1. MESMUR KANTHAN.V
Block 810, Avenue 4, Tampines, Sinagpore-520810
+6590912454 | mes_kan23@yahoo.co.in
EDUCATION
Anna university Chennai, Tamil Nadu/India
Master of Business Administration 2005
Madras university Chennai, Tamil Nadu/India
Bachelor of Business Administration 2003
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Credit Suisse AG Expo, Singapore
KYC/Data Analyst, Client Data Management & Control Team Oct 2012 – Till date
The role constitutes the following responsibilities and challenges
KYC
 Effectively performed annual client review for High Risk clients and every 3 years for Low Risk
clients
 Performs risk classification analyses for existing clients
 Ensuring documentation/information held is compliance with all AML laws, regulations, guidelines,
written procedures.
 Performed screening on existing client via World Check and Factiva
 Reviewed potential negative news hits across CS HK and SG client
 Communication with Front office on the necessary actions in order to make sure KYC standard is up
to regulatory requirement
 Additional Due Diligence was performed on public sources in order to discount screening hits as
well as gathering of information for escalation.
 Engages relevant Compliance Desks for escalations purposes ( e.g PEP desk)
 Created and maintain a KYC tracker for the team for tracking of progression cases
 Created and maintain a reporting matrix for the team lead for global reporting purposes
 Created and maintain a masterlist for the team’s client review population for each cycle
Data Management
 To support Data cleansing project team and responsible to cleanse all cash equity client data pre-
migration.
 Responsible to review client data using various CS approved sources and assist client on-boarding
team for decision making on the client status in the market.
 To ensure all the client data have been successfully cleansed (legal name/registered
address/operational address/Trading status) before migrating to the strategic system
 Successfully assisted to cleanse 13,000 client data for cash equity product.
 Handled Client Inactivation project and successfully closed 4,254 clients which are Inactive in the
market.

2.  Managed Credit Suisse vendors such as AVOX & Eclerx in cleansing the client data.
 To liaise with Reference data production team for process transferring and other issues pertaining to
client data in the system
 Liaised with IT support on UAT testing and raising other ad-hoc request to support the cleansing
project
 Developed procedure documentation for Client closure projects and cleansing projects with flow
charts
 Assisting the banking regulatory requirement by cleansing the client detail in the market the
updating the most updated information in the system
 Responsible to deliver high level presentation to the management on the cleansing process
 Maintenance of high level metrics using Excel to track the progress of the project
The Royal Bank of Scotland Chennai, India
Team Lead, Reference Data Jun 2011 – Jan2012
The role constitutes the following responsibilities and challenges
 Handled Asia team in migrating client data from ABN to RBS systems for Global Unicorn project.
 Developed BRD (Business Required Document) for the data migration to meet the requirements
pre & post migration.
 Liaised with IT and reference data production to understand the nature of data and transferred the
knowledge to the team.
 Responsible to organize weekly meeting with the team and the management to discuss on the
progress of the project.
 Designed procedure documentation to record the process involved in the data migration project
 Developed project plan for the team to complete the migration activity well before the project
deadline.
 To liaise with the project lead from Singapore region to discuss on the issues and challenges in the
project and giving inputs.
 To track the team’s performance on daily basis and responsible to report to the management
 Motivated team to design new ideas to move the project with a better speed
 Responsible to conduct mid and year end performance appraisal for the team
The Royal Bank of Scotland Chennai, India
Senior Analyst, Reference Data Team Dec 2005 –June 2011
The role constitutes the following responsibilities and challenges
 Supported the back office trade operations for Reference data production team.
 Set up new Client, SSI (Settlement details), Stocks, Warrants, Market charges for counterparty
and Instrument products
 Handled Corporate Actions for Asia and EMEA regions and maintained Instrument data by pulling
out details from Bloomberg for Equities/Warrants and Fixed Income products
 Actively involved and successfully migrated client data for settlement system
 Assigned as a single point of contact for Asia team to support the cash equity business
 Core committee member for ISMS audit team to assist in performing the internal audit check to meet
the control requirements

3.  Handled KYC (Know your customer) process by reviewing client data from approved
regulators/stock exchanges/Annual report as part of company regulatory requirement
 Analyzed the risk of ABN AMRO clients in the market and neutralize them by implementing
company policy and controls there by supported the AML (Anti-Money Laundering)
SKILLS, ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS
Languages: Fluent in English, Tamil
Activities: Volunteer social committee work with RBS & Credit Suisse