Gilbert Hong is a Compliance Officer at Pionex Global with a focus on customer due diligence, transaction monitoring, payment fraud risks, and compliance operations for digital assets. Gilbert Hong’s current areas of expertise are KYC document review, screening alerts, monitoring of fiat transactions and on-chain transactions, facilitating travel rules, and managing payment-related risks. He was previously an AML Specialist at OKX. There, he had to monitor transaction alerts, blockchain analytics, watchlist reviews, and suspicious activity investigations. Before that, Gilbert Hong was a CDD Analyst at Standard Chartered Bank. His previous duties included KYB, SAR, and sanctions. Gilbert Hong earned a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Monash University Malaysia.

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Gilbert Hong began his professional career in banking compliance, joining Standard Chartered Bank as a CDD Analyst in 2022. His responsibilities included KYB, suspicious activity reporting, and sanctions-related work. He then moved into the cryptocurrency industry as an AML Specialist at OKX, where he worked with blockchain analytics and transaction monitoring processes. In October 2024, he joined Pionex Global as a Compliance Officer. His current role covers client due diligence, transaction monitoring, payment fraud risk, travel rule compliance, and support for compliance-related systems and procedures.

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