Full Name
Federico Fabiano
Job Title
Head of Legal and Compliance
Company
Hex Trust
Speaker Bio
Chief Legal and Compliance Officer with 15+ years of experience across financial services, insurance, infrastructure, and virtual assets. Triple-qualified lawyer (Hong Kong, England & Wales, and Italy), with a Master's in International Business Law from NUS (Singapore) and ECUPL (华东政法大学, Shanghai). My transactional and regulatory experience spans a broad range of practice areas: corporate M&A and investments; financial services regulation and licensing; compliance (KYC/KYB, KYT, behavioural monitoring, STRs, audits and regulatory inspections); insurance; large-scale infrastructure and project finance; and dispute resolution before the High Courts of Singapore and England, and mediation. At Hex Trust, a leading virtual asset financial institution, I hold the apex leadership role across Legal, Compliance, Governance, Company Secretarial, and Regulatory Strategy — driving the firm's end-to-end legal and compliance framework across multiple licensed jurisdictions (Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE, and St. Vincent). I serve as designated MLRO and MIC in Hong Kong, and act as a trusted advisor to the C-Suite members and Board on complex multi-jurisdictional matters. Prior to moving in-house, I practised at Watson Farley & Williams in Hong Kong and Italy, building a strong foundation in international commercial law, project finance, energy (renewables and conventional) and cross-border transactions.
Federico Fabiano