Thu, 24 Nov 2022 10:30:00 GMT

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Hong Kong Chapter Limited (“ACFE-HK”) will be held at ~~the function room at Basement 1,~~ Victoria Boardroom at 3/F., Regal Hong Kong Hotel, 88 Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong on Thursday, 15th December 2022 at 6:00 p.m. for the following purposes:

To approve the minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 8th February 2022;
To approve and adopt the Report of the Board of Directors and the audited Financial Statements for the year ended 30th June 2022;
To appoint the Honorary Auditors;
To fill the vacancies arising from the retirement of certain Members of the Board of Directors for 2022/2023;
Any other business

By order of the Board

Peter KM Wong
Secretary

Hong Kong, 24th November 2022

Note: Venue is changed due to logistic arrangement. Please refer to the Notice of change of venue for the AGM on 15th December 2022

~~Full Notice of Annual General Meeting~~

Full Notice of Annual General Meeting (Amended)

Sing Tao News coverage: 詐騙審查師學會：小心綠色金融欺詐風險

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 10:00:00 GMT

Sing Tao News reported research reports of the ACFE, presented by Barry Tong and Albert Ho of ACFE Hong Kong Chapter.

詐騙審查師學會：小心綠色金融欺詐風險

（星島日報報道）在複雜的商業社會，欺詐事件有時難以避免。不過，根據特許詐騙審查師學會的調查顯示，由於近年企業員工反詐騙意識提升，更多人願意挺身舉報，因此詐騙事件遭揭發的時間，有縮短的趨勢。雖然如此，隨着商業活動不斷轉變，新的詐騙漏洞亦會浮現，例如現時大行其道的綠色金融，亦不排除有涉及詐騙活動的風險。

Full article: https://std.stheadline.com/daily/article/2489161/

Success completion of Investigations Training Workshop

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 06:23:34 GMT

The ACFE Hong Kong Chapter has been thrilled by the success of our recently completed four-part Investigations Training Workshop. It has been our most successful event ever. The course attracted 168 participants, a record number including members from five other Asian ACFE Chapters in Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Taiwan. The continued success of this well-established training programme, run in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Criminology for 10 years, is due in no small part to the high quality of our presented material and the enthusiasm of our members.

Over the four weeks of this course, we were able to offer an outstanding and diverse selection of topics covering the dos and definitely don'ts of due diligence, fraud investigation and governance, the fraud examiner's role in supporting listed companies suspended by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the latest post-covid legal developments, cases and remedies for the victims of fraud, and an exploration of digital investigation techniques. We'd like to thank all our presenters for their time and efforts, and all our participants for their enthusiasm and active involvement in this excellent programme. We offer our fraud investigation training programme twice a year on Saturday mornings, with diverse and thought provoking topics presented by experts and specialists to support the professional development of our Hong Kong members and, evidenced by our recent outreach, we now offer this to regionally based CFEs.

If you'd like to join us at our next investigations workshop scheduled for November-December, please look out for announcements on our website, where you will also find information about other forthcoming presentations, including our annual ethics presentation In September, our next breakfast presentation in November and our newly established Young Practitioners' Club.

Presentation to HKU undergraduate Criminology class

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 14:28:51 GMT

On 4th April 2022, the ACFE Hong Kong Chapter presented an introduction to fraud investigation to Hong Kong University's undergraduate Criminology class. The Chapter Vice-President Ian Barlow spoke about fraud and the criminal mind, highlighting some of the more notorious and globally recognised scams of recent years and the Chapter President Barry Tong introduced the ACFE Hong Kong Chapter Young Practitioners Club and the ACFE Hong Kong prize.

ACFE Hong Kong Chapter Annual General Meeting

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 04:08:48 GMT

The 2021 Annual General Meeting of the Members of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Hong Kong Chapter Limited will be held as a virtual meeting on line on Tuesday, 8th February 2022 at 6:30 p.m.

Please refer to our email for details.

Establishment of Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (Hong Kong Chapter) Prize for UG students majoring/minoring in Criminology

Sat, 28 Aug 2021 15:07:37 GMT

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) Hong Kong Chapter has established the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (Hong Kong Chapter) Prize. The HK Chapter is committed to developing the profession and in doing so, the Prize is intended to help HKU undergraduate students to broaden their learning horizons and develop their career path in finance and compliance. ACFE Hong Kong Chapter is a not-for-profit organization holding social and training activities on a regular basis to connect anti-fraud professionals and promoting professional advancement in the prevention, deterrence, detection and investigation of fraud in Hong Kong.

The ACFE HK Chapter has been collaborating with the Department of Sociology and Centre for Criminology, HKU in promoting training and education in the sector. The Prize is hosted by these HKU units. The Department of Sociology has been providing undergraduate Criminology major/minor programmes and taught postgraduate programme the Master of Social Sciences in Criminology, which provides a foundation for advanced research degree studies in the discipline and offers a professional qualification for practitioners in criminal justice and related fields. Working on a similar vision, the Centre for Criminology, has been researching on crime and deviance and offering regular trainings for practitioners in the field.

Details of the Prize are as follows:

Level of study: Undergraduate
Faculty/Department: All students with a major or minor in Criminology
Year of study: Year 3 & 4
Place of origin: Local Hong Kong students
Selection criteria: Academic merit and an essay of 500 words (on their interests on fraud related issues)
Number of awards: Three per year
Award value: A cash prize of HK$5,000, ACFE (Hong Kong Chapter) training package and one year of post CFE qualification training
Awarding authorities: A shortlist of 15 outstanding students will be invited to submit the 500 words short essay for selecting the awardees.

ACFE published "Fraud in the Wake of COVID-19: Benchmarking Report"

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 15:43:21 GMT

(The full report can be found from the ACFE website)

COVID-19 has affected — and will continue to affect — the business environment in countless ways. Travel bans, employees working remotely, and an increased reliance on technology and economic uncertainty have become the reality for many organizations around the world. And while these and other hurdles present numerous logistical and operational challenges, they also open the door to the increased pressure, opportunity and rationalization that can lead to fraud.

To illuminate the global pandemic’s impact on the fight against fraud, the ACFE is undertaking a series of benchmarking surveys exploring how fraud risks and anti-fraud programs are changing in the current environment. The December 2020 edition of the Fraud in the Wake of COVID-19: Benchmarking Report summarizes the results of the third of these surveys, which was conducted November of 2020. We hope that the information highlighted in this report will help you understand how fraud risk is evolving and the importance of staying ever vigilant in protecting against its harms in the wake of the novel coronavirus.

A New Year Message to our members, supporters and friends from ACFE Hong Kong

Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:57:28 GMT

2020 will be a year we'd all like to forget, but with the hope of vaccines arriving soon we should be able to look forward to a better 2021.

The heart of the efforts of your volunteer board is always to help support professional development among our existing members, and to encourage a wider community involvement in raising awareness of fraud and its prevention. In normal times we rely on being able to speak to you personally at our breakfast seminars and twice yearly development courses. The personal contact between our presenters and our audience is a key part of making our presentations such a success. This year we have been forced to try something new through a virtual classroom. The feedback we have received from you and the overwhelming support you've given through your attendance tells us that we have succeeded in very difficult and very experimental circumstances. I am happy to tell you that we have maintained the same number of training events in 2020 as in a more normal year. I want to take this opportunity to thank all our presenters for their efforts in new and challenging circumstances, and to all of those who have attended these sessions for the enthusiasm and commitment you have shown in making these sessions a success.

As we look forward to 2021 we can hope and plan for a return to classroom training and the personal contact our social events contribute to making this such a resilient community. We will be offering a selection of breakfast training events throughout the year and our signature foundation and advanced courses in June and October-November. We hope that by mid 2021 the community health situation will permit both these two major calendar events to be held at Hong Kong University and for our normal social events to restart. We will also adopt an online registration and PayPal payment system to support our training events, reducing the amount of paperwork for both you and us. We will also be considering how we can further develop and cement our relationship with the University of Hong Kong's Criminology programme and the wider local academic community. I hope to share more about our ideas in this area later in the year.

To close I want to thank all our board members for their valued contributions in this most difficult of years, and to highlight the contributions of two people without whom none of our virtual classroom efforts would have been possible. Thanks to Kenneth Lam, our IT specialist for reinventing our classroom, and to Stella Tse, our part-time administrator for supporting us through 2020.

Best wishes to all our members, friends and supporters. We all look forward to a new and better 2021!

Barry Tong
President ACFE HK

Fraud investigations - Being Proactive

Tue, 08 Dec 2020 06:42:14 GMT

By Kris Lee, CFE
Director and past President of the ACFE Hong Kong Chapter

More than two years ago, Hong Kong Customs & Excise seized a large quantity of counterfeit labelled rice. The case was reported in the local press and by Customs & Excise. The case centred on the counterfeit labelling of an inferior product being sold as a premium product, so big profits for something not really worth the money. I have been thinking about this sort of case for a while, but not from the counterfeiting angle. My interest is in the potential for fraud and corruption in selling these shoddy products into the catering market. I waited until now to write about this case because I didn't want to jeopardise a fraud or corruption investigation. I've seen nothing published about this since then, so I think it safe think publicly about this now.

Let's start with the bare facts of the case:

15,000 kg of rice was packed in 600 counterfeit branded bags
Each sack contained 10% high-quality rice and 90% of a much lower quality
Seized separately were 6 tonnes of low-quality rice and 1.6 tonnes of genuine brand high-quality rice ready for packing
The rice would have been sold to 100 local restaurants and “cha chan teng”.

The case made me ask myself a number of questions:

Why would the restaurants want to buy such low-quality rice in high-quality brand bags?
Was the rice sold at normal or below-market price?
Would this sale have been a "one-off" transaction or was this part of a regular service?
The supplier operated from a factory in an industrial building in San Po Kong. What would tempt reputable restaurants to buy from a business in a factory building in preference to normal distributors or even a supermarket chain?
Wouldn't restaurant chefs see that the rice was low quality, and what would convince them to use it?
Were the restaurants victims or willing participants in the scheme?

My own answers to these questions failed to convince me as a fraud investigator that this was a simple counterfeit retail product case and that these restaurants were genuine victims. Something extra must have happened to make this product acceptable to restaurants.

If I were the auditor serving these restaurants, should I have spotted something? In other words, was the restaurant paying too much for the low-quality rice, and why? If I were an officer of the intelligence team at the anti-graft authority, should I have looked deeper into this? The easiest way to achieve this would have been to ask Customs & Excise to share their intelligence; this could have led to some interesting graft investigations.

Fraud and corruption have gone underground, and are now more complex and subtle. The days of open inducements and obvious payments are gone. Auditors and fraud investigators need to be alert to the signs and small indications of hidden transactions from books and records which might have been deliberately altered. That is the value of proactive investigation.

2021-2022 ACFE Board of Regents election

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:35:45 GMT

The ACFE Hong Kong Chapter is proud to inform our members that our Chapter member Mr. Sudhir Gidwani, has been awarded CFE of the Year 2020. Our Chapter Board of Directors congratulate Mr. Gidwani for his remarkable achievement.

Also, the 2021-2022 ACFE Board of Regents election is imminent. Beginning November 1 and ending November 30, members will be able to vote online. ACFE members should have received an email from ACFE President and CEO.

This year, the ACFE Hong Kong is proud to inform our members that a Hong Kong based CFE has been nominated as one of the six candidates. To learn more about the six candidates, please visit ACFE's website.

ACFE Hong Kong Chapter

Special arrangement to Fraud Investigation Training (Advanced) Webinar on 14 November 2020

Mon, 09 Nov 2020 09:53:20 GMT

Due to an unexpected urgent family matter, Professor Laidler will not be able to conduct the above training session real time on the designated date. Instead, she will record the training in advance and play it to the registered participants via Webex at 9am on 14th November, 2020 as scheduled and will have the online half an hour Q & A session at 12:00 noon on the following Saturday (21 November).

Participants will receive separate web meeting invitations for the above-mentioned training session as well as the Q&A session respectively in due course.

Please accept our apologies should the above arrangements cause you any inconvenience.

Our AGM and Annual Dinner

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 06:11:52 GMT

Our end of year AGM and dinner event has become one of the most anticipated events in our calendar. It's a chance to thank our speakers, supporters and members for their involvement and enthusiasm over the past twelve months. This year is different. We won't be able to hold the dinner event this year, and we have also decided to defer our AGM.

Covid-19 prevention measures mean that we can't gather in large groups, and rather than hope that things change in next few weeks we thought it best to tell you about our decision now. We hope that we can hold our AGM before April next year, and while the government has made a number of concessions to limited companies to support infection prevention, we think it best to delay our meeting so that as many of you as possible have the chance of attending. By then we may even be able to consider organising some types of social event, perhaps including our annual dinner.

As ever we hope for the best and look forward to a better 2021.

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Hong Kong Chapter

ACFE Hong Kong Chapter - A Blueprint for Success

Wed, 26 Aug 2020 06:33:32 GMT

Back to Basics
We were in a rut. It was 2009 and the Hong Kong Chapter had been in existence for 10 Years. We had a loyal member base of about 300 CFEs and were organising about five training events a year. Our problems were declining income against rising costs for our presentation venues, a static member base and a training offering limited in scope and availability. We needed new ideas and a new direction.

We went back to basics. We quizzed ourselves and our members.

We started by asking ourselves why the Chapter existed. The answer to that was very close to home. It's in the ACFE Chapter Handbook. The Chapter has two big functions; to "serve the community” and “training”.

We got the same answers from our members, who are our community. They wanted training to be up to date in fraud risk management and they wanted to maintain their accreditation. They also wanted the opportunity to develop their networks through formal and informal events.

Our members liked the breakfast events; they ended early enough not to cut into the working day and by choosing locations convenient to our members we could ensure that we’d get a good turnout and break-even. In 2009 these were our chief source of income. Through our internal board contacts we knew that we could attract outside speakers with expertise in either a topical area of fraud or specialist knowledge in emerging local or global legislation. The breakfast meetings had to stay. So what else could we do?

Lightbulb Moments
The social aspect of this was easy. We would build on our record of informal evening social events by organising these more often and at venues that would attract members and their guests working in the main business district. We could manage the cost of these events by charging a flat fee to our members and negotiating package deals at the selected venues.

For training we decided that we could expand our training to attract prospective Associate members. Our training plan would retain the aim of presenting at least four breakfast seminars per year, but we would now add something new.

In 2010 we experimented with a half-day conference, leveraging our industry connections to provide speakers and inviting our members to make a modest contribution to fund the event. The event was a success, attracting about 60 participants and generating enough funds to carry us through to 2011. But we needed to do more.

We knew that we weren’t offering training to aspiring CFEs; our breakfast meetings dealt in areas that would interest those already holding a CFE. The talks couldn’t help them prepare for the exam and didn’t cover local legislation or practices peculiar to Hong Kong and outside the core syllabus. Our first thoughts were to invite ACFE headquarters to run training courses locally. We are half a world away from Texas and we found that the cost of running a course like this with visiting tutors was too much for individual candidates to bear. Our Chapter funds were limited and we weren’t able to part sponsor such a course. Our second idea was to run an exam training course ourselves. We soon realised that creating and presenting a course covering all the required disciplines adequately was beyond the capacity of our volunteer board. We just didn’t have the time to prepare the materials and it would require a big time commitment from both the board and the prospective students. We eventually decided to narrow our focus. We would concentrate on providing locally focused training that catered to both candidate and qualified CFEs. But how?

Our lightbulb moment was to link this idea to expanding this training beyond the narrow field of financial and legal services. In 2009 our member base was drawn from banks, accounting firms and companies employing a security or compliance professional. But what about those with a professional interest in studying criminal behaviour? We approached Centre for Criminology of the University of Hong Kong and we found like minded people who wanted to expand out of their academic envelope to understand white collar crime in one of the world’s major finance centres. We partnered with the university to offer two training packages a year. We called these courses “Foundation Training” and “Advanced Training”. There were clear benefits for both sides that went beyond the financial stability this arrangement offered. It would burnish the reputations of both participants by showing initiative to move out of the comfortable limitations of their professional existences. Each course would run for three hours on four consecutive Saturday mornings in the purpose built lecture theatres of the university with a capacity for about 100 students. We aimed to recruit specialists from across the broad spectrum of fraud topics who would have sufficient time in a three hour window to explain their subject in detail. Our contributors included university law and criminology professors, IT specialists, forensic accountants and forensic scientists and representatives from government departments handling specialist fraud and money laundering prosecutions. We opened up the courses beyond our member base to university students, local security associations like ASIS International, and other financial services associations, like HKICPA (Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants). The courses were priced at a level that covered our costs, while staying well below commercial rates for similar local training events. We didn’t limit or pre-qualify attendance, but those outside our magic circle paid a slightly higher rate. Each student would receive a certificate of attendance jointly certified by the Chapter and the University of Hong Kong. With the approval of ACFE HQ we were able to offer CPE points for these courses, just as we would normally do for our established breakfast seminars.

There were now a potential 24 CPE points available to members through our two university partnered training courses, plus an additional 8 CPE points from our breakfast events. This supported our community with relevant training offering more than a full yearly quota of CPE points at an affordable price, and had the potential to place the Chapter’s finances in a more healthy position.

Success
The plan was a hit. It was clear within the first year that we had a good recipe. We have now been running this training model very successfully for ten years. Each event has been over-subscribed (limited by the safe seating capacity of our venues) to the extent that we have had to introduce waiting lists. The quality of our events has now attracted speakers from outside Hong Kong, and overseas presenters are now willing to plan business trips to Hong Kong to coincide with our events.

Community Support
The success of our training plan has allowed us to fine tune our internal management structure. We can now afford to employ a part-time (and very efficient) administrative assistant, who manages course and event registrations, venue arrangements and certifications. We previously levied a nominal membership charge for the local chapter and have now scrapped this. It was a source of friction with local members. Why pay for something that I have already paid for in joining ACFE? A fair point and it was always an uphill task to explain that we were a group of volunteers operating an association without financial support from our parent organisation. It was an easy decision to give up a charge that cost nearly as much to administer as the income it produced. And the biggest change is that we can now afford to fully subsidise our social events, including social drinks three to four times a year plus an annual end of year dinner and AGM. All at no extra cost to our members.

We now approaching 1000 local members and celebrated our 20th anniversary in 2019 by organising a half-day conference at which we were able to attract senior representatives from commercial and government organisations as key speakers. Again a sell-out event.

The Future’s so Covid
What’s next? Our plan for 2020 envisaged an expanding level of connection with other local universities and commercial organisations, looking to partner beyond our existing arrangements and offer training and development that would benefit our member base and their professional development. Except...except....along came Covid-19. Our plans have been put on hold. We can’t expect to develop our connections at a time of very limited social inter-action. We have fallen back on technology. We can still offer breakfast seminars and our signature twice yearly Saturday training courses, but these are now run using web conferencing. Another hit, and without the constraints of seating capacity limits we can accommodate all comers.

We are surviving in a virus hit world. We know we have a model for success that can cope with disruption and can adapt to unpredictable events. It isn’t what we expected or wished for this year, but we now know that we can survive financially and that we have the support of our Chapter community. We are optimistic about 2021.

ACFE Hong Kong Chapter

2020 Report to the Nations: Discover the Current State of Fraud Worldwide

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 04:00:00 GMT

ACFE released the 2020 edition of the Report to the Nations. This year's report is the 11th edition and is the most comprehensive global study to date. With data compiled from 2,504 real cases of occupational fraud investigated by CFEs in 125 countries throughout the world, the report continues to be a tremendous resource for those interested in how occupational fraud is committed, how it is detected, who commits it and how organizations can protect themselves from it.

ACFE HK celebrated its 20th anniversary, reported by ACFE Chapter News

Fri, 20 Dec 2019 01:57:15 GMT

The ACFE Hong Kong Chapter, the first ACFE chapter in Asia, just celebrated its 20th anniversary. While chapter leadership has changed over the years, the chapter has consistently found board members who have a passion for increasing fraud awareness and devoting their time providing opportunities to the local membership.

ACFE Hong Kong Chapter News

The 2026 ACFE Fraud Conference Asia-Pacific to be held in Hong Kong

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Photos of the 25th Anniversary Conference and Annual Dinner 2024

Interview by Academy of Financial Crime Investigation and Compliance

Practical interview skills workshops in Nov 2023

Congratulations on new President and Chief Executive Officer appointments

Completion of Fraud Investigation Training 2023 (part 1)

Barry Tong, President of ACFE HK Chapter, interviewed by Fraud Magazine

Annual Dinner 2022 Highlights and Photos

Notice of change of venue for the AGM on 15th December 2022

Sing Tao News coverage: 每日雜誌｜企業「漂綠」歪風起 ESG詐騙案陸續浮現

Notice of Annual General Meeting

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Sing Tao News coverage: 詐騙審查師學會：小心綠色金融欺詐風險

詐騙審查師學會：小心綠色金融欺詐風險

Success completion of Investigations Training Workshop

Presentation to HKU undergraduate Criminology class

ACFE Hong Kong Chapter Annual General Meeting

Establishment of Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (Hong Kong Chapter) Prize for UG students majoring/minoring in Criminology

ACFE published "Fraud in the Wake of COVID-19: Benchmarking Report"

A New Year Message to our members, supporters and friends from ACFE Hong Kong

Fraud investigations - Being Proactive

By Kris Lee, CFE Director and past President of the ACFE Hong Kong Chapter

2021-2022 ACFE Board of Regents election

Special arrangement to Fraud Investigation Training (Advanced) Webinar on 14 November 2020

Our AGM and Annual Dinner

ACFE Hong Kong Chapter - A Blueprint for Success

2020 Report to the Nations: Discover the Current State of Fraud Worldwide

ACFE HK celebrated its 20th anniversary, reported by ACFE Chapter News

By Kris Lee, CFE
Director and past President of the ACFE Hong Kong Chapter