Technology Innovations Facilitating Cross-Border Business Transactions – Issues and Challenges

Tehmina Kaoosji is a Communications Consultant, Broadcast Journalist and Gender Equality Activist currently based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A familiar and in-demand broadcast face, Tehmina has more than a decade of LIVE breaking news and current affairs programming experience. She currently anchors ‘Wacana English’, Sinar Harian’s flagship current affairs talk show. She previously anchored ‘Money Matters’, TV3 Malaysia’s flagship financial talk show. She was with the Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA), from 2014-2020, anchoring and producing special projects and annual highlights like the National Budget and Election coverage. She also anchored and produced the feminist talkshow ‘Tea with Tehmina’, and ‘Bernama Today’ & ‘The Nation’, focusing on topics of national and regional current affairs. Tehmina is a Thomson Reuters Foundation Fellow and TedX Malaysia alumni. She has spoken at Malaysian Parliament on Online Hate Speech & Disinformation as part of the Asean Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR). She participated in the German Federal Foreign Office’s Disinformation & Media Freedom workshop in Berlin. She has participated in the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Journalism & Media Ethics Training in Tallinn, Estonia. Tehmina combines solid news judgement with an engaging broadcast personality. She is a versatile and highly experienced moderator of high-level debates and conferences on a wide range of subjects- from business, economy and technology, to politics and women’s rights, sustainable development, public interest issues and media freedom. Her expertise in deftly presenting and steering debate and conversations around Malaysian-centric news while keeping a broader lens on Asia and the global arena, assures non-partisan, solutions journalism outcomes. Audiences and clients applaud Tehmina’s ability for humanising stories and contextualising broad based economic, political and social justice issues with grassroots realities. In addition to her work with Malaysian media organisations, Tehmina also runs a boutique communications consultancy, The Big Picture, which specialises in advocacy and policy based outcomes for international organisations such as the United Nations Population Fund. Her work also focuses on collaboration and strategising with civil society and in particular, women’s rights organisations.

Rejina spelled with a “j” and not a “g” is legally trained and started off her career with a stock broking house before joining the fund management industry in 1998. With 25 years in the Malaysian capital markets, majority of which was spent in the investment management industry, she has been actively involved in improving the professional standards of the funds management and capital markets in Malaysia. She has worked amongst others, on the Securities Commission’s Compliance Guidelines on Unit Trusts as well as the recent JC3 Climate Change & Principle Based Taxonomy. She remains involved with the industry through her role as External Advisor to Nomura Asset Management in Malaysia. She is a 2021 Listee of the Kindness & Leadership 50 Leading Lights Asia Pacific and was recently named by Asia Asset Management magazine as 25 industry leaders of the Asian asset management industry. She recently started Wahine Capital as a means of doing more for female empowerment through knowledge and technology. She is in the midst of building her start up.

Jonathan is a corporate partner at Zaid Ibrahim & Co. with considerable experience in areas such as Fintech, venture capital, blockchain technology, payment systems, digital remittance, and initial coin offerings. His involvement in the Fintech sector also extends to advising clients on compliance matters relating to regulatory developments in the industry as set out by the Malaysian central bank (Bank Negara Malaysia) and the Malaysian Securities Commission. Jonathan is also well versed in advising both local and foreign clients on corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring, initial public offerings, takeovers as well as private funds, and has been involved in several landmark corporate transactions. Jonathan also has experience in advising start-ups and venture capital corporations on matters ranging from compliance to funding agreements. As an active supporter of the financial technology fraternity, Jonathan also currently serves as Secretary of the Fintech Association of Malaysia wherein he assists in developing the burgeoning sector’s growth here in Malaysia and the region. In addition, Jonathan also acts as legal counsel and mentor of Founders Institute (a pre-seed start-up accelerator with a presence in over 180 cities worldwide).