Associate (A.K.C.), King’s College London
Ordinary Member, Singapore Academy of Law
Member, Singapore Corporate Counsel Association
Member, Association of Crypto Currency Enterprises and Start-ups Singapore
Member, Singapore Fintech Association
King’s College London, Master of Laws (L.L.M.) (Merit)
University of Liverpool, Bachelor of Laws (L.L.B.) (Second Upper Honours)
Jonathan Cheong
Jonathan Cheong is an ad locum Consultant with Ingenia Consultants. His key areas of practices in regulatory compliance include risk management, securities laws, fund management, financial advisory, payment services, money lending and corporate governance.
Jonathan has extensive experience in compliance issues and regularly provides regulatory advice to various multi-family offices, external asset managers and securities brokers. Through his work he was actively responsible for the successful licensing of fund managers and securities dealers.
He advises financial services clients and is an expert on regulatory compliance, particularly on regulations in the financial industry such as the Securities and Futures Act, Financial Advisers Act, Moneylenders Act, related requirements, regulatory notices, and guidelines issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Jonathan is general counsel to a registered fund management company and a leading global digital currency exchange. Jonathan is also a family office trustee for a Hong Kong family office. Through his interactions with the high net worth individuals and financial industry clients, he has structured funds, financial products and built a reputation for engineering business solutions for financial businesses.
Experience
Local Exempt Money Lender
Advising and drafting of the business plan and application and successfully obtaining one of six pilot licenses for a local finance company.
Various financial institution clients:
Advising various financial institutions such as securities brokers, fund managers, and money lenders on regulatory and business conduct considerations, under legislation, regulations, notices, guidelines, circulars and practice notes issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore relevant to various aspects of financial activity.
Various financial institution clients:
Advising fund managers, securities brokers and financial advisers on the application of notices, guidelines and circulars issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, including application of transaction monitoring, reporting requirements, anti-money laundering and ‘know-your-client’ requirements and outsourcing requirements etc.
Various financial institution clients:
Conducting internal audit on fund managers, trust companies and crowdfunding platforms.
Various financial institution clients:
Acting, assisting, and procuring licensing of fund management companies, securities brokers and payment service providers.
Various financial institution clients:
Advising various financial institutions on marketing of funds and compliance with offering requirements under securities regulations.
Confidential fund management client:
Advising on the take over and acquisition of registered fund management company.