"We are very pleased to be opening offices in Hong Kong to better support and service our partner network and our growing customer base," said Hazem Mulhim, CEO of EastNets. "With an explosive growth for anti-money laundering solutions, there has been a significant increase in demand for our cost-effective and rapidly deployable solutions to improve risk protection, control costs and meet regulatory requirements."

Serving over 100 customers in the Asia Pacific region, EastNets works together with a world-class partner network including:

• Blitz IT Consultants for Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos;
• Cambridge for India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka;
• Comas for Korea;
• CSC for Hong Kong;
• NCS for China, Hong Kong and Macao;
• NewGens for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand;
• Sumisho Computer Systems Corporation for Japan; and
• VenSys for Indonesia.

EastNets solutions offered through its partners include: en.SafeWatch Filtering, providing real-time blocking and list filtering, supporting all lists including OFAC and PEP; en.SafeWatch Profiling, providing customer and account monitoring and profiling, risk scoring, peer group analysis, case management and regulatory reporting; and value-add SWIFT connectivity plug-ins including: en.Recovery, enabling SAA users to restart operations within minutes after an outage instead of hours; en.Reporting for FIN and XML traffic monitoring and reporting; and en.Duplicate Detection, preventing in real time emission of duplicate payments or other FIN messages sent to correspondents.