The next frontier in compliance is not AI as a tool but AI as an autonomous actor — agent systems that reason, plan, and execute workflows end-to-end. Clients increasingly need to move beyond AI evaluation and into deployment: building systems that operate independently within tightly governed boundaries. The challenge is that this requires both deep technical capability and the domain judgment to define where agents should operate, where they must not, where to place human expertise within an agentic process flow and how to validate their outputs against regulatory expectations.

At IMAG, this area is led by Haibo, a data scientist and practitioner with more than 15 years of global leadership across major banks, consulting firms, and financial crime software companies. He is expert in AML, fraud, cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and the application of agentic AI to financial crime compliance programs.

Haibo leads Compliance Analytics Ltd., an advisory and product firm based in London, where he and his highly skilled team work with US and global financial institutions on AI integration, vendor evaluation, and financial crime modeling. Alongside advisory work, Haibo builds and deploys agent-based compliance tools directly — including a Sanctions Testing Portal currently serving live clients, and an AML Risk & Coverage Orchestrator, an agentic AI system in active development designed to automate and govern transaction monitoring coverage decisions.

From an industry perspective, Haibo served as HSBC’s Senior Vice President and Global Head of Applied Analytics, responsible for driving the analytics strategy for its Financial Crime Threat Mitigation global function. There he led both AML and Fraud Analytics global teams to ensure sound methodology and governance were applied.

Prior to this role, Haibo was at HSBC in New York where he was Global Head of Analytics Oversight, responsible for best practice and innovation of transaction monitoring systems and analytics, including the model validation framework. He also led the evaluation and implementation of two major RegTech solutions: Ayasdi and Quantexa.

Earlier, he served as HSBC’s US Head of AML Analytics where he established the model validation framework and was responsible for all analytics of the US AML transaction monitoring systems. Haibo also has direct vendor experience, serving as Senior Scientist at Nice Actimize and as a Senior Sentinel Architect for Fortent and Searchspace’s AML and Fraud solutions.

Haibo holds a Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Rutgers University and a Masters and Bachelor’s degree in Molecular Microbiology from Nankai University.