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FFA2510v: Safeguarding Public Resources: Insights into Accountability and Fraud Risks from the AGO FY2024/2025 Report (17 October 2025, 12PM to 1PM)

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💬It was my pleasure to be the second presenter (after Shian Jan Erwin CHEN) where I spoke on “Fraud Risks, Recurring Lapses, and Strengthening Governance,” relating to the Report of the Auditor-General FY 2024/2025. Building on the earlier sharing, my session explored:⚠️ Common fraud risks and control weaknesses observed across public sector entities;🔄 Recurring lapses … Read more

Unmasking Collusion: Inside Singapore’s First Public Bid Rigging Case (In Recent History)

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I have produced a short documentary about the bid-rigging case I uncovered in early 2022 that resulted in the perpetrators being penalized with monetary fines by the Competition Commission of Singapore. It is based on my personal experience stumbling upon this quotation where the bid prices triggered my pattern recognition honed from close to three … Read more

E199v: Unmasking Collusion – Detecting and Preventing Anti-Competitive Behaviours (Live Webinar)

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Just completed yesterday (22 September 2025) a customized run of E199v: Unmasking Collusion – Detecting and Preventing Anti-Competitive Behaviours (Live Webinar) for a client through Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)‘s customized Continuing Professional Development for 40 over participants. The next available open public run is on 18 November 2025 and interested folks can sign-up … Read more

Detecting Bid-Rigging Through Internal Audit Practice

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Appreciate the opportunity by The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) Singapore to share at their lunch-time (Live Streaming) webinar on the topic, “Detecting Bid-Rigging Through Internal Audit Practices” on 12 June 2025 (Thursday) from 12.00 p.m. to 1.00 p.m. The session was scheduled for one hour but over-ran by ten minutes due to the number … Read more

ISCA Accountify E-Learning Contributions

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I have contributed 15 e-learning units to the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)‘s Accountify platform over the last year or so and was surprised to see that there has been 1992 total students, which I take to be enrolment numbers into my 15 units collectively. This averages 133 participants for each e-learning unit. The … Read more

Unmasking Collusion: Detecting and Preventing Anti-Competitive Behaviours Webinar

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Glad to have shared at the inaugural run of ISCA’s E199V: Unmasking Collusion: Detecting and Preventing Anti-Competitive Behaviours webinar this morning (8 May 2025) from 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. There were some interesting questions posed by the participants and I hope they took away useful lessons that they can apply to their workplaces. For … Read more

Strengthening Cybersecurity for Financial Professionals

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Check out my article written exclusively for the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)‘s Chartered Accountants Lab (digital newsletter) on the topic of “Strengthening Cybersecurity for Financial Professionals”. The next run of DGT093 : Cybersecurity Strategies and Ethical Standards for Accountants and Auditors (One Day – Classroom Face-to-Face) will be on 21 July 2025. If … Read more

Fraud Auditing Course for the Institute of Internal Auditors

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Completed the inaugural one day “Fraud Auditing” course organized by the Institute of Internal Auditors (Singapore) at M Hotel today with an engaging and enthusiastic group of participants spanning backgrounds ranging from internal audit, risk management, compliance and law enforcement. We had covered the overview of the detection, assessment, investigation, and mitigation of fraud. The … Read more

ISCA Public Sector Connects Sharing on Enterprise Risk Management (14 Feb 2025)

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Glad to have reconnected with some of my ex-colleagues from my AGD days and NP. Appreciate the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA)‘s kind opportunity for me to share some of my experiences with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to the public sector finance professionals on Valentine’s Day 2025! The topic I shared was, “Risk Ready: … Read more